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be of no force ; the king being, in the interpretation
of the law, a corporation, and therefore pafles nothing
but by the great fea!, which is alfo faid to be the pu¬
blic faith of the kingdom, being in the higheft efteem
and reputation.
Whenever there is a lord-keeper, he is inverted with
the fame place, authority, preheminence, jurifdidtion,
or execution of laws, as the lord chancellor of Great-
Britain is verted with.
The lord-keeper is conrtituted by the delivery of
the great feal, he.
Keeper of the privy feal, is alfo a lord by his office,
through whofe hands all grants, pardons, he. pafs be¬
fore they come to the great feal, and even fome things
pafs this officer’s hands which do not pafs the great
feal at all. This officer is alfo one of the privy coun¬
cil, yet was anciently called clerk of the privy feal.
His duty is to put the feal to no grant, he. without
a proper warrant; nor with warrant where it isagainft
law, or inconvenient, but (hall firft acquaint the king
therewith.
KEISERWAERT, a ftrong town of Germany in the
circle of Weftphalia and duchy of Berg, fituated on
the Rhine, twenty-five miles north of Cologne, E. Ion.
6° 8', N. lat. 510 so'.
KELLINGTON, a borough-town of Cornwall, thirteen
miles fouth of Launcefton, which fends two members
to parliament.
KELP, a fixed fait, or particular fpecies of pot-affi,
procured by burning a fpecies of falicofa. See Sali-
cos a.
KELSO, a town of Scotland, in the fliire of Mers, or
Roxburgh, fituated on the north fide theTweed, twen¬
ty miles fouth-weft of Berwick.
KEMPTEN, a city of Germany, in the circle of Swa¬
bia, fituated on the river Ifer: E. Ion. io° 7', N.
lat. 47® 38'.
KENDAL, a market town of Weftmoreland, twenty-
two miles fouth-weft of Appleby.
KENKS, in the fea language, doublings in a rope or
cable, when handed in and out, fo th'at it does not run
eafy ; orwhenany rope makes turns ortwifts, and dees
mot run free in the block, then it is faid to make kenks.
KENNING to «Terce, in Scots law, the dividing or
fetting off that part of the hufband’s eftate to his relift
which fhe is entitled to liferent after his death. See
Terce.
KENSINGTON, a pleafant village in the county of
Middlefex, two miles weft of London; where is a
royal palace, with large and fine gardens.
KENT, a county, bounded by the river Thames on the
north, by the ocean on the eaft, by Suffex and the
Straits of Dover on the foath, and by Surrey on the
weft.
KERMAN, the capital of the province of Kerman,
orCarimania, inPeifia : E. Ion. 56" 30,, N. lat. 30°.
KERMES in botany. See Ilex.
Kermes mineral. See Chemistry, p. 140.
KERRY, a county of Ireland, in the province of Mun-
fter, hounded by the river Shannon, which divides it
from Clare, on the north; by Limeric and Cork, on
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the eaft ; by another part of Cork, on the fouth; and
by the Atlantic Ocean, on the weft.
KESSEL, a town of Upper Guelderland, in the quarter
of Roermonde, fituated on the river Meufe: E. Ion.
6°, N. lat. 5 i° 25'.
KESTRIL, in ornithology. SeepALCO.
KETMIA, in botany. SeeHisiscus.
KETTERING, a market town of Northamptonffiire,
ten miles north-eaft of Northampton.
KETCH, in naval architecture, a veffel with two marts.
See Ship.
KEVEL, in Ihip-building, a piece of plank fayed aga'nft
the quickwork on the quarter-deck, in the fhape of a
femicircle; about which the running rigging is belaid.
KEXHOLME, the capital of the province of the fame
name in Finland, fituated on the lake Ladoga, eighty
miles north of Peterlburgh: E. Ion. 30°, N. lat.6i°
3°'.
KEY, a well known inftrument for opening and (hutting
the locks of doors, chefts, buroes, and the like.
Key, in mufic, a certain fundamental note, or tone, to
which the whole piece, be it in concerto, fonata, canta¬
ta, he. is accommodated, and with which it ufually
begins, but always ends.
Key-stone of an arch, or vault, that placed at the top
or vertex of an arch, to bind the two fweeps toge¬
ther.
KIAM, a great river of China, which, taking its rife
near the weft frontier, croffes the w'hole kingdom eaft-
ward, and falls into the bay or gulph of Nanking, a
little below that city.
KIAMSI, a province of China, bounded by that of
Nanking on the north, and by that of Canton on the
fouth.
KIDDERMINSTER, a market-town twelve miles
north of Worcefter.
KIDNEYS, in anatomy. See Anatomy, p 268.
KIGGELARIA, in botany, a genus of the dioecia de-
candria clafs. The calix of both male and female
confifts of five fegments, and the corolla of five petals;
the antherae of the male are perforated at the apex :
The female has fiveftyli; the capfule has five valves,
one cell, and many feeds. There is but one fpecies,
a native of Ethiopia.
KIDDARE, the capital of a county of the fame name,
in Ireland, twenty-feven miles fouth weft of Dublin.
KILDERKIN, a liquid meafure, containing two fir¬
kins .
KILKENNY, a county of Ireland, in the province of
Leinfter, bounded by Queen’s County, on the north:;
by the county of Wexford, on the eaftby Water¬
ford, on the fouth ; and by the county of Tipperary,
on the weft. It is alfo the name of the capital of that
county ; and is fituated in W. Ion. 7° ij', N. lat.
520 50'.
KIMBOLTON, a market-town of Huntingtonlhirs,
nine miles fouth-weft of Huntington.
KING, in the general acceptation of the word, is a per-
fon who has a fupreme authority, with the power of
levying taxes, making laws, and enforcing an obe¬
dience to them : but in Britain, which is a limited
monarchy,