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low the head of the tide. Here is a thriving village 
of bandfome houfes, and a place of the greateit trade on 
the river. 
KEN'DY, a town of Bengal: fifty miles north-north- 
eaft of Ramgur. Lat. 24. 16. N._ Ion. 85. 6. E. 
KE'NEH, a town of Upper Egypt, anciently called Ca- 
nopolis. Here is a manufacture of black earthenware. The 
caravans affemble here in theirjourney to Cofeir: four miles 
north-eaft of Dendera. Lat. 26. a. N. Ion. 30.22. E. See 
the article Egypt, vol. vi. p. 357. 
KEN'EBECK. See Ken'nebeck. 
KE'NEF, a town of Perlia, in the province of Chorafan : 
forty-five miles north of Herat, and thirty-five foutii-eall 
.of Badkis. 
KEN'ELM, or Kenhelm, [Saxon.] A man’s name. 
KEN'ERA, a mountain on the ifland of Salfette, near 
Bombay, celebrated for the number and extent of its ex¬ 
cavations. Its principal cavern is arched ; and was evi¬ 
dently, from its (tyle of fculpture, a temple of the god 
Budha, or Boodh. On each lide of the veftibule are (land¬ 
ing figures of the god, in eafy attitudes, of tolerable pro¬ 
portions, and well fculptured in alto-relievo, fourteen 
feet high. This cave and three figures are elegantly re- 
prefented in Daniel’s feries of oriental fcenery. 
KEN'EZITE, f. A defcendant of Kenaz. 
KEN'FIG, a parifh of Glamorganfhire, South Wales. 
Mr. Donavan, in his Defcriptive Excurfions through South 
Wales, defcribes it as a poor village, inhabited moftly by 
failors and fmugglers, and reprefents thefe as being parti¬ 
cularly rude and infulting to ftrangers. Aclufterof mean 
cottages, grouped together, with a church on a ridge of 
riling ground, conflitute this village. In this parifh is 
Kenfig-pool, a lake of frefii water, which “is embofomed 
in a depreffion of an irregular form, in the midlt of fands 
that have been apparently drifted upon this fpot from the 
contiguous coaft, and, though lying within a very fhort 
diftance of the fea at flood-tide, invariably retains its frefli- 
nefs pure and untainted by the muriatic properties of the 
former. Tlie circumference of this pool is eftimated at a 
mile and three quarters. The depth is great in fome 
places. Indeed it has the reputation of being, in many 
parts, unfathomable.” It is traditionally faid, that a town 
formerly occupied this fpot, and that it was fvvallowed up 
by an earthquake. At a fhort diftance from the lake, on 
an eminence, are fome ruins, called Kenfig-caille, which 
was only a fmail fortrefs. 
KENGHEVA'R, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Irak, on a river which runs into the Karafu: 240 miles 
north-weft of Ifpahan, and 150 north-eaft of Bagdad. 
Lat. 34. ao. N. Ion. 47. 10. E. 
KENJA'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: thirty 
miles fouth-weft of Patna. 
KEN'ILWORTH, a town of England, .in the county 
of Warwick; with a weekly market on Wednefday; and 
the ruins of a very ancient caftle : five miles north of 
Warwick, and ninety-eight north-weft of London. Lat. 
52. 22. N. Ion. x. 34. W. 
Among the ruined ftruftures which form a valuable 
comment, not only on the difpoflticn, but the hiftory, of 
our ancient fortreffes, is the Caftle of Kenilworth; famed 
in the middle centuries for its ftrength ; and at a later 
period, as the left fcene of that heroic gallantry fo con¬ 
spicuous in the annals of Elizabeth. 
Sir William Dugdale fays, that Kenilworth had a caftle 
previous to the conqueft. But it appears to have flood 
in a different Situation from the prefent, and to have been 
demolifhed in the wars between Edmund and Canute. 
We have no notice of fuch a ftruclure in the Domefday 
Survey. The new building was erefled foon after the year 
iioo, by Geffrey de Clinton, treafurer and chamberlain 
to Henry I. who alfo founded the priory ; but it did not 
long continue with his family. According to the pipe- 
rolls, fo early as 1165 the fneriff accounted to the crown 
for the profit of the park ; and eight years after, in the 
ipth of Henry II. we find it poffelfed and garriloned by 
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the king, during the unnatural rebellion of his Cons. 
