Gerald Fitz-Gerald, ninth Earl of Kildare. His lordship was at this time in London. A curious account of the horses presented by him to different individuals is given in his Household Book in the British Museum. Harl. MS. 3756.
King's Evil, vide Sickness and Healed.
King the hosier, [170], [186], [219], [237], [265].
---- to, for his expenses when he was sent for Cardinal Wolsey, [115]. See Cardinal.
Sir William Kingston, K. G. a memorable person in this reign. He filled the office of Comptroller of the Household, and Constable of the Tower of London, and was a Privy Councillor. He died in 1541.
Probably the individual whom Boswell, in his Lives of the Knights of the Garter**, confounds with Sir William Kingston, and who was provost martial to the forces sent to quell the rebellion in Cornwall in 1547. See some remarks relative to the error in question in the Testamenta Vetusta, p. 693, and in Lodge's Illustrations of British History, vol. i. p. 16. Note.