Life and Works of Henry King. 249 



only his preferments in the Church and at Court remain to be hsted. 

 He became successively chaplain to King James I, canon residentiary 

 of St. Paul's (1615), archdeacon of Colchester (1617), canon of Christ 

 Church (1623), chaplain in ordinary to King Charles I, dean of Ro- 

 chester/ (1638), and Bishop of Chichester (1642 ; consecrated, Feb.y).^ 

 He held in addition the sinecure rectories of Petworth and Fulham.* 



Considerable though these offices and honors are, they still fail 

 to make out Henry King as the equal of his father.* For in God- 

 win's list of the twenty-one sees of the Province of Canterbury,^ 

 London stands first, Chichester twelfth. Among the five bishoprics 

 to be filled, in 1641, Chichester always stands fourth.^ While many 

 Bishops of Chichester have been advanced to more desirable sees, 

 none has ever been translated directly to the Archbishopric of Canter- 

 bury or York.' And finally, Hannah shows ^ (without, however, 

 drawing the unfavorable inference which seems unavoidable) that 

 even for this relatively unimportant see King was only a substitute 

 or second-best, appointed late and consecrated some months after 

 the first of the five vacancies had been filled ; and even so, if Fuller 

 is to be trusted. King owed his selection in large part to the merits 

 of his "pious and popular father." ^ In short, we must ascribe Henry 

 King's inclusion in, for instance, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 

 XI th Edition, while his father is excluded, not to any supereminence 

 over John King in their life-times, i<^ but solely to the volume of poems 

 which has been the occasion of the present undertaking. 



When subjected to comparison with his father in another respect, 

 Henry King does not fare so badly, and strangely enough this is the 



1 Clarendon ("Hist, of the RebelUon," ed. Macray, 1888, vol. I, Book IV, 

 p. 401) calls King "Dean of Litchfield"; but this is mere inadvertence, 

 presumably, for King's name does not appear among the Deans of Lichfield 

 hsted by Le Neve (I, 563). 



2 "Alum. West.." 77; "Athen. Oxon.," Ill, 839. [Hannah (xxxix) show.-^ 

 that the date of consecration was Feb. 6, 1642.] 



3 "Alum. West.," ibid. * Cf. pp. 227 and 231, sup. 



^ "Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of Christian 

 Religion," etc., London, 1615. 



fi Fuller's "Church History," VI, 236; Clarendon's "History of the Re- 

 belUon," I, 401 ; etc. 



' Le Neve, I, 238—55. 8 xh-xlvi. » Fuller, ibid. 



!*> Both had various books dedicated to them, so that no satisfactory test 

 is afforded thereby. Cf. Madan's "Early Oxford Press," 1895, pp. 78, 88, 

 and 90; "Athen. Oxon.," I, 761; II, 295 n. ; III, 923; "Fasti Oxon.," II, 

 214; "N. & Q.," 2d Series, IX, 432, 492; Brydges' " Censura Literaria." 

 1807, III, 272. 



