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Bufwell’s Knights of the Garter. 
Differtation upon Knighthood, by Dugdale, in his Hiftory 
of Warwickfliire. 
Sir Levet Hanfon upon Knighthood. 
Clarke’s Hiftory of Knighthood. 
Edmondfon’s complete Body of Heraldry. 
KNI'GHTING, f. The aft of conferring the honour 
of knighthood. 
KNI'GHTLESS, adj. Unbecoming a knight. Obfolcte : 
Arife, thou curfed mifcreant. 
That haft with knightlejs guile, and treacherous train, 
Fair knighthood foully ftiamed. Fairy Queen. 
KNI'GHTLINESS, f. The duties of a knight: 
The prince did wonder much, yet could not guefte 
The caufe of that his forrowfull conftraint; 
Yet would by fecret iignes of manlineffe, 
Which clofe appear’d in that rude brutilhneffe, 
That he whilome fome gentle fwaine had beene, 
Train’d up in feats of armes and knightlinejfe. Spenfer. 
KNI'GHTLY, adv. Befitting a knight ; befeeming a 
knight.—Let us take care of your wound, upon condition 
that a more knightly combat (hall be performed between 
us. Sidney. 
How dares your pride prefume againft my laws, 
As in a lifted field to fight your caufe: 
Unalk’d the royal grant, no inarlhal by, 
As knightly rites require, nor judge to try. Dry den. 
KNI'GHTLOW HILL', or Cross, which gives name 
to a hamlet in Warwickfliire, Hands in the road from Co¬ 
ventry to London, at the entrance of Dunfmore Healh. 
About forty towns in this hamlet, which are fpecified by 
Dugdale, are obliged, on the forfeiture of 30s. and a white 
bull, to pay a certain rent to the lord of the hamlet, called 
viroth-money , ox fwarf-penny ; which muftbe depofited every 
Martinmas-day in the morning at this crofs before fun- 
rife ; when the party paying it mult go thrice about the 
crofs, and fay “ The wroth-money and then lay it in the 
hole of the faid crofs before good witnefs. 
KNI'GHTON, a market-town in South Wales, in the 
county of Radnor, 155 miles from London. It is a fair 
well-built town, much frequented, and pleafantly fituated 
on an elevation rifing from a fmall river, which divides 
this part of Wales from Shropfhire. It carries on a con- 
fiderable trade ; and its weekly market, which is pretty 
well lupplied with provifions, is kept on Thurfday. It 
has one annual fair likewife, which is held on the 6th of 
May. 
KNI'GHTON (Henry), an ancient Englilli chronicler, 
canon-regular of Leicelter-abbey, flourifhed, at the clofe 
of the fourteenth century, under Richard II. He wrote 
a hiftory of Englilli affairs in five books, from the conqueft 
to the year 1395. For the greater part of this period he 
only tranferibes Ralph Higden, but not without acknow¬ 
ledgment. He alfo wrote an account of the depofition 
of Richard II. He is reckoned an exact and faithful nar¬ 
rator of events within his own times. His works are 
printed with the ten Englilli hiftorians publilhed by Sel- 
den in 1652. Se/den's Preface. VoJJii Hijl. Lat. 
KNI'GHTSBRIDGE, Middlefex, thefirft village from 
London in the great weftern road, is fituated in the pa- 
riflies of Ciielfea, St. George Hanover-fquare, and St. 
Margaret Weitminfter, but has a chapel independent of 
thofe parifhes. On the fouth fide of Knightlbridge, near 
Kenfington Gore, but in the parifii of St. Margaret, are 
fome handfome iniulated villas, particularly thofe of James 
Vere, efq. fir George Warren, K.B. and the duke of 
Rutland. 
Near Hyde-Park Corner, on the fouth fide of the road, 
is St. George’s Hofpital for the lick and lame. The centre 
part was the feat of James Lane, vifeount Lanefborough, 
who died there in 1724.; and is recorded by Pope in this 
memorable line: “Sober Lanefborough, dancing with the 
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gout!” In the centre of this village there is a fabric be¬ 
longing to Meffrs. Smelt, where is carried on one of the 
moll conliderable manufaftures in England for painting 
floor-cloths, &c. This manufaftory was burnt down on 
Tuefday, the 18th of February, 1794., and the whole flock 
and materials were confumed, to the amount of near 
2o,oool. all of which was uninfured ; it has fince been re¬ 
built. Near the end of Knightlbridge, a large range of 
barracks has, within thefe few years, been erefted, capa¬ 
ble of containing two regiments of cavalry. 
