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information of Henry King's whereabouts at this time. For we 

 learn that King, after "being by ordinance of Parhamt put out of 

 that diocesse [Chichester] nigh 4 yeares since, took up his abode in 

 the pish [parish] of A. in the County of S., together with one Mris 

 Holt then a widow [his eldest sister, Elizabeth], and his two sonnes, 

 [John and Henry ; and her three daughters], and divers servants" ; 

 this statement accounts for the period in King's life from 1643 on- 

 ward to Nov. 2, 1646, when a meeting was appointed at the house 

 of one "Mr. Richard Onslow," evidently not the plaintiff but probably 

 a relative, in " Aldbury.''^ But shortly after this, the King and Holt 

 families must have sought quieter quarters (and perhaps thus con- 

 fessed their guilt) for in the last document in the series we find "Mr. 

 O." deposing, under date of "February 20^ 164^/7, Saterday," 

 that he has sent his "sonne Georg" to communicate with "the Bp. 

 of Chichester" at "Blacksware in Hartfordsheer." So here the un- 

 happy incident closes ; it is unpleasant, but contributes materially 

 toward filling the gap in our knowledge of his life between 1643 and 



1 The identity of "A." or "Aldbury" in the county of " S." is not so ob- 

 scure as a glance at the Gazetteer might lead one to suppose ; for in the " Vic- 

 toria Hist, of Surrey," 1911, III, 72, we find mention of a parish called 

 Aldebury in the XlVth century, Aldbury in the XVII Ith century, and 

 Albury to-day ; and on page 74 of the same work this sentence appears : 

 " Sir Richard Onslow and his son Arthur seem to have had some claim on 

 the manor (Weston Manor, in Albury) from 1644 to 1677." But the matter 

 is settled definitely by this note of Walker's, presumably the "raw material" 

 for his notice in his "Sufferings of the Clergy" (quoted above, p. 240): 

 " Dr. King, Bp of Chichester rector of Petworth, given him by the King to 

 be held in Commendam, was most barbarously treated by the Parliament ; 

 Turn'd out of both his Livings, succeeded in the latter, by yt Grand Villain 

 Chaynell, he was not suffered to enjoy himself quietly at his freinds Houses ; 

 but escaping one night privatly to the parish of Sheer near Guilford in Surry, 

 he there Uv'daretir'd Ufewith one of his acquaince by whose Charity he was 

 maintain'd" (MS. J. Walker, c. 3, fol. 378V.) The parishes of Shereand Albury 

 intermingled, until recently, and are five or six miles east and a little south 

 of Guildford in western Surrey, dicectly north of Petworth and Chichester in 

 Sussex. The reason for King's choice of Albury for a place of refuge may have 

 been the fact that the Buncombe family had large holdings there in the seven- 

 teenth century (cf."Vict. Hist. Surrey," III, 73— 77), and Letter 2 in Appendix B 

 contains a reference to King's " Cosen Duncumbe" (cousin through inter- 

 marriage between the Duncombes and Conquests, according to Hannah ; 

 xxxviii,N.). The reason for his choice of " Blacksware in Hartfordsheer," at 

 his next removal, may perhaps be found in this sentence from the "Hist. 

 Antiq. Herts," 1826,1,413: Blakesware "is a fair Seat erected in this Parish 



