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rents; but, in the collateral line, it doth not reach beyond 
brothers' and filters’ children ; for after them there is no. 
reprefentation among collaterals. 
In the right afcending line, the father or mother are al¬ 
ways in the firfl degree of kindred ; and, by the civil law, 
if the fo'n died utithout iflue, his father or mother fuc- 
ceeded, and after them his brother or filler, uncle, aunt, 
Zee. But, in cafe of purchafe by the fon, if he died with¬ 
out iffue, his father or mother could not inherit, but his 
brothers and filters, Sec. by which it appears, that the fa¬ 
ther cannot fucceed the fon immediately, though he is 
the next of kin. If a man purchafe lands and die with¬ 
out iffue, it fhall never go to the half blood in the colla¬ 
teral line; though it is othervvife in cafe of a defeent from 
2 common anceitor. 
The children of the brothers and lifters of the half 
blood, fhall exclude all other collateral afeendants, as un¬ 
cles and aunts, and all remoter kindred of the w’hole blood 
in the collateral line, 2 Nelf. Abr. 
There are feveral rules to know the degrees of kin¬ 
dred. In the afcending line, take the foil and add the fa¬ 
ther, and it is one degree afcending; then add the grand¬ 
father, and it is a fecond degree, a perfon added to a per- 
fon in the line of confanguinity making a degree ; and, if 
there are many perfons, take away one, and you have the 
number of degrees; as, if there are four perfons, it is the 
third degree, if five, the fourth, See. fo that the father, 
fon, and grandchild, in the defeending line, though three 
perfons, make but two degrees: To know in what degree 
cf kindred the fons of two brothers Hand, begin from the 
grandfather, and defeend to one brother, the father of one 
of the fons, which is one degree; then defeend to his fon, 
the anceftor’s grandfon, which is a fecond degree; and 
then defeend again from the grandfather to the other bro¬ 
ther, father of the other of the fons, which is’ one degree; 
and defeend to his fon, Sec. and it is a fecond degree ; 
thus, reckoning the perfon from whom the computation 
is made, it appears there are two degrees, and that the 
ions of two brothers are diftant from each other two de¬ 
grees ; for, in what degree either of them is diftant from 
the common flock, the perfon from whom the computa¬ 
tion is made, they are diftant between themfelves in the 
fame degree ; and in every line the perfon mult be rec¬ 
koned from whom the computation is made. If the kin¬ 
dred are not equally diftant from the common flock, then, 
in w’hat degree the moft remote is diftant, in the fame de¬ 
gree they are diftant between themfelves, and fo the kin 
of the moft remote maketh the degree; by which rule, I, 
and the grandchild of my uncle, are diftant in the third 
degree, fuch grandchild being diftant three degrees from 
my grandfather, the neareft common flock. The com¬ 
mon law agrees in its computation with the civil and ca¬ 
non law, as to the right line: and only with the canon 
law as to the collateral line. Wood's Injl. 48,9. See farther 
■under the article Descent, vol. v. 
KIN'DRED, adj. Congenial; related; cognate: 
From Tufcan Corium he claim’d his birth ; 
But after, when exempt from mortal earth,. 
From thence afeended to his kindred Ikies. Dryden. 
KINE, f. pi. from cow : 
A-field I went, amid’ the morning dew, 
To milk my kine, for fo fhould lioufewives do. Gay. 
KI'NEL, a river of RufTia, which runs into the Samara 
at Alekfevfkoe, in the government of Simbirik, twenty 
miles eaft of Samara. 
KINESCH'MA, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Koltrom, on the Volga: forty miles fouth-eafl of Kof- 
trom. 
KI'NF.TON, a market-town in Warwickfhire, eighty 
miles from London, was, as the name imports, the king's 
fown, and held by our kings, if not before yet certainly 
by Edward the Confefl'or and William the Conqueror. 
King John kept his court in a caltle here. Market on 
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Tuefday, chiefly for black cattle; fairs, June 24 and Sep. 
tember 21. 
