esists benevolences, 251;
Protestant martyrs in, iv. 96;
iron manufactures in, 279;
royalist rising in, vi. 59, 61

Kent, West, kingdom of, i. 83

Kent, Edmund, earl of, son of Edward I., ii. 206, 207

Kent, Joan of, ii. 293, 306

Kent, Thomas Holland, earl of (duke of Surrey), iii. 7, 8

Kent, the Nun of, iii. 319

Kerry, rising in, iv. 315

Ketel of St. Edmund's, i. 313

Kildare, Gerald Fitzgerald, eighth Earl of, iii. 175, 181, 182

Kildare, Gerald Fitzgerald, ninth Earl of, iii. 328

Killiecrankie, battle of, vii. 52

Killigrew, Tom, vi. 175

Kilmarnock, William Boyd, fourth Earl of, vii. 230

Kilsyth, battle of, vi. 41

King, the, i. 48;
nature and limits of his power, 49, 132;
his "comrades," 50-52;
increase of his importance through struggle with northmen, 131;
his household officers become officers of state, 132;
relations with England after loss of Normandy, 326;
his revenue, ii. 103;
relations with Parliament, 181-183;
position at opening of Wars of the Roses, iii. 85, 86;
the Convention's settlement of his position, vi. 197;
in Council, i. 256; ii. 110, 111.
_See_ Monarchy

King's Bench, court of, ii. 109

King's County, English settlement of, iv. 111

King's Court, the, i. 186;
its organization under Henry I., 206;
under Henry II., 255; ii. 110, 111;
regulated by Great Charter, i. 350;
divided into three tribunals, ii. 109

Kirk, the Scottish,
its organization, v. 131, 132;
relations with the people and the king, 132-136;
its triumph, 140;
new struggle with James, 164-166;
dealings of Charles I. and Laud with, 326, 328, 330, 331;
re-established, 335; vii. 54

Kirk o' Field, iv. 244

Knighthood,
compulsory, under Edward I., ii. 118, 164;
under Charles I., v. 277

Knights,
their complaint against the barons, ii. 62;
right of attendance at the Great Council, 145;
growth of their importance after the Barons' War, 147;
relations with the Crown, _ib._, 148;
of the shire, summoned to Parliament, 66, 71, 73, 150, 151;
result of their election in county court, 151, 152;
relations with the Lords, 202;
grouped together with the burgesses as "the Commons," 203;
petition for due election of, 300

Knolles's _History of the Turks_, v. 4

Knollys, Sir Francis, iv. 119, 215

Knox, John, iv. 113-