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irt the Tower of London) he made the 

 herald, who properly belonged to that 

 duke, a king- of arms, and named him 

 Clarencieux. 



His office is to marshal and dispose of 

 the funerals of all the lesser nobility, as 

 Baronets, Knights of the Bath, Knights 

 Batchelors, Esquires, and Gentlemen, on 

 the south side of the river Trent, and 

 therefore is sometimes called Surroy, or 

 South-Roy. 



KivG,Norroy t atartnt. The office of 

 this King, (who is called Norroy or North- 

 Roy) is to do the like on all the north 

 side of Trent, as Clarencieux on the south; 

 and these being both provincial Kings of 

 Arms have the whole kingdom of England 

 divided between them ; and are crea- 

 ted by letters patents, a book, a sword, 

 &c. as Garter, and with almost the same 

 ceremony. 



Note. That in the sixth of Edward VI. 

 Bartholomew Butler, York Herald, was 

 created Ulster King of Arms in Ireland, 

 at which time Philip Butler was made 

 Athlone Pursuivant of Arms there; and 

 upon their creation, a warrant was issued 

 to Sir Ralph Sadler, Knight of the King's 

 Wardrobe, to deliver to the said Bartholo- 

 "mew Butler, alias Ulster King of Arms 

 of Ireland, one coat of blue and crimson 

 velvet, embroidered with gold and silver 

 upon the same with the King's Arms ; 

 and to the said Philip Butler, Athlone 

 Pursuivant, one coat of sarsnet of the 

 King's colours, with the arms laid on with 

 gold and purple. 



KING at arms, Lyon, for Scotland, is 

 the second king at arms for Great Bri- 

 tain ; he is invested and solemnly crown- 

 ed. He publishes the king's proclamations, 

 marshals funerals, reverses arms, ap- 

 appoints messengers at arms, &c. See 

 COLLEGE of heralds. 



KING'S Bench. The King's Bench is 

 the supreme court of common law in the 

 kingdom ; and is so called because the 

 King used to sit there in person : it con- 

 sists of a chief justice, and three puisne 

 justices, who are by their office the sove- 

 reign conservators of the peace, and su- 

 preme coroners of the land. This court 

 has a peculiar jurisdiction, not only over 

 all capital offences, but also over all other 

 misdemeanors of a public nature, tending 

 either to a breach of the peace, or to op. 

 pression, or faction, or any manner of 

 misgovernment. It has a discretionary 

 power of inflicting exemplary punish- 

 ment on offenders, either by fine, imprison- 

 ment, or other infamous punishment, as 



the nature of the crime, considered in all 

 its circumstances, shall require. 



The jurisdiction of this court is so 

 transcendant, that it keeps all inferior ju- 

 risdictions within the bounds of their au- 

 thority ; arid it may either remove their 

 proceedings, to be determined here, or 

 prohibit their progress below : it super- 

 intends all civil corporations in the king- 

 dom ; commands magistrates and others 

 to do what their duty requires by manda- 

 mus, in every case where there is no spe- 

 cific remedy ; protects the liberty of the 

 subject, by speedy and summary interpo- 

 sition ; and takes cognizance both of cri- 

 minal and civil causes, the former in what 

 is called the crown side, or crown office - r 

 the latter in the plea side of the court. 

 This court has cognizance, on the plea 

 side, of all actions of trespass, or other 

 injury alleged to be committed vz et 

 Minis ; of actions for forgery of deeds, 

 maintenance, conspiracy, deceit ; and ac- 

 tions on the case which allege any falsity 

 or fraud. In proceedings in this court 

 the defendant is arrested for a supposed 

 trespass, which in reality he has never 

 committed, and being thus in the custody 

 of the marshal of this court, the plaintiff 

 is at liberty to proceed against him for 

 any other personal injury, which surmise 

 of being in the custody of the marshal the 

 defendant is not at liberty to dispute. 

 This court is likewise a court of appeal, 

 into which may be removed, by writ of 

 error, all determinations of the court of 

 Common Pleas, and of all inferior courts 

 of record in England. It is now usually- 

 held at Westminster ; but was formerly 

 attendant upon the King's person, and 

 original writs are returnable " wheresoe- 

 ver we (the King) shall then be in En- 

 gland." 



KNAPSACK, a rough leather or can- 

 vass bag, which is strapped to an infantry 

 soldier's back when he marches, ancl 

 which contains his necessaries. Square 

 knapsacks are supposed to be most con- 

 venient. They should be made with a 

 division to hold the shoes, blacking-balls ? 

 and brushes, separate from the linen 

 White goat-skins are sometimes used ; but 

 we do not conceive them to be equal to 

 the painted canvas ones. Soldiers in the 

 British service are put under stoppages 

 for the payment of their knapsacks, which 

 after six years become their property. 

 Knapsack is said to have been originally 

 so called from the circumstance of a sol- 

 dier making use of a sack which had been 

 full of corn, &c. In those days there were 

 no roads, and every thing was carried on 



