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THE 
 
 LI F E 
 
 Of the Right Reverend 
 
 Dr. White Kennett, 
 
 Late Lord Bifl: 
 
 iop of Peterborough, 
 
 
 With feveral 
 
 Original 
 
 LETTERS 
 
 ■ 
 
 Of the late 
 
 Archbifhop of Canterbury > Dr. TennisoNj 
 The late Earl of Sunderland, 
 
 Bifhop K E N N E T T, &C. 
 
 And fome curious 
 
 Original PAPERS and RECORDS, 
 
 Never before Publijh'd. 
 
 Willi &W H&\jd\~i 
 
 i i i i 1 im — t—ir- 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 Printed for S. B i l l i n g s l e y at the Judge* %-Head 
 
 in Chancery-Lane, 
 
 M.DCCXXX, 
 
THE 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 H O' I fhall not, with great 
 Earneftnefs and Anxiety, 
 defire the Reader's Can- 
 dour in the Perufal of thefe 
 Papers (becaufe I cou'd never find 
 a Reader the more candid for asking) 
 yet he has a Right to be informed how 
 the World comes to be fo foon preferred 
 with thefe Memoirs of Bifhop Ken >ctt y 
 and upon what Authority thofe Parts of 
 them ftand, which are not drawn from, 
 and fupported by, his own publick Wri- 
 tings and Difcourfes. 
 
 'Tis well known, that Dr. Kennett 
 had, for a Courfe of many Years, been 
 very ill-treated by the Nonjurors^ and 
 other open and fecret Enemies of the Re- 
 volution and Troteflant Succeffion : But 
 A % about 
 
iv The PREFACE. 
 
 about the Time his late Majefly began 
 his happy Reign, there feem'd to be a 
 more than ordinary Run of perfonal A- 
 bufe and Calumny againft him, exprefs'd 
 in various Forms of malicious and licen- 
 tious Writings. 
 
 He was bred a Sort of Tory ; and be- 
 ing of a lively adtive Temper, feveral 
 Things, in his younger Days, were faid, 
 written, or done by him under that In- 
 fluence ; which (tho' he was never us'd 
 to deny, but frequently own'd) yet af- 
 terwards, he faw Caufe to put them 
 away as childijh Things : And being a 
 Man of great Weight and Abilities, he 
 was, for this, continually pelted by that 
 Faftion, with theReproach of turning and 
 changing^ &c. when, in Reality, he made 
 but one early Change, in fober Convic- 
 tion of Truth and Juftice, and continu'd 
 in the fame Principles, with Stedfaftnefs 
 and Patience, under all the Times of 
 Difficulty and Trial. From the Revolts 
 tion, to the Time of his Death, his Opi- 
 nions and his Profeffion of them were, 
 
 for 
 
The PREFACE. v 
 
 for the main, always the fame; always 
 in Defence of that moft providential 
 Deliverance ; and for fecuring the 
 happy Confequence of it, the Trote* 
 (lant Succeffion. 
 
 Hinc ilia lacrymtf I From hence were 
 the Grief and Indignation of the Jaco* 
 liicsy and other Well-wiftiers to that 
 Caufe. This brought upon him whole 
 Vollies of violent Pamphlets from that 
 Quarter, without any Manner of Truth 
 or Ingenuity in them. 
 
 My Indignation at fuch Treatment, 
 made me think of Anfwering two or 
 three of the Libels that were publifh'd 
 againft Dr. Kennett ; and I thought this 
 the more proper, on Account of a Sort 
 of Challenge or Advertifement, tack'd to 
 one of them * in thefe Words of Angu- 
 lar good Manners : " There is now pre- 
 " paring for the Prefs the Life of Dr. 
 -'" White Kennett. Thofe Gentlemen who 
 ^ have any Memoirs by them, condu- 
 
 * The Conduft of the Rev. Dr. Kennett i printed for 4, Dodd fi 
 &c. 1717. 
 
 A 3 *'cing 
 
vi The PREFACE. 
 
 " cing to fo ufeful a Work, if they will 
 " be pleas'd to fend them to A- ^Dodd at 
 " the 'Peacock without Temple-Bar, the 
 " Favour fhall be gratefully acknow- 
 « ledg d." 
 
 Now, what Life of any Mortal is there, 
 that will bear an Enemy's Writing, e- 
 fpecially of fuch bafe Enemies, as write 
 for the Sake of Calumny, and make no 
 Confcience of Falfhood ? 
 
 This, and other Things of the fame 
 Kind, put me upon drawing up a Vin*> 
 dication of Dr. Kennett, both as to his 
 Writings and Condufi of his Life ; and, 
 for that Purpofe, linduftriouily fet my- 
 felf to colled whatever I cou'd learn, 
 either of the one or the other. 
 
 When I had made fome little Prosrefs 
 in this Defign, I thought it proper to in- 
 form the 'Deanoi it; who, to fay the 
 Truth, at that Time, much difcourag'd 
 me in it. He told me, " The Intention 
 " was extremely kind, and there he 
 " wou'd have it reft. For fuch Sort of 
 c< barking Mouths were not to be flop- 
 ped 
 
The PREFACE, vii 
 
 " ped with Senfe or Reafon. Archbifhop 
 c c Tillotfon bundled up many of that Par- 
 " ty's Papers and Pamphlets againft him, 
 " with this Infcription only : Tbeje are 
 "Libels: God forgive them: I do" 
 Thefe were his Words, in a Letter to 
 me on this Occafion. 
 
 But notwithstanding this Difcourage- 
 ment, upon the Publishing of another 
 bafe and virulent Pamphlet foon after, 
 I ft ill thought it proper to fay Truth, 
 and do Juftice; and, atlaft, obtain'dthe 
 'Deans Leave to go on, upon Condition 
 that I wou'd confine myfelf entirely to 
 his neceflfary Vindication. I carefully 
 obferv'd that Condition, and did not run 
 into any Flourishes of Commendation. 
 I ty'd myfelf down to Matter of Fad; 
 an Abftrad of his Writings, and the 
 main Steps of his Life, fo far as my Sub- 
 ject was concern'd ; and intended, when 
 the Whole was finifh'd, to commend it 
 to Pofterity, and to as many of the pre- 
 fent Age as were cool enough to judge 
 of Things and Men, with an honeft 
 ^nd impartial Mind. A 4 But 
 
viii The PREFACE. 
 
 But when I had done, and an Adver- 
 tifement was publifVd, that ftich a Work- 
 was going to the Prefs, the c Dean had 
 alter' d his Mind : He had the Pacers for 
 
 r 
 
 his own Perufal; but wou'd, by no 
 Means, confent they fhou'd then be pub- 
 lifh'd ; and in his Hands they lay to the 
 Time of his Death ; fince which, they 
 were, at my Requeft, delivered to me 
 by his Son and Executor. 
 
 What the Reader is now prefented 
 with, is but a Part of what I had before 
 drawn up ; with the Addition of many 
 other Particulars ; fome not then known, 
 others not proper to be pubiifli'd, whilft 
 he was living. 
 
 As to the Fads here related, I can 
 truly fay, great Care has been taken to 
 be well inform'd. I have not ventur'd 
 to affert any Thing, which I do not ei- 
 ther know to be true, or believe to be fo, 
 upon the Report of thofe I have great 
 Reafon to give Credit to. I learn'd 
 many Things from the Bifoof) himfelf ; 
 and obtain'd the Favour of feveral Hints 
 
 ancf 
 
The PREFACE. ix 
 
 and Notices, inferted in one Part, or o- 
 ther, of xhefe Memoir s>m particular the 
 Affair of Settling a Church of England 
 Minifter at Leghorn, &c. The feveral 
 Letters to the Lord Biihop of Carlifle, 
 and others, were put up with my own 
 Papers, and receiv'd fince his Death. 
 The Account I give of the Affair of Set- 
 tling a Church of England Minifter at 
 Leghorn (in which he had fo great a 
 Share) was given me by him, many 
 Years ago. 
 
 This does not pretend to give an ex* 
 aB and full Account oi the Life of Bi- 
 fhop Kennett. I have not Materials, 
 nor am I at all qualify 'd for fuch an Un- 
 dertaking. What is here offer' d will, I 
 hope, be fufficient to fhew my grateful 
 Refpedts to his Memory, who was the 
 kind Director and Encourager of my 
 Studies; and by whofe Advice, Affi- 
 ftance, and Recommendation of me to 
 a mod eminent and learned Prelate, I 
 was admitted into a Profefllon fo ho- 
 nourable in itfelf, and to my Inclinations, 
 
 Studies, 
 
x The PREFACE. 
 
 Studies, and Courfe of Life, every way 
 fo agreeable. It will, I hope alfo, ferve, 
 not only to give fome Entertainment, if 
 not Satisfaction to the curious and in- 
 quilitive Reader, but to do fome little 
 Good in the World, (the great End we 
 ought to aim at, in all our Undertakings) 
 by exciting others to an Imitation of 
 whatever was commendable or excel- 
 lent in him. He had his Imperfeftions, 
 and Infirmities, no doubt ; but they 
 were abundantly aton'd for, by many 
 great and excellent Virtues ; and fuch, 
 as fhou'd, in an efpecial Manner, have 
 recommended him to the Efteem and 
 Love of Mankind. He was of a very 
 communicative and publick Spirit; 
 wou'd fubmitto any Trouble or Fatigue 
 to ferve a Friend, the Publick, or Pofte- 
 rity. He was a Father and true Friend 
 of the Church ; and tho' he utterly dif- 
 lik'd the Way of Separation, yet he ex- 
 prefs'd great Charity and Moderation 
 towards thofe who are fo unhappy as to 
 differ from us. He was a Patriot and 
 
 hearty 
 
The PREFACE. xi 
 
 hearty Lover of his Country ; a Champion 
 and faithful Aflertor of the Trotefiant 
 Religion ; and (what it depends upon 
 in this Kingdom) the Proteftant Sue* 
 cejfwn. In fhort, his Life, in all the prin- 
 cipal Paffages and Occurrences of it, 
 was fuch, as will well bear a Review, 
 and be fome Example to Mankind in 
 the feveral Characters and Stations he 
 pafs'd thro', and fuftain'd. May God 
 long continue to us, and increafe the 
 Number of fuch truly Learned, Reli- 
 gious, "Wife, Vigilant and Adive Tre* 
 latesy for the publick Services of our 
 Church and Nation, and give us a due 
 Senfe of our own Happinefs in them ! 
 
 7 r , : .pa^ *m 
 
 
 THE 
 
THE 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 R. Kennett'j Birth and Parentage. Page i 
 
 His Education in the Country. 2 
 
 Removd to Weftminfter. ibid. 
 
 Entertain d in a private Family, ibid. 
 Sent to the Unherfity of Oxon. . 3 
 
 Much efteemdand taken Notice of. ibid, 
 'TranJIates federal Books from the Latin 
 into Englim. ibid. 
 
 Acquainted with Ant. Wood. 4 
 
 Valiid by the Gentlemen-Commoners, ibid. 
 P refented to Amerfden by Sir William 
 Glynne, &c. ibid. 
 
 Curate, and Afftftant to Mr. Blackwell 
 in his School ibid. 
 
 Gives him a Prebend of Peterb. ^ 5 
 His great Care and Ufefalnefs in his 
 Parijh. . i bid - 
 
 Recovers an Eftate to the Church. ( 6 
 Returns to Oxford, and is Vice-Princi- 
 pal of Edmund-Hall . ^ ibid. 
 Pro-Procfor two fucce five tears. ibid. 
 Wounded in his * Skull by the Difcharge 
 of a Gun. 7 
 Makes a Copv of Latin Verfes on that 
 
 Vccqfion. A , lb . 1(1 
 
 ~— Advila 
 
The CONTENTS. 
 
 ~ Advifes the Publijhing a MS. of Mr. 
 
 Scunner's Page 7 
 
 — Writes that great Mans Life. 8 
 
 Mr. Gibibn'j elegant Dedication to Mr. Ken- 
 net t. ibid. 
 
 Who publifes Parochial Antiquities^ &c. 1 o 
 
 Mr. Tanner' * and Mr. Failed Characler of 
 
 it. 1 1 
 
 Mr. Kennett's Acquaintance with Dr. Hicks. 1 2 
 
 . Receives the DoBor into his Houfe. ibid. 
 
 Is injlruBed by him in the Saxon and 
 
 Septentrional Tongues. ibid. 
 
 — — Advifes him to turn his 'Thoughts and 
 
 Studies that Way. 13 
 
 . This producd the DoBors moft learned 
 
 Book. ibid. 
 
 Dr. Hicks'* Acknowledgment of this. ibid. 
 
 Mr. Kenneth kind and inojfenfive Behaviour 
 
 to him. jr 
 
 Their Dif agreement . ibid. 
 
 Mr. Kennett made Minifler of St. Botolph's 
 
 Aldgate. j6 
 Refigns the Vicarage of Amerfden. ibid, 
 
 His great Labours in his Parijh. ibid. 
 
 ■ . Engagd in a Law- Suit there. 17 
 
 —— Concern d in the Convocation-Contro- 
 
 verfy. T % 
 
 — - ■ His Anfwer to Atterbury. 19 
 
 Occafional Letter. 20 
 
 Hiftory of the Convocation. ibid. 
 
 « » Account of the Society for Propagating 
 
 the Go/pel &c, ibid. 
 
 ■ - »« . — Sermon 
 
The CONTENTS. 
 
 i - Sermon before the Corporation for Relief 
 
 of poor Widows and Children of Cler- 
 gymen. Page 2 1 
 
 - Defigns an Hijlorical Account of it, but 
 
 difcouragd. 22 
 
 TheQueeris Bounty to the poor Clergy. 23 
 
 Dr. Kenneth j Cafe of Impropriations, &c. 24 
 
 - Publijhes two other draffs on that Sub- 
 
 ject. 25 
 
 And Sir Hen. Spelman'j Hijlory and 
 
 Fate of Sacrilege. 26 
 
 Is made Archdeacon of Huntingdon. 27 
 
 Preaches the Confecration-Sermon for the 
 
 Bijhop of Lincoln. ibid. 
 
 fudge Holt'i Opinion of it. 28 
 
 Dr. Kennett'j Sermon at Aldgate on the 30th 
 
 gfjan. 29 
 
 ■ Many Libels againjl it. 30 
 
 Dr. Kennett'j Sermon before the Houfe of Com- 
 mons on the 3 oth of fan. 3 1 
 No Inconfjlency between this and the other. 32 
 Dr.Kennztt's Concern in the Hiftory 0/" England, 
 in 3 vols. Folio. ibid. 
 
 It occafwns great Clamours. t 34 
 
 Dr. Hicks much offended. ibid. 
 
 And the Duke of Leeds. ibid. 
 
 The Prejudices againjl the Doctor. 25 
 
 Dr. Kennett defird to preach the Duke of De- 
 vonshire \f Funeral Sermon. 3^ 
 
 Which is printed. < 3° 
 
 Vindicated from Objections. ibid. 
 
 The. Dofior made Dean of Peterborough, ibid. 
 
 A 
 
The CONTENTS. 
 
 A general Vindication of him againfi the Libels 
 
 of that 'Time. Page 42 
 
 Dr. Kennett removes to Aldermary. 49 
 
 His Concern in procuring a Chaplain at 
 
 Leghorn. 52 
 
 — — Prevails with his Brother Mr. Bafil 
 
 Kennett to go thither. § 3 
 
 The Queens Commijjion or Title to him. 54 
 
 Letters of Pafs-port, Safeguard, &c. 55 
 
 Mr. Addifon'j Favour to Mr. K. §j 
 
 The Italian Papifts Oppoftion to the Protejlant 
 Chaplain. ibid. 
 
 In danger of the Inquifition. 58 
 
 Lord Sunderland'! Letter on this Occafion. 59 
 — — Communicated to the Duke of Tufcany 61 
 
 And to the Pope and Cardinals. ibid. 
 
 — — The Succefs of it. ibid. 
 
 Dr. Newton' j Letter to a Friend in London, 
 
 on this SubjeB. 62 
 
 Mn Kennett defires to return from Leghorn. 63 
 
 The Merchants recommend Mr. Taubman as a 
 
 fit P erf on to fucceed him. ibid. 
 
 The Lord Archbifiop of Canterbury 'j Letter 
 
 on that Occafion. 64 
 
 Sending another Chaplain opposed by the great 
 
 Duke's Minijler here. 66 
 
 The Removing this GbfirucTwn committed to Dr. 
 
 Kennett. ibid. 
 
 • His Letter to the Confulat Leghorn, ibid. 
 
 To Mr. Secretary Harley. " 68 
 
 A Committee of Council on this Affair. 69 
 
 Dr, 
 
The CONTENTS. 
 
 Dr. KennettV Reprefentation and Petition in 
 the Name of the Merchants. Page 70 
 
 The Objection againfi it by the Earl of D. 75 
 __ An fiver d in Writing. 76 
 
 Other Objections made in Council anfwerd 78 
 The Merchants Letter to the Archbijldop of 
 Canterbury from Leghorn. 79 
 
 Dr. Kennett'.? Letter to his Brother. 81 
 
 His other Letter to him. 83 
 
 - "To Robert Harley, Efq; 86 
 
 Waits upon him in Perfon. 88 
 
 Mr. TaubmanV Letter to Dr. Kennett. 89 
 — Who advifes another Petition to the 
 
 Council. 9 1 
 
 — — — And writes again to Mr. Harley. 92 
 — ~ Waits on him a fecond and third Time. 94 
 An Advertifement put into the Poft-Boy. 95 
 Poor Abel que ft ion d for it, and his An/wer. 96 
 The Order of Council for the Difpatch tf Mr. 
 
 Taubman. ibid. 
 
 Dr. Kennett* j Letter to the Corfu! upon it. 97 
 Mr. Taubman continues five Tears, and re~ 
 
 turns. 99 
 
 Is fuccceded by Mr. Crowe. ibid. 
 
 The Regard due to Dr. Kennett'i Memory for 
 
 this Service. 100 
 
 Sufpicious of his Brother s being poifond 
 
 abroad. * o I 
 
 Dr. Kennett abusd as difaffetfed to Dr. Sa- 
 
 cheverelL I02 
 
 - True Anfwer to his Sermon at St. 
 
 Paul'*. 103 
 
 _ Is 
 
The CONTENTS. 
 
 „, ■ , Is run down for not joining in the London 
 Clergy's Addrefs to the Queen. Page 104 
 
 Appointed to preach the Latin Sermon at 
 
 Opening the Convocation, 10 r 
 
 T'he Sermon mifreprefented. 106 
 
 Mr. H'i Pamphlet concerning the Profecution 
 of Mr. Sare for jelling the Rights of the 
 Chriftian Church. ibid, 
 
 Mr. Us Vindication of Sacheverel. 107 
 
 y*4p His great Concern for writing it. 109 
 
 Dr. Kennett run down as a Low-Church Man no 
 Dr. Kennett\f Dijlike of the new DoBrine, of 
 the Invalidity of Baptifm, by Perfons not 
 Epifcopally ordain d. ill 
 
 — — Very active in promoting the Defign of 
 Building a Protejlant Church at 
 Ober-Barmen. 113 
 
 " ■ His Epijlle on that Occa/ion. 115 
 
 — Infer iption on a Marble-flone in the f aid 
 
 Church, to preferve the Memory of 
 that Charity. 120 
 
 *- Letter to Mr. Coleman at Boflon in 
 
 New-England. 12 1 
 
 ■ Sermon before the Society for Propaga- 
 
 ting the G of pel. 127 
 
 • Letter about a Motion in Convocation, 
 
 relating to Dr. Brett. 129 
 
 — « — i Re-prints Archbijhop Whitgift'j Sermon 
 before ^ Elizabeth, with a Preface 
 of his own. 130 
 
 **—*• The great life of it. 139 
 
 a An 
 
The CONTENTS. 
 
 An Account of the Altar-piece at White- 
 Chapel. Page 140 
 
 . ■ Order d to be taken down by the Bijhop 
 
 of London. 141 
 
 The Dean preaches zealoujly againft Popery at 
 Court. 142 
 
 ■ Anfwers the Hereditary Right &c. ibid. 
 
 ■ Particularly that Part concerning Bifjop 
 
 Merks 0/Xarlifle. 143 
 
 . Publijhes a Memorial for P rot efl ants, on 
 
 the $th of Nov. 144 
 
 Prefents the Society for Propagating the 
 
 Gofpely with a great Number of 
 
 Books f uitable to their Defign. 146 
 
 «— — Publijhes a Catalogue of 'em. 147 
 
 - Founds an Antiquarian and Hiftorical 
 
 Library at Peterborough. 149 
 
 An Account of it. 150 
 
 The Dean'i Behaviour* on the late Kings Ac- 
 
 cejjion to the Cro'ivn. 151 
 
 * — Prints his Sermon on the Witchcraft of 
 
 the Rebellion. 152 
 
 Is much abus d and threatened for it. ibid. 
 
 — — Was not usd to preach Politicks. 153 
 
 ■ His excellent Sermon on the Talk of an 
 
 Invafon by the K. tf/' Sweden. 154 
 
 Sermon at St. Paul'*, on Nov. 5. 158 
 
 ■ ■ Book intitled, The Wifdom of looking 
 
 backwards, and the Occafion of it. ibid. 
 An Account of Dr. Hicks'* Colleffion of Pa- 
 pers. 160 
 And Mr. Howell'.* TraS of Schifm. ibid. 
 
 Which 
 
The CONTENTS. 
 
