282 Lawrence Mason, 



Warton's assertion is unsui)ported and hasnot been generally accepted. 

 Hannah (xcvii) follows Malone in assigning the book to Henry King's 

 youngest brother, Philip. The Bodleian copies, S'* C. 139 Line, 

 and Malone 497, are catalogued under the name of Phihp Kinder or 

 Kynder, whose authorship one H. A. Evans is said to have demon- 

 strated in the "Academy" for June, 1902.1 At any rate, there seems 

 to be no reasonable ground for believing that Henry King wrote 

 the piece. 



A more serious attempt to augment Henry King's bibliography 

 unjustifiably is the following entry in the catalogue of the British 

 Museum, under Henry King's name: "A Sermon Preached Before 

 the Kings Most Excellent Majesty at Oxford, by H. K. D. D. Oxford, 

 Printed for W. Web. 1643." One copy of this sermon (shelf-number, 

 4474. d.) has the date "Mar. 16, 1642" substituted in early MS. for 

 "1643." A second edition (shelf-number, 4474. d. 85; same title- 

 page, except for addition of text, Psalm ci, i, and this new publisher's 

 announcement: "First Printed at Oxford for W. Web, and now 

 reprinted at London for G. T. and are to be sold in the old Baily, 

 1643.") is also credited to Henry King, in the catalogue of the British 

 Museum.2 Unfortunately for the validity of this ascription, a second 

 copy of the First Edition (shelf-number, E. 93. (13).) is twice attri- 

 buted to Henry Killigrew elsewhere in the catalogue, — under "K., 

 H." and "Killigrew, Henry." Hazlitt ("Bibl. Coll. and Notes," 

 4 th Series, 1903, 213), without question or explanation, places it 

 among Henry King's works, and to that extent supports the British 

 Museum's first ascription. The Bodleian copy, however, is not 

 catalogued under Henry King's name, and Wood did not assign it 

 to him. Moreover, Henry King, created Bishop of Chichester on 

 Feb. 6, 1642, would hardly have omitted his Episcopal rank from the 

 title-page and would hardh' have been in Oxford during the first 

 weeks or months of his tenure of office (if " March 16, 1642 " be correct, 

 or approximately so). Internal evidence is conclusively against the 

 assumption of King's authorship : the homiletic method, the format,^ 

 and the style are totally different from King's ; the writer uses "Isai" 

 as an abbreviation of "Isaiah," where King always uses "Esai." 



1 The present writer has been unable to verify this reference, and includes 

 it merely for the sake of what it may be worth to other investigators. 

 Cf, " Shakspere Allusion- Book," ed. by J. Munro, 1909, II, 65. 



■^ This may be true no longer, for the present writer convinced the autho- 

 rities of the error, and a correction was promised in both cases. 



^ Due, doubtless, to the new printer ; but wh}- should King have changed 

 his printers ? 



