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London fifty-fix miles, Bafingftoke nine, Overton fix, 
Whitchurch nine, Andover iixteen, Newbury feven, 
Reading feventeen, and Aldermafton fix. A few miles 
weft the county is divided from Berkfhire by the river 
Auburn or Aldern. It is probable that the palace of the 
Saxon fovereigns was connected with Freemantle Park, a 
fhort diftance to the fouth, as that is known to have been 
a royal refidence in the time of king John, and was in 
the poffeffion of the crown fo late as the reign of queen 
Elizabeth. The manfion has been lately pulled down, 
and the park ploughed up and converted into a farm. 
Silchefter, north-eaft of Kingfclere, on the borders of 
Berks, was in the time of the Romans a place of good 
repute, by the Britons called the City of Segont; though 
now there is only one farm-houfe and a church. The 
Britiih hiftorians fay king Arthur was crowned here; af¬ 
ter which it was demolilhed, and nothing now remains 
but the walls, which are very high, compofed of flints 
and rag-ftone, with fome Roman bricks, and in a great 
mealure entire, except where the gates flood, and out of 
them grow prodigious oaks, which feem as it were incor¬ 
porated with the ftones. Britifti tiles and Roman coins 
are often dug up here. A military way from hence to 
Winchefter is (till viiible; and another runs weft through 
the foreft of Pamber, &c. by the village of Lichfield, to 
the foreft of Chute. On the north-eaft fide of it is a noble 
piece of antiquity, which was an amphitheatre, exadtly like 
that at Dorchefter; but has for time out of mind been a 
yard for cattle, and a watering-pond. Here is a finall 
charity-fchool. 
KINGS'DOWN, abont three miles from Deal, is a very 
ancient fifliing-town, from which place the market of 
Deal is principally fupplied with fill). Kingfdown was 
given by Hugh de Burgh to his newly-ereffed Maifon de 
Dieu, which was to be a retreat for the Knights Templars 
when they vifited Temple Ewell, and other lands they 
enjoyed in this part of the country ; but this manor, upon 
the fuppreffion and abolition in England, was, in the 
17th year of Edward II. united to the revenue of the 
Knights Hofpitallers, and remained annexed to their de- 
mefne until the common diflolution fupplanted it; and 
then Henry VIII. granted it to fir Thomas Cheney, who 
conveyed it by fale, in the firft of queen Elizabeth, to 
Mr. Thomas Finch, from whom it defcended to his luc- 
ceflor of the fame name. 
KINGS'DOWN, a village in Somerfetfhire, about fe¬ 
ven miles fouth-weft from Briftol, between Windford and 
Butcomb. Here are pits, from whence is dug the red co¬ 
lours ufed by farmers for marking their (heep, called by 
them (beep’s redding. It is fent from thence to every 
part of England. There are alfo large quantities of it 
prepared and ufed as a colour for painting, and is by 
painters called Spanifh brown. It is likewife ufed for 
making fictitious Armenian bole, being found to have 
the fame aftringent quality. 
KING'SEY, a townftiip of Lower Canada, north-weft 
of Shipton, adjoining on both Tides of Nicolet-river, hav¬ 
ing about thirty inhabitants. 
KING'SHIP, j. [from king.] Royalty; monarchy.— 
They defigned and propofed to me the new-modelling of 
fovereignty and kingjkip, without any reality of power, 
or without any neceflity of fubjection and obedience. 
King Charles. —We know how fuccefsful the late ufurper 
was, while his army believed him real in his zeal againft 
kngjhip ;. but when they found out the impofture, upon 
his afpiring to the fame himfelf, he was prefently deferted 
and oppofed by them, and never able to crown his ulurped 
greatnefs with the addition of that title which he pafficn- 
ately thirfted after. South. 
KINGS'LAND, a hamlet, partly in the parifti of Hack¬ 
ney, and partly in that of Iflington, had formerly an an¬ 
cient hofpital, or houfe of lepers, called Les Loques ; an 
obfolete French word, fignifying rags, whence a lock was 
formerly ufed as afynonymous term with a lazar, or poor- 
houfej and hence, in a periodical paper written in its fa- 
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vour, in 1713, (the Tatler, No. 17.) this place is called 
The Lock Hofpital. This hofpital was long an appendage 
to St. Bartholomew’s in London, and was ufed as a kind 
of outer ward, till 1761, when all the patients were re¬ 
moved from Kingfland, and the lite of the hofpital was 
let on a building-leafe. The neighbouring inhabitants 
having petitioned that the chapel might continue, it was 
repaired accordingly, but is one of the fmalleft in the vi¬ 
cinity of the metropolis; the chaplain is appointed by the- 
governors of St. Bartholomew’s hofpital. Kingfland is 
now united by a continued range of buildings to Shore¬ 
ditch. 