 Which occafiond the Dean's fecond Letter to 
 . the Lord Bijhop of Carliile. Page 161 
 
 The State of Jacobitifm at that Time. ibid. 
 The Dean's third Letter to the Lord Bijhop of 
 Carlifle. 163 
 
 —- Anjwer to a Friend concerning the Li- 
 bels occafiond by theje Letters. 1 64 
 An Account of the Difference between the Bi- 
 ff op of Carlifle and the Dean, concerning 
 Alterations in the Bijhop of Bangor's Ser- 
 mon. 165 
 The Dean vindicated. 168 
 Objections againjl him anjwer d. 175 
 He declares his Innocence in his lajl Will and 
 Tejiament. 178 
 
 « The great Concern this Affair gave 
 
 him. ibid. 
 
 ' — — Lojl fome of his Friends by it. 181 
 
 • And by being foT the, Repeal of the 
 
 Schifm-A5i ibid. 
 
 1 His Letter to a Friend on that Occafion. ib. 
 
 The Bijhop of Carlifle's Account of it. 182 
 
 The Deans Diflike of the Proceedings in Convo- 
 cation againjl the Bijhop of Bangor.. ibid. 
 His Enemies hofd this Affair woiid prevent his 
 Adv am em ent. 183 
 Biff op Trimneir* great E/leem for him. ibid. 
 A brief Character of that excellent Prelate, ibid* 
 The Dean is promoted to the Bijhoprick of Bo* 
 terborough. ibid. 
 His Death and Funeral. 184 
 A Char after of him. ibid. 
 
 His 
 
The CONTENTS, 
 
 His Learning. 
 
 Page 185 
 
 ,_ Early Reputation, 
 
 ibid. 
 
 Diligence and Application. 
 
 ibid. 
 
 . — Library. 
 
 ibid. 
 
 Knowledge in Divinity. 
 
 186 
 
 Sermons. 
 
 ibid. 
 
 « — Pajloral Spirit. 
 
 187 
 
 Epifcopal Character. 
 
 188 
 
 Piety. 
 
 189 
 
 Friendly temper \ 
 
 ibid. 
 
 — Charity. 
 
 190 
 
 Refolution and Steadinefs. 
 
 r 93 
 
 A Catalogue of his Works. 
 
 194 
 
 The Contents of the Appendix 
 
 D 
 
 R. Kennett^T?/^ Advertifement. 214 
 Second Advertifement. 2 1 5 
 
 Firfl Letter to the Bifhop of Carlifle. 22 5 
 
 Second Letter. 228 
 
 . 'Third Letter. 232 
 
 — Lafl Letter. 24 1 
 
 Letter to a Friend. 253 
 
 T'he Bifjop of Bangor y s Anfwer to the Bipop 
 
 of Carlifle. 275 
 
 Capt. Howe's Advertifement. 283 
 
 THE 
 
THE 
 
 LIFE 
 
 O F • 
 
 Dr. WHITE KENNETT, 
 
 Late Lord Bifhop of Peterborough. 
 
 E was born in. the Parifh of 
 St. Mary, in the Town of Do- 
 ver in Kent, Augnjl 10, 1660, 
 being the Son of a worthy 
 Clergyman, Mr. Bafil Kennett, 
 M.A. of the Univerfity of Dublin, Rector of 
 Dimchurch, and Vicar of Pofiling, near Hythe, 
 in the fame County ; who was alfo pofTefs'd of 
 the fine Cure of Orgajwick, near adjoining. 
 His Mother was Mary the eldeft Daughter cf 
 Mr, Thomas White, a wealthy Magiflrate, in 
 B that 
 
2 The LIFE of 
 
 that then flourifhing Town of Dover, who' had 
 been a Mailer Shipwright, or Builder of Ships 
 and after the Reftauration was employ'd by 
 the Government, in that Way *. "from this 
 his Grandfather, who was his Gpdfather like- 
 wife, he had his Chrijlian Name; not with- 
 out Hopes of being made his Heir; but the 
 old Gentleman afterwards married a fecond 
 Wife, by whom he had three other Children, 
 who with their Mother, went away with the 
 whole Eftate. 
 
 The firft Part of his Education was at E/e- 
 ham and Wye, two Country Schools in the 
 Neighbourhood; from whence he was re- 
 mov'd to Wejtminfter above the Curtain ; 
 but falling fick of the Small-pox, at the very 
 Time of Election, his Father thought it not 
 advifable that he fhou'd wait another Year. 
 He fpent a Year, before he went to the Uni- 
 verfity, in the Family of Mr. ToIJbn at Beah- 
 borne, and taught his three Sons with great 
 Content and Succefs. 
 
 * In a Petition of feveral Merchants and Tradefmen, for Ar- 
 rears due to them, delivered to the Houfe of Commons in 1664, 
 TXie Sabbat iz% J atiuarii, it was allow'd by a Committee, that there 
 was due to Mr. Thomas White of Dover; for refitting his Majefty's 
 Ships as unpaid, on a Warrant granted by the Commiinoners 
 for Difcharging the Debts of his Majefty's Navy, 2 23 /. \$s.zd. 
 
 Upon 
 
Bijhop Kennett. g 
 
 Upon his Removal from thence to the Uni- 
 verfity of Oxon, in Jiwe 1678, he was re- 
 commended by his Countryman, the learned 
 Dv.JVallis, to St. Edmund Hall, where he had 
 a great In tereft in the Favour of the Principal, 
 Mr. Penton, and was Pupil to Mr. Allam, a ce- 
 lebrated Tutor, much commended by Ant. 
 Wood, the Oxford Hiftorian \Athena Ox. vol. 2. 
 p. 784.] He was there well efteem'd by the 
 other Tutors and Matters, particularly Sir Ri- 
 chard Blackmore, and Mr. Fully, afterwards 
 Dean of Carlijle. His Tutor took a particu- 
 lar Delight in impofing Tafks and Exerciies 
 on him, which he wou'd often read in the 
 common Room, before the Matters and Gen- 
 tlemen Commoners for an Qccafion of com- 
 mending his Pupil. He fet him feveral whole 
 Books to tranfiate from the Latin, which he 
 not only approv'd but recommended to the 
 Oxford Bookfeilers for an Impreffion of them: 
 Of which Sort were the Panegyrick of Eraf- 
 mus upon Folly, and Pliny upon Trajan, and 
 in the Lives of the illuftrious Men written 
 in Latinby Corn. Nepos, and done into. Eng- 
 lifh by feveral Hands, Oxon, 1684. the Life 
 of Chabrias, done into Englifh by Mr. 
 Kennett of St. Edmund Hall. He was by his 
 
 B 2 Tutor 
 
4 The LIFE of 
 
 Tutor alfo introduced very early, while Under- 
 Graduate, into the Acquaintance of Mr. Ant. 
 Wood, who employ 'd him in picking up feve- 
 ral Epitaphs, and other Notices of eminent 
 Oxford Men, and in writing to his Father for 
 Intelligences of that Kind in Kent; particu- 
 larly of Mr. John Reading, Dr. Meric Caufau- 
 bon, and others. And tho' in the meanefl 
 Condition of thofe that were wholly maintain'd 
 by their Parents, a Battler, or Semi-Commoner, 
 he was admitted to the Converfation andFriend- 
 fhip of the Gentlemen Commoners. He was 
 fo valued among thefe, that two of them, out 
 of pure Refpect to him, prevail'd with their 
 Fathers to be his fpecial Patrons at his firft fet- 
 ting out in the World: Sir William Glynne, 
 Bart, prefenting him to the Vicarage of 
 Amerfden, alias Ambrofden ; and William Cherry, 
 Efq; to Shottesbrooke, at the Defire of their 
 two eldeft Sons, his Contemporaries in that 
 Hall. 
 
 Upon his Entrance on the firft of thefe 
 (which feemsto be about the Year 1685) and 
 fome time before, he affifted both in his 
 Church and School, the Reverend Mr. Samuel 
 Black-well, B. D. then Vicar of Burcejler-, a 
 very worthy Man; who to the laft y kept up a 
 
 great 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 5 
 
 great Friendfhip and frequent Correfpondence 
 with Dr. Kennett ; and on whom (upon his Pro- 
 motion to the Bifhoprick of Peterborough) he 
 gratefully beftow'd a Prebend in his Church. 
 
 His firft Care at Amerfden (next to a moft 
 diligent Difcharge of the Duties incumbent 
 on him) was to beautify the Vicarage-Houfe, 
 to wall in the Garden, and to put an In- 
 fcription upon the Grave-Stone of Dr. Stub, 
 bing, who well deferv'd to be remembred, 
 for the good Work of Building the Vicarage- 
 Houfe. He then fet himfelf to Repair and 
 Adorn the Church -, had the Bells recaft ; a 
 . new Pulpit and Font ; a Fane on the Steeple ; 
 * the Churchyard enclos'd with a ftrong high 
 Wall, and Gates with Peers, and many other 
 Improvements of Strength and Beauty. 
 
 But we have yet a greater Inftance of his 
 publick Spirit at this Place, by which he was 
 enabled to obtain thefe Advantages to the 
 Church, and provide a perpetual Fund for 
 the fame Purpofe. He was forc'd to be at the 
 Pains of Recovering an Eftate, that had been 
 firft given to the Repairs and Ornaments of 
 the Church ; but had been afterwards granted 
 to a private Perfon as given to fuperftitious U- 
 fes, and, when recover'd, was by Degrees, 
 B 3 alienated 
 
 / 
 
6 The LIFE of 
 
 alienated from the Uies of the Church to that 
 of the Parijh, and fpent on the High-ways, 
 Bridges, and Poor, till Mr. Kennett, by the 
 Advice and Affiftance of Bifhop Fell, cbtain'd 
 a Trial before Commiffioners for Charitable 
 Ufes, and a Decree to inveft the Eftate in 
 new Truftees (of which the Patron and Vi- 
 car of the Parilli were always to be two, 
 and the reft of their Nomination) to be em- 
 ploy'd according to the firft Purpofes of Re- 
 pairing and Adorning the Church of Am erf, Hen. 
 And the Rents accordingly were afterwards 
 employ 'd to that Purpofe very faithfully, to 
 the great Improvement of the Church, and by 
 Degrees, to the great Satisfaction, as well as 
 Credit of the Parifh. 
 
 After a few Years abfence, he was invited 
 back to St. Edmund Hal!, to be Tutor and 
 Vice-Principal in it under the Government 
 of Dr. Mil/, with whom he liv'd on better 
 Terms of Peace and Friendfhip, than any other 
 Vice-Principal either before or after : And by 
 his diligent Application to the Duties of the 
 Houfe and Univerfity, he was well efteem'd 
 and chofen a publick Lecturer in the Schools, 
 and as a Man of Difcipline and Spirit, was in- 
 trufted as Pro-Proctor for two fucceffive Years. 
 
 In 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 7 
 
 In January 1689, by the Difcharge and 
 Breaking of a Gun, with which he was (hoot- 
 ing at a Bird, within the Pariih of Middle- 
 ton-Stony in the County of Oxon, a Splinter 
 of the Barrel made a grievous Wound in his 
 Forehead, and broke thro' both the Tables of 
 his Skull: Which occafion'd his wearing a 
 large black Patch of Velvet on that Part 
 ever after. While he lay under great Difor- 
 der of Body and Brain, juft after he had 
 undergone the fevere Operations «f Tre- 
 panning, for Want of Sleep he made a Copy 
 of Latin Verfes, and dictated them to a 
 Friend at his Bed-fide, who tranfmitted this 
 Copy to Sir William Glynne, in whofe Stu- 
 dy it was found, after Mr. Kennett had for- 
 got every Thing but the fad Occafion. It is 
 now in my Poffeffion; and thought, by good 
 Judges, to be no Reproach to the Author. ' 
 
 During his Continuance at Oxford, he fet 
 himfelf to do fome Honour and Service to 
 his Native County of Kent. He obtain'd a 
 Copy of a Difertation of the learned Anti- 
 quary, Mr. Somner, in Manufcripfc, upon the 
 Names and Situations of the Roman Ports 
 and Forts in Kent, and encourag'd the Perfon 
 from whom he receiv'd it, to publifh it in 
 
 B 4 his 
 
8 The LIFE of 
 
 his own Name : And to make the Edition 
 more ufeful, he prevail'd with an able Perfon 
 to add fome Notes and Obfervations on it ; to 
 which he prefix' d the Life of Mr. Somner by 
 kimfelf. Printed at the Theatre, Oxon, 1693. 
 He had by this Time obtaind the Charac- 
 ter of one well vers'd in the Hiftories and An- 
 tiquities of our Nation, and was obferv'd to put a 
 Spirit of thefe Studies into many other excellent 
 Perfons then in the Univerfity. Infomuch that 
 the learned Mr. Gib/on (now the highly worthy 
 Biihop of London) publifhing a Tranflation 
 of Mr. Somners Treat ife in Anfwer to Chifle- 
 tius> concerning the Situation of the Portus 
 Iccius on the Coaft of France, oppofite to Kent, 
 where Cafar Imbark'd for the Invafion of this 
 Ifland, and other Things on that Subjed:, he 
 introduc'd it into the World, with an elegant 
 Latin Dedication to Mr. Kennett *. After ha- 
 ving taken Notice that the Study of Antiqui- 
 ties is very much difcourag'd, by its being re- 
 prefented as dry and barren, and the Bane of 
 
 * Licenced with the Book by Dr. Aldrich, and not thought 
 Then to contain any Thing tco much. It is infcribV, Eximio 
 Whlto Kennetto Sahitem. Without transcribing the whole, or pre- 
 tending to give a ftrift Tranflation of this Dedication, we ihall 
 only obferve, that very handfome Things are laid of Mr. Kennett, 
 by the Writer. 
 
 all 
 
Bijhop Rennett. 9 
 
 all Delicacy and Politenefs, he tells him, that 
 " By this Means thofe who apply'd themfelves 
 " to it, wou'd be wholly difcourag'd, but that 
 <c they were kept in Countenance by his Ex- 
 " ample and Authority. And that there can 
 " be no more effe&ual Anfwer to the Reproa- 
 " ches that are caft on this Sort of Learning, 
 " than that Quicknefs of Parts, that Strength 
 " and Delicacy of Underftanding, fo remar- 
 " kable in him : That from his Polite- 
 " nefs of Mind, Eafmefs and Affability of 
 " Manners, and perfect Maftery in all the 
 <c Parts of gentile Learning, joyn'd with the 
 " exac~teft Knowledge in Antiquities, the 
 u World might fee that this Kind of Study, 
 " does by no Means cramp the Genius, or four 
 " the Temper 3 and from his Soundnefs and 
 <c Strength of Judgment, Men may learn, 
 " that the more unguarded Flights and Sal- 
 u lies of Imagination, are by this Means beft 
 " of all kept under and corrected. He then 
 " proceeds to tell him, that he efteemshim- 
 <c felf happy in that the Nature of his Studies, 
 " and his private Obligations, do both con- 
 <c fpire to engage him to direct that Addrefs to 
 " him. For who has a better Title to thefe 
 * golden Remains of Scwner, than one, who by 
 
 " fo 
 
io The LIFE of 
 
 tc fo copioufly and exadtly writing his Life, 
 " had at the fame time, conferr'd Immorta- 
 " lity upon him? To whom can I morepro- 
 <c perly pay this publick Acknowledgment, 
 <c than to one, by whofe Inftrudtion and Ex- 
 " ample, I am embolden'd to engage in thefe 
 " Sort of Studies. And then he concludes. 
 " — Go on therefore, Sir, to be the Orna- 
 " ment of our Church by your exemplary 
 " Piety, and of our Univerfity by your extra- 
 " ordinary Learning. And remember at the 
 " fame time, That yours is the Glory of Sup- 
 €< porting and Encouraging the Study of An- 
 " tiquities. " 
 
 Whatever allowance is to be made to Epi- 
 ftle^ Dedicatory, where Affection makes the 
 Pen, tho' Flattery and Defign be wanting, 
 yet I have credibly heard, that Mr. Ke?inett 
 was highly Inftrumental in promoting this 
 Kind of Learning in the Univerfity, at that 
 time. But what made him ftill more eminent 
 this Way, was a Work which he fome time 
 after publifh'd, under this Title, " Parochi- 
 * c al Antiquities attempted in the Hiftory of 
 " Ambrofden^ Burcefter, and other adjacent 
 11 Parifhes in the Counties of Oxford and 
 " Bucks, 4to. . 1695. This is frequently taken 
 
 Notice 
 
Bijhop Kennett. ii 
 
 Notice of by learned Men. Mr. banner 
 (finee Chancellor of Norwich) in his Notitia 
 Monajlica, or fhort Hiftory of the Religious 
 Houfes in England and Wales, often refers to 
 the Friend and Foreman of his Studies, Mr. 
 Kennetfs Parochial Antiquities ; and under the 
 Priory of Burcejler, he gives the Book this 
 Character, Hie Liber accuratifme, &cc. " This 
 " Book gives us a moft exadjt Hiftory of this 
 " Priory, from the Time of its being founded 
 " to its Diflblution : Which the Reverend Au- 
 " thor, with great Care andFaithfulnefs, col- 
 <c le&ed from original Manufcripts, now in the 
 " poffeflion of Sir William Glynne of Ambrof- 
 " den in the County of Oxon; and fromfeveral 
 " other Books, both Printed and Manufcript." 
 And the Reverend Mr. Philip Falle, Re&or 
 of Shenly in Hertfordshire, in a marginal Note, 
 to his Vilitation Sermon, preach'd at Hert- 
 ford, jfune 12,1700, having Occafion to cite 
 Bifhop GrindaV% Regifter, fays, " He does fo, 
 <c upon the Authority of the Reverend Dr. Ken- 
 u nett, whofe learned Account of the Antiqui- 
 " ties of his own Parifh Church of Ambrof 
 " den, fhew him excellently accomplifh'd to 
 " go on further in the like curious, Refear- 
 " che^" It does indeed contain an Account 
 
 of 
 
132 The LIFE of 
 
 of but few Places and Perfons, and fo cannot 
 be fo generally ufeful ; but it has been often ac- 
 knowledge a Work of great Ufe to the Dio- 
 cefe and whole County, as well as the adjoyn- 
 ing Parifhes: And the Gloffary at the End, is, 
 and will be fo, in all Times and Places. 
 
 While he continued at Amerfden y he con- 
 tributed yet farther to the Advancement of 
 his favourite Studies, the Knowledge of An- 
 tiquities. Having contracted an intimate 
 Acquaintance with Dr. Hicks, he receiv'd 
 him freely into his Vicarage -Houfe there y 
 and, rinding that by his Condition of Suffer- 
 ing for the Caufe of King James, his Head 
 and Thoughts were too much deter min'd to 
 Politicks ; by which he wou'd be apt to di- 
 fturb the World, and expofe himfelf ; Mr. 
 Kennet, to divert him from that Mifchief 
 (as well as for other Reafons) defiVd his In- 
 struction in the Saxon and Septentrional 
 Tongues, and particularly the Derivation of 
 our oldeft EngUJh Words from the Gothick, 
 and other Norman Dialects *. While Dr. 
 
 * To which Purpofe, Mr. Kennett made a large Didionary 
 of our Words fo deduc'd, as he had them from the Tongue and 
 Pen of Dr. Hicks \ and the Sheets may be of Ufe when Pofte- 
 rity comes to think, that we have no EngUJh Dictionary that 
 gives the true Origination of our Language. 
 
 Hich 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 13 
 
 Hicks was thus pleas'd, and amus'd by the 
 Country Vicar, it gave this latter an Oppor- 
 tunity to intreat the Dodtor to look more upon 
 thofe Studies, to review his Saxon and Iflan- 
 die Grammer, and to embellifh them with 
 Notes and Obfervations, that might revive 
 and improve the Knowledge of our Antiqui- 
 ties in the Rife and Conveyance of our Laws> 
 Cuftoms, Tenures, and other national Rights. 
 It was upon this frequent Difcourfe and Im- 
 portunity of Mr. Kennett, that Dr. Hicks then, 
 and there, laid the Foundation of that noble 
 Work, which he brought to Perfe<ftion in 
 about feven Years after, and publifli'd under 
 this Title, Antiqua Literatura Septentrionalis 
 hbri duo, Sec. Oxon y 1705. As he himfelf ac- 
 knowledges in thefe Words, in the learned 
 Preface. Rev. & Dottijfimus <vir Wkiteus Ken- 
 nett, S. <t. P. &c. « The Reverend and moft 
 " Learned White Rennet, &c. more than fe- 
 " ven Years ago, intreated me that I would 
 " undertake this Work of the ancient Nor- 
 " them Words, which in his Opinion, defer- 
 <c ving to be more generally underftood, I 
 c< immediately fet about it in his Houfe, and 
 " having at length finifli'd it, if it mall be 
 " found to be of any Advantage to the learned 
 
 « World, 
 
14 The LIFE of 
 
 u World, 'tis entirely owing to him as the En- 
 " courager and Promoter of it. " 
 
 And I have been credibly inform'd, that 
 had Dr. Hicks continu'd in the Houfe of Mr. 
 Kennett) where he was well accommodated, 
 and well pleas'd, it had probably prevented 
 his Writing or Acting upon any other Sub- 
 ject but that of our National Antiquities: 
 For in daily Talk, he had projected feveral 
 Schemes about illuftrating the dark Hiftory 
 of the Britains, defcribing the Manners of 
 the Germans* tracing them in the Norman 
 Cuftoms, and more efpecially enquiring into 
 the Religion of the Saxons before it was adul- 
 terated by Popery, &c. But the Doctor being 
 then under a legal Incapacity, (which however 
 was foon after taken off without his Trouble 
 or Charge, by the Generoiity of the Lord 
 Semers,) he wore a Lay-Habit, and affected 
 to be unknown, till a Fellow of a College in 
 Oxford coming over, and calling the Doctor 
 by his Name, he thought there was a Danger 
 in flaying, and fo he went off immediately 
 to fome more obfcure Retreat, and thence, in a 
 little Titfie to London, asthebeft hiding Place; 
 where, after the Death of King William* he 
 had Opportunity and Encouragement to put 
 
 himfelf 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 15 
 
 himfelf at the Head of a New Church, and 
 to drefs up fuch a Set of Principles as de- 
 nounce eternal Damnation, and threaten tem- 
 poral Deftruction to all who are not for the 
 Pretender, and the Bifhop of ^hetford. 
 
