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A critical edition of the English poems of Henry King, DD, sometime Bishop of Chichester, by L. Mason, 1913 at Yale University (Ph.D. thesis)

Study of life and works of Henry King, Bishop of Chichester, by J. V. C. Carey, 1951 at University of London (M.A. thesis)

Henry King 1592-1669, Bishop, Poet and Refugee, by Mary Hobbs, published 1987 (pamphlet, Chichester Diocesan Fund and Board of Finance) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7789] & West Sussex Libraries

The Restoration Correspondence of Bishop Henry King, by Mary Hobbs, published 1987 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 125, article, pp.139-154) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9994] & The Keep [LIB/500304] & S.A.S. library

Stoughton Manuscript. Facsimile Ed, A Manuscript Miscellany of Poems by Henry King and His Circle, Circa 1636 , by Mary Hobbs, published 1990 (296 pp., Scolar Press, ISBN-10: 0859677877 & ISBN-13: 9780859677875) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The Sermons of Henry King, 1592-1669, Bishop of Chichester, edited by Mary Hobbs, published 17 July 1992 (pamphlet, 400 pp., Scolar Press, ISBN-10: 0859678393 & ISBN-13: 9780859678391) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11868][Lib 12052] & West Sussex Libraries

The poems of Henry King, friend of John Donne and executor of his will, were edited in 1965, but his sermons, fine examples of 17th century prose, which span the period from the reign of James I to that of Charles II, have never been reprinted. The Sermons of Henry King makes their text available in the original spelling (with some editing of Greek and Latin). Only 21 survive, 11 of which were published in 1628 as "An Exposition upon the Lords Prayer". King used language lucidly, persuasively, and without the straining of conceits found in many sermon writers of the period. At his best, he has few equals for grace of structure, sweetness of sound, elegiac intensity of mood, and occasional dry wit. His prose is also of importance for a fuller understanding of his poetry, presenting new evidence for the dating and canon of his poems, his methods of composition, and his reading. The sermons offer fresh insights into the reign of Charles I, the Civil War, Interregnum, and Restoration in King's firsthand accounts and assessments of events and characters. His theological importance is beginning to be acknowledged in the current exploration of the "middle" position between Arminian and Puritan in the 17th century Church of England: not a notable original thinker, he can be seen to be a thoroughly representative moderate Calvinist, forced nearer as a Royalist to the Arminian position by the political events of the late 1630s.

William King (1786-1865): Physician and Father of the Co-Operative Movement, by John Grenville Corina, published August 1994 in The Journal of Medical Biography (vol. 2, no 3, article, pp.168-176)   View Online

The Kings of King's Hill Cottage, by Albert King, published December 1995 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 8, article, pp.291-292) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

William King (1784-1763) was the second of seven children of Thomas King who married Mary Stoneham on 1 May 1781 at Burwash. William married Sarah Green in 1808 and they had a family of eight children, two of whom emigrated to Australia.

The Brief Life of Mary Elliott (nee King), by Robert Drake, published April 1997 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 59, article, p.14) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/59] & The Keep [LIB/500484]

Did they survive a workhouse childhood?, by Richard L. King, published September 2007 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 17 no. 7, article, pp.342-345) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508991] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The search for the children of Henry King, born 1826, who married Frances Relf, born 1830, in 1850 and had nine children. The 1891 census recorded against the children's names, the dreadful words 'deserted by parents'.

Where there's a will, by Sue Coward, published September 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 7, article, pp.312-317) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508848] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

For many years I'd known that Ann GREVATT, baptised at Easebourne in 1710, became the wife of Augustine OLDER, but only because she is described as such in her father's will dated 1734. I always intended to take a closer look at the family but my connection is somewhat convoluted through Ann GREVATT's sister Mary marrying William TODMAN at Lodsworth in 1741, two years after their father John GREVATT had died. I have to confess I'd done little, beyond tracking down a copy of Augustine's will., when a new member of SFHG registered an interest in the son, also Augustine, who was baptised at Fernhurst in 1734. Recorded as Austin HOLDER, he married Phoebe FOSTER at Tillington in 1759.

The Taylor Family (18th Century) of Rotherfield; The Jarvis Family (18/19th century) of Rotherfield; The King Family (19th century) of Frant & Tunbridge Wells, by Trevor Hill, published c.2015 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504135]