KIN 
was secretly murdered in the Tower of 
London) he made the Herald, who pro- 
perly belonged to that Duke, a King of 
Arms, and named him Ciarencieux. 
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 there- 
fore is sometimes called Surroy, or South- 
Roy. 
King, Norroy, at arms. The office of this 
King, (who is called Norroy or North-Roy) 
is to do ffie like on all the north side of 
Trent, as Ciarencieux on the south ; and 
these being both provincial Kings of Arms, 
have the whole kingdom of England divided 
between them; and are created 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 Bartholomew Butler, 
alias Ulster King of Arms of Ireland, one 
coat of blue and crimson velvet, embroider- 
ed with gold and silver upon the same with 
the King’s Arms; and to the said Philip 
Butler, Athlone Pursuivant, one coat of 
sarsenet 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 Britain ; he 
is invested and solemnly crowned. He 
publishes tlie king’s proclamations, marshals 
funerals, reverses arras, a[)poiats messengers 
at arms, &c. See College of heralds. 
KING’S Bench. The King’s Bench is the 
supreme court of common law in the king- 
dom ; and is so called, because the King 
used to sit there in person : it consists of a 
chief justice, and three puisne justices, who 
are by their office the sovereign conserva- 
tors of the peace, and supreme coroners of 
the land. This court has a peculiar juris- 
diction, 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 oppression, or faction, or 
any manner of misgovernraent. It has a 
discretionary power of inflicting exemplary 
punishment on offenders, either by line, 
imprisonment, or other infamous punish- 
ment, as the nature of the crime, considered 
in all its circumstances, shall require. 
KNA 
The jurisdiction of this court is so trans- 
cendant, that it keeps all inferior jurisdic- 
tions within the bounds of their authority ; 
and it may either remove their proceedings 
to be determined here, or proliibit their 
progress below: it superintends all civil 
corporations, in the kingdom ; commands 
magistrates and others to do w'hat their 
duty requires by mandamus, in every case 
where there is no specific remedy; pro- 
tects the liberty of tlie subject, by speedy 
and summary uiterposition ; and takes cog- 
nisance both of criminal and civil causes, 
the former in what is called the crown side, 
or crown office, the latter in the plea side 
of the court. This court has cognizance on 
the plea side, of all actions of trespass, or 
other injuiy alleged to be committed vi et 
armis ; of actions for forgery of deeds, main- 
tenance, conspiracy, deceit; and actions 
on the case whicb 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, tlie plaintiff is at liberty to proceed 
agaiast 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 “ wheresoever we (the Kins) 
shall then be in England.” 
KNAPSACK, a rough leather or canvass 
bag, which is strapped to an infantry sol- 
dier’s back when he marches, and which 
contains his necessaries. Square knapsacks 
are supposed to be most convenient. They 
should be made with a division to hold the 
shoes, blacking-balls, and brushes, separate 
from the linen. V/hite goat-skins are some- 
times used ; but we do not conceive them 
to be equal to the painted canvass ones. 
Soldiers in the British service are put under 
stoppages for the payment of their knap- 
sack, which after six years become their 
property. Knapsack is said to have been 
originally so called from the circumstance 
of a soldier making use of a sack which had 
been full of corn, Ac. In those days there 
were no roads, and every thing was carried 
on packhorses. When the soldiers reposed, 
they hung up the empty sacks, and slept in 
them. The word should be napsack, from 
