Chapter M: DCC LXI (7)

KING JOHN’S _court_, 1. Barnaby street.* 2. Holiwell lane.* 3. Limehouse
Corner. 4. Mile-end Green.* 5. Stepney Green.*

KING JOHN’S _court passage_, Barnaby street.*

KING TUDOR’S _street_, Bridewell, Fleet street.

KING’S ARMS _court_, 1. Bankside.* 2. Basinghall street.* 3. King John’s
court, Holiwell street.* 4. Ludgate hill.*

KING’S ARMS _stairs_, College street.*

KING’S ARMS _walk_, Narrow walk.*

KING’S ARMS _yard_, 1. Chick lane.* 2. Coleman street.* 3. Fore street.*
4. Lothbury.* 5. St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross.* 6. Marybon
street.* 7. Shoreditch.* 8. Whitechapel.* 9. Whitecross street,
Cripplegate.*

KING’S ARMS _inn yard_, Holborn Bridge.*

KING’S BENCH, the highest Court of Common Law in England, is so called,
because the King sometimes sat there in person on an high bench, and
the Judges, to whom the judicature belongs in his absence, on a low
bench at his feet: or because this Court determines pleas between the
Crown and the subject of treasons, felonies, and other pleas, which
properly belong to the King: and also in whatsoever relates to the
loss of life or member of any subject, in which the King is concerned,
as he is a sufferer by the loss of the life or limbs of his subjects.
Here likewise are tried breaches of peace, oppression, and
misgovernment; and this Court corrects the errors of all the Judges
and Justices of England, in their judgments and proceedings, not only
in pleas of the Crown, but in all pleas, real, personal, and mix’d;
except only pleas in the Exchequer. This Court is general, and extends
to all England; and where-ever it is held the law supposes the
Sovereign to be there in person. In this Court there commonly sit four
Judges, the first of which is stiled the Lord Chief Justice of the
King’s Bench; and sometimes the Lord Chief Justice of England; whose
salary is 4000_l._ a year, and the puisne Judges 1500_l._ a year each.
_Chamberlain’s Present State._

The Court of King’s Bench in Westminster Hall, is in the south east
corner.

KING’S BENCH _alley_, 1. Dorset street, Spitalfields. 2. St. Margaret’s
Hill.

KING’S BENCH OFFICE, In the Inner Temple, at the lower end of King’s
Bench walk, next the Thames. Here the records of that Court are kept
to secure them from fire.

KING’S BENCH PRISON, In St. George’s fields, is a place of confinement
for debtors; and for those sentenced by the Court of King’s Bench to
suffer imprisonment, for libels and other misdemeanors; but those who
can purchase the liberties have the benefit of walking through a part
of the Borough, and in St. George’s fields.

This prison is situated in a fine air; but all prospect of the fields,
even from the uppermost windows, is excluded by the height of the
walls with which it is surrounded. It has a neat chapel for the
performance of divine worship, and only one bed in each room; but
these rooms are extremely small; they are all exactly alike, and none
above nine feet in length.

KING’S BENCH _walk_, Inner Temple, from the King’s Bench office kept
there.

KING’S COLLEGE _lane_, Bristol street.

KING’S _court_, 1. Milk street, Cheapside. 2. Nightingale lane, East
Smithfield.

KING’S GATE _street_, High Holborn.

KING’S HEAD _alley_, 1. Broad street, Ratcliff.* 2. Dorset street,
Spitalfields.* 3. In the Maze. 4. Whitechapel.*

KING’S HEAD _court_, 1. Barnaby street.* 2. Beech lane.* 3. In the
Borough.* 4. St. Clement’s.* 5. Cock lane, Shoreditch.* 6. Crispin
street.* 7. Drury lane.* 8. Fetter lane.* 9. Golden lane.* 10. Goswell
street.* 11. Gutter lane.* 12. Hand alley.* 13. Holborn.* 14. Huggen
lane, Thames street.* 15. King street, Cheapside.* 16. Little Carter
lane.* 17. St. Martin’s le Grand. 18. New Fish street.* 19. New Gravel
lane.* 20. Old Gravel lane.* 21. Petticoat lane, Whitechapel.* 22.
Plumtree street.* 23. Pudding lane, Thames street.* 24. Shoe lane,
Fleet street.* 25. Shoreditch.* 26. Southampton buildings.* 27.
Stanhope street.* 28. In the Strand.* 29. Tenter Ground.* 30. Vine
street.* 31. Whitecross street, Cripplegate.* 32. Wood street,
Cheapside.*

KING’S HEAD _yard_, 1. Fore street, Lambeth.* 2. High Holborn.* 3.
Holiwell street.* 4. King street, New Gravel lane.* 5. Leather lane,
Holborn.* 6. Moorfields.* 7. Shoreditch.* 8. Tooley street.* 9.
Wiltshire lane.*

KING’S LIBRARY, was founded by Henry Prince of Wales, the eldest son of
King James I. The printed books in this Library amount to about 10,200
and the manuscripts to about 1800. They were kept in Cotton house,
till that was burnt by the fire in 1731; they however suffered but
little by that fire, and were removed with the Cotton library to the
Old Dormitory at Westminster; since which both these libraries have
been placed with Sir Hans Sloane’s Museum in Montagu house. See the
articles COTTON LIBRARY, and BRITISH MUSEUM.

_Clerk of the_ KING’S SILVER, an officer of the Court of Common Pleas,
to whom every fine or final agreement upon the sale of land is
brought, after it has been with the _Custos Brevium_, who makes an
entry of what money is to be paid for the King’s use. This office,
which is executed by a deputy, is kept in the Inner Temple.
_Chamberlain’s Present State._

KING’S LANGLEY, near Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire, received its name
from a royal palace built here by King Henry III. the ruins of which
are still to be seen. King Richard II. with his Queen, and many of the
nobility kept a Christmas here, and in its monastery he was buried,
though afterwards removed to Westminster by King Henry V. Here was
also born and buried, Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, the son of
Edward III. and many others of that family.

