280 Lawrence Mason, 



ohitum sanctissimi viri Di. Dris. Spenseri," etc., 1614 ;i 6 Latin Epi- 

 grams, and I Greek Epigram, written to his Father, "Reverendo 

 admodum Christo patri, Johanni Episcopo Londinensi, Patri meo 

 benignissimo," undated, in Rawl. MS. D. 398, ff. 243- 244V, in the 

 Bodleian ; 2 and a Latin "Epitaphium" for Bishop John King, 

 api^arentl}^ in Henry King's autograj^h, in Rawl. MS. D 398, fol. 195.^ 



V. LETTERS. 



\\'ood mentions only two items in this class, the letter to Usher'* 

 and the letter to Walton ; ^ Hannah adds only one more, the brief 

 note to Mr. Powell included in Appendix B, below. Of the items 

 which can now be added, three are given, in full or in part, in Appendix 

 B, and the others may be listed as follows : (4) a letter to Gilbert 

 Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, dated Feb. 21, 1666, atChichester, 

 refusing to institute Francis Chaloner to the rectory of St. John's, 

 Lewes (in Tan. MS., xlv, fol. 64, in the Bodleian) ; (5) and (6) two 



^ Fourteen elegiac distichs (accompanied by a verse translation of all 

 but the last) found in the Bodleian, Rawl. MS. D. 912, fol. 305. 



' These items, with some of those in the next Class, properly belong among 

 the MSS. in Part One of this Bibliography; but it seemed more convenient 

 and sensible to group them here with the rest of their Class. 



^ In the MS. this "Epitaphium" bears, on the reverse of the single torn 

 sheet, the fragmentary address, "To the Righ/M"^ Henrie K/these," and so 

 was apparently submitted to someone else for approval, or Avas later found 

 and returned by someone else, for :he address is in a different hand. Now 

 this "Epitaphium" is a duplicate, or probably the original, of the third part 

 of the inscription on the memorial "Table" or tablet by John King's grave ; 

 it differs from the carved version in only one particular— the reading " La- 

 pida" for " lapidum", in the second line. "Lapida" makes better sense 

 but worse metre. In the MS. the second chronogram is complete, while 

 the first chronogram, the Anagram, and the text (Philip. I, i, 2) are 

 represented only by fragments. The fact that Henry King wrote the 

 "Epitaphium" (and a careful study of the several letters undoubtedly 

 written by Henry King has perhaps qualified the present writer to rec- 

 ognize his chirography elsewhere) makes it possible that he also at least had 

 a share in the composition of the two longer inscriptions (Cf. p. 283, 

 inf.) — It should be stated that the whole "Table," with all the various in- 

 scriptions, is reproduced in full on p. 73 of Dugdale's "History of St. Paul's 

 Cathedral," London, 1716. 



^ Originally printed as Letter cclxv in Richard Parr's "Life of ... . Usher, 

 Late Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh," etc., p. 567. 



^ Too readily accessible in various editions and biographies of Hooker 

 and Walton to need reprinting here. 



