240 Lawrence Mason, 



Henry King's various places of residence thus far noted or implied 

 have been Wornal, Bucks, his birth-place ; presumably Nottingham, 

 Yorks,^ and possibh' Berkshire,^ where his younger brothers were 

 born ; Thame, Oxfordshire, and Westminster School, London, follow- 

 ed by Oxford, his several stages of education; after 1614, when 

 he took his M.A., "a house belonging to his Father, near St. Paul's 

 Church Yard," London;^ and Oxford again, in 1625, to avoid the 

 plague. As his sermons seem to have been delivered in London,'* 

 it may safely be assumed that his connection with St. Paul's and 

 with the royal household kept him chiefly in London in spite of his 

 various ecclesiastical preferments elsewhere, to be noted presently,^ 

 until his elevation to the see of Chichester transferred his residence 

 to Sussex at the opening of the year 1642. Here he passed less than 

 eleven months, when the siege and capture of Chichester by the 

 Parliamentarians, Dec. 29, 1642,^ dispossessed him until the Restora- 

 tion, and then Chichester became his residence again for the last nine 

 years of thisHfe, 1660— 1669. The period of his exile from his bish- 

 opric, 1643— 1660, is very difficult to account for. Wood and 

 Fuller lend nothing to Walker's statement, which is as follows ; "^ 

 "When the rebellion broke out, he was most Barbarously Treated 

 by them [i. e., the Puritans] ; nor was he suffered to live quietly 

 at his Friend's House (for sometime at least) when they could dis- 

 cover him. During the Usurpation he lived most with Sir Richard 

 Hobart (his Brother-in-law) at Langly in Bucks ; and, if I am not 

 mis-informed, was in a manner Sustained by his Charity. He lived 

 sometime with his Family, and some other Relations, at the Lady- 

 Sal ter's near Eaton ; where Mr. Hales Officiated as Chaplain, according 

 to the Orders of the Church, but was soon forbid by the Parhament." 

 This is practically all that has hitherto been known about this period 

 in King's life,^ if we except what may be inferred from his own 

 writings ;^ but this information still casts little light on the years 



1 "Athen. Oxon.," II, 632. ^ Hannah, v. 



3 Ibid., X. '' Cf. Bibliog., pp. 275 et seq. 



^ p. 249, inf. ; note that even the Deanery of Rochester, received in 



1638, does not prevent Letter II (p. 288, inf.) from being written in London, 



1639, or Sermon 6 (Bibhog., p. 277) from being deUvered "at Paul's," in 1640. 



8 "Victoria History of Sussex," I, 522. 



■^ "Sufferings of the Clergy," 1714, Part II, p. 11. 



^ Hannah, lii— lix, enlarges on these details but adds nothing of importance. 



9 Cf . the elegies on Edward Holt, Sir Charles Lucas, and King Charles I ; 

 the Preface to his metrical rendering of the Psalms, also, with his letter to 

 Archbishop Usher on that occasion, gives some further indication of his 

 whereabouts and occupations about 1651. 