KINGS'LAND CREEK, a river of Virginia, which 
runs into James River in lat. 37. 24. N. Ion. 77. 40. W. 
KINGS'MILL GROU'P, a duller of populous Jflands 
in Alia, difcovered about the year 1800, by captain Biftiop 
of the Nautilus, in the paflage from New South Wales to 
China. Lat. between o. 50. and 1.30. S. Ion. between 175.0. 
and 176.o. E. 
KING'STON, a feaport town on the fouth coaft of Ja¬ 
maica, built in the year 1692-3, on the north fide of a 
beautiful harbour, after the deftruflion of Port Royal. 
Mr. Edwards, in his Hi dory of the Weft Indies, fays, 
“it contains 1665 houles, befides negro-huts and ware- 
houfes. The number of white inhabitants, in the year 
1778, was 6539, of free people of colour 3280, of (laves 
16,659 ; tota i number of inhabitants, of all complexions and 
conditions, 26,478. It is a place of great trade and opu¬ 
lence. Many of the houfes in the upper part of the town 
are extremely magnificent; and the markets for butcher’s 
meat, turtle, fid), poultry, fruits, vegetables, See. are 
inferior to none. I can add too, from the information 
of a learned and ingenious friend, who kept comparative 
regifters of mortality, that, fince the furrounding country 
is become cleared of wood, this town is found to be as 
healthy as any in Europe.” The records, books. See. of 
the feveral offices were, in 1754, removed to this town 
from St. Jago de la Vega, by order of council; and by 
another order, iffued in 1758, carried back to St. Jago : 
ten mileseaft ofSpanifliTown. Lat. 18. o.N. Ion. 76. 33. W. 
KING'STON, the capital of the ifland of St. Vincent 
in the Weft Indies, and the feat of government, lies at 
the head of a bay of the fame name, on the fouth-weftern 
(bore of the ifland, in St. George’s parifti. 
KING'STON, the chief town of Lenoir county, New- 
bern diftrifl, North Carolina. It is a poft-town, fitu- 
ated in a beautiful plain on the north fide of Neus River; 
and contains a court-houfe, gaol, and about thirty houfes: 
forty miles weft of Newbern, and twenty-four from 
Waynefborough. 
KING'STON, or Esopus, a poft-town of New York, 
fituated in Ulfter county, on the weft fide of Hudfon’s 
River, fix miles weft of Rhinebeck, and on the eaft fide 
of Efopus Kill, or Creek. It was dellroyed on the 15th 
of October, 1777, by order of general Vaughan, com¬ 
manding a fleet which failed up the Hudfon, when large 
quantities of (tores were conl’umed. It is rebuilt on a re¬ 
gular plan, and contains about one hundred and fifty 
houfes, a court-houfe, gaol, a Dutch reformed church, 
and an academy. It is molt pleafantly fituated upon, and 
furrounded by, a fpacious plain. It is fifty-fix miles fouth 
of Albany, and 109 north of New York. Lat. 41.56. N. 
Ion. 73. 56. W. The townfhip contains 3929 inhabitants, 
of whom 556 are electors, and 302 (laves. 
KING'STON, a town of South Carolina : forty-one 
miles north-by-eaft of Georgetown, and 103 north-north- 
eaft of Charleftown. Lat. 33. 51. N. Ion. 79. 1. W. 
KING'STON, a townftiip in Plymouth county, Mafla- 
chuletts, on the weftern part of Plymouth Bay, bounded 
northerly by Duxborough, and contains 1004 inhabitants. 
The town was incorporated in 1707 : thirty-eight miles 
fouth-eaft of Bofton. 
KING'STON, a townfhip in Rockingham county. 
New Hamplhire, lying on the road which leads from Ex¬ 
eter to Haverhill, in Maffachufetts, fix miles from the 
former. 