 It is certain that Dr. Kennett (for he had 
 now taken that Degree in Divinity) at his firft 
 coming zoLondon, laboured to keep up a Friend- 
 ship with Dr. Hicks, and hop'd they might 
 agree in the common Studies of our Englijh 
 and other Northern Antiquities. To this Pur- 
 pofe> (as I have been inform'd) he fent him 
 fome Prefents of Wine, procur'd him now 
 and then fome neceffary Books and Papers, 
 to carry on his great Work, and obtain'd for 
 him feveral Subfcriptions to it, and did all 
 he could to be a little Serviceable, and alto- 
 gether inoffenfive to him. But he found 
 that the Doctor was going into Notions and 
 Meafures utterly inconfiftent with their for- 
 mer Freedom, and fo by Degrees there grew 
 a Coldnefs, a Diftance, and mutual Com- 
 plaints of one another, owing only to their 
 very different Principles in Church and State 
 Affairs; both being very much in earneft 
 with what they profefs'd. This was foon 
 after improved into an open Rupture; and 
 
 Dr. 
 
i6 The LIFE of 
 
 Dr. Hicks, for one fuppos'd Affront, after ma- 
 ny Obligations, is fa id to have fallen upon 
 Dr. Kennett in the rudeft Manner, and with 
 fome of the fallen: Things in the World *. 
 
 Having thus diftinguifh'd himfelf in the 
 Univerfity, and been unwearied in his En- 
 deavours in a more private Station, to pro- 
 mote the Intereft of Religion and Learning, 
 he was in the Year 1700, call'd to London, 
 by a Member of Edmund Hall, William Sal- 
 keld, Efq; afterward Sergeant at Law, and 
 one of his Majefty's Judges for Wales, being 
 by him recommended to Samuel Brewjler, Efq$ 
 Impropriator of St. Botolph Aldgate, who had 
 legally ejected Dr. Hollingworth from that 
 Cure, and at the Defire of Mr. Salkeld put 
 in Mr. Kemiett without any Solicitation of 
 his own. At the Undertaking the Care of 
 this large and populous Parifh, he immedi- 
 ately refign'd the Vicarage of ' Amerfden, which 
 he might have kept ; as he quitted afterwards 
 the Rediory of Shottesbrook, when he might 
 have made it confiftent with his other Pre- 
 ferment. He was here eminently ftricl: and 
 faithful in the Performance of his Minifte- 
 rial Duty, which he difcharg'd to a general 
 
 * Poftfcript to a Translation o£ Dr. Kenneth Convocation 
 Sermon. 
 
 Satisfaction. 
 
Bijhop K ENNET.T. 17 
 
 Satisfaction. He preach'd twice zLprd's-day 
 to the fame populous Congregation ; read 
 the Prayers of the Church once a Week; 
 vifited the Sick ; catechifed the Youth ; and 
 was defir'd very frequently to preach Funeral 
 Sermons for one or other of his Parifhio- 
 ners. 
 
 He had here not only a very laborious, but 
 a very contentious Life. For Dr. Holling- 
 ivcrth pretended a Title from the Crown; 
 and, under that Pretence, labour'd to get 
 RepofTeflion ; and when that wou'd not do in 
 any Courfe of Law, he made a Surrendiy . 
 of that feigned Title to another, the Lord 
 Keeper Wright's Chaplain, who got a Seal, 
 and maintain'd a fruitlefs Suit for it, 'till he 
 happen'd to be otherwife provided for. And 
 yet even then he did what he could to entail 
 the Quarrel, by confenting to another Grant, 
 made to a third Perfon, who, upon that, 
 began a frefh Suit in the Queen's Name, 
 and (what was extraordinary) at the Queen's 
 Expence, 'till Judgment was given in the Ex- 
 chequer in Affirmance of the Impropriator's 
 Right to nominate a Curate, or rather a le- 
 gal Burthen on him; which probably was, 
 in that Cafe, never before queftion'd, and 
 C will 
 
18 The LIFE of 
 
 will never be hereafter deny'd. I have heard 
 that the good Iflue of this Caiife was in 
 great Meafure owing to the diligent Searches 
 and Difcoveries made by Dr. Kennett himfelf, 
 and to his folliciting and fuggefling, and having 
 once the Baro?is Leave to argue in it. 
 
 In the Midft of this vexatious Suit, Dr. 
 Kennett was engag'd in another Controverfy, 
 that requir'd much Time and Pains, about 
 the Conflitution of TLnglijh Synods. That 
 they might raife up the Name of a Church, 
 and make the Clergy independent on the 
 Civil Power j fome Men fet up new Pretences 
 for the Neceffity of Sitting and Acting in 
 Convocation concurrently with every Parlia- 
 ment, and even as a Part of it. When the 
 wife Archbifhop, and his Brethren, faw the 
 Tendency of this new Doctrine was only to 
 create Trouble and Faction in the Name of 
 the Church and Clergy, they oppos'd it; but 
 their Oppofition only rais'd the greater Cla- 
 mours. And now a Pamphlet came out, in- 
 tituled, A Letter to a Convocation Man*, full 
 of Infinuations, reflecting upon the King, as 
 
 * Dr. Nicbolti Introduction to Defence of the Church of 
 England, p » 2 6 
 
 little 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 19 
 
 little concern'd for the Affairs of the Church, 
 and no great Friend to it ; Taxing the Arch- 
 biihop with Unfkilfulnefs in Ecclefiaftical 
 Affairs, and too much Devotion to the Court ; 
 reprefenting the other Bifhops as diligent 
 enough to maintain their Dignity and Reve- 
 nues, but fupine and thoughtlefs about Mat- 
 ters relating to the good of the Church 5 in fliorf, 
 that they were all in a Sort of Confpiracy to 
 invade its Rights, as appears from the Dif-ufe 
 of Convocations for fo many Years paft ; which 
 were there affirm'd to have a Right to fit in 
 every Seflions of Parliament, and to delibe- 
 rate upon any Thing refpecting Religion, 
 without the King's Licence. This was fol- 
 lowed foon after with another by Dr. 'Attef- 
 bury, in a pompous Book, intituled, T'he Rights, 
 Powers, and Privileges of an Englifh Convo- 
 cation, 8vo. 1700. by way of the moft infult- 
 ing Anfwer to a late Book of Dr. TVakes, in- 
 tituled, The Authority of Chrijiian Princes 
 over their Ecclefiaftical Synods afferted, &c. 
 Dr. Kennett was the fir ft Man, who, under 
 the Countenance of Archbifhop Tenifon, ex- 
 amin'd, and fufficiently expos'd the wrong 
 Bottom and falfe Colours in it, by an An- 
 fwer, intituled, Ecclefiaftical Syriojs and Par- 
 C 2 liammtar 
 
 1 
 
ao The LIFE of 
 
 liamentary Convocations Hiftorically fated, and 
 vindicated, from the Mifreprefentations of Mr. 
 Atterbury, 1701. And foon after he pub- 
 lifh'd, An Occafional Letter on the Subject of 
 Englifh Convocations, 170 1, and is faid to be 
 the Author of a third Treatife on that Sub- 
 ject, namely, T'he Hijlory of the Convocation 
 of the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of 
 Canterbury, &c. in Anfwer to a Narrative of 
 the Proceedings of the lower Houfe of Convoca- 
 tion, 4 to. 1702. 
 
 He was foon after nam'd a Member of the 
 Society for Propagating the Gofpel in Fo- 
 reign Parts, by the Charter of King William III. 
 and a Man fo active and zealous as he was 
 in every good Work, could not fail of giving 
 his utmoft Afliftance to that glorious Defign. 
 Accordingly, at the Defire of his Superiors, 
 he drew up a full Account of their Proceed- 
 ings to the Year 1706, under this Title, An 
 Account of the Society for Propagating the 
 Gofpel in Foreign Parts, ejlabliftid by the Royal 
 Charter of King William III. with their Pro- 
 ceedings and Succefs, and Hopes of continual 
 Progrefs under the happy Reign of her moft 
 Excellent Majejly ®ueen Anne, London, 1706. 
 4 to. And within four Years after, he con~ 
 
 tinu'd 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 21 
 
 4 
 
 tinu'd and improv'd that Account by an Hi- 
 ftorical Deduction of what had been farther 
 tranfa&ed by the fame Society; and efpe- 
 cially what Steps and Meafures had been 
 taken by the Society De Propaganda Fide at 
 Rome, and what more Chriftian Methods by 
 Reform'd States and Princes. A Work of 
 great Labour and Pains, and brought to fome 
 tolerable Perfection ; but (as I am inform'd 
 by a worthy Member) referv'd in the Wri- 
 ter's Hands, becaufe the Printing of it would 
 have been of greater Expence to the Corpo- 
 ration, than their Circumftances would ad- 
 mit of. 
 
 When the Dodtor became firft engag'd in 
 thefe Services to the Society for Propagating 
 the Gofpel, he was defir'd, as a Clergyman's 
 Son, to preach the Annual Sermon before 
 the Corporation for the Relief of poor Wi- 
 dows and Children of Clergymen : And tho' 
 he undertook this upon very fhort Warning, 
 (being not originally defign'd to preach that 
 Year, but importun'd upon the Failure of 
 another Perfon) yet he perform'd this Duty 
 to great Satisfaction, becaufe the Times of 
 Diftindtion were then but at hand. He pub- 
 Jifh'd the Sermon under this Title, The Glo- 
 
 c 3 n 
 
22 7'he LIFE of 
 
 ry of Ckildreji in their Fathers: A Sermon 
 preach' d at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 
 London, December 3, 1702. 4to. In which 
 he propos'd fome excellent Ways and Means 
 of Benefaction to Clergymens Sons, well wor- 
 thy a Review, bythofe who are able to make 
 them effectual. 
 
 And the better to promote that truly 
 Chriftian Defign, at the Defire of his very 
 charitable and publick-fpirited Friend, Dr. 
 hynford, he intended to write An Hijiorical 
 Account of the Corporation for the Relief of 
 poor Widows and Children of Clergymen -, and 
 of the fever al BenefaBions given to it, and the 
 manifold good Services done by it. And for 
 this Purpofe, he had gather'd up a great 
 many Notices of Things and Pcrfons, pick'd 
 up the feveral Sermons before the Sons of 
 the Clergy, from the fir ft by Mr. Geo. Hall, 
 (afterwards Archdeacon of Canterbury, and 
 Bifhop of Chefer) intituled, T'he Tribe of 
 Levi, 1658, downwards; and fearch'd thelaft 
 Wills of feveral Donors and Benefactors, and 
 would, by Degrees, have connected the Mate- 
 rials into fome Order for the Prefs, but that 
 he was unkindly us'd, and the Spirit of fome 
 new Members of that Corporation rais'dAn- 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 23 
 
 ger and Hatred more than Affection and Cha- 
 rity to the Church and Clergy. But 'tis 
 hop'd fome one Hand or other, will refume that 
 Work in thefe cooler and better Times. 
 
 In a Year or two after, he gave- another 
 Inftance of his innate Love and Refpecl: to 
 the Clergy, by the Intimation and Advice of 
 Dr. T'eniforiy Archbifhop of Canterbury, upon 
 the Queen's giving in the Firft Fruits and 
 Tenths for a perpetual Augmentation of the 
 Maintenance of the poor Clergy of the 
 Church of England, His Grace, and fome 
 other of the Bifhops, judg'd it very proper, 
 that, upon this providential Juncture of Re- 
 pairing the Loffes that Parochial Churches 
 had fuffer'd by Impropriations, and other 
 Frauds of Popery, fome Hiftorical Account 
 mould be given of the firft Inftitution of Pa- 
 rishes, and the Ecclefiaftical Rights of them, 
 of the terrible Ufurpations made by the Pa- 
 pal Power in transferring them to Religious 
 Houfes, of the fad and low Eftate of the Paro- 
 chial Clergy, call'd, in Contempt, the Secular 
 Clergy 5 hereupon, of the Judgment of our 
 beft Reformers, that this Robbing of the 
 Panfh Priefts was one of the grofieft Cor- 
 ruptions and Scandals of Popery, and wanted 
 
 C 4 a 
 
24 The LIFE of 
 
 a Redrefs at that time neceflary to bring about 
 and fettle a Reformation, of the fhameful 
 Neglect of King and Parliament at the Begin- 
 ning of" the Reformation, in conveying away 
 the Eftates of diffolved Religious Houfes } 
 without diflinguifning between the Lay Fees, 
 and the Clergy s Glebe and Tythes, and fo mak- 
 ing Lay Impropriators Lords of the Church : 
 How this good Work of reftoring Impropri- 
 ations to poor Vicars and Curates v/as how- 
 ever recommended in every following Reign? 
 and many noble Examples of fo doing, were 
 from Time to Time given by our Princes, 
 Nobility, Gentry, and dignify'd Clergy; and 
 laflly, of the greater Hopes now arifmg by 
 the Queen's Piety and Bounty ; with a Relati- 
 on at large of the Rife and Progrefs of it, 
 &c. This Tafk, difficult and laborious as it 
 was, Dr. Ke?2nett cheerfully undertook and per- 
 form'd in honour to his Superiors, and out* 
 of tender Compamon to the inferior Clergy* 
 and being Dedicated to the Queen, as under 
 God the Fountain of that Charity and Good- 
 nefs, was publiuYd under this Title, The Cafe 
 of Impropriations, and of the Augmentation of 
 Vicarages, and other insufficient Cures, fated by 
 Hi /lory and Law, from the ■ firJl-JJfurpation -of 
 
 the 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 2$ 
 
 the Popes, and Monks, to her Majejlys royal 
 Bounty, lately extended to the poorer Clergy of the 
 Church of England ; with an Appendix of Re- 
 cords and Memorials relating to that Subject. 
 8vo. 1704. And from the firft Publication, 
 the Doctor was, upon all Occafions of Enquiry, 
 gathering up fuch Authorities, and fuch In- 
 ftances of Fads, and due Inferences from 
 them, as when connected into a new Edition 
 of that Work, will make it far more ufeful 
 to the Church and Clergy : Of whom, if 
 there were nothing elfe, he deferv'd better 
 upon this Account alone, than the greater 
 Part of thofe who were fo much in their 
 Favour. 
 
 In Purfuit of the fame good Defign, be- 
 caufe two of the moft ferviceable Tracts upon 
 that Subject, were become fo uncommon, as 
 feldom to fall into the Hands of the Gentry 
 or Rural Clergy, the Doctor got them both 
 to be re-printed in one fmall Volume, under 
 this Title, 'Two Tracts. Tract 1. entitled, De 
 non temerandis Ecclefiis, &c. By Sir Henry. 
 Spelman, Knt. Tract 2. The poor Vicar s Plea 
 for Tythes, &c. By Thomas Ryves, Doctor of 
 the Civil Laws. With a Prefatory Account 
 of the Authors and thefe /Forks, 1704. In 
 
 which 
 
26 The LIFE of 
 
 which Preface the Editor begins thus : " Her 
 11 Majefty's late pious Munificence to the 
 " Clergy of the Church of England has 
 <c made glad the Hearts of her bed: Subjects, 
 " the beft Chriftians, and has made them 
 " reflect on the Alienation of Tythes and 
 " Offerings, as the great Scandal of Popery, 
 " and the great Defect in our Reformation. 
 " To make up a competent Maintenance for 
 " the parochial Minifters, and fo the better 
 " to provide for the Service of God, and 
 ' c the Care of Souls, has been the continual 
 f Subject of all good Mens Wifhes, Propo- 
 "' fals, and Attempts, &c." 
 
 The Doctor's long Courfe of Studies, had 
 the better inftru&ed and fitted him for thefe 
 good Purpofes. He had before delivered 
 many Things of that Kind in his parochial 
 Antiquities 5 and had purfu'd the fame good 
 Intentions in being the Publisher of another 
 notable Tract: of Sir Henry Spclman, call'd 
 The Hi/lory and Fate of Sacriledge, difcovefd 
 by Examples of Scripture \ of Heathens, and of 
 Chrijiians, from the Beginning of the World con- 
 '•nually to this Bay. Wrote in the Tear 1632. 
 A Treat fe omitted in the late Edition of his 
 Poflhumous Works, and ?icw publijh y d for the 
 
 Terror 
 
Bijlxp Renn e.t t. 27 
 
 Terror of Evil-doers, 1698. The Preface 
 of Mr. Kennett fet forth, that " there needed 
 <c no more to recommend that Tract to every 
 « good Englifh Chriftian, than the Nftturc 
 " of the Subject, and the Name of the Au- 
 " thor, a Subject of great Importance to the 
 " Honour of God, and the decent Exercife 
 " of Religion. An Author of profound 
 " Learning, and true Integrity, who dedica- 
 " ted his Studies to the more particular Ser- 
 " vice of this Church and Nation. " 
 
 In the Year 1705, upon the Death of Dr. 
 James Gardnier, Lord Bifhop of Lincoln, (to 
 whom Dr. Kennett was related as Chaplain, 
 and by whom he had been preferr'd to the 
 Archdeaconry of Huntingdon) Dr. Wake, then 
 Dean of Exeter, being advanc'd to that See, 
 the Doctor was chofen to Preach the Confe- 
 cration Sermon, which he perform'd and 
 publiih'd under this Title, Sfhe Office and 
 good Work of a Bifiop. A Sermon preaclod in 
 Lambeth Chapel, at the Confecration of the 
 Right Reverend Father in God William Lord 
 Biftop of Lincoln, on Sunday, October 2i> 
 1705, publijh'd at the Defire of the Archbijhop 
 and Bijhops. A moft Learned and Excellent 
 Difcourfe y and as fuch, (I have been credibly 
 
 cold,) 
 
28 The LIFE of 
 
 told,) admir'd fo much by the late Lord Chief 
 Juftice Holt, that he declar'd, it had more 
 -in it to the Purpofe of the Legal and Chrifti- 
 an Conftitution of this Church, than any Vo- 
 lume of Difcourfes. 
 
 Whilft Dr. Kenmtt continu'd at Aldgate* 
 his Steadinefs to the Revolution and Prpteftant 
 Succeffion, rais'd up a growing Party againft 
 him on the Political Account only. Soon after 
 the Queen's Acceffion to the Crown, there 
 began to be a mighty Noife among the com- 
 mon People in the Name of the Church ; it 
 was in Danger of the Presbyterians, and they 
 were worfe than the Papijls, they were al- 
 ways Scbifmaticks and Rebels, they began a 
 War againft King Charles I. without any 
 Manner of Provocation; they cut off his 
 Head, and did all they could to hinder the 
 Reiteration of King Charles II. and they were 
 the Authors of all other Separation and Se- 
 dition, fworn Enemies to the Church and 
 Crown, againft Hereditary Right and Paffive 
 Obedience, and they were on all thefe Accounts 
 no longer to be endurd. Dr. Kennett faw 
 the Meaning of all this was to fpirit up the 
 People to another Change, and therefore, in, 
 Converfation with his Neighbours, he did 
 
 what 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 29 
 
 what he cou'd to ftem that Tide ; and upon 
 the next Occafion of Preaching upon the 
 30th of January, at his Pari(h Church of 
 Aldgate, he undertook to State the Hiftory 
 of that Day, in a plain honeft Manner, with 
 the utmoft Deteftation of the Murder of 
 King Charles I. and yet with the Acknow- 
 ledgment of fome Errors in his Reign, owing 
 to a Popifh. Queen, and a corrupt Miniftry, 
 who had been taking many Steps towards a 
 more Arbitrary Government, that, by Degrees, 
 might have gone into abfolute Tyranny. 
 
 This offended many who expected other 
 Language upon that Day, and they made 
 fuch an artful Out-cry upon it, that the 
 Doctor thought himfelf oblig'd to appeal to 
 the World in the Printing of his Sermon, 
 under the Title of A Companionate Enquiry 
 into the Caufes of the Civil War, &c. 4to, 
 1704. with an honeft Advertifement, that 
 " this plain Sermon was not defign'd for the 
 " Prefs, but was challeng'd to appear there 
 cc by the Mifapprehenfions of fome few who 
 <c heard it, and by the more confident Report 
 cc of a far greater Number who did not 
 " hear it, " &c. The Sermon beginning 
 thus. — c< The Evil of this Day, which we 
 
 cc now 
 
30 The LIFE of 
 
 u now deplore in Failing and Mourning, was 
 " an unnatural Civil War, that overturn'd 
 <c the beft Confutation in the World, that 
 " made our whole Ifland an Aceldama, a 
 * Field of Blood., and thro' Heaps of Rapine 
 " and Slaughter, proceeded to the deplorable 
 " Death of the Martyr of this Day, one 
 " of the moil virtuous and moft religious 
 
 " of our Englifh Princes." Then agreeably 
 
 to the Text, Enquiring whence, and by what 
 means this Evil came, he did innocently 
 affirm and prove, that " the leading Caufes 
 " of this Day's Evil, improv'd by wicked 
 " Arts and Defigns, were chiefly thefe : 
 " Firjl, A French Intereft and Alliance ; 
 " and from thence arifing, Secondly, The 
 u Apprehenfions and Fears of Popery; which 
 " led on, Thirdly, The Jeafoufies of Op- 
 <c preffion and Illegal Power : Which tended 
 " more and more to, Fourthly, The Growth of 
 " Prophanenefs and Immorality ; and even this 
 " help'd to produce, Fifthly, That Hypocri- 
 " fy and Perfidioufnefs which accomplifli'd 
 a the Sin, and the infinite Scandal of this 
 « Day." 
 