Itchington-Bifhops, on the river Ichene, to the north- 
eaft of Kineton, is fo called from the bilhops of Coventry 
and Lichfield, once, its poflenors. It has a market on 
Wednefday. Edgehill, near Kineton, was the field of the 
fignal battle, in 1642, between the armies of Charles I. 
and the parliament. It iies at the waft end of the Vale 
of Red Horfe, and gives a moll extenfive profpeft. It is 
fteep to the north, and has a flrong large entrenchment 
on the top. The battle was fought on the defeent of the 
hill, between Radway and Kineton. The Vale of Red 
Horfe is a fruitful pleafant trail, fouth of the Avon, to tha 
eaft of Edgehill, lo called from the figure of a horfe cut 
by the country-people on the fide of a hill near Tyfoe, 
out of red-coloured earth .; the trenches that form it be¬ 
ing cleanfed and kept open by a neighbouring freeholder, 
who enjoys lands by that fervice. 
Tyfoe, at the fkirt of Edgehill, had a market on Tuef¬ 
day, and a fair at Lammas-tide for four days; but tha 
market is difeontinued. 
KING,yi [A contraction of the Teutonic word cun- 
ing, or cyning, the name of fove,reign dignity. In the 
primitive tongue it figniftes flout or valiant ; the kings 
of moft nations being, in the beginning, chofen by the 
people on account of their valour and flrength. Vtrjlegan. 
Camden derives the word from the Saxon cyning ; and 
that from can, power, or ken, knowledge, w herewith every 
monarch is fuppofed to be invefted. The Latin rex, the 
Scythian nix, the Punic refck, the Spanifh rey , and French 
raj'come all, according to Poflel, from the Hebrew 
rofch, chief, or head.] Monarch; fuprenie governor : 
The great King of kings, 
Hath in the table of his law commanded, 
That thdu fhalt do no murder. Skakcfp. Rick. III. 
Thus ftates were form’d ; the name of king unknown, 
’Till common int’reft plac’d the fway in one ; 
’Twas virtue only, or in arts of arms, 
Diffufing bleftings, or averting harms. 
The fame which in a fire the ions obey’d, 
A prince the father of a people made. Rope. 
A fubftitute fhines brightly as a king. 
Until a king be by ; and then his ftate 
Empties itfelf, as doth an inland brook 
Into the main of waters. Skakejp. Mer. of Venice. 
It is taken by Bacon in the feminine ; as prince alfo is.-—- 
Ferdinand and Ifabella, kings of Spain, recovered the greai 
and rich kingdom of Granada from the Moors. Bacons — 
A card with the picture of a king : 
The king unfeen 
Lurk’d in her hand, and mourn’d'his captive queen. Pope. 
The chief piece at draughts and chefs. 
King at Anns, a principal officer of the Heralds’ Col¬ 
lege, of w hom there are three, viz. Garter, Norroy, and' 
Clarencieux. See Heraldry, vol. ix. p. 404.—A letter 
under his own hand was lately flievved me by fir William 
Dugdale, king at arms. Walton. 
Kings were not known amongft the Ifraelites till the 
reign of Saul. Before him they were governed, at firft hy 
elders, as.in Egypt; then by princes of God’s appoint¬ 
ment, as Mofes and Jofhua ; then by judges till the time 
of Samuel; and lafl of alPby kings. See the article Jew. 
Moft of the Grecian ftates were governed at firft by 
kings, who were chofen by the people to decide differ¬ 
ences and execute a power which was limited by laws. 
They commanded armies, prefided over the worfhip of 
the gods, Sec. This royalty was generally hereditary 5 
but, if the vices of the heir to the crown were odious to 
the people, or if the oracle had fo commanded, he was 
cut off from the right of fucceffion ; yet the kings were 
fuppofed to hold their fovereignty by the appointment of 
Jupiter. The enfign qf majefty was the feeptre, which 
was made oi wood .adorned with ftuds of gold, and orna¬ 
mented. 