In Sloane-ftreet has lately been opened a new Botanic 
Garden and Library, planned and condufted by Mr. Sa- 
lifbury, the ingenious pupil and fucceffor of the late uni- 
verfaily-refpefted botanift, Mr. William Curtis, author of 
the Flora Londinenlis. There is much fcience and tafte 
difplayed in the arrangement of this garden ; and, when 
completed, it will contain fix acres. Being only three 
quarters of a mile from Hyde-Park Corner, it is much ea- 
fier of accefs than Curtis’s old garden atBrompton, which 
Mr. Salifbury has converted into a nurfery-ground. The 
terms are, one guinea entrance, and one guinea per annum 
for each individual; two guineas per annum gives the 
privilege of introducing vifitors. The library is fitted up 
in the cottage-ftyle ; in which leftures on botany are read 
during the fummer, viz. on Monday and Thurfday even¬ 
ings at feven o’clock. A concert of inftrumental mufic 
is performed at the fame hour on Tuefday and Saturday 
evenings : admiffion is granted to non-fublcribers on pay¬ 
ing two fhillings and fixpence, which is returned if they 
afterwards become fubferibers. A very extenfive cata¬ 
logue, and plan of the garden, may be purchafed of the 
gardener, at the lodge ; and an explanatory account of 
the whole inftitution, written by Mr. Salifbury, may be 
found in the Gentleman’s Magazine for Auguft 1810. 
KNIN, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Beraun ; 
in the neighbourhood of which there is a gold mine : 
twelve miles fouth-eaft of Beraun. Lat. 49.49. N. Ion. 
14. 18. E. 
KNIN, a town of Dalmatia, fituated on a narrow neck, 
where the river Kerka is joined by another ftream, called 
Butim-fchiza. This is fuppofed to be the ancient caftle 
called Arduba , taken by Germanicus: forty miles eaft of 
Zara. Lat. 43. 55. N. Ion. 16. 55. E. 
KNIP BAY, a bay on the weft coaft of the ifland of 
Curagoa. 
KNIP'HAUSEN, a feaport town of Germany, in the 
lordfhip of Jever, which takes its name from an ancient 
caftle, where the tribunal of juftice is held : five miles eaft- 
fouth-eaft of Jever, and thirty-feven eaft of Embden. Lat. 
53. 29. N. Ion. 8. E. 
KNIS'CHIN. See Knyszyn. 
KNIS'TENAUX, Killistinons, or Kistinons, a 
people who are fpread over a confiderable extent in the 
centre of the northern part of America. We are indebted 
to Mr. Mackenzie for a particular account of thefe peo¬ 
ple. Their language is the fame as that of the people 
who inhabit the coaft of Britifli America on the Atlantic, 
the Efquimaux excepted ; and continues along the coaft of 
Labrador, and the gulf and banks of St. Lawrence, to 
Montreal. The line then follows the Utawas river to its 
fource, and continues from thence nearly weft along the 
highlands which divide the waters that fall into Lake Su¬ 
perior and Hudfon’s Bay. It then proceeds till it Itrikes 
the middle part of the river Winipic, following that water 
through the lake Winipic, to the difcharge of the Salkat- 
chiwin.a into it; from thence it accompanies the latter to 
Fort George, when the line, linking by the head of the 
Beaver river to the Elk river, runs along its banks to its 
difcharge in the Lake of the Hills, from which it may be 
carried back eaft to the I lie a la Croffe, and fo on to 
Churchill, by the Miffiffippi. The whole of the tract be¬ 
tween this line and Hudfon’s bay and ftraits, (that of the 
Efquimaux in the latter excepted,) may be faid to be 
exclufively the country of the Kniftenaux. Some of them, 
indeed, have penetrated farther weft and fouth to the Red 
3 river. 