 After the Publication of this Sermon, 
 there were fome Libels againft it, but no 
 
 Rea- 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 31 
 
 Reafoning or Historical Anfwers to it ; and 
 they who threatfied to Complain of it in 
 Convocation, where the Doctor had by other 
 Writings offended the Majority of the lower 
 Houfe, thought fit to drop their partial In- 
 tentions. And the wifer Part of the Nation 
 were fo well fatisfy'd, that he foon after re- 
 ceiv'd an Order from the Honourable Houfe 
 of Commons, to Preach before them on the 
 fame folemn Occafion, January 30, 1705. 
 And the Dodtor had the Thanks of the Houfe 
 for his Sermon, and was defir'd to Print it, 
 as it accordingly was. Any one who reads 
 it, may eafily perceive that he began this 
 Sermon in his own Thoughts, where the 
 other ended ; namely, that whatever unhappy 
 Grounds and Occafions were given for that 
 unnatural Civil War, yet, in the Iffue of it, 
 nothing could juftify or excufe the horrid and 
 execrable Murder of King Charles I. demon- 
 strating the Illegality and Wickednefs of it, 
 by a Multitude of Proofs from Hiftory and 
 Law, and bringing a great many other Au- 
 thorities to be call into the Margin of the 
 printed Sermon. 
 
 The Effect of this was, that fome malicious 
 and weak People, cry'd out that the two 
 
 Sermons 
 
32 The LIFE of 
 
 Sermons were oppofite to one another, when 
 they were indeed but a Connexion of the 
 two greateft Truths, i. That fome juft Of- 
 fences were really given by the Court of 
 King Charles I. to raife the People's Fears 
 and Apprehenfions of Popery and Arbitrary 
 Power, that mov'd the two Houfes to think 
 of Self-Defence, and Prefervation of the 
 Publick. 2. That whatever was the unfor- 
 tunate Beginning of a Civil War, the Succefs 
 of it, on what was call'd the Parliament 
 Side, cou'd by no Means warrant the Impri- 
 fonment, Trial, and Execution of the King. 
 Thefe two Proportions are fufficiently laid 
 down by the Earl of Clarendon^ in his Hifto- 
 ry of the Rebellion and Civil Wars ; which 
 cou'd never be purg'd of thofe fundamental 
 Truths, and of the Dependance of one upon 
 the other of them. 
 
 Under the Prejudices, unjuftly occafion'd 
 by this Sermon, the • Doctor was engag'd in 
 another Affair, which abundantly increas'd 
 them. Some Bookfellers had been well ad- 
 vis'd to make a Collection of the belt Wri- 
 ters, of the Lives and Reigns of our feveral 
 Englifi Princes, from the Conqueft to the Be- 
 ginning of the Reign of Queen Anne, and to 
 
 re- 
 
Biftiop Kennett. 33 
 
 re -print them fairly in three Volumes, when 
 they had laid this Scheme, they found it ne- 
 ceflary to have a Continuation made by fome 
 one new Hand, of the four laft Reigns of 
 Charles I. Charles II. James II. William III. 
 and they did at laft prevail with Dr. Kennett 
 to draw up the Materials for this third Vo- 
 lume. He had no Manner of Hand in any 
 Branch of the two former ; nor in the Pre- 
 face to them, which w r as written by Mr. 
 Hughes > and concluded thus. — ££ For what 
 " remains to be faid concerning the third 
 " Volume, the judicious and accompliuYd 
 <c Writer of it, has thought fit in his own 
 iC Words to addrefs the Publick as follows." 
 And the Wo'rds [All new Writ by a Learned 
 and Impartial Hand] were added by the 
 Bookfellers. From whence it is plain that 
 the Author refolv'd to conceal his Name; 
 and we may believe that the few Undertakers 
 for the Prefs, who were let into the Secret, 
 were oblig'd by Promife, not to betray it. 
 So little did he aim at Reputation, and fo 
 fenfible was he, that a Work of that Na- 
 ture, wou'd live beft and long eft, by burying 
 alive the Author of it. 
 
 D But 
 
M The LIFE of 
 
 But it feems in a pragmatical Age with a 
 reftlefs Party, the concealing and withdraw- 
 ing himfelf, did but raife the fiercer Purfuit 
 after him ; and the Jacobite Out-cry was, 
 that Dr. Kennett was the Writer of that 
 Hiftory, defigning to expofe them and their 
 Caufe 5 Dr. Hicks was the fir ft, who was ex- 
 tremely Angry, that there was not a due Ref- 
 pedt paid to his Book Jovia?? y and to the 
 Notions of it. And even fome Perfons who 
 had gone into the Revolution with forward- 
 nefs enough, and yet had not found their full 
 Account in it, were offended, that too much, 
 or too little Notice was taken of the Parts 
 they acted about that Time. And above all, 
 
 J 
 
 an eminent Peer, very Inftrumental in the. 
 Revolution, by taking up Arms in the North, 
 had made fuch an Improvement of his Ho- 
 nours and Fortunes by it, that he thought 
 himfelf priviledg'd and protected from any 
 Retrofpect, upon his Conduct in the Court 
 and Trealury of King Cbarks II. And there- 
 fore finding in that Hiftory a Narrative of 
 what appcar'd to be Male-Adminiftration, 
 the/ taken from the Parliament Journals and 
 printed Trials, and other publick Papers, he 
 was much offended; and taking an Opportu- 
 nity 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 35 
 
 nity, upon the Death of the Duke of Monta- 
 gue, to give fome Account of his Tranfacli- 
 ons with France, from his own Papers 
 and Letters, complain'd of the Mif-reprefen- 
 tation of his Services made by that late 
 Hiftorian ; who really did not feem to mean 
 any Thing of Reflection on his noble Perfon> 
 and Family; but related Fads as he found 
 them before related. 
 
 However, on that Occafion, of his Grace's 
 Complaint, he enquir'd more narrowly into 
 thole Matters, and ftated them over again in 
 a moil authentick Manner, but finding that 
 the more full Difcovery, wou'd only create 
 the greater Offence, he wou'd not fuffer what 
 he had written to be publifn'd to the World. 
 
 Soon after this, was the Sermon preach'd 
 at the Duke of Devon/litres Funeral, publifli'd 
 by the Doctor, with fome Memoirs of the 
 Family of Cavendifh. The Offences before 
 taken at Dr. Kennett, however unreafonable, 
 as Poflerity will judge, difpos'd a growing Set 
 of People, to diflike every thing he wrote or 
 did : For the Times were now come, when 
 Parties judg'd of Actions and Writings, not 
 by the Merit of the Performances, but by 
 the Affection or Prejudice they bore to the 
 D 2 Name 
 
36 The LIFE of 
 
 Name of the Authors of them. He was 
 now ftampt for a Whig-Writer -, which was 
 as bad as the being a Republican, and a Pref- 
 byterian ; and that was worfe than the being a 
 Papijl. Many of our beft Prelates and Di- 
 vines have fuffer'd under the fame Prejudices of 
 Malice and Ignorance; when their political 
 Writings have offended, then the Party run 
 down all their other Performances whatfoever. 
 When once Angry, they catch at new Caufes, 
 and frefher Pretences of being more Angry ; 
 like Children and other People of no command 
 upon themfelves, they are fcratching of new 
 Wounds, becaufe of an Itching in the old Sore. 
 It was under this Difadvantage that the 
 Doctor was call'd to preach a Funeral Ser- 
 mon for the Duke of Devonfijire ; from which 
 he excus'd himfelf as a Stranger to that no- 
 ble Family, and till then utterly unknown 
 to them. But itappear'd that a Reverend Pre- 
 late had recommended him to that Duty, 
 and had undertaken to give him fuch In- 
 ftrudtions^ as might' enable him to fpeak 
 with Truth and proper Obfervations of that 
 Great Man. Upon this Encouragement, he 
 eomply'd with the importunate Requeil, and 
 upon a fhort Warning, amidft the Neceffity 
 
 of 
 
Bifhop Kennett. 37 
 
 of afking many Queftions, and making many 
 Vifits, he drew up a ferious Sermon, and 
 attended the very folemn Funeral to Derby, 
 delivering the Sermon before a very full 
 Audience of the neighbouring Gentry, who 
 cou'd beft judge of the Character given of 
 that noble Peer 3 and in the fame Evening, 
 one of them at Table, in the Name of the 
 Reft, thank'd the Preacher, and told him, 
 that they in that Country, had been WitnefTes 
 of the Truth of the moft material Things 
 he had fo well fpoken of the late Duke: 
 And it was by their Report, and the concur- 
 rent Teftimony of that Pare of the Family 
 that attended thofe Obfequies, that his pre- 
 fent Grace the Duke of Devonjhire, a Peer of 
 great Prudence and Probity, generoufly ap- 
 prov'd of that laft Office, and defir'd the 
 Doctor to publifh the Sermon ; to which he 
 fubmitted with the lefs Fear of Offence, be- 
 caufe all he faid relating to his Life, was ei- 
 ther fuggefted or allow'd by the then Bifhop 
 of Sarum, who was intimately acquainted 
 with his Grace's Conduct ; and all that he ob- 
 ferv'd concerning his Sichiefs and Death, was 
 communicated to him by the Eye-Witnefs, and 
 faithful Judge of them, the then Lord Bifhop 
 D 3 of 
 
38 The LIFE of 
 
 of Ely. Upon their Authority, and Appro- 
 bation, the Doctor publiuYd his Sermon, and 
 conftrm'd the main Subject of it, by calling 
 in fome Historical Collections relating to the 
 Defcent and Prcgrefs of that Noble Farnily> 
 under this Title, A Sermon preactid at* the 
 Funeral of tkc Right Noble William Duke of 
 Devonshire, in the Church of All-Hallows in 
 Derby, &c. on Friday , Sept. 5, 1707, &c. To 
 which he made a modeft Dedication to the pre- 
 ient Duke -, which he (who wou'd have defpis'd 
 Flattery, and abhor'd Falfhood) was fo well 
 pleas'd with, that he had a F^efpect and Fa- 
 vour for the Doctor, and fhew'd it in a very 
 kind Manner, by recommending him to the 
 §>ueen, for the Deanry of Peterborough, foon 
 after Vacant by the Death of Dr. Freeman. 
 Which we may fuppofe was the more eaiily 
 obtained of her Majefty, as being her Chaplain 
 in Ordinary, by the Recommendation of the 
 Lord Archbifhop of Canterbury, and the Lord 
 Godolphin. 
 
 This Preferment, (tho' not fo much to be 
 envied) rais'd the fiercer Spite and Malice of 
 the Party againft him : Libels and pee villi Ser- 
 mons pointed at him. They got young Men 
 co tune the Oxford Pulpit, and let out their 
 
 Prefs 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 39 
 
 Prefs at Oxford to the printing, or re-printing 
 a forry Libel of poor John Dunton, againft 
 the deceafed Duke, and his funeral Preacher ; 
 wherein he told fome Stories which the Doc- 
 tor was fo little concern'd in, that he has 
 often fa id, he had never before heard of 
 them. 
 
 Some fa id that he had cover d all the 
 Vices and Infirmities of that great Man ; 
 which was fo far from being true, that he 
 plainly intimated them. Speaking of his 
 Averfenefs to the Principles of Mr. Hobbs, 
 who liv'd in that noble Family, he fufficient- 
 ly confeffes that he was not fo untainted in 
 his Morals. He defpisd the Philofophy, as 
 much as he abhor d the Politicks of that bold 
 Pretender: Oh ! if he had been as happil\\ 
 prefervd from all others. And fpeaking of 
 his great AfFe&ion to the noble Lord Rnffel 
 
 in his Sufferings, it is faid After the lafl 
 
 Embraces, when he was in Confufion withdraw- 
 ing, the Lord Ruffel cafld him back, and 
 begg'd him to apply him/e/f more to a religious 
 and virtuous Courfe of Life ; tellmg him how 
 great a Support he now felt from that alone, 
 and what a mighty Comfort it fupplyd him 
 with in a (aft Hour. It is to be hofd this 
 D 4 made 
 
4 o The LIFE of 
 
 made an Imprejfion, for it was received with a 
 Flood of Tears, as that Lord told it immediately 
 to the Divines that then attended on him. If he 
 faid no more, it was but a common charita- 
 ble Trefpafs -, no Preacher is bound particu- 
 larly to enumerate all the Faults and Mifcar- 
 r iages of the Dec'eafed, but rather to recom- 
 mend the Things that are Praife worthy, 
 and of good Example. 
 
 Other Objectors faid, that the Doctor haden- 
 courag'd a Death-Bed-Repentance, and taken a- 
 way all the Hazard of it: When yet the Sermon 
 has not a Word of preferring or trufting to 
 a late Repentance, only that in his Time of 
 Sicknefs, the Duke fent for an eminent Prelate 
 of our Church to vijit and afjifi him, who found 
 him in a full Difpo/ition to make his Peace with 
 God. He confefsd his being troubled, very 
 much troubled for the Latenefs of his Repentance, 
 which he hofd was Jinccre, and defird the 
 Biftop to pray heartily with him to God, that 
 he would be gracioufy pleajed to accept it. 
 
 Others infmuated, that the Preacher had 
 built a Bridge to Heaven, for Men of Wit 
 and Parts, but that the duller Sort of Man- 
 kind muft not hope to pais that Way: 
 When yet he had laid nothing at all to that 
 
 Effeft, 
 
Btjhop K E N N E T T. 41 
 
 Effedt, but in this found Truth, that the 
 more Underftanding a Man has, the fooner 
 he may come to a Senfe of God and Religion, 
 He fays nothing but what common Experi- 
 ence and Obfervation juftifies, that the igno- 
 rant and unnurtur'd Multitude, are not in the 
 Nature of the Thing, fo likely to be wrought 
 upon by the Powers of Religion as wife and 
 underftanding Men, thofe of a Higher and 
 better Education. We have had in our own 
 Nation (fays he) Men of illuftrious Honour and 
 of the moji celebrated Parts J who had been car- 
 ry' d away by the Conrfe of this World into ex- 
 travagant Vices and Tollies, and yet upon the 
 Profpecl of Death, thefe Men of Underftanding 
 have felt the excellent Spirit moving in them : 
 T'hey have retracted their loofe Opinions ; they 
 have repented of their grievous Sins -, they have 
 made their Peace with God, and have died; 
 nay, fometimes have recover d and liv'd, like 
 true unfeigned Chriflian Converts, So great 
 are the Powers of Religion to Work upon the 
 largefl Capacities. 
 
 There w T ere fome other little Exceptions 
 caught at ; and rail'd at, in the Sermon; but> 
 as it was the political Character of this great 
 Man, that was the main Topick of the 
 
 Preacher ; 
 
42 The LIFE of 
 
 Preacher; to reprefent him a true Patriot; a 
 flout Friend of his Country ; and a conftant 
 Affertor of the Proteftant Intereft, and the 
 Liberties of Europe-, fo, it was in Truth, this 
 Character, that gave the great Offence, and 
 rais'd the mighty Noife among the Party, 
 difaffecled to the Revolution and the Pro- 
 teftant Succeffion. From hence were the Grief 
 and Indignation of the Jacobites, and their 
 auxiliary Forces. Had the Preacher not 
 been a Conjii tut ion-Man y and a Whig- Writer, 
 nothing in the Sermon wou'd have appeared 
 either odious or {hocking, to the profefs'd 
 and fecret Enemiejs of that providential De- 
 liverance of this finking Church and Nation, 
 the happy Revolution. 
 
 That this was the true Bottom of all the 
 Clamour againft Dean Kennctt, both then 
 and afterwards, is evident from the many 
 violent Pamphlets and Libels pubiifh'd againft 
 him \ wherein he was reproach'd, as being 
 formerly in other Notions, as deferting the 
 Party he had efpous'd ; and acting upon dif- 
 ferent Principles from thofe he had before 
 declar'd for ; and as a Man falfe, inconstant > 
 
 and given to Change, 
 
 Now 
 
Bijhop Kennett, 43 
 
 Now it muft be own'd, there was fome 
 Change in the Deans Notions in Politicks: 
 He was a Boy in the Reign of King Charles II. 
 and taught to Quarrel for the Succejfwn of 
 the Duke of York. He was but a young Man 
 when that began to take Place. He publifh'd 
 then a Tranilation of Pliny's Addrefs to 
 Trajan , which had been really an Academi- 
 cal Exercife only, printed off in the laft Year 
 of King Charlesy and had his Cut or Print 
 before it. So far was it from being defign'd 
 as a Panegyrick upon the Popijh Proceedings 
 of King James. Mr. Kennett was indeed 
 then Loyal 3 but not with what the Court 
 call'd Loyalty. For he then preach'd a Set 
 of Sermons againft Popery -, he then refus'd 
 to read the Declaration of King James y for 
 what was call'd, Liberty of Confcience-y and 
 he went with the Body of the Clergy in the 
 Diocefe of Oxford, when they rejected an 
 Addrefs to the King, recommended by Bifliop 
 Parker. 
 
 Upon the Revolution, after he had duly 
 confider'd and coniulted with learned Men^ 
 he was fully fatisfy d in bearing true 
 Allegiance to their Majefties King William 
 and Queen Mary, and continued eminently 
 
 fteady 
 
44 The LIFE of 
 
 fteady and faithful in his Adherence to that 
 happy Settlement, in all the Times of Dif- 
 ficulty and Trial. 
 
 As to the Fact itfelf of Renouncing a Pre- 
 judice of Education, it cannot need any 
 Defence or Apology with confidering Men. 
 A Man thinks and ftudies to little Purpofe, 
 if after a Fulnefs of Age and Judgment, he 
 does not examine the Matters that are be- 
 fore him more critically than he did when 
 he was fo many Years younger: And what 
 Wonder is it, that this fhou'd produce fome 
 Alteration in his Opinion? Errors and Mir 
 flakes, the wifeft of us all are fubject to; 
 and it wou'd be well for the World, and for 
 Men themfelves, if they wou'd be true to 
 their own Convictions; and be fo honeft as 
 to own their Miftakes, when they have dif- 
 cover'd them. 
 
 Mr. Kennctt brought to the Univerfity from 
 Wcftminjle7\ a Genius addicted to Poetry; 
 and by his Tutor's Encouragement, he gave 
 feveral Effays of it in Latin and Englijh: 
 Among thefe, was a Ballad made by him, 
 and printed without his Name by another, 
 while he was an Under-Graduate. Ant. 
 V/ood mentions it [vol. II. p.. 113 1.] as his, 
 
 under 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 45 
 
 under this Title, Poe?n to Mr. E. L. on his Ma- 
 jeftys Diffblving the late Parliament at Oxon. 
 March 28, 1681. This, a few Years ago, 
 was with great Induftry pick'd up and re- 
 publifh'd by one of the Libellers of the 
 Dean, as a great Reproach %o him. Which 
 makes me think of the learned T'heod. Beza, 
 who having performed fome juvenile Exer- 
 cifes of that Kind, w r as, in his elder Years, 
 upbraided with them by the Jefuits, who 
 run back every Step of his Life to find Mat- 
 ter of Accufation againft him. And the ho- 
 neft old Man never deny'd the childifh 
 Things, but in the Preface of his Confejjion, 
 as Dr. Fulkes tranflates it, he defieth all the 
 World for any other Crime of Diflionefty, 
 than the fetting forth certain wanton Ver- 
 fes, which were made when he was a Child, 
 and printed while he was under the Age of 
 twenty Years. See Dr. Fulkes 's Anfwer to 
 Paffrarine's Declaration. 8vo, 1586. p. 12. 
 
 Every one knows, that fuch Writings as 
 the Libellers of Dr. Kennett have generally 
 objected to him, are to be taken as Exercifes 
 for the Improvement of Youth ^ and are to 
 be fuppos'd the Reiult of Luxuriances of 
 Fancy, not of Ripenefs of Judgment. And 
 
 there- 
 
4<5 The LIFE of 
 
 therefore no one of common Understanding, 
 ever upbraided Dr. South, or the late Bifhop 
 of Rochejier (Dr. Sprat) with the Panegyricks 
 they wrote on Oliver Cromwell. No Doubt 
 but he chang'd his Opinion, with Regard to 
 Parties. But this will prove no more than, 
 that after he came into the World, and grew 
 better acquainted with publick Affairs, he 
 was enabled to fee more clearly the Defigns 
 of fome Men, and the Tendency of fome 
 Doctrines, than he was before. In this much 
 happier than many others, who thro' a blind 
 Prejudice to the Party they had engag'd 
 themfelves with, have been led on blindfold 
 in the fame Road, as if being once Carriers 
 Horfes, they muft always continue fo. And 
 yet the little Scriblers were perpetually flirt- 
 ing at Dr. Keftnetfs Change of Party, when 
 he was really the fame (and to their Vex- 
 ation, too much the fame) for near forty 
 Years together; an Abhorrer of Popery; a 
 Friend of the Reformation ; grateful to God, 
 and to the Memory of King William for the 
 Revolution; Faithful to Queen Anne, and to 
 the Protejlant Succejion ; Joyful for the Reign 
 of King George; Firm and faft to a fteady, 
 legal Adminiftration ; Affectionate to the old 
 
 and 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 47 
 
 and true Church of England - y Zealous for 
 the Proteftant Intereft in Europe, and Defi- 
 rous of an uninterrupted Succeflion of the 
 Royal Family of King George for ever. 
 
