Chapter Kit Cats to Knights Baronets of K by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

cloak into a puddle for Queen Elizabeth to step on as she was about to enter her barge. (See Kenilworth, chap. xv.)

“Your lordship meaneth that Raleigh, the Devonshire youth,' said Varney, `the Knight of the Cloak, as they call him at Court.”- Ditto, chap. xvi.

   Elizabeth, in the same novel, addresses him as Sir Squire of the Soiled Cassock.

Knight of the Couching Leopard (The). Sir Kenneth, or rather the Earl of Huntingdon, Prince Royal of Scotland, who followed, incognito, Richard I. to the Crusade, and is the chief character of the Talisman, a novel by Sir Walter Scott.

Knight of the Order of John-William (A). In French: “Chevalier de l'ordre de Jean Guillaume, ” a man hanged. (See John-William .)

Knight of the Post A man in the pillory, or that has been tied to a whipping-post, is jestingly so called.

Knight of the Rueful Countenance Don Quixote.

Knight's Fee A portion of land held by custom, sufficient to maintain a knight to do service as such for the king. William the Conqueror created 60,000 such fees when he came to England. All who had £20 a year in lands or income were compelled to be knights.

Knight's Ward (The). A superior compartment in Newgate for those who paid three pieces by way of “garnish.” No longer in existence.

Knights (See Cross-Legged ...)

Knights Bachelors Persons who are simply knights, but belong to no order. (French, bas-chevaliers.)

Knights Bannerets Knights created on the field of battle. The king or general cut off the point of their flag, and made it square, so as to resemble a banner. Hence knights bannerets are called Knights of the Square Flag.

Knights Baronets Inferior barons, an order of hereditary rank, created by James I. in 1611. The title was sold for money, and the funds went nominally towards the plantation of Ulster. These knights bear the arms of Ulster, viz. a field argent, a sinister hand couped at the wrist gules. (See Hand .)