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His son Sir John King(John, Jean), born 5 February, 1638, at St. Albans, Herts, became an eminent Counsellor at Law of the Inner Temple, and was knighted 10 December, 1674, bearing the arms: — "Azure, a chevron sable in chief a lion rampant gules; in base an apple tree fructed proper." Quite a fullpedigree exists of this family down to 1761, when the male issue is supposed to have become extinct. The following are the only two families of King,whose ances- tors rose to the Peerage:

King of Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland. (Earls of Kingston.) Arms: Gules, two lions rampant combatant, supporting a dex- ter hand couped at the wrist and erect, argent." Crest: "Out of a five leaved ducal coronet, or, a dexter hand erect, the the third and fourth fingers turning down, proper." Supporters: "Two lions per fesse, argent and gules, ducally crowned of the last." (See Plate III.) The founder of this family was Sir John King, Kt., said to have been of Feathercocke Hall,near North Allerton, Yorkshire, but there are no traces of him in the records there, although he if said to have owned large estates in Yorkshire. He obtained from Queen Elizabeth for military services rendered, a lease of the Abbey of Boyle, Roscommon, Ireland, and from King James I numerous valuable territorial grants and several of the highest and most lucrative political offices. He was knighted at White- hall on 7 July, 1609, and married Catherine Drury, daughter of , Esq., and grand niece of the Lord Deputy, Sir . He died 4 January, 1636, leaving issue, Robert, John, Edward, Henry, Adam, Mary, Margurite and Dorothy; and his lineal descendants hold the present Earldom of Kingston. The tradition of a Yorkshire origin for this house is singular, particularly as the arms are so different from the other families of Kingin Yorkshire (noted above) and from any of the other Kingarmigers. (Baron King and Earl of Lovelace.)

King, of Ockham, Surrey. (Barons King and Earls of Lovelace.) Arms: "Sadie, three spear heads erect, argent, embrued gules; on a chief, or, as many pole axes, azure, their edges to the sines- ter for King." Crest: "A dexter arm erect, couped at the elbow, vested azure, thereon three ermine spots in fesse, or, cuffed azure, hand proper, grasping a truncheon sable, the top broken off, the bottom couped of the third." (See Plate VII,No. 1.) The founder of this family is said to have been Jerome King of Exeter, Devon, grocer and salter, whose ancestors are stated to have lived at Glastonbury, Co. .

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