 The Dean was upbraided in the fame Li- 
 bels, for the intimate Friendfhip between him 
 and Dr. Hicks-, when that Friendfhip wa s 
 founded on the Dean's Part, upon the Bot- 
 tom of Charity to Sufferers, and the Love of 
 promoting common Studies; and the Breach 
 of it was owing to the intemperate Zeal of 
 the Dotfor, not to any juft Offence given 
 
 him by Dean Kennett % 
 
 He 
 
 * As to Dr. Hicks, we are told by an eminent Hand, that 
 he was fully convinc'd of the Lawfulnefs of Taking the Oaths to 
 King William and Queen Mary. A Friend of his, ftill living* 
 (who can juftify the Truth of what I am relating) was with him. 
 at Worcejler when he refolv'd to take them : And in Order to 
 his more folemn taking of them, determin'd to go to London, 
 and do it publickly there. His Friend fearing what afterward 
 came to pafs, wou'd fain have periuaded him to continue at Wor- 
 cejler. He fuggeiled" to him the Danger of his being aflaulted 
 by his Acquaintance at London, and brought off from his good 
 Refolution, The Do<ftor was almofl angry with him : He ask'd 
 him, Whether he thought him fuch a Child as not to know 
 when he was fatisfy'd of what he had to do ; or net to have 
 Steadinefs enough to a& according to his Perfuafion ? Under 
 this good Diipofition, Dr. Hicks went up to London. His Friend 
 met him upon the Road., and again cautlor/d him againft the 
 
 Danger. He was ftill Heady in hie Purpofe, and declar'd him- 
 
 fetf 
 
48 The LIFE of 
 
 He was told (in one of em) of a Letter 
 written by him to that good Father, (fo the 
 Author calls Dr. Hicks) of high Compli- 
 ments for his chriftian Priefthood; when it 
 was only a common Civility for the Prefent 
 of a Book upon the curfory Reading of it $ 
 and if it had been much worfe, it was the 
 moft unmanly Thing in the Right Reverend 
 to publifh a private Letter in Prejudice to a 
 Friend. 
 
 He was indeed tender of his old Acquain- 
 tance, and ready to oblige them in any 
 Thing but Politicks ; and he continu'd to the 
 lafl to have fome few Friends of that Party, 
 who cannot but fay he was a Friend to 
 them; and he always declar'd himfelf ready 
 to be fo, while they appear'd peaceable and 
 confcientious, and kept out of Factions and 
 
 fclf fully convinc'd of his Duty to take the Oaths. But, alas f 
 when he came to Town he was better enlightned. He then 
 faw that he had been miftaken ; and from thenceforth not only 
 rcfus'd to take the Oaths himfelf, but fet himfelf at the Head of 
 thofe that refus'd to take them. Vindication of the Realm and 
 Church cf England, Sic. fuppos'd to be written by the Arch- 
 bifhopof Canterbury, p. 22. This Behaviour in the good Fa- 
 ther Hicks, (as the Party calPd him) is no great Evidence of his 
 being fo very confcientious ; nor is it any Reproach to Dr. 
 Kennett, that fuch a Man was his declar'd Enemy, for afting a 
 quite contrary Part. 
 
 Plots 
 
 V 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 49 
 
 Plots to difturb the Government. Eut ha- 
 ving been intimately acquainted with Dr. 
 Hicks, Mr. Dodwell, and fome other Lea- 
 ders, he found their Pretences and Defigns 
 fo utterly inconfiftent with Truth and Cha- 
 rity ; he faw them fo reftlefs and implacable 
 againft the publick Peace of the Church and 
 State, that he thought it his Duty to oppofe 
 them, and their Party, to the utmoft of his 
 Power 5 yet without doing them any one 
 perfonal Injury, or fo much as the Shadow 
 of it. But to leave this; which I thought 
 my felf oblig'd to fay, once for all, in Vin- 
 dication of a Man, who made it the great 
 Bufinefs of his active and laborious Life to 
 promote both the Honour and Intereji of our 
 Church and Nation. 
 
 In the Year 1707, the Dean, defiring a 
 little more Eafe with lefs Profit, by the Ad- 
 vice, and under die Favour of Dr. Tenijhn, 
 the Lord Archbifhop of Canterbury, he gave 
 up the laborious Cure of Aldgate, and ac- 
 cepted her JVlajefty's Gift of die Rectory of 
 St. Mary Alder mary in the City of London, 
 void by the Promotion of Dr. Blackall to 
 the See of Exeter , upon which Exchange, 
 (very contrary to the Courfe of the World) 
 
 E he 
 
$o The LIFE of 
 
 lie loft above one hundred Pounds a Year 
 for the Purchafe of a little more Retirement, 
 and Opportunities for Studies. 
 
 When he came firft to this Church, find- 
 ing a Manfe, or Parfonage-Houfe wanting, 
 he offered 200 /. towards providing one con- 
 venient for his own and his Succeffors Refi- 
 dence, within either of the United Parifhes; 
 and offer'd to help to follicite for three or 
 four hundred Pounds more, that might have 
 fully anfwer'd the good Purpofe. And when 
 that Propofal was not comply'd with, he 
 enter'd into a Refolution of Self-denial, and 
 apparent Hindrance to his own Intereft ; that 
 \s was, of not Renewing the feveral Leafes of 
 Ground- Rents for the Rector's Glebe -, for 
 which Renewals he might have afterwards 
 receiv'd feveral Fines and Sums of Monev, 
 but letting them runout, that the full Houfe- 
 Rents might fall in to him and his Succef- 
 fors; and there might be then Room for 
 fome one Rector or other (heft able and wil- 
 ling) to contrive a convenient Dwelling. 
 And in Purfuance of that good Refolution, 
 there were two Houfes, feveral Years ago, 
 fallen in, that improv'd the Living to the 
 confklerable Lofs of the then Rector, upon 
 
 the 
 
Bifhop Kennett. $x 
 
 the Profped of providing better for thofe 
 that fucceed him. For (as he us'd to com- 
 plain) nothing is more wanting in London- 
 Livings^ than a fuitable Manfe for each Mi- 
 nister; and wherever they are wanting, the 
 Hiring of a Houfe, and the Burthens an- 
 nex'd to it, eat up near one Half of the al- 
 lotted Maintenance. However, the Dean 
 Went on to fupply the Church in his own 
 Perfon, by conftant Preaching, frequent 
 Reading Prayers, duly Vifiting the Sick, and, 
 in the Week before Eafter, delivering in the 
 Defk an Expofition upon the Holy Sacra- 
 ment of our Lord's-Supper ; to which, great 
 Numbers of good People reforted, and have 
 often acknowledg'd they receiv'd great Be- 
 nefit by it. 
 
 Tho' it fhou'd not be tedious to my felf> 
 yet it wou'd probably fwell thefe Papers be- 
 yond the Patience of Readers, to give an 
 Account of the many excellent Difcourfes 
 written and publifh'd by the Dean, upon one 
 or another Occafion. Inftead of this there- 
 fore, I mall only mention a few Thines 
 more, wherein he eminently fhew'd a pub- 
 lick Spirit, and a zealous Regard for the In- 
 tereft of our Religion and Liberties ; and 
 E 2 take 
 
52 The LIFE of 
 
 take Notice of fuch of his Writings, as 
 have a more than ordinary Tendency to pro- 
 mote thefe. 
 
 About Midfummer, 1706, the Glory of her 
 Majefty's Arms by Land, and the Terror of 
 her Fleets in the Mediterranean Seas, had en- 
 courag'd the Englifi Factory at Leghorn to 
 hope for a Privilege, which they cou'd never 
 before obtain, that of having a Church of 
 England Chaplain to refide among them* and 
 to adminifter the Offices of Religion to 
 them. This Benefit and Honour, to the 
 EngliJJj Nation in that Port, was recom- 
 mended and follicited by the worthy Conful, 
 Chriflopher Crow, Efq; and fupported by the 
 Advice and Affiftance of the learned Dr. 
 He7iry Newton, her Majefty's Envoy in the 
 Court of Florence, who yet cou'd obtain no 
 Particular of expreis Licence or Protection 
 from the Great Duke, but only a general 
 Intimation, that the Civil Powers fhou'd not 
 moleft him, tho' they cou'd not exempt him 
 from the Cognizance and lupreme Authority 
 of the Inquifition at Rome. 
 
 Under this Uncertainty, ibme Merchants 
 Trading to Leghorn, difcours'd occafionally 
 with Dr. Kennett, about the bell and moil 
 
 effectual 
 
Bijhop Kennett, £ 3 
 
 effe&ual Way of fending over an Englijh 
 Chaplain, and deftYd he wou'd lay that Mat- 
 ter before the Lord Archbifhop of Canter* 
 bury. His Grace readily concurr'd in the 
 Opinion, that fuch a Privilege of the Exer- 
 cife of Religion, by a lawful Minifter of it, 
 was a Right of Chriftians, even by the Law 
 of Nations, in every Country where they 
 were allow'd to fettle and to traffick. 
 
 He wrote upon that Subject to Dr. New- 
 ton > and the Refult of his Anfwer was, that 
 no exprefs Leave or Indemnity could be ob- 
 tain'd, but a Connivance might be expected, 
 efpecially while the Queen, by her Fleets 
 and Armies, made fuch a Figure in Europe, 
 and even in Italy itfelf, that me would be 
 able to protecl her own Subjects in fo rea- 
 fonable and juft a Caufe. 
 
 Upon this Foot, the Lord Archbifhop di- 
 rected Dr. Kennett to look out for a proper 
 Perfon to be fent over, of Integrity, Abilities, 
 and Courage fuitable to that dangerous and 
 difficult Employment. The Dodtor, after 
 propofing it in vain to fome others, prevail'd 
 with his own Brother to adventure in it, Mr. 
 Bajil Kennett, M. A. Fellow of C. C. C. (af- 
 t?r his Return, Prefident of that College, and 
 E 3 Doftor 
 
54 The LI YE of 
 
 Doctor in Divinity) his Grace approv'd of 
 him ; and the Council advis'd her Majefty 
 to grant the Petition of the Merchants up- 
 on it, and to give the Chaplain a CommiJJion 
 or Title in this Form. 
 
 ANNE, R. 
 
 ^IITHEREAS our Subjects Trading 
 VV " to Leghorn, as well as thofe Re- 
 il fiding in that Port, have humbly befought 
 " us to appoint a Minifter to perform Di- 
 " vine Service there, after the Ufage and 
 " Manner of the Church of England-, where- 
 <c in we are gracioufly pleafed to gratify 
 " them: And being well fatisfied of the 
 " Loyalty, Prudence, Piety, and Learning of 
 " Bafil Kennett, M. A. and Fellow of Corpus 
 " Chrijli College in our Univerfity of Ox- 
 " ford. We do by thefe Prefents appoint 
 " him, the laid Bqfil Kennett, to be Minifter 
 <c to the Englijh Factory at Leghorn, hereby 
 " granting him our Royal Licence and Pro- 
 tc tection to the Puruofes aforementioned. 
 <c And we do hereby require our Envoy, or 
 " other our Minifter at the Court of the 
 vt Great Duke of Tnjcanx, and our Conful 
 * 4 a: Leghorn, now, and for the Time being, 
 
 « to 
 
Bifhop Kennett. 55 
 
 '< to protect, countenance, and affift him, the 
 
 " faid Bajil Kennett, as Occafion fliall re- 
 
 " quire, for his quiet Enjoyment and Exer- 
 
 u cife of his Function, as Minifter to the 
 
 <c Englifo Factory at Leghorn, as aforefaid. 
 
 " Given at our Caftle at Wind/or, the 8th 
 
 " Day of September, 1706, in the fifth 
 
 cc Year of our Reign. By her Majefty's 
 
 " Command. 
 
 C. Hedges. 
 
 At the fame Place and Time were dated 
 the Royal Letters of Paffport, Safeguard, and 
 Protection, as follow: 
 
 ANNA, R. 
 
 ANNA Dei Gratia Magna Britannia* 
 Francice, & Hibernicz, Regina, Fidel 
 Defenfor, Gfc. Omnibus & jingidis ad quos 
 prcefentes lit era pervencrint, falutem. Quum 
 pro falute fubditorum nojirorum in Porta Li- 
 bnmi in Hetruria commorantium vel eo appel- 
 lentium presbiterum illuc mitt ere decre-vsrimus^ 
 qui fecundum Ritus Ecclefice Anglican^ ipfa Sa- 
 cra minijlret : dileBum noftrum & fidelem 
 Bafilium Kennett, Artium Magiftrum, necnon 
 Collegii Corporis. Chrijii in Acadcmia nojlra 
 E 4 Oxonienfi 
 
$6 The LIFE of 
 
 Oxcnienji Socium, quern ad hoc munus ajfignavi- 
 mus - y Uteris hifce nojlris Jalvi condutius munire 
 Nobis vijiim eft. Rogumus itaque omnes & fm- 
 gulos Reges ac Principes cujufcunque dignitatis 
 at que or din is Status, Re [public as, libera/que Ci- 
 vitates, Amicos nojiros & Foederatos, per quorum 
 ditiones tranfiturus eft, nee non Provinciarum 
 Gubernatores, exercituum clajfiumque Duces,Pra~ 
 feftcs Limitaneos, Arciumque Cufiodes, reli- 
 quofque ipjbrum Officiates ac Minijlros, (Id quod 
 Subditis nojlris quorum ullo modo intererit fir- 
 miter injungimus) ut pra^fato Bafilio Kennett 
 una cum farcinis Juts quibufcunque non folum 
 ub i que loco rum liber am, & Jecurum eundi, 
 tranjeundi commorandique prout libitum erit po- 
 tejiatem faciant, neque aliquam jnoram impe- 
 dimentumve injiciant, aut injici patiantur, r ce- 
 rumetiam omnibus humanitatis, ac benevolentice 
 officii s excipiant adjuventque> & novis infuper faU 
 vi conduffus Uteris, Ji res it a pojlulaverit, com- 
 muniant. Quod quidem Nos pari data occafio- 
 neparate agnofcemus& vicijfim rep en fieri Junius. 
 Dabantur in Arce nc ! h'a Windejbra die cc- ; 
 
 tavo mentis Sepfembrh^ Anno Domini 1706. 
 
 Reg^iaue m \ into. 
 
 Ex mandato Jerenifftma Dim. Regina. 
 
 C. Hedge?. 
 Thcfe 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 57 
 
 Thefe Difpatches were much forwarded 
 by Jofeph Addifon, Efq 5 in the Secretary's 
 Office, who had a perfonal Refpecl: for Mr. Ken- 
 nett at Oxford^ and had the more publick Spirit 
 for Promoting the religious Interefts of the 
 Merchants at Leghorn, having been then a 
 late Traveller in Italy, and well known in 
 that Port. The worthy Conful, in the Name 
 of the Factory, fent over a Bill to defray 
 the Expences of the Journey ; and whatever 
 was wanting in Cloaths, Books, or any Equi- 
 page, was advanc'd to him by his Brother. 
 And he then fet out, with agreeable Compa- 
 ny, from Harwich to the Brill-, and fo thro* 
 Holland, Germany, by Way of Venice * 9 
 and coming fafe to Leghorn, he was received 
 there by the Conful and Nation with great 
 Civility and Kindnefs. 
 
 But the Italians were fo jealous of the 
 Northern Herefy, efpecially the Priefts and 
 Regulars were fo watchful againft it, that 
 the Englijlo Nation and Minifter were fore d 
 to begin the Exercifes of Religion with the 
 utmoft Privacy and Caution, to give as little 
 Offence as poffible. And yet great Offence 
 was taken at it, and Complaints and Infor- 
 mations immediately fent to Florence, and to 
 
 Rome. 
 
58 The LIFE of 
 
 Rome. The Envoy at Florence, Dr. Newton x 
 did all the Matter could bear to infift on the 
 Right of the Englijh Merchants, to have a 
 Minifler among them of their own Reli- 
 gion -, and offer'd to undertake that he fhould 
 not publickly reflect on the Religion of the 
 Country, nor attempt to bring over any of 
 the Duke's Subjects to the Proteftant Perfua- 
 fion. But the Pope, and the Court of In- 
 quifition at Rome, were refolv'd to expel He- 
 reiy, and the publick Teacher of it, from 
 the Confines of the Holy See: And therefore 
 iecret Orders were given to apprehend Mr. 
 Kennett at Leghorn, and to hurry him away 
 to Pi/a, and thence to fome other religious 
 Priibn, to bury him alive, or otherwife di- 
 ipofe of him in the feverefl Manner. 
 
 Upon Notice of this Defign upon him, the 
 Englijh Envoy at Florence interpos'd his Offi- 
 ces in that Court ; but could obtain no other 
 Anfwer, but that he might fend for the Eng- 
 ' •.•/'• Preacher, and keep him in his own Fa- 
 mily as his Domeftick Chaplain 5 but that 
 otherwife, if he prefum'd to continue at 
 Leghorn, he muft take the Confequences of 
 it -, for in rhoie Matters of Religion, the Court 
 of Inquifition was fuperiour to all Civil Pow- 
 ers. 
 
Bijhop Rennett. £9 
 
 crs. The Envoy communicated this Anfwe r 
 of the Great Duke, to one of her Majefty's 
 Principal Secretaries, the Earl of Sunderland^ 
 who, in her Majefty's Name, return'd the 
 following Directions. 
 
 "To Dr. Henry Newton, Her Majejlfs Envoy 
 in the Court of Florence. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 a XT' OURS of the 16th and 24th I re- 
 " ceived. In Anfwer to which, I 
 « have laid the whole Affair before her Ma- 
 c< jefty, who has commanded me to order 
 " you to tell the Great Duke, and his Mi- 
 " nifters, in her Majefty's Name, thai if 
 " there be any Moleftation given to her 
 u Chaplain, refiding at Leghorn, {he mail 
 cc look upon it as an Affront done to her 
 " felf and the Nation, a Breach of Peace, 
 i( and a Violation of the Law of Nations, 
 " and mall by her Fleets and Armies, which 
 " will be all the Year in the Mediterranean 
 ;c Seas, not only demand but take Satisfacti- 
 " on for any fuch Injury offered. And that 
 " the Prieft of the Great Duke's Minifter 
 *' here, and all Frequenters of his Chapel, 
 
 " mult 
 
60 The LIFE of 
 
 cc muft expecft the fame Treatment. And if they 
 u talk any more of the Pope or Court of Rome y 
 " you muft cut that Matter fhort, by telling 
 <c them, her Majefty has nothing to do with 
 " that Court, but fhall Treat with the 
 " Great Duke, as with other independent 
 " Princes and States. And this you muft do 
 * in the moft forcible Manner poffible. I 
 €< have no more at prefent to adds but am," 
 
 Tour Humble Servant, 
 
 Sunderland. 
 
 Before this excellent Letter could reach 
 to Florence, the Englijh Envoy was extremely 
 embaraft with the Difficulties of Treating for 
 the Protection and Security of the Englifi 
 Chaplain at Leghorn, and could find no Ex- 
 pedient more proper for the Prefent, than to 
 invite him earneftly to his Houfe at Florence-, 
 and there cover him till the Affair was ad- 
 jufted, and for that Purpofe to fend him a 
 Qualification as his Domeftick Chaplain. 
 But the brave Conful and Nation at Leghorn 
 would not readily confent to let him go a- 
 way, as fearing if they once gain'd that 
 
 Point, 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 6 i 
 
 Point, they would never let him return: Nor 
 was the Chaplain himfelf willing to confult 
 his own Safety by feeming to forfake his 
 Charge. And therefore with his Brother's 
 Advice, he continued there, tho' in the ut- 
 moft Danger. He was foieed to confine 
 himfelf in his Chamber, and to have an arm- 
 ed Guard at the Stair's Foot - y and when, in 
 fome Evenings, he walk'd out for Air, he 
 walk'd between two Englijh Merchants, who 
 with their Swords drawn refolv'd and de- 
 clar'd, that no Body fhould dare feize him at 
 their Peril. 
 
 But as foon as my Lord Sunderland's Letter 
 came to the Envoy's Hands, and was, by 
 him communicated to the Duke and his Mi- 
 nifters, the Contents of it were foon by them 
 imparted to the Pope and his Cardinals, who 
 fo well underftood the Argument of Fleet, 
 and Annies, that the Chaplain efcaped the 
 intended Fury; and continued for five Years 
 to officiate as a Minifter of the Church of 
 England, in a large Room, fet apart for a 
 Chapell, in the Conful's Houfe, with publick 
 Prayers, and a Courfe of Sermons, fince 
 published to the World, 
 
 When 
 
62 The LIFE of 
 
 When the Noife was over, and the Court 
 of Inquifition had drawn in their Pretenfions 
 of driving out Herefy from the Italian Coafts, 
 Dr. Newton wrote thus to a Friend in London, 
 Aug. 1707. 
 
 = "X) ELIGION is not a Thin § 
 
 Xv " to be talked of on any Side 
 " here, there has already been given fome of 
 " them Trouble enough, I mean the In- 
 " quifition, by bringing an Englifli Preacher 
 t{ into Leghorn , I hope now that Trou- 
 " ble is almoft over, and that for the Future 
 " we fhall hear no more from them on that 
 " Head. He is an excellent Perfon, if I am 
 <c any Judge in thofe Matters, and if I have 
 <c not any Pretence, either to that or any 
 <c other Learning, yet I am at leaft capable 
 " of Knowing and of Commending a Gen- 
 cc tleman for his Modefty, his Prudence, and 
 <£ his good Nature : And at Florence, and at 
 " Rome they have heard from me on that 
 Head ; and are fatisfied on the other Ac- 
 count too - y and if now there is any Fault 
 to be found, it is that he deferves fo much 
 1 to be commended. Pray let his Brother 
 know, and by him the Archbifhop, how 
 
 " much 
 
Bljhop K E N N E T T. 63 
 
 Cc much the Factory are obliged to his Grace 
 " on that Score, " &c. 
 
