Life and Works of Henry King. 247 



were considerable, while Elwes seems to think it incumbent on him 

 to explain why so munificent a donor should have failed to exercise 

 his bounty in the case of Chichester Cathedral/ and signs of personal 

 efforts in the interests of friends and dependents are not infrequent. ^ 

 With a difficult position to fill, in very troublous times, he seems to 

 have acquitted himself worthily, on the whole, and to deserve a 

 reasonable amount of the eulogy inscribed on his monument : 

 "Natalium splendore illustris, Pietate, Doctrina & Virtutibus illus- 

 trior."^ "He was buried on the South-side of the Choir, near the 

 Communion Table, belonging to the Cathedral Church of Chichester, " * 

 but his monument, after being twice moved in recent years, now stands 

 in the North Transept at some distance from the grave where his 

 remains lie interred .^ 



One further question of some interest arises in connection with 

 the King family, in the seventeenth century, and that is the possible 

 relationship of Edward King,^ the subject of Milton's "Lyudas." 

 But in the first place, no Edward appears in the King genealogies 

 given by Hannah' and Lipscomb,^ and in the second place the ori- 

 ginal memorial volume to Edward King as well as modern investi- 

 gation^ shows that his connections were Irish exclusively. A more 

 serious difficulty arises in regard to the poem signed "Hen. King," 

 in the memorial volume. Masson^" unhesitatingly calls the author 

 "one of the brothers oi the deceased," but gives no authority for the 

 statement ; Hunter felt the uncertainty more keenly, and wrote : 

 "There being two Henry Kings contemporaries and both writers of 



^ "His own fortunes were probably at too low an ebb to permit him to 

 undertake its restoration," i. e. after 1660. — " Castles, Mansions, and Manors 

 of Western Sussex," by D. G. C. Elwes, 1876, p. 60. 



2 Walton's "Life of Donne"; "Athen. Oxon.," IV, 518; "Fasti Oxon.," 

 II, 214; Letters mentioned in Bibliog., p. 281, inf. 



^ Walker, op. cit., Part II, 12. 



* Newcourt, op. cit., p. 92. 



5 Personal observation of the writer, and conversations with the organist 

 of the Cathedral, in January, 1912 ; according to Walcott, "Memorials of 

 Chichester," 1865, p. 50, it then stood in the Processional Path at the back 

 of the Reredos. 



^ Examples of Edward King's Latin verse may be seen in Nichols' " Select 

 Poems," 1781, VII, 76—85. 



' Ixxxiii, Ixxxvi. 



« p. 585. 



^ Masson's "Milton," 1890, I, 187—192. 

 10 Ibid., 192. 



