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Admitted 23 October, 1694.

Son and heir of Jerome King, merchant, of Exeter, where he was born in 1669. He was called to the Bar 3 June, 1698, and soon acquired an extensive practice. In 1701 he entered Parliament, where he acquired so high a reputation that he was spoken of as a probable candidate for the Speakership. In 1708 he became Recorder of London, and two years subsequently conducted the impeachment of Dr. Sacheverell. He was admitted ad eundem to the Inner Temple, where he became a Bencher in 1708. He became Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1714, and, on the resignation of Lord Macclesfield, Lord Chancellor, with the title of Baron King of Ockham. This office he resigned in 1733, and died in the following year.

Before his entry on his legal career Lord King had devoted himself to theological studies, and he is the author of the following treatises: Letters on Several Subjects (1694); Critical History of the Apostles' Creed [Anon.] (1703); An Inquiry into the Constitution of the Primitive Church (1712).

Son of Richard Kingsmill of Barkham, Berkshire. There is no entry of his admission, but that he was of the Middle Temple appears from the Year Book (9 Hen. VII., p. 23), where in the list of Serjeants made in Trinity Term, 1494, he is so described. He was made a King's Serjeant in 1497, and was elevated to a seat in the Common Pleas in 1503. His death is supposed to have occurred in 1509.

Admitted 23 April, 1624.

Son and heir of Thomas Knatchbull of Maidstone, Kent. He graduated B.A. at St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1620. He succeeded to the family estates in 1636, and was elected for Kent in 1639, knighted by Charles I. in the same year, and made a Baronet in 1641. In 1642 he appeared before a House of Commons Committee as a delinquent, and during the Great Rebellion took no part in affairs, but devoted himself to study, and in 1659 produced a work entitled Animadversiones in Libros Novi Testamenti. It consists of critical emendations of the Books based upon a knowledge of Hebrew, and its publication procured him for a time a great reputation as a scholar. It went through several editions. He died at his seat, Mersham Hatch, in Kent, 5 Feb. 1685.

Admitted 26 October, 1565.

Second son of Francis Knollys, Knight, Vice-Chamberlain to Her Majesty. He and his younger brother Edward were admitted the same day. He was"related in blood" to Queen Elizabeth, who sent him on an embassy to Scotland in 1585. He served in the Low Countries under Leicester, by whom he was knighted in 1586. He was made Controller of the Royal Household and a Privy Councillor in 1596, and in 1602 succeeded Lord North as Treasurer. On the accession of James I. he retained his offices, and was made K.G. in 1615. He was created Earl of Banbury by Charles I. in 1626. He