 In ihort, when Mr. Kennett had (ecu him- 
 felf well eftablifh'd in that Privilege, and 
 had fo laid the Foundation of it; he began 
 to think that the having a Succejfor in that 
 Place, upon the fame Bottom, would be the 
 beft Confirmation -, and therefore he earneftly 
 importun'd his Brother, that he might have 
 leave to return, upon the finding out a fit 
 Perfon to fucceed him. And he had indeed 
 the greater Reafon to infift upon coming 
 Home, becaufe his Conftitution did not agree 
 with that warmer Climate in his abftemious 
 Way of Living. However, he declar'd he 
 would not ftir till he faw a Succeffor upon 
 the Spot to relieve him. 
 
 His Brother, in England, upon occafionai 
 Difcourfe with fome of the Leghorn Mer- 
 chants, was told, that the fitteft Succeflbr 
 would be Mr. Taubman, who had been 
 Chaplain in her Majefty's Fleet in the Medi- 
 terranean, and had given a good printed Ac- 
 count of the Expedition, and was acquainted 
 with the Port, and fome of the Merchants 
 in it. Upon which he made further Enqui- 
 ries, and was fo well fatisfied fn them, thai 
 
<>4 The LIFE of 
 
 he introduc'd Mr. Taubman to the Lord 
 Archbifhop of Canterbury, who oblig'd him 
 to bring fuitable Teftimonials from the Lords 
 of the Admiralty, and fome of the Sea 
 Commanders \ and then his Grace gave him 
 this Letter. 
 
 To his worthy Friends, the Britifh Merchants of 
 London, Trading to the Port of Leghorn in 
 Italy. 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 a IT Have lately underftood that the Rev. 
 
 JL " Mr. Bajil Kennett, Chaplain to the 
 * c Britijh Factory at Leghorn (whom I re- 
 " commended to feveral Merchants in London, 
 c and alfo to that Fa&ory) where he has 
 4C done true and faithful Service, is now 
 a returning Home, fome neceffary Occafions 
 c ' of his fo requiring. 
 
 " I likewife underftand, that the Reverend 
 C£ Mr. Nathaniel Taubman, a Chaplain in the 
 " c Royal Navy, is recommended by the Lords 
 cc of the Admiralty, as a Perfon whofe Ser- 
 cc vices had been confiderable, and whofe 
 " Life and Converfation have been very Ex- 
 c< emplary, as appears by the Certificates of 
 " divers worth v Perfons. " In 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 6$ 
 
 " In Confideration hereof, and upon Ac- 
 cc count of his having been in that Port, and 
 " known to the Conful, and feveral Mer- 
 <c chants refiding at Leghorn, I am inclin'd 
 <c to think the faid Mr. Taubman may be a 
 " fit Perfon to fucceed the above mention'd 
 " Mr. Kennett, and do recommend him as 
 " fuch to you. 
 
 " If your Approbation of him be fignified 
 " to me, Ifhall endeavour, by fuch Methods. 
 ft as are proper for me, to obtain her Ma- 
 <f jefty's Favour, towards the Eftablifhing him 
 '< in the faid Port, for the above mention d 
 li Service." I am, 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 Tour ajfured Friend, 
 
 Sept. 12, 17 10. 
 
 Tho. Cantuar. 
 
 The Merchants exprefs'd their Acceptance 
 and Thanks to his Grace, concluding thus, 
 " Wherefore in this Matter we refer ourfelves 
 < c to your Grace's farther Care and Kindnefs 
 cc to us, and hope that your Grace will 
 « pleafe to obtain for him fuch Commimon 
 
 p " an4. 
 
66 The Ll$£ of 
 
 " and other Credentials from her Majefty, as 
 " fhall be thought proper for his Conduct 
 " and Protection in this Affair. " 
 
 Accordingly the Archbifhop reprefented the 
 Cafe to Her Majejiy, who was well pleas'd to 
 give Orders for the Difpatch of Mr. Tatib- 
 man. But upon the late Change of Miniftry 
 and Meafures, the Duke of Tufcanys Envoy 
 in this Court endeavour'd to obftrucl: the Pro- 
 ceedings in this Affair, and made a Pretence 
 of putting in a Memorial againft the fuffer- 
 ing a Proteftant Chaplain to refide among 
 the EngliJJ: Merchants at Leghorn. 
 
 The Removing this Obftruction was com- 
 mitted to the Care of Dr. Kennett, who thus 
 ftated the Cafe, in a Letter to the Worfhip- 
 ful Chrijlopher Crow, Efq; Conful of tjie 
 Britifi Nation at Leghorn. 
 
 Worthy Sir, 
 a ~\ Think it a Piece of Juftice to let the 
 X. <c Conful and the Nation know, that 
 " after the Rev. Mr. L'aubman had been 
 " kindly recommended by his Grace of Can- 
 <f terbury, to the Merchants in and about 
 ' London, Trading to Leghorn, and had Let- 
 i: ters of Approbation and Confent from 
 
 • " thoie 
 
Bljhop Rennett. 6j 
 
 i: thofe Merchants, di reeled feverally . both 
 <c to the Lord Archbifhop of Canterbury, 
 cC and Bill: op of London, and had then the 
 <c refpective Letters of Commendation of 
 <c the Archbifhop, and Bifhop to the Lord 
 
 « Z) , Secretary of State, to difpatch him 
 
 ct with fuch Commiflion and Credentials 
 Cc from the Queen, as had been formerly 
 u granted to Mr. Bajil Kemiett : But after 
 " feveral Applications of Mr. tfaubman to 
 tc the Secretary 's Office, he v/rites me Word 
 c < this Morning, that he had now received 
 
 <c my Lord D — *s Anfwer, which was, 
 
 cc that the Grand Duke of "Tufcanys Envoy 
 " had defired that fuch a Commiffion might 
 u be deferr'd till he had given in a Memo- 
 " rial in his Mailer's Name, againft the Re- 
 (i fidence of any Britifo Chaplain at Leghorn m 
 " So the Matter refts at prefent, but Care 
 <c mall be taken to Petition the Queen in 
 <£ Council, that the Merchants may have 
 ci leave to give in their Anfwer or Reafons 
 cc againft any fuch Memorial \ and may humbly 
 " infift upon depending on her Majefly's graci- 
 < c ous Protection of them in the free Exercife of 
 ? their Religion, by a Chaplain continued to- 
 Cl them in their Factory at Leghorn. And if 
 F 2 « anv 
 
68 The LIFE of 
 
 <c any other Reprefentation to the like Effect, 
 £C may be thought proper from the Conful 
 " and Merchants refiding at Leghorn, I beg 
 fc it may be tranfmitted to me with all fpeed, 
 <£ becaufe this is a Matter wherein our Reli- 
 " gion and Liberties are very much concern'd. 
 " If the worthy Envoy be not yet moved 
 " from Florence, it may be fit to acquaint 
 " him with the State of this Affair." I am, 
 
 Tour rnojl Humble Serva?it, 
 Sept, 29, 17 10. 
 
 Wh. Kennett. 
 
 The fame Perfon, on Oclob. 2, reprefented 
 tlie Matter to the Honourable Robert Hurley, 
 Efij; in a Letter beginning. " I humbly 
 fC beg leave to reprefent a Matter of Fact, 
 u that I prefume is of fome Confequence to 
 " the Honour of her Majefty, and the Repu- 
 " tat ion of her Ministers, as well as to the 
 " Intereft of the Church and Nation and 
 tc Proteftant Religion. — Concluding, This is a 
 <c Surprize upon the Merchants, and has 
 " put them in fome Fears, that they mall 
 <c be now deprived of that valuable Privilege, 
 tt which by her Majcfty's Wifdom and 
 
 " Good- 
 
Bifhop Kennett. 69 
 
 u Goodnefs they have fo quietly enjoy'd 
 " for thefe four Years. I am a humble Pe- 
 " titioner, that there may be no Difappoint- 
 " ment or Delay in this Matter, but that 
 " Mr. 'Taubman may be difpatch'd to the 
 " Satisfaction of the Merchants, and to the 
 " continued Glory of her Majefty's happy 
 « Reign." 
 
 On the Day following, Tnefday, Octob. 3, 
 a Summons had been fent over Night to fe- 
 veral of the Merchants Trading to Leghorn, 
 to attend that Morning before 12, at the 
 Duke of Queensberrys Lodgings at Whitehall 
 where there fate a Committee of the Coun- 
 cil 
 
 The Merchants were call'd in and aiked, 
 what Right they had to a Chaplain at Leg- 
 horn? Whether they pleaded for it by the 
 Law of Nations, and what Precedents they 
 had for it ? To which they anfwer'd, that 
 they were in Poffejjion of that Right j and 
 her Majefty had been pleafed to ajfert it; 
 and that there were Precedents for it at Lis- 
 bon and Oporto, &c. Tliey were difmifs'd, and 
 after fome Time call'd in again, and com- 
 manded to arcend on Friday the 7th In- 
 
 ftant. 
 
 Y 3 Before. 
 
7 o 77* LIFE o/ 
 
 Before which Time Dr. Kennett had taken 
 Care to have a Reprcfentation and Petition 
 ready in this Form. 
 
 To the Queens mo ft excellent Majeffy in Council, 
 the humble Reprcfentation and Petition of 
 the Britilh Merchants in and about London, 
 Trading to Leghorn, 
 
 Humbly Sheweth, 
 u f T^HAT your Petitioners, and their 
 JL " Correfpondents, have been for 
 " fome Years pail in Poffeffion of the Right 
 c< and Liberty of having a Chaplain Com- 
 " miffion'd and Protected by her Majefty to 
 V Adminifter the Sacraments, and other Offi- 
 <c ces of Religion according to the Church 
 " of England, to her native Subjects refid- 
 " ing at Leghorn, to the great Benefit and 
 <c Honour of the Nation. 
 
 II. " They prefume this to be a Law of 
 " Nations, becaufe her Majefty's Envoy in the 
 " Court of Florence, Dr. Newton, a very learned 
 ct Civilian*, has iniuled upon this Privilege, 
 " as a Part of the Laic of Nations-, and be- 
 " caufe of the Threats of the Inquijition, 
 " her Majefty Commanded one of the Prin- 
 
 ' c cipal 
 
Bifhop Kennet t. 7 1 
 
 «, c cipal Secretaries of State to fend exprels 
 " Inftructions to her faid Envoy, that if axiy 
 <c Moleftation was given to her Chaplain, 
 " refiding at Leghorn, £he fhouki look upon 
 " it as a Breach of Peace, and a Violation 
 " of the Law of Nations, and fhould by 
 " her Fleets and Armies in the Mediterranc- 
 " an y not only demand, but take Satisfaction 
 iC for any fuch Injury offered ; and by Virtue 
 C£ of this noble Refolution, the Chaplain and 
 <l her Majefty's Subjects, have enjoy'd the 
 " free Exercife of their Religion. 
 
 III. " They humbly prefunie, that this 
 " chriftian Liberty wants no Precedent, but 
 " that of their own Pojfejjion for thefe four 
 " Years, afferted and maintained bv her 
 " Majefty's Command. Yet they humbly 
 " conceive, that the Settlement of Chaplains 
 u m our Britijh Factories at Smyrna^ and 
 " Aleppo^ is allow* d by the 'Turks as a Right 
 l< due by the Law of Nations, and they 
 " fhould be very forry if their Factory in a 
 " chriftian Country, fhould be in any worfer 
 " Condition than their fellow Subjects are 
 " among Unbelievers. 
 
 IV. " This Liberty is allow'd and enjoyed 
 S even in Popifi Countries. Our Merchants 
 
 F 4. " at 
 
72 The LIFE of 
 
 " at Lisbon have a Chaplain to themfelves* 
 " diftinct from the Chaplain of her Majefty's 
 " AmbafTador in that Kingdom. And ano_ 
 " ther Chaplain has been lately fent to our 
 " Factory in Oporto, where no AmbafTador 
 <c refides. And if thefe Liberties were ob- 
 " tained by any former Articles of Peace be- 
 " tween E?tgland and Portugal, they pre- 
 <£ fume, that the Demand of them was founded 
 " on the Law of Nations, and they muft reft 
 <c there; not having been exprefsly renewed in 
 " any later Treaties. 
 
 V. " If any foreign Powers (hall acknow- 
 <c ledge it a Law of Nations for her Ma. 
 " jefty's Minifters abroad, to have a Chaplain 
 " in their own Families ; and yet fhall deny it 
 " to be a Law of Nations for a fettled Facto- 
 " ry of her Majefty's Subjects to have the 
 " fame Liberty; they might be put in Mind } 
 Cl that at the Beginning of our happy Re- 
 " formation, the Popifo Princes did deny 
 " that Law even to our publick Ambafladors, 
 ct as well as to our private Factories. As 
 <f may appear in the particular Cafes of Mr. 
 " Cbamberlayne, AmbafTador from King Ed- 
 iC ward VI. to the Ladv-Re°;ent in Flanders, 
 " who was prohibited the Uie of the Service 
 
 of 
 
Bijhop K en nett. 73 
 
 « of God according to the Order of this 
 H Realm in his own Houfe, December 1550. 
 cc And of Mr. Man, Ambaflador of Queen 
 << Elizabeth in Spain, who had a like Prohi- 
 " bition ferv'd upon him, in the Year 1566, 
 u 9th Elizabeth ; both which Indignities, 
 <c and the juft Refentment and Redrefs of 
 <c them are faid to appear upon the Council 
 <c Books. 
 
 " So as by the Politicks of Rome, the 
 " Right of Ambaffadors was no more to be 
 " acknowledg'd to be a Law of Nations, 
 " than was the Right of Factories or trading 
 " Bodies of Men. But as our former Princes 
 " did even in weaker Times vindicate the 
 <c Right of their Minifters in the Exercife 
 " of their Religion ; fo they hope that her 
 " prefent Majefty (who in the Glory of her 
 " Arms has already exceeded all her royal 
 " Predeceffors) will gracioufly vouchfafe to 
 " maintain the fame Right to all her foreign 
 fc Factories, upon the Liberty and Security 
 tc whereof the Intereft and Honour of this 
 " Church and Nation do greatly depend. 
 
 Wherefore. 
 
74 The LIFE 4 
 
 Wherefore they humbly Pray, 
 
 H That the Reverend, Mr. tfaubman, re- 
 * c commended by the Archbifhop of Canter-. 
 fC bury, and the Bifhop of London, and ac- 
 " cepted by the Merchants, and confirm'd 
 % by hec Majefty's royal Approbation, may 
 M be difpatch'd to Leghorn, with fuch Com- 
 C£ miffion and Letters of Protection, as were 
 " granted to the late Chaplain, Mr. Kennett. 
 k And they are the more encourag'd to de- 
 { fire this Favour, becaufe they are informed, 
 1 that the prefent Envoy of her Majefty at 
 ? Florence, has wifely and hitherto effectually 
 " pleaded for this Privilege \ and they have 
 " Reafon to hope, that her Majefty's new 
 " Envoy affign'd to that Court, has it in his 
 ■ : particular Jnftructions to infift upon a 
 " Continuance of the fame Right and Liber- 
 • ty 5 they rather wiih that no Queftion may 
 c be made of it, becaufe in the very fame 
 c ? Port of Leghom y there is a Synagogue 
 u allow'd to the Jews, and another Place 
 tc of Worfhip to the Turks, and it would be 
 ' very hard for her Majefty's Subjects to be 
 the unhappy People deprived there, of the 
 
 " free 
 
Bijhop K E N N E T T. J$ 
 
 • c free Exercife of their Religion ; efpecially 
 u when they are content to enjoy it in 3 
 l] more private Way, .than dp the Mahome- 
 " tans and Jews. 
 
 " They humbly fubmit themfelves to the 
 " Wifdom and juftice of her Majefty, and 
 % beg to have this great BJefling continued 
 " and fecured to them, a Liberty of their 
 <c Religion according to the Church of Eng- 
 " land, which .they are willing to Support at 
 " their own Expenoes, without any Burden 
 " to the Government. 
 
 And your "Petitioners 
 
 jloall ever Pray^ &a 
 
 On Friday, Ocloher y, the Merejbams at- 
 tended at the Secretary's Office, and deliver'd 
 to the Lord D ,..,. their /orementio.n'd "Re- 
 prefentatlon .aud Petition, which his Lord- 
 fhip read, and found. Fault with the Inftance 
 of fending a Chaplain %9 Ofiorfo, which he 
 thought could np.t be jxye, becaufe the Per- 
 tugueze Ambaffadpr .had $pld him, that the 
 King, his Mailer, would .never confent to -it ; 
 and that if the Queen mould infill upon any 
 
 fuch 
 
7 6 The L I F E of 
 
 fuch Thing, his Mafter would demand the 
 like Liberty for his Subjects at Plymouth. 
 
 To which' an Anfwer was given in Wri- 
 ting the next Day: " That the Matter of 
 tf Fact fo alledged, was undoubtedly true ; 
 « that at the Defire of the Engli.fi Mer- 
 Cc chants, and by Advice of the Earl of Gal- 
 c * loway, her Majefty's EmbafTador at Portn- 
 " gal, the Rev. My. Stephens, Fellow of Mer- 
 " ton College in Oxford, was fent to, and 
 " arrived at Oporto, to refide there, as Chap- 
 u lain to the Factory of Britifi Merchants; 
 "•and that whatever Difficulties were cre- 
 M ated to him by the reftlefs Endeavours of 
 " the Inquifition; yet it is prefum'd, he is 
 " ftill in Poffeffion of that Title and Office : 
 <£ Nor was he the firft Englifi Chaplain . in 
 " that Port: The Rev. Dr. Barton, now Pre- 
 " bendary of Weftminfler, and the Rev. Mr. 
 ci Edward Hinde, now Vicar of Steeple-Bum- 
 - : /lead in Efjex, were both of them fuccef- 
 tl lively, for fome Time, refiding Chaplains 
 % to the Englifi Factory there, tho' forc'd 
 'I away by the' prevailing Powers of the In- 
 " quifition, becaufe the Engli/Jj Courts of 
 ' King Charles. \l. and King James II. did 
 
 " not 
 
Bijhop Rennett. 77 
 
 " not much care to infift on the Protection 
 ic of them. 
 
 II. " As to the King of Portugal not afTent- 
 <c ing to any fuch Liberty of an Englijh 
 " Chaplain ; Preference muft be had to the 
 " Letters of the Earl of Galloway, who had 
 < c demanded that Liberty from the Court of 
 " Portugal, and he underftood himfelf, and 
 <c informed others, that he thought no fur- 
 c< ther Oppofition would be made to it. Up- 
 U on which Encouragement, by Commen- 
 cc dation of the Archbiihop of Canterbury, 
 " and Acceptance of the EngHjh Merchants, 
 <£ Mr. Stephens was fent over to Oporto, with 
 " an Expectation of a firm and quiet Settle- 
 " ment in that Factory. 
 
 III. " As to the Demand of a like Privilege 
 " to the Portuguese refiding at Plymouth, the 
 " Cafe was by no Means the fame; they are 
 " not call'd a Fatfory, nor have they any 
 " Conful prefiding over them as a Nation, 
 " but arc a loofe Number of poor People. 
 " However, they have, no Doubt, one Ro~* 
 " man Prieft: at leaft among them, and have 
 cc their Mafs in fome private Houfe : Or if 
 " they have not, it is not the Severity of our 
 
 " Govern- 
 
78 The LIFE of 
 
 " Government, Ecclefiaftical or Civil, that 
 " reftrains them from it. " 
 
 Another Objection was made in Council, 
 " That the prefent Chaplain had done ill Offi- 
 c< ces there, by medling in Trade and Com- 
 " rrierce, and by advancing fome odd Opinions 
 u in that Place/' To which, Mr. Palmer, one 
 of the Merchants in the City, made a prope r 
 and very decent Anfwer, vindicating the Cha- 
 racter of the prefent Chaplain, Mr. Kennett, 
 by the Accounts of his Behaviour received 
 from the Conful : And adding, that of all 
 Men living, Mr. Kennett was the leaft Med- 
 ler in any Thing but the immediate Duties 
 of his own Function. 
 
 It was likewife objected, " That fome of 
 <c the Merchants here in London did not 
 <c feem to defire any longer to have a Chap- 
 a lain at Leghorn? To which, another an- 
 fwer'd, " That he hop'd none of their Body 
 « had fo little Regard to the Honour of the 
 <c Proteftant Religion, and the Exercife of 
 " it among their Countrymen and Correfpon- 
 cc dents there, as to be indifferent in this 
 * Matter. However, if fome few of the 
 cl Merchants had feem'd uneafy at the 
 l< fmall Impofition laid upon Goods toward 
 
 " the 
 
* tlie Support of a Chaplain 5 yet even they 
 
 * would be content to make greater Contri- 
 « butions, rather than lofe the Privilege and 
 <c Benefit of having a Chaplain, or Minifies 
 " there refiding. M 
 
 It was further fuggefted, " that even fome 
 " of the Merchants continuing at Leghorn, did 
 
 * not infill upon a Chaplain, or had not ex- 
 <c prefs'd their Defire to have another, when 
 <c Mr. Kennett ihould come away." Upon 
 which one of the Company produc'd a Copy 
 of the Letter of the Merchants refiding at 
 Leghorn, directed to his Grace the Lord 
 Archbifhop of Canterbury, 'dated Livome, 20 
 O5lob, 1 7 10. 
 
