KING, Dr John, a learned English bishop in the 17th century, was educated at Westminster school, and at Oxford, and was appointed chaplain to Queen Elizabeth. In 1605 he was made dean of Christ church, was for several years vice-chancellor of Oxford, and 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 prevented by want of health, he omitted no Sunday in visiting some pulpit in or near London. Soon after his death, it was reported, that he died a member of the Romish church. But the falsity of this story was sufficiently exposed by his son Dr Henry King, who was bishop of Chichester, in a sermon at St Paul's cross soon after; by Bishop Godwin in the Appendix to his Commentarius de præsulibus Angliæ, printed in 1622; and by Mr John Gee, in his book, entitled, The Foot out of the Snare.