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letters to the same, dated July 23 and Aug. 16, 1668, in behalf of 

 Thomas Wilkinson, vicar of Waltham St. Lawrence, urgently se- 

 conding his petition for a dispensation to hold the vicarage of Ickles- 

 ham (in Tan. MS. xliv, ff. 20 and 24). 



VI. SPURIOUS OR DOUBTFUL WORKS. 



Here may be briefly listed eight poems which will be printed in 

 full and their authenticity discussed in the ed. of King's poems 

 to be published by the Yale Press ; the first four are probably King's 

 work, the last four probably not : "A Contemplation upon Flowers," 

 "The Complaint," "On his Shadow," "Wishes to my sonne John, 

 for this new and all succeeding yeares : Jan. i. 1630," "An Elegy 

 upon ye Kg of Swedens Death (1632)," "On Sir Walter Raleigh, 

 by w. R." "Doctor King his Farewell to the world," and " Sleepe, 

 Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne."^ 



W. C. Hazlitt has this entry at page 488 of his "Handbook to the 

 Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain," Lon- 

 don, 1867 : "Psalmi Aliquot Davidici in metrum Latinum traducti. 

 Cum Adiectione Decem Psalmorum ad notas suas Musicas (ut in 

 Anglicana Versione) compositorum. In usum Academiae, Oxoniae, 

 Excudebat Joannes Lichfield, Almae Academiae Typographus. 

 Anno Dom. 1630. Sm. 8vo 16 leaves." He adds a list of the 

 authors, among whom "King" appears ; and according to the General 

 Index, this King was Henry King. Now, inasmuch as the British 

 Museum copy (the title-page of which bears the MS. endorsement, 

 "Hie est liber Jo : Euelyni 1639" '> shelf-number, 3434. b. 38) shows 

 no dedication or preface and no Table of Authors, while the Psalms 

 (all in Latin) in the text are unsigned, Hazlitt 's unsupported assertion 

 is not enough to prove Henry King's authorship, for Hazlitt is very 

 inaccurate in some other references to the King family. 



Thomas Warton, in his "History of Enghsh Poetry," ed. Price, 

 1840, III, 232, ascribes to "Dr. Henry King, son of King bishop of 

 London," a little volume called "The Surfeit. To A B C. London, 

 Printed for Edw. Dod, at the Gun in Ivy-Lane. 1656." pp. 82. 



^ Other poems (which must be classified as Doubtful here, because the 

 writer has been unable to verify the reference) are alluded to in this citation : 

 "In a book of William Slatyer's elegies, dated 1619, are a 'sonnet' and 

 several other poems by Henry King, with the initials H. K. as signal ure." The 

 only work with this date by Slatyer inthe British Museum (shelf number, 1070. 

 1. 1.) is called " Pandionium Melos," and consists of elegies and epitaphs on the 

 death of Queen Anne of Denmark, all apparently written by Slatyer himself. 