 May it pkafe your Grace, 
 
 T H 
 
 r, Rev. Mr. Bajil Kennett having 
 intimated to us his Intention to 
 <c return Home for the Recovery of his Health ; 
 " being fenfible of our great Obligation to 
 " your Grace for having recommended to us fo 
 " worthy and excellent a Perfon, we humbly 
 <£ beg leave to recur to your Favour in 
 <c choofing a proper SucceiTor to refide 
 u amongft us: intirelv confiding, that this 
 
 « Tefti- 
 
8o The LIFE of 
 
 <c Teftimony of our Gratitude, as well for 
 <c the Pains taken by your Grace in eftablifh- 
 <c ing a Chaplain, as in fending us one fo 
 <c very acceptable, will be well pleafing to 
 " your Grace, and that you will grant this 
 <c our Requeft, who are with, all imaginable 
 « RefpecV' 
 
 Tour Grace's 
 
 Moji Humble and Obedient Servant s y 
 
 Daniel Goodey, Peter Champion, 
 
 Fisher Jackson, Tho. Michell, 
 
 Stephen Jackson, Daniel Gould, 
 
 Ra. Lee, Tho. Paitfield, 
 
 G. Collings, James Harriman, 
 
 Miles Cooke, Sam. Martyn, 
 Tho.Chamberlayne, George Lambe. 
 Christ. Crowe, 
 
 This Letter having been fent over inclos'd 
 to Dr. Kennett, he immediately carried it to 
 the Lord Archbifhop of Canterbnry, who 
 had tranfmitted it to the Council, with a 
 Letter of his own, exprefiing to their Lord- 
 fhip's great Wifhes and Defires to have that 
 Affair difpatch'd for the Honour of the 
 
 Queen 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 8i 
 
 Queen and Nation. And after fome Time 
 his Grace receiv'd an Anfwer, that it was 
 now in a good Way of being done. 
 
 Decemb. i, 17 10, T'his Letter was fe?it to 
 Mr. Kennett at Leghorn from his Brother. 
 
 — * st TF Wifh I could make you more eafy 
 JL cc by telling you of the Difpatch 
 <c of Mr. Taubman. But tho' fo many good 
 f( Steps are made in that Affair, there is {till 
 " fome unaccountable Obftruction. Her 
 <f Majefty was pleas'd to tell the Bifhop of 
 <c Lofidon, that fhe was clear in that Matter, 
 " and would affert that Right of a Chaplain 
 " to her Subjects at Leghorn. She was fince 
 c< pleas'd to tell the Lord Bifhop of Ely* 
 <c that fhe was herfelf determin'd in it, and 
 tc if any of her Council had any Thing to 
 " object, fhe would hear them, when the 
 lt Archbifhop of Canterbury and Bifhop 
 " of London fhould be prefent to anfwer 
 cc thofe Objections. And fince that Time, 
 " Mr. Harley has twice told me exprefsly in 
 cc the Lodgings at St. Jamess, that the 
 cc Matter was refblv'd upon, and it wanted 
 c< nothing but the Form. I thought by 
 
 G " Form, 
 
82 The LIFE of 
 
 cc Form, he meant that they wanted a Pre- 
 <c cedent for the Inftruments or Letters of 
 " Licenfe and Protection ; and therefore I 
 <c advis'd Mr. tfaubman to wait on Mr. Har- 
 €t ley Yefterday, with the Copies of your Com- 
 " million and fafe Conduct from the Queen. 
 <c He did io, and Mr. Harley receiv'd them 
 <c very kindly, and bid him come again in two 
 " or three Days. One Morning, while I was 
 " waiting before Prayers, the Bifhop of Lo?i- 
 il don was in the fame Antichamber,' and I 
 tc afk'd his Lordfhip how ftood that Affair 
 <c of Mr. c Taub?nan y to which his Lordfhip 
 cc anfwered readily to this effect, that he 
 cc hop'd it would be now foon brought to a 
 cc Conclufion, but yet new Objections were 
 cc ftill made to it by the Minifrer of the 
 " Great Duke. The Duke of Somerfef, then 
 " in the Room, was pleas'd to fay, that it 
 £C was a very juft Privilege, which her Ma- 
 u jefty had with great Honour obtain'd, and 
 <c it would be very ftrange, if it muft be 
 :< novo given up, &c. " 
 
 fhe 
 
Bijhop Ken .n e tt. 8 3 
 
 
 <c 
 
 $flfe fearf Letter of Dr. Kennett, to his Brother at 
 Leghorn, runs thus, dated 22 Dec. 17 10. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 cc r I 1 HE Affair of fending you a Sue- 
 JL £C ceflbr to Leghorn, is fo dubiouflv 
 
 and intricately manag'd, that I hardly 
 c£ know what .Account to give you of it. 
 " After fome Debates in Evening Councils or 
 <c Committees, wherein the Lord Archbifhop of 
 " Canterbury could not attend, bccaufe of his 
 " Infirmities which will not fuffer him to 
 " be out fo late, her Majefty did gracioufly 
 " appoint c Thurfday Morning, in laft Week, 
 " for a General Council, wherein that Affair 
 " mould be determin'd. And Notice was 
 given to the ArcbbiiTiop of Canterbury, and 
 ff the Biihop of London, to be both there to 
 " anfwer any Objections that mould be 
 <c made. But how it cams to pafs, I know 
 < c not, inftead of "iburfday, the Council was 
 <c held on Wednejday Morning, .when if was 
 " well known the Lord Archbifhop was 
 " taken up with luting in Convocation, and 
 « forwarding an Addreis to the Queen. The 
 " Bifliop of London was indeed there, and 
 G 2 tc has 
 
 cc 
 
8+ 77* LIFE of 
 
 14 has made a Report to Mr. Taubman to this 
 " Effect ; that it did not appear you had any 
 " Licence from the Queen to officiate at 
 M Leghorn, but that you were to act only as 
 14 Chaplain to Dr. Newton, her Majefty's 
 c< Envoy, and could have no Right to exer- 
 " cife your Office at Leghorn, but when the 
 " Envoy himfelf was there in Perfon, and 
 " if you ever did it at other Times, it was by 
 " Connivence only, and could never be al- 
 <c low'd to be any Right or Liberty, founded 
 " upon the Law of Nations. And therefore 
 " if they fent any other Minifter to per- 
 11 form the like Duties of Religion at Leg- 
 " born, he mult have no Commiffion or Li- 
 " cence from the Queen, but mult be retain'd 
 t£ as Chaplain to her Envoy at Florence, and 
 " and ought to come to Leghorn, as in his 
 iC Retinue only; and if he ftay'd there among 
 " the Merchants in the Abfence of the En- 
 i( voy, this might be for fome fhort Time 
 il conniv'd at, but it mould never have any 
 c< exprefs Permiffion. The Great Duke 
 " would firft lofe his Dominions, &t\ 
 
 " The Bilhop of London wanted better 
 < c Information cr Opportunity to Anfwer, 
 " that you went at fir ft fully inftructed with 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 8$ 
 
 cc an exprefs Commiffion of the Queen, to 
 M Exercife your Function, as Minifter to the 
 c< Englijh Factory at Leghorn, and had other 
 u Letters of fafe Conduct for the fame Pur- 
 <c pofe. And that if you afterwards accepted 
 < c any Faculty or written Protection from the 
 " Envoy, it was by the Way of a prefent Ex- 
 « pedient, not to difclaim the Sufficiency of 
 :* the Queen's Letters for your Eftablimmenc 
 " there. 
 
 " In fhort, All we have delired is, that 
 <c Mr. 'Taubman may be fent with Letters of 
 " like Form, as were given to you, and if 
 <c Liberty and Protection be denied upon 
 " them, it will be then Time enough to de- 
 " mand and affert that Liberty, as her Ma- 
 " jefty and her Minifters did before, with due 
 " Effedt, and great Honour. But if they 
 " will not give him the like Forms, it is nei_ 
 " ther for his own Safety, nor for the Cre_ 
 " dit of the Nation that he mould go. " 
 
 Within five Days after Dr. Kennett , who was 
 a daily Sollicitor in the Caufe, wrote again to 
 the Right Honourable Robert Harley, Efq; 
 who had (hewn the greateft Inclination to 
 the Difpatch of that Affair. 
 
 G 3 Bon. 
 
8o The LIFE of 
 
 Mm SIR, 
 
 ** r I^WS Merchants trading to Leghorn; 
 1 " had- a juft Senfe -of your good 
 <c and generous Difpofition to countenance 
 " their earneft Defire for the- Continuance of 
 " a Chaplain to her Majefty's Subjects- in 
 <c that Port; and they were put in Hopes, 
 <c that there wanted nothing but Form, in 
 u diipatching Mr. Tauiman to fucceed my 
 cc Brother, who has done faithful Service in 
 " that Employ, and by an ill State of He-altlV 
 " is now under a Necefilty of returning 
 <f Home. 
 
 * L " They aVe ufldef |r%fat Surprize and 
 Xi Trouble, t- fo much Difficulty in 
 
 " that Aff : wfeSeli for ; ; :;ie Years toge- 
 Ci ther ere/ / Trouble, but that 
 
 " of a fTr by her Majefty's Com- 
 
 " mahtf, to declare her Royal Refolu-sion 
 " to maintain tMc Liberty, as founded on 
 " the Law of Nations. 
 
 <c They begin to Fear, they are not rightly 
 " underftood: All they deiire- is, that Mr. 
 <c *¥*dubfaati maV be fent 'with the like Let- 
 cc ters of Protection and • Commiffion* thtft 
 "■ iny Brother obtain'd, of Vv r hich I took 
 
 " Care 
 
Bijhop Ke nne t t. 87 
 
 c \ Care to have Copies prefented to my Lord 
 
 « £)- i and to be put into your, and 
 
 " other Hands. 
 
 i € It is now it feems objected, that my 
 '< Brother did officiate as Chaplain to the 
 (i Envoy only, the Matter of Fadt was plain- 
 H ly this. My Brother went over as the 
 '< Queen's Chaplain, to Adminifter to her 
 " Subjects refiding at Leghorn, and after fome 
 " ftay there, upon the Threats and fecret 
 " Attempts of the Pope and Inquifition to 
 " difturb him, Dr. Newton, her Majefty's 
 cc Envoy at Flore?ice, did think it a proper 
 " Expedient at that Time to give him a 
 " concurrent Title, as his ordinary Chaplain, 
 " fo to bring the Matter of Difpute within 
 " a narrower Compafs, and to difpofe the 
 " papal Powers to a more eafy Connivance 
 " at him. The fame prudential Method 
 <c may be taken by her Majefty's prefent 
 <c Envoy without railing any new Contro- 
 " verfy ; and without receding from the 
 <c Force of her Majefty's Commiflion which 
 " was, and muft be again given to conftitute 
 <c a Chaplain, to refide and adminifter to the 
 r c Factory at Leghorn. 
 
 G 4 « If 
 
83 The LIFE of 
 
 " If the Favour which the Merchants 
 C( think fo very reafonable be denied, or much 
 1 longer delay'd,! ought however(as much as in 
 " me lies) to quiet the Minds of People, who 
 " will be apt to look upon the Intereft of Trade, 
 " and the Honour of Religion to fuffer very 
 <c much. If the Britifi Faclory at Leghorn 
 " be now deprived of the Exercife of their 
 " Proteftant Faith and Worfhip in that free 
 " Port, v/here a more ample Liberty is allowed 
 <c at this Day to the yews and Turks, and is 
 <c not yet taken away from any other Britijh 
 <c Factory in any other Part of the World. I 
 <c humbly crave Pardon for this Trouble, given 
 " by, Hon. Sir, 
 
 Dec. 2 j, 17 10. 
 
 Tour mojl Humble Servant, 
 
 W h. Rennet t. 
 
 On yahuary 5, he waited on Mr. Harley 
 at his Houfe, who was pleas'd to fay, he had 
 received his Letter, and feem'd to wonder 
 why Mr. Taubman was not gone : The Dean 
 (aid, it was purely for the Want of thofe ne- 
 cerTary Difpatches which his Brother once 
 had, and which a Succeflbr muft again have, 
 or elfe there could be no Security to him, 
 
 and 
 
Bifhop Kennett. 89 
 
 and no Satisfaction to the Merchants. He 
 agreed to it, and hop'd it would be foon done. 
 To which the Dean replied, the fooner the 
 better, it will be a popular Adt, and have 
 the better Grace, if it come freely without 
 feeming to be extorted. 
 
 But Mr. Taubman met with fo many Dif- 
 ficulties in this Affair, that he was giving up 
 the Caufe, and made this melancholly Re- 
 port, in a Letter to the Dean, dated Monday, 
 March 12, 17 10- 11. 
 
 SIR, 
 « T""" 1 HIS Morning my Lord Archbifhop 
 
 y 1 "of York gave me the laft An- 
 " fwer I am to expert concerning the Leg- 
 " horn Affair. He told me, That my Lord Z , 
 " did infift, that it was againft the Law of 
 " Nations for a Chaplain to refide in a Fac- 
 " tory ; and that no Commiffion, for thai 
 11 Purpofe, fhould be granted to me : He had 
 " fatisfied her Majefty on that Subject, and 
 li nothing could be done, unlefs I would re- 
 " fide in the Envoy's Family. I need not 
 " mention what Returns the Archbifhop 
 " made. I had written a proper Memorial 
 u to arm him, and had given Copies of Com- 
 
 " million 
 
9 o The LIFE of 
 
 " million and Credentials, which he took 
 (C Care the' Queen mould fee. He after- 
 
 • wards profented them to my Lord R , ' 
 
 ° and has th^m again todo further Service 
 ^ c with, when delired and directed. . But I 
 " am fufficiently difcourag'd from any other 
 (C Attempts : The prefent Misfortune has run 
 1 me threefcofe Pounds already, befides the 
 iC Lois of my Poft, and my being out of all 
 < c Manner of Bufinefs. Be pleafed to impart 
 " this Conclulion of our Affair to the Mer- 
 " chants, who, I hope, cannot impute the 
 " Lofs of their Privilege to any Want of 
 Ct Application or Diligence in us. 
 
 You?~ dij appointed humble Servant \ . 
 
 NatiT. Taubman 
 
 . • 
 
 The Dean was fenftble, that if the Caufe 
 was thrown up, it might never be recover'd ; 
 and therefore he did all that was poffible to 
 <*et fome new Life to it. He confirm'd his 
 Brother in his hazardous Intentions of not 
 ftirring from Leghorn 'till a Succeffor mould 
 actually relieve him. He encourag'd Mr. 
 taubman to refufe all Overtures of being 
 Chaplain to the Envoy, inftead of the Facto- 
 ry* 
 
Bijhop K ENNE TT. 91 
 
 > v. He fupported the Merchants in their 
 Refolution of not receiving or maintaining 
 any Minifter that fhould not be put upon 
 the fame Eftablifhment with Mr. Kennett. 
 And theft not defpairing of what Importuni- 
 ties might do, where the Juftice of a Caufe 
 would bear them : He advifed another Pe- 
 tition to the Council, in the Name of Mr. 
 taubman, which was prefented in this Form. 
 
 to the Right Honourable the Lords and others 
 ofherMajeflfs niofi Honourable Privy Coun- 
 cil ■the humble Petition of Nathaniel Taub- 
 man, Clerk, 
 
 . Humbly foeweth, 
 " ^1 ^HAT your Petitioner, at the Re- 
 JL " queft of the Merchants in and 
 " about London Trading to Leghorn, was re- 
 " commended ta her Majefty by the Lord 
 lQ Archbifhop of Canterbury, and the Lord 
 <c Biffiop of London, to fucceed the Reverend 
 <£ Mr. Bafil Kennett, who has for fome Years 
 " refided at Leghorn, and officiated as Chap- 
 " lain to her Majefty 's Subjects dwelling and 
 f* trading in that Port; and is now under 
 f< aNeceffityof returning Home for the better 
 
 « Re- 
 
92 77* LIFE of 
 
 <c Recovery of his Health, and for other ur- 
 cc gent Affairs. 
 
 u Your Petitioner humbly prayeth, That 
 cf according to the earned Requeft of the 
 " Merchants, he may be allow'd to go over, 
 " and to continue in that Office at Leghorn 
 " under the Protection of her Majefty, and 
 ct her Envoy to the Great Duke. 
 
 When no Anfwer was given to this Pe- 
 tition the Dean applied again to Mr. Harley, 
 newly created Earl of Oxford, *— . " I make 
 " bold to reprefent to your Lordfhip the 
 " great Concern and Trouble of the Mer- 
 tc chants here and abroad, that their earneft 
 u Petition for another Chaplain, to fucceed 
 " my Brother at Leghorn, fhould be fo long 
 " fufpended, and ftill deferr'd, when they 
 u cannot understand the mighty Difficulties 
 a in it. — The Minifter of the Great Duke 
 " here Refident, was pleafed to oppofe that 
 " Motion, and to plead (as we hear) that 
 " the Right of Nations was only for a Chap- 
 " lain to her Majefty's Envoy at Fhrence y 
 " who would be of no Ufe or Service to her 
 
 " Majefty's 
 
Bijhop Rennett. 93 
 
 c< Majefty's Conful, and flourifhing Factory 
 <c at Leghorn. 
 
 " This occafioncd a Reference of that 
 " Matter to the Honourable Privy Council, 
 " where it has lain very long without any 
 " Determination; while, we prefume, the Dif- 
 <c patch may be granted (as it was before) 
 " by her Majeftys Command. This unaccoun- 
 <c table Delay has had a very ill Effect upon 
 " the Minds of many People, who wifh 
 " befl to the Interefts of the Proteftant Re- 
 u ligion, and to the Honour of her Majefty's 
 " Adminiftration. It would not become mc 
 " to hint at the ill Ufes that are made of it. 
 " My Lord, For the Sake of my Brother's 
 l< Life, and in true Regard to the Peace 
 " Glory of her Majefty's Reign, I do moft 
 " humbly beg that Mr. T^aubman may be 
 " fpeedily fent away with the fame Inftruc- 
 " tions which my Brother obtaind, of which 
 " no Manner of ill Ufe has been made, and 
 tc againft which there can be no Objection, 
 f£ but what will tend to violate the Law of 
 <c Nations, and the Liberty of Trade, as 
 " well as the free Exercife of the Proteftant 
 <c Religion, according to the Church of Eng- 
 " land. 
 
 - If 
 
94 The LIFE of 
 
 " If there be any other Obj ec~Uons to 
 " remove, I muft humbly beg that your 
 " Lordfhip would admit me . to the Arifwer- 
 cc ing of them, or pleafe to introduce •■me to 
 " her Majefty to reprefent this Cafe, as I am 
 £C fully inftrudted to do, from what I have 
 Cc heard from her Majefty's late able Minifter 
 ft at Florence, and from the worthy Conful 
 " and Nation at Leghorn , and from many 
 cc of the Merchants in and about this City. 
 cc I make this humble Petition with great 
 " Earneftnefs, and with great Duty and Re- 
 " fpedt. 
 
 Jime i, 171 1. 
 
 By Leave, fent in a Meffage by Mr. Haub- 
 man, the Dean waited on the Lord Treafurer 
 at Kenfwgtojiy on Saturday, June 2, where 
 his Lordfhip feenvd not difpleafed at the 
 Letter, and exprefs'd his great Concern, that 
 the Matter had been fo long depending, ex- 
 cufed his not having been in Council above 
 twice fince his Misfortune; prcmis'd to lay 
 the Matter before her Majefty. 
 
 At the latter End of July, the Dean wait- 
 ed on the Lord Treafurer, and told his 
 Lordfhip, that he was forry the Merchants 
 took it now for granted, that the Privilege 
 
 of 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 95 
 
 of having a Proteftant Minifter at Leg- 
 horn, was given up. His Lordihip was 
 pleas 'd to fay, No, he hop'd it was not given 
 up. Yes, my Lord (faid the Dean) when af- 
 ter fo many Applications we can get no An- 
 iwer, it mult be thought an abfoiute Denial, 
 His Lordihip promis'd to fpeak again. 
 
 No Anfwer being given at the Beginning 
 of September, an Advertifement was fent to 
 Mr. Taubman, which he got inferted in the 
 Po/l-Boy of Saturday, Sept. 15, in thefe 
 Words. 
 
 a HTHERE is ready for the Prefs, The 
 JL cc Cafe of a P rot eft ant Chaplain, 
 cc attendi?ig on the Britifh FaBory at Leg- 
 " horn, reprefenting the Wifdom and Glory 
 cc of her Majeffy's happy Adminiftration, in 
 " afferting that Privilege to her Subjects, the 
 " Merchants refiding in foreign Parts : With 
 <£ the Honour and Neceffity of maintaining 
 C£ that Law of Nations, and common Right 
 <£ of Mankind ; as allowed in the fame free 
 <c Port of Leghorn to Societies of different 
 ic Religions, and not pretended to be denied 
 " to any People, but the Northern Hereticks 
 " at this Time." 
 
 Poor 
 
96 The LIFE of 
 
 Poor Abel did not know the Meaning of 
 that Advertifement, when he was queftion'd 
 for putting it in. He faid he thought it 
 was right, becaufe it was brought to him by 
 a Minifter in long Sleeves. It feem'd how- 
 ever to haften the Difpatch of Mr. Taubman, 
 and fo to prevent the Publifhing of that 
 Cafe. For there was foon after an Order of 
 Council that fully determin'd that Affair. 
 
 At the Court at Windfor, the ijl o/'Oftober, 
 17 1 1. Prefent the Queens moji excellent 
 Majejly in Council. 
 
 **TTPON reading this Day, at the 
 \J Board, the humble Petition of the 
 Britijh Merchants trading to Leghorn, 
 tc and feveral other Papers relating to a 
 <c Chaplain there : Her Majefty in Council, 
 <c taking the fame into Confideration, was 
 " pleas'd to order, That Mr. Taubman, or 
 " fuch other Chaplain as the Right Rev. the 
 " Lord Eifliop of London fhall recommend 
 cc to her Majefty, be forthwith fent thither 
 <c in fuch Manner, and with fuch Circum- 
 " ftances as the Rev. Mr. BafJ Kennett was 
 " fent : And that Directions be given to Mr. 
 
 « Molf- 
 
Bijhop Rennett. 97 
 
 €< Molfworth, her Majefty's Envoy at the 
 <c Court of Florence accordingly. And the 
 
 " Right Honourable the Earl of D 
 
 cc her Majefty's Principal Secretary of State, is 
 " to prepare what is neceffary for the Signi- 
 " fication of her Majefty's Pleafure in this Mat- 
 
 " ten " 
 
 Copy Signed, 
 
 John Povey. 
 