Geffrey de Clinton, the fon, from a deed in one of the 
Prior-y Regifters, feenxs afterward to have recovered the 
polfeffion of it ; though he did not hold it feven years ; 
for, in the 27th of Henry II. 1181, we find the fheriff 
again accounting to the king for the ward of it. Rent 
alfo was paid by divers perfons who lived within it, as fir 
William Dugdale fuppofes, for the fafety both of them- 
felves and of their goods in thofe turbulent and licentious 
times. Still, however, the poffelJion of it does not feem 
to have been entirely vefted in the crown, as, in the begin¬ 
ning of king John’s reign, Henry de Clinton, the grandfon 
of the founder, releafed to the king all his right in it, as 
well as in the woods and pools about it. After this time 
we find confiderable fums laid out in repairing, extend¬ 
ing, and improving, the fortifications; and the alterations 
which were made in the 26th of Henry III. 1242, are ex-, 
prefsly enurperated. The chapel was ceiled, wainfeotted, 
and adorned with painting ; handfome feats made for the 
king and queen ; the bell-tower repaired ; the queen’s 
chamber enlarged and painted ; and the walls on the fouth 
fide, next the pool, entirely rebuilt. The fame year, Gil¬ 
bert de Segrave was made governor during the royal plea- 
fure; but under terms which implied fome fear of foreign 
enemies. Soon after this, however, the king bellowed it 
upon Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicefter, and Eleanor 
bis wife, during their lives. This earl, taking part with 
the rebellious barons, was flain, with his eldell fon, at 
the battle of Evefliam, Augult 4, 1265 ; but bis caftle of 
Kenilworth held out againltthe royal forces for lix months. 
The works were defended with confiderable refolution, 
and the befiegers affailed with ftones of great weight from 
military engines, which, added to frequent fallies, occa- 
lioned Henry to change the fiege into a blockade ; till, 
tired of waiting time before it, he refolved to take it by 
ftorm. But, in the mean while, famine and difeafe deter¬ 
mined Henry de Mailings, who commanded it, to furren- 
der on conditions. It was during the blockade that the 
king, having affembled a parliament, made the Didhm de 
Kenilworth, found among our old ftatutes. After the liege, 
the king bellowed the caftle on his fon Edmund, grant¬ 
ing him free chafe and warren in all his demefne lands 
and woods belonging to it; with a weekly market and an 
annual fair. In the reign of Edward I. we find Kenil¬ 
worth remarkable for different lcenes. Roger Mortimer, 
earl of March, with a gallant affembly of a hundred 
knights and as many ladies, held a round table here, di¬ 
verting themfelves with tournaments and other feats of 
chivalry. In the 15th of Edward II. by the attainder of 
Thomas earl of Lancafter, the caftie again efeheated to 
the crown; and fbon after became the prifon of the king : 
Edward, having been depofed by bis queen, and taken, 
prifoner in Wales, was brought hither, where he made 
the refignation of his crown ; whence being removed in 
the night by his keepers, fir John Maltravers and fir Tho¬ 
mas Berkeley, to Berkeley caftle, he was murdered. In 
the 13th of Edward Ill’s reign, Henry, the brother of the 
earl of Lancafter, had his eftates, and among them this 
callle, reftored. On a partition, it afterwards fell to 
Blanch, his grand-daughter, who married John of Gaunt; 
who in the 15th year of Richard II. on his return from 
Spain, made confiderable additions to the works. In the 
poffeflion of his fon, it once more reverted to the crown; 
and remained a royal palace till 1562, Henry V. and 
Henry VIII. appear to have made fome few additions, the 
greater part of which may be ealily diftinguiflied at the 
prefent hour. 
In 1563, Elizabeth granted it, with all its royalties, to 
Robert Dudley, third fon to the duke of Northumberland, 
whom (lie afterwards created earl of Leicelter. By him 
no money was fpared in making alterations, additions, 
and improvements, in the caftle. The chace became ex¬ 
tended, and even the back part of the caftle was made the 
front, with a handfome gatehoufe at the entrance. la 
1570, we are told by Strype, as well as in fome of the 
court- 
