KING (Dr John), a learned English bishop in the 17th century, bred at Westminster-school, and afterward at Christ-church Oxford. He was appointed chaplain to queen Elizabeth. In 1605 he was made dean of Christ-church, and was for several years vice-chancellor of Oxford. In 1611 he was advanced to the bishopric of London. Besides his Lectures upon Jonah, delivered at York, he published several sermons. King James I. used to style him the king of preachers; and lord chief justice Coke often declared, that he was the best speaker in the star-chamber in his time. He was so constant in preaching after he was a bishop, that, unless he was hindered by want of health, he omitted no Sunday whereon he did not visit some pulpit in London or near it. Soon after his death, the Papists reported, that he died a member of their church. But the falsity of this story was sufficiently exposed by his son Mr Henry King, in a sermon at St Paul's cross soon after; by bishop Godwin in the Appendix to his Commentarius de presulibus Angliae, printed in 1622; and by Mr John Gee, in his book, intitled, The foot out of the snare.