Meaning of K. | Babel Free

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Abbreviation of King.

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“Hee wrote likewiſe to yͤ L. Iohn the infante, yͤ L. of Biſkey, and to yͤ Lady Mary of Biſkey, gouernereſſe of yͤ K. of Caſtile and Leon, and to Iames K. of Aragon, requeſting them to aid him with men of warre, as well horſemẽ as footemen againſt his aduerſarie yͤ Frẽch K. that moſt vniuſtly went about to depriue him of his inheritãce.”

“The delectableſt luſtie ſight and mouingeſt obiect, me thought it was that our Ile ſets forth, and nothing behinde in number with the inuincible Spaniſh Armada, though they were not ſuch Gargantuan boyſterous gulliguts as they, though ſhips and galeaſſes they would haue beene reckoned in the nauy of K. Edgar, who is chronicled & regiſtred with three thouſand ſhips of warre to haue ſcoured the narrow ſeas, and ſailed round about England euery Summer.”

“a SERMON Preach’d on the Coronation day of K. Charles I.”

“a COLLECTION of ARTICLES, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Conſtitutions Eccleſiaſtical, With other PUBLICK RECORDS of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Times of K. Edward VI. Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and K. Charles I.”

“THE LIVES Of the moſt Famous Engliſh Poets, or the Honour of Parnassus; In a Brief ESSAY of the WORKS and WRITINGS of above Two Hundred of them, from the Time of K. William the Conqueror, To the Reign of His Preſent Majeſty King JAMES II.”

“[…] the K. made him a Knight, a Baron, a Viſcount, & an Earl in one day, […]”

“When the K. from the Word he hath given does ſwerve, / And the Judges the Oath they have taken obſerve, / Or for breaking have but what they deſerve; And Popery, &c. / When Archbiſhop of York we ſee Dr. Ken, / And Compton made Biſhop of London agen, / And Herbert Rule, as before, on the Main; […]”

“now they are upon the preparing bills for evacating all grants of estates and other interests in England and Ireland from the crowne since K. Charles the Second.”

“And his Elogy upon Q. Elizabeth, and her Successor K. James, in the latter end of his Henry VII, is a Proof of that Play's being written after the Accession of the latter of those two Princes to the Crown of England.”

“[…] and all along K. Charles his Reign countenanced the Doctrine of Paſſive Obedience, […]”

“MEMORIALS of AFFAIRS of STATE in the REIGNS of Q. ELIZABETH and K. JAMES I.”

“Tories taken in by K. William, II. 40, 242, 254. and by Q. Anne, 313, 314, 552.”

“EDward Herbert, ſon of Richard Herbert, Eſq; and Suſan Newport his wife, was born at Montgomery-caſtle, and brought to court by the earl of Pembrook, where he was knighted by K. James, who ſent him over embaſſador into France. Afterwards K. Charles the firſt created him baron of Caſtle-Iſland in Ireland, and ſome years after baron of Cherbury in Montgomeryſhire.”

“Adelold had half a ſuling and half a yoke, and in the time of K. Edward the Confeſſor it was worth 40 ſhillings, and afterwards 20 ſhillings, now 40 ſhillings.”

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