Kings
. This grand Alliance was formed a little after the Return of King
Charles
the Second, and admitted into it Men of all Qualities and Professions, provided they agreed in this Sir-name of
King
, which, as they imagined, sufficiently declared the Owners of it to be altogether untainted with Republican and Anti-Monarchical Principles.
A Christian Name has likewise been often used as a Badge of Distinction, and made the Occasion of a Club. That of the
Georges
, which used to meet at the Sign of the
George