KING’S _rents_, 1. Shad Thames.* 2. Whitecross street.*

KING’S OLD and NEW ROADS to Kensington, Hyde Park.

KING’S _road_, 1. Barnaby street. 2. Gray’s Inn lane.

KING’S _row_, Shad Thames.†

KING’S _square_. See SOHO _square_.

KING’S SQUARE _court_, Dean street, Soho.

KING’S _stairs_, Rotherhith.†

KING _street_. Many of these streets first received their present name,
after the restoration, in honour of King Charles II. or of monarchy in
general. 1. Bartholomew hospital. 2. Brick lane, Spitalfields. 3.
Opposite to Queen street, and leading from Cheapside to Guildhall; so
called by the act of parliament, by which it was first ordered to be
built after the fire of London. 4. Covent Garden. 5. Duke’s Place. 6.
Foul lane, in the Borough. 7. Golden Square. 8. Near Grosvenor square.
9. High Holborn. 10. Hoxton square. 11. St. James’s square. 12. Little
Tower hill. 13. Lowman’s street. 14. In the Mint. 15. Near Monmouth
street. 16. New Gravel lane. 17. Old Greek street, Soho. 18. Old
street square. 19. Oxford street. 20. Piccadilly. 21. Prince’s square.
22. Prince’s street, Soho. 23. Ratcliff Highway. 24. Rosemary lane.
25. Rotherhith wall. 26. Tooley street. 27. Upper Moorfields. 28.
Westminster. 29. Wood’s Close, Compton street.

KING’S _street passage_, Little Tower hill.

KING’S _way_, Gray’s Inn lane.

KING’S WEIGH HOUSE. See WEIGH HOUSE.

KING’S _yard_, 1. Barnaby street. 2. Leather lane, Holborn. 3.
Whitecross street, Cripplegate.

KINGSBURY, at the west end of St. Alban’s in Hertfordshire, is thus
named from the Saxon Kings frequently keeping their court there, till
it was purchased by the monks of the neighbouring abbey.

KINGSLAND, a hamlet of the parish of Islington, lying between Hoxton and
Clapton. Here was anciently an hospital for lepers, which is now
appropriated to the cure of the venereal disease, and is an appendage
to St. Bartholomew’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals. The edifice is a
plain modern brick building, without ornamental decorations; it is
large and proper for the use to which it is applied, and on the end of
it is a dial, which has the following suitable motto, POST VOLUPTATEM
MISERICORDIA; that is, _After pleasure comes pain_. This structure
joins a little old chapel; but it is wisely contrived that the
patients, who are obliged to attend divine service, can neither see
nor be seen by the rest of the audience.

This hospital is called _The Lock_.

KINGSTON UPON THAMES, a Town in Surry, received its name from its having
been the residence of several of our Saxon Kings, some of whom were
crowned on a stage in the market place. It is a populous and
well-built place, and in the reigns of Edward the Second and Third
sent members to parliament. Here is a spacious church with eight
bells, in which are the pictures of the Saxon Kings who were crowned
here, and also that of King John, who gave the inhabitants of this
town their first charter. Here is also a wooden bridge of twenty
arches over the Thames; a free school erected and endowed by Queen
Elizabeth; an almshouse built in 1670 by Aldermen Clive, for six men,
and as many women, and endowed with land to the value of 80_l._ a
year; and a charity school for thirty boys, who are all cloathed. The
summer assizes for this county are generally held here, and there is a
gallery on the top of a hill that overlooks the town. A house called
Hircomb’s Place, in this town, was the seat of the famous Earl of
Warwick, stiled The setter up and puller down of Kings. Besides the
above bridge, there is another of brick over a stream, that flows from
a spring which rises four miles above the town, and within the
distance of a bow shot from its source, forms a brook that drives two
mills. Here is a good market for corn, and the town carries on a
considerable trade.

KINHAVEY’S _court_, St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross.†

KINNERSLEY’S _yard_, Ratcliff highway.†

KIRBY’S _court_, 1. Foul lane, in the Borough.† 2. Chick lane, West
Smithfield.†

KIRBY’S _wharf_, Lower Shadwell.†

KIRBY’S _yard_, Curtain row, Hog lane, St. Giles’s.†

KIRK’S _yard_, East Smithfield.†

KITTER’S _yard_, White Hart lane.†

KNAVE OF CLUBS _yard_, Old street.*

KNAVES _Acre_, Wardour street.‖

KNIGHTSBRIDGE, the first village from London in the great western road,
is situated in the parishes of St. George’s Hanover square, and St.
Margaret’s Westminster, but has a chapel independent of those
parishes. Near the entrance of this village in the way from London, is
the infirmary for the sick and wounded called St. George’s hospital.
See _St._ GEORGE’S HOSPITAL.

KNIGHT’S _court_, 1. Back side St. Clement’s.† 2. Green walk.†

KNITNEEDLE _street_, Bloomsbury.

KNOCKFERGUS, Near Rosemary lane.

KNOLLEY’S _yard_, Hog lane.†

KNOWLES’S _court_, Little Carter lane.†

KNOWL HOUSE, near Sevenoak in Kent, is the seat of the Duke of Dorset.
It is situated in the middle of a park, and is a handsome large stone
fabric. There are some excellent pictures in the apartments.

KORBY’S _yard_, Hand alley, Petticoat lane.†

KREETCH’S _wharf_, Millbank.†