John King

, second Son of Dr. Joh. King B. of London, whom I have mentioned under the year 1621. was a Yorkshire man born, and at 14 years of age became a Student of Ch. Ch. under the tuition of a good Tutor, an. 1608. Afterwards he proceeded M. of A. was publick Orator of the University, Prebendary of the said Church of Christ, in 1624. and the next year D. of D. and Canon of Windsore, and about that time Prebendary of S. Pauls Cath. and Rector of Remenham in Berks. He hath published,

Oratio panegerica de auspicato Caroli Principis in regnum Hispanicum adventu. Lond. 1623. qu.

Gratulatio pro Carolo reduce Oxoniensium nomine recitata. Ox. 1623. in one sh. in qu.

Cenotaphium Jacobi, sive laudatio funebris piae & faelici memoriae Jacobi Magnae Britamniae Regis, &c. Oxon. 1625. qu.

Davids Strait: The afternoons Sermon on Act Sunday, on 2 Sam. 24. 14. Oxon 1625. qu. His elder Brother Hen. King preached the mornings Sermon called Davids Enlargement, as I shall tell you when I come to him. The very same title of Davids strait, was put to a Sermon on the same subject by one Sam. Buggs Bac. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Sydney coll. in Cambridge, afterwards a Minister in Coventry: Which Sermon was preached at Pauls Cross 8. July 1621. Dr. King surrendred up his last breath on the second day of January in sixteen hundred thirty and eight,1638 [•] 9. aged 43. and was buried near to the monument of Rob. King the first Bishop of Oxon, in the Isle joyning on the fouth side of the Choire belonging to the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. You may be pleased to read his Epitaph in Hist. & Antiq. Vnivers. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 290. b.