KING, Dr John, a learned English bishop, born at Worwall about 1559, was educated at Westminster School and at Oxford, and appointed chaplain to Queen Elizabeth. In 1605 he was made dean of Christ Church; for several years he was 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 se-
veral 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 died on the 30th of March 1621, and was interred in St Paul's cathedral. Soon after his death it was reported that he had died a member of the Catholic church. But the falsehood of this story was sufficiently exposed by his son Dr Henry King, who was created bishop of Chichester, in a sermon delivered soon afterwards at St Paul's Cross; 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. King.