Authority Cited: King [William]; King’s Cookery
Author name and dates: William King (1663-1712)
BKG Bio-tweet: Lawyer; said to neglect official duties in Ireland; poet (Horace imitations); satirist; brief SJ Life: purity of sentiment
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: an edition of King's collected works did not appear until 1776. The editions SJ used are not known. About 31 total King cites in vol. 1 of 1755 Dict.; about 11 total King cites in vol. 2 of 1755 Dict. Two King cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
Author name and dates: William King (1663-1712)
BKG Bio-tweet: Lawyer; said to neglect official duties in Ireland; poet (Horace imitations); satirist; brief SJ Life: purity of sentiment
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: an edition of King's collected works did not appear until 1776. The editions SJ used are not known. About 31 total King cites in vol. 1 of 1755 Dict.; about 11 total King cites in vol. 2 of 1755 Dict. Two King cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
- The art of cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of poetry. With some letters to Dr. Lister, and others: Occasion'd principally by the Title of a Book publish'd by the Doctor, being the Works of Apicius Coelius, Concerning the Soups and Sauces of the Antients. With an Extract of the greatest Curiosities contain'd in that Book. To which is added, Horace's Art of poetry, in Latin. By the author of the Journey to London. Humbly inscrib'd to the Honourable Beef Steak Club. (pub. anonymously) 1708, London: printed for Bernard Lintott at the Cross-Keys between the two Temple Gates in Fleet-Street; ambigu; basket-hilt; batter; bisk; booby; breeches; bully; burnt; charger; cheesecake; chip; chop; club; codling; collop; cookery; crinkle; delicates; draw; drudgingbox; eatable; garnish; gingerbread; green; hell; huzza; insipid (added in 1773 Dict.); kissingcrust; mackerel; marinate; ragout; stoop (same quote as huzza); ; stuff; surprisal/surprise; sweetmeat; wake; [BKG Note: this title was republished in 1710 and 1712. Thanks to John Steven Meyer (2025) for identifying the cites for booby, club and stoop which were cited only as King in the 1755 Dict.]
- Fisherman in Miscellanies in prose and verse. By William King. 1709, London: printed for B. Lintott between the two Temple Gates, and H. Clements at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard,; gill;
- Horace [Letters to Dr. Lister and Others (in the Art of Cookery title above): Letter IV to Mr. ___ "...an imitation of Horace's invitation of Torquatus to supper, which is the Fifth Epistle of his First Book"]; lobby
- Laura [BKG Note: cite should be The Old Cheese] in Miscellanies in prose and verse. By William King. 1709, London: printed for B. Lintott between the two Temple Gates, and H. Clements at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard; sapling; smelt (added in 1773 Dict.)
- Mully of Mountown in Some remarks on the Tale of a tub. To which are annexed Mully of Mountown, and Orpheus and Euridice. By the author of The journey to London, 1704, London: Printed for A. Baldwin in Warwick-lane OR in Miscellanies in prose and verse. By William King. 1709, London: printed for B. Lintott between the two Temple Gates, and H. Clements at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard; bottle; calash; churlish;