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1650. And, of course, it will not escape observation that a new point 

 has also been added to our knowledge of the period from 1650 to 

 1660 ; for Letter 1 in Appendix B,^ hitherto unnoticed by his bio- 

 graphers, furnishes evidence that early in 1657 King was back in 

 his native county, Buckinghamshire, some distance south of his 

 birthplace. 



First as the eldest son of the Bishop of London, and afterwards on 

 his own merits, Henry King came to be associated on a friendly footing 

 with some very notable men of this century, and a good measure of 

 his worth is afforded by the esteem in which they held him. The 

 Lady Salter mentioned above, who afforded him such kind shelter 

 in his extremity, was, according to Bishop Kennet,^ "sister if I 

 mistake not to Dr. Duppa," and Brian Duppa was an early friend of 

 King's, at Westminster and Oxford,^ as we have seen, as well as his 

 predecessor in the see of Chichester ; King preached a fine funeral 

 sermon over his remains, at his death in 1662.'* The most illustrious 

 of King's friends w^as the great Donne, "ordain'd both Deacon and 

 Priest, by Dr. John King, Bishop of London" ;5 Izaak Walton's 

 " Life of Donne " gives several interesting particulars of this friendship, 

 including the important fact of Henry King's having been John 



about 3 miles distant from the town (i. e.. Ware, in the hundred of Braughin ; 

 cf. Note 6, p. 246, inf.) towards the East, which did belong to the Family of 

 the Hangers, from whom it came to John King, Gent.," in the first half of 

 the seventeenth century. " Vict. Hist. Herts.," 1912, III, 389, col. I, sub- 

 stantiates this statement. A further possible connecting-link in associating 

 King with Hertfordshire might well be his friendship with Sir John Monson, 

 or Mounson (cf. Bibliog., p. 270 N. i, inf.), for " Through his wife, (Sir John) 

 became possessed in 1645 of the manor of Broxbourne in Herts, which was 

 the seat of the family for many years" ("Diet. Nat. Biog.," xxxviii, 196). 

 Broxbourne is in southeasternmost Hertfordshire, about six miles from 

 Blakesware ; and the " Hist. Antiq. Herts," I, 566—7, supplies these hints 

 as to the connections between the King and Monson families: "The church 

 of Broxbourne is appropriated to the peculiar use of the Bishop of London . . . 

 Sir Thomas Mounson was created Baronet, 161 1 ; his son Sir John M. was 

 invested Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of Charles I." In 1647, 

 Henry King and Sir John Monson were probably in "quiet retirement" 

 in Herts, where King would have had the opportunity mentioned by Monson. 

 in his Dedication of looking over the latter's MSS. 



1 p. 287, inf. 



2 "Collections," III: Lansd. MS. 986, lol. 76, in the British Museum. 



3 "Alum. West.," 73. 



* Cf. Bibliog., p. 278, inf. ; also p. 2511 inf. 

 5 Newcourt, " Repert. Eccles. Lond.," I, 51. 