 The Copy of this Order was tranfmitted to 
 the Conful at Leghorn, with a Letter of the 
 
 Dean, running thus cc By Virtue of 
 
 " this long expected Order, a CommiJJion 
 " from the Queen, and Letters of Protection 
 " are prepared for Mr. Tankman, and he 
 cc intends to fet out by the firft Opportunity, 
 <c of any Company, by Way of Holland and 
 <c Germany-, and by his Honefty, Quietnefs, 
 " and Goodnefs of Temper, will, I doubt 
 " not, be very acceptable to you and the 
 " Nation, to whom you will pleafe to com- 
 " municate the Succefs of this long depending 
 " Affair. — It would make a long Story, to 
 « tell of the feveral Steps forward and back- 
 * c ward in it. Whatever Trouble and Ex- 
 
 H pence 
 
9 8 TheLlFEof 
 
 cc pence I have been at, on this Occafion, 
 tc had it been greater, I would not have 
 cc grudg'd it in fo good a Caufe, for the 
 * c Honour and Service of the Church and 
 cc Nation. But I hope poor Mr. Taabman 
 Cc will be confidered for his tedious and 
 cc chargeable Attendance upon this Bufmefs, 
 <c and the Demand of above 20/. Fees at 
 u the Offices, and the Support of a Journey 
 u by Land. 
 
 " I w r ell know the Juftice and Genero- 
 cc lity of the Conful and Merchants at 
 cc Leghorn^ and doubt not but they will find 
 < c fome Way, that he may come into the 
 <c eafier Circumftances, and with a greater 
 < c Senfe of Obligation to you. 
 
 " I fuppofe, by your Advice, my Brother 
 ct will remain with you, till the actual Ap- 
 ££ pearance of Mr. Taubma?t. I {hall think it 
 11 now happy, that by your Advice, and his 
 " own Refolutions, he continued on the Spot- 
 Cf For 'tis poffible his Abfence might have 
 i( given fome Advantage to thole who have 
 fc fo unaccountably oppos'd this Privilege, 
 cc wliich you now fee effectually tranfmit- 
 " ted in Succeffion, and thereby, we hope, 
 
 <( cfta- 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 5)9 
 
 cc eftablifhed to you and your Pofterity.'' 
 I am, 
 
 Hon. Sir, 
 
 Yours, and the Nation s mojl 
 
 Lon-d. Oftob. 
 12, 171 1. 
 
 Faithful Humble Servant \ 
 
 W11. Kennet t. 
 
 And the Privilege has been fince happily 
 enjoy 'd without any vifible Interruption - y to 
 a third Succeflion. For after Mr. Taubman 
 had continu'd there five Years (the like Term 
 with Mr. Kennett) he was fucceeded by the 
 Rev. Mr. Crowe, Brother of the late worthy 
 Conful; and I prefume no great Attempts 
 will be made to difturb the Britijh Mer- 
 chants in the Poffeffion of this Religious Li- 
 berty and Right, till we are in very ill 
 Hands at Home, and make a very poor Figure 
 Abroad 5 andfo want both Spirit and Strength 
 to affert the Honour of our own Church and 
 Nation, and to fupport the Proteftant Intereft 
 in Europe, A Calamity, that by God's 
 Bleffing will not fall upon us, while we are 
 under the Protection of our Wife and Po- 
 H 2 tent 
 
loo The LIFE of 
 
 tent Sovereign King George, and have a 
 Dependence on the Protejlant Succeffion in 
 
 his Royal Family. 
 
 It was long expected, that the full Ac- 
 count of this Affair, of Settling a Church of 
 England Minifter at Leghorn, wou'd have 
 been publifh'd at large, as carefully drawn 
 out of the original Papers, by him who bore 
 fo great a Part in it. But that being unhap- 
 pily neglefted, I hope this Abftracl (the 
 Subftance of which I obtain'd many Years 
 a„o of the Dean himfelfj will not only be 
 acceptable to curious Readers, but ferve to 
 keep up fome Remembrance how very In- 
 ftrumental Dr. Kennett was in this pubhck 
 Service to the Britifb Nation, and the Pro- 
 teftant Religion. His Memory deferves the 
 greater Regard upon this Account, becaule 
 I have been credibly inform'd it was not at- 
 tended with any temporal Advantage, tor 
 tho' the Conful and Nation, were very boun- 
 tiful to their Chaplain, Mr. Kennett, and very 
 generous in their Prefents to his Brother in 
 England, yet the Family have been Sufferers 
 by it. The Contempt of Money in Mr. Ken- 
 nett at Leghorn, the conftant Demands upon 
 hi, Charity and Goodnefs, the great Expence 
 
 of 
 
Bijhop Kennett. ioi 
 
 of his long Travels thro* Italy and France, 
 the Supplies he had out of England to fup- 
 port thofe Travels, and to purchafe a good 
 Collection of Books and Prints, and the new 
 Expences he was put upon after his Return, 
 by the Honour done him of being elected 
 aud admitted Prefident of his College, had 
 brought him to that Condition of worldly 
 Eftate, that the Payment of his Debts was, 
 in Favour of his Memory, without fufficient 
 Ah^ets for it. 
 
 And whether his Life itfelf was not fa- 
 crifx'd in that Service among the Roman 
 Papi/ls, is perhaps a Queftion to be referv'd 
 to the laft Judgment Day. Not that Mr. 
 Kennett wou'd ever declare his Sufpicion of 
 any ill practifing upon him (too common 
 there) nor that his Brother ever encourag'd any 
 Suggertion of that Kind. But many others 
 have been free in, and God alone knows the 
 Truth of it. One wou'd have thought him 
 fo well efteem'd among the Italian Papifts, 
 that even they were not capable of fuch 
 Treatment of him. Unlefs their calling him 
 the Saint, was in Order to the making him 
 a Martyr. 
 
 H 3 Whilft 
 
io2 The LIFE of 
 
 Whilft the Dean was employ'd in this 
 eminent Piece of Service to the Church of 
 England, the Times were mightily alter'd. 
 The Church was given out to be in the ut- 
 moft Danger ; and the Name of Presbyterian, 
 &c. was liberally beftow'd on every Man who 
 lov'd the Proteftant Intereft, and the Protef- 
 tant Succeffion; and, among others, this 
 Reproach was carl on one of the ArcbbiJJjcps> 
 and feveral of the moft exemplary Bifoops, 
 as well as on great Numbers of the moft 
 Learned and Pious among the inferiour Cler- 
 gy. Dr. Kennett had a plentiful Share of this 
 Sort of Treatment ; and upon Sufpicion of 
 his being greatly Difaffected to Dr. Sacheve- 
 rel! y he was often pointed at in the Streets, 
 and Affronted in the Ifles of the Church, 
 for refufing to pray for one under Perfecu- 
 tion, and was infulted feveral Ways not 
 worth the Mentioning, becaufe they were 
 only little Fits of Folly and Madnefs, in the 
 loweft of the People. 
 
 As to the Doclor, it muft be own'd, that 
 
 the P A from the Beginning a very 
 
 :a\ Opinion of him, as fuch a Tool that 
 
 anfwer'd the Character given afterwards by 
 
 the very Hands that manag'd him, in the fe- 
 
 cret 
 
Bljhop K E N N E T T. I03 
 
 cret Hijiory of the White Staff, p. 7. A worth- 
 lefs Man, whom the Enemies of the Mini/try 
 caught hold of as an Advantage of working 
 out their Defigns. This occafion'd his writing 
 a Letter to an Alderman, which was publiuYd 
 under the Title of A true Anjwer to Dr. Sa- 
 cheverell'i Sermon before the Lord Mayor, 
 Nov. 5, 1709. Beginning, 
 
 Hon. SIR, 
 
 "\7" ou aik ' d me laft Ni § ht > what l 
 
 JL " thought the beft Way of Anlwer- 
 u ing Dr. Sacheverell's Sermon, on Nov. 5. I 
 " told you one Way was to let it drop into 
 <c Silence and Contempt, for that there was 
 " not one Argument to Anfwer, but a jum- 
 C£ ble of Words and Periods that made the 
 " Crackling of Thorns, Noife and Flame, and 
 '< therefore 'twas better to pity the Man, 
 " and defpife the Stuff It cou'd do no 
 " Harm, but rather great Service to make his 
 " own Party-Friends afham'd of him, and to 
 " convince the World, that Madnefs is as 
 " bad as Moderation. But faid you, there 
 " be fome Anfwers in print, and will be 
 * c more : Pray what is the beft Courfe that 
 *1 a new Anfwerer can take with him? 
 
 H 4 w Why, 
 
104 The LIFE of 
 
 « Why, Sir, faid I, to let him Anfwer himfelf ; 
 ci that is, to produce his own Words, and to let 
 " him ftand or fall by them, without calling 
 Cc him any Names, or raking into his Life and 
 cc Converfation. You prefs'd me, Sir, to give 
 ' c a Specimen of it. Here it is, cool and 
 cc calm, under thefe Heads ; Propriety, Per- 
 " tinence, good Senfe, Veracity, Serioufnefs, 
 
 "Charity, and Allegiance" The Letter 
 
 concluding thus, cc I muft fay thus much, 
 
 " that fmce the Foundations of the City 
 £C of London, and the Converfion of this 
 " I ftand, there has not been in any Age, in 
 " any Cathedral or Parochial Church, fuch 
 <c a Sermon fo infolent, uncharitable, untrue, 
 <£ as this delivered (cho' long before Com- 
 <c pos'd) before the Right Honourable the 
 " Lord Mayor, and Citizens of London, 
 <f at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, on 
 « the 5th of Nov. 1709. By K S. D. Z>." 
 When the great Point in the Doftor's Tri- 
 al, the Change of the Miniftry was gain'd, 
 and very ftrange Addreifes were made upon 
 it, there was to be a like artful Addrefs from 
 the Bilhop and Clergy of London, and they 
 who wou'd not fubfcribe it, were to be re- 
 prefented as Enemies to the Queen and 
 
 her 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 105 
 
 her Miniftry. The Dean fell under this Im- 
 putation. And Advice was fent thro' the 
 Kingdom, by Mr. Dyer, in his Letter of Aug. 
 
 24, 17 10. In thefe Words "The Addrefs 
 
 " of the Biihop and Clergy of London, was 
 * inferted in this Day's Gazette, by Order of 
 " the Queen, as a diftinguifhing Favour to 
 " them. The Clergymen who refus'd to 
 " fign it, were Dr. Barton, and Mr. Baker. 
 cc And thofe who did not Anfwer to the 
 cc Bifhop's Summons, were Dr. Kennett, Dr. 
 " Bradford, Dr. Hancock, and Mr. Hoadly: 
 " And therefore as they have no Share in 
 " the Queen's Thanks, fo I hope they will 
 u have as little in her Favours. " 
 
 Under this new Ferment in the Minds and 
 Heads of the People, a new Parliament was 
 call'd, and with it, of Courfe, a new Convo- 
 cation, opened with a Latin Sermon, by the 
 Dean, and at the Archbishop' s Command, 
 publifh'd under this Form, Concio ad Synodum 
 ab Archiepifcopo, Epifcopis, & Clero Provincict 
 Cantuarienjis, &c. 17 10. 
 
 Notwithstanding the honeft Zeal exprefs'd 
 in the whole Sermon for the Constitution of 
 our Epifcopal Church, the Preacher being 
 under the Misfortune of the Name of a 
 
 Low- 
 
io6 The LIFE of 
 
 Low-Churchman, and having taken Occafion 
 to celebrate the Memory of King William, 
 and the glorious Actions of the Duke of 
 Marlborough, a flovenly Tranflation into En- 
 glijfo was made, without Leave or Knowledge 
 of the Dean (we may be fure) under Pre- 
 tence of being made Englijh for the Benefit 
 of the Dijjenting Teachers. Upon which he 
 took Care for a more correct. Tranflation, 
 with a Pojlfcripty taking fome little Notice 
 of the Ahules cafe upon him. 
 
 The Dean was now mark'd out for the 
 Spite, and Wittinefs, of all the pretended 
 Champions for the Church, and among them 
 of too many of his own Brethren, fome of 
 whom he had formerly oblig'd, and thought 
 them to be his Friends. Among thefe, were 
 
 the Rev. Mr. S H. , and Mr, C 
 
 L The Former had been advis'd and 
 
 directed by Dr. Kcnnett, at the Defire of Mr. 
 
 ,::ce Smith, how to take the moft legal 
 Cowrie of Prefenting to the Grand Jury, a 
 peftilent Book, call'd, The Rights of the 
 Chrijiian Church, A Book, not only Injuri- 
 ous to the Truth, and Honour of the Chrifti- 
 aj) Religion, and to all the Chriftian Churches 
 in the World, but of Prejudice and pimonour 
 
 to 
 
Bifhop Kennett. 107 
 
 to what they call'd the Whig-Party, becaufe 
 faid to be written by one of them ; tho' 
 perhaps no more a fcrious Whig, than he had 
 been before a confcientious Papi/l. But when 
 Dr. Kennett faw that his Difguft to the Book 
 and Writer, was taken by the wrong Handle, 
 and turn'd only to a Party Noife, and (what 
 he never advis'd, nor cou'd approve) an 
 innocent reputable Bookfeller ( Mr. Sare ) 
 was profecuted with great Vexation, becaufe, 
 in his Abfence, a Servant of his had fold the 
 Book, the Dean utterly diilik'd that perverfe 
 Way of Proceeding, and, upon the next Op- 
 portunity, blam'd Mr. H. for his great Par- 
 tiality in it. Upon this, he was in a Flame, 
 and Writes a very hot and angry Pamphlet 
 in his own Defence, with a Caft of many 
 Reproaches on Dr. Kennett —~- calls him down- 
 right Afofiate, of a feared Confcience, Widtt 
 againft Kennett, &c. So provoking to ever;- 
 Body, except the Dean himfelf, that feverai 
 Friends, imagining the Dean wou'd reply, 
 fent him in very unhappy Informations, &c, 
 to furnifli out an Anfvver ; which he kept 
 in Silence, and wou'd by no Means let 'em 
 appear for his own neceflary Defence, becaufe 
 they wou'd too much e^poie his Adverfary. 
 
 Another 
 
108 The LIFE of 
 
 Another Writer, that openly abus'd Dr. Ken- 
 netf 9 was the Author of £C A Vindication of the 
 cc Rev. Dr. Hen. Sacheverell from the falfe, fcan- 
 <c dalous, and malicious Afperfions caft upon 
 cc him in a late infamous Pamphlet, intitu- 
 " led, T'he Modern Fanatick-," faid to be 
 written by Dr. Charles hambe, a young Lec- 
 turer in London. The whole Book was in a 
 bantering, buffooning Stile, not fo much vin- 
 dicating Dr. Sacheverel, as reviling all the City 
 Divines, who pitied his Influence on the 
 Madnefs of the People, fuch as Dr. Kennett> 
 Mr. Hoadly, Dr. Bradford, Mr. Baker, &c 
 and applies this Character to every one of 
 them, p. gy. " A Whig Clergyman breaks the 
 " moil: folemn facramental Oaths, he betrays 
 " his Truft, he gives up the Caufe of God 
 " and the Church knowingly, defignedly, 
 <£ and with Premeditation. " There was, 
 however, this Difference between Mr. H. and 
 Mr.L. the latter has repented, and acknowledge 
 his Errors in an eminent Manner, which the 
 other has not yet done. I will do Mr. L. the 
 Juftice to fet down the Words in which he 
 declar'd his Concern for having abus'd and 
 mifreprefented thofe very worthy Divines, as 
 they are in his Anfwer to a fpolifh Libel a- 
 
 gainft 
 
BifllOp K E N N E T T. I09 
 
 gainft him cc There is a Part of that 
 
 " Book (fays he) which I fuffer'd my felf to 
 " transcribe,, which has given me more un- 
 <c eafinefs than any Thing elfe in it j in this 
 " Part of \tfome of the Clergy of London, are 
 " us'd in a very unhandfome infolent Man- 
 fc ner : They, who, as appears plainly, 
 cc the truefr, by far the trueft Friends to our 
 cc Church and State, are reprefented as Ene- 
 " mies to them both, and bent upon the De- 
 " ftrudtion of them : The Share that I had 
 u in this, I have greatly lamented in private, 
 " and make this publick Acknowledgment 
 u of that unaccountable Rudenefs, and Con- 
 cc tempt of learned and good Men, in every 
 cc Thing vaftly fuperior to me ; and fure 
 u the Hand that writes this, will wither, if 
 <c there is not fmcerity of Heart in Company 
 " with it." This is as great an Evidence as 
 can be given of Ingenuity and Sincerity, and 
 I had no other Defign in reciting the former 
 Part of Mr. Z/s Conduct, but to introduce 
 this Account of his Sorrow and Concern for 
 it : For I think no Man ought to be re- 
 proached for thole Errors, and Mifcarriages, 
 of which he has given all pofiible Teftimo- 
 ny, that he has fincerely repented. 
 
 And 
 
no The LIFE of 
 
 And -indeed under all his continu'd Labours 
 for the Benefit of the Church and Clergy of 
 England, with a very conformable Life, it 
 feems a little Surprizing, and one wou'd 
 think, was fome Trouble to Dr. Kennett, 
 that he cou'd not obtain the Name of a good 
 Church-man \ but that (efpecially after Dr. Sa- 
 cheverel's acting) he was run down, with ut- 
 mofl Fury, for Whig, Low-Church-ma??, and 
 falfe Brother, and other Terms of Reproach, 
 that fill'd the wide and loud Mouths in Streets 
 and Pulpits, when he knew no other Reafon 
 for it, but only his oppofing the Ignorance 
 of thofe Men, and the Infatuation of thofe 
 Times, and all along faithfully adhering to 
 the Revolution and Proteftant Succeffion. He is 
 faid often on this Occafion, to have told aPaf- 
 fage from the Mouth of Archbifhop Tent/on, 
 who beginning to fall from the Reputation 
 of a Church-maii, and feeing a chief Brother 
 arifing into that Honour upon a much lefs 
 Bottom for it, he faid to him, Brother^ you 
 know I was always a greater Church-man than 
 you -, but een take the Name of the Church, 
 while I keep to the Conjlitution of it-, or to 
 that Effect. 
 
Bijhop K £ ri rf E T T. II I 
 
 It mull be confefs'd, the Dean was an utter 
 Enemy to fome Doctrines and Pretenfions, 
 about this Time mduftriouily advanc'd, and 
 made by the Authors of them, the diftin- 
 guifliing Criterions of a true Church-man. 
 He zealoufly oppos'd the new Doctrine of 
 the Invalidity of Lay-Baptifm, which from 
 the Irregularity of Baptifm being adminiftred 
 by any Perfon, not ordain'd to be a publick 
 Minifter in the Church, was now advanc'd 
 into a Nullity and an Unchriflia?iifm y if ad- 
 miniftred by any Perfon not Epifcopally or- 
 dained. Pamphlets and Sermons were full 
 of this Notion, and tho' the Archbifhop, and 
 Bifhops in Convocation had agreed upon a 
 Cenfure of it, yet the Majority of the Lower 
 Houfe wou'd by no Means join in it, for Fear 
 of offending thofe who by fuch unchriftian 
 Rigours, had confin'd the Name of the Church 
 to the Pinacles of it. The Confequences of 
 this Doctrine were no lefs than to caft out 
 for Heathens, many Members of our own 
 Communion, and every Soul baptiz'd by a 
 Diffenting Teacher, and the whole Body of 
 Proteftants abroad, unlefs within the Pale of 
 a Church, ftrictly and properly Epijcopal; 
 which it was thought hard to find among 
 
 the 
 
ii2 77* LIFE of 
 
 the Lutheran Churches; at leaft, in their 
 Opinion, who were the Authors and Abettors 
 of this Dodtrine. One wou'd have thought 
 this rigid Notion purpofely calculated for the 
 Pretender and his Caufe -, for by Virtue of it 
 all the Papifts were in the ordinary Way of 
 Salvation, and of P rot eft ants ten to one were 
 put out of it. And as to the Inheritance of 
 this Crown, the Proteflant Line might be 
 Pagans, but the Popifli Heirs were certainly 
 and truly Chrftians. 
 
 The Dean, on the Contrary, was of Opi- 
 nion that Popery was the common Enemy to 
 the Truths of the Goipel, and to the Liber- 
 ties of Mankind : That the Proteflant Inte- 
 reft in Europe was to be united againfl the 
 common Adverfary : That every Part of the 
 Reformation, however imperfect, was by 
 many Steps nearer to the Simplicity of the 
 Chriflian Religion, and to the Happinefs of 
 Society, and the Souls of Men, than Popery ; 
 That nothing could be more fatal than to 
 break and divide the Friendfhip of Proteflant 
 States and Princes, and fo raife Jealoufies and 
 Diicords in the Minds of Proteflant Brethren : 
 That the late Notions fo induflrioufly propa- 
 gated by fome of our Eng/iftj Church-men, 
 
 the 
 
Bifhop Kennett. 113 
 
 the Neceffity of Epifcopal Government to 
 the very Being of a Church, and the Validi- 
 ty of Baptifm depending upon the Epifcopal 
 Ordination of the Adminiftrator, were as art- 
 ful Engines to play againft the whole Refor- 
 mation, as any that cou'd have been invented 
 in the Middle of Rome-, and that they were 
 as contrary to the Senfe of our firft Refor- 
 mers, as they were to any other Proteftant Di- 
 vines abroad. This led him to be very zea- 
 lous to promote every good Deiign for the 
 the common Intereft of the Proteftant Reli- 
 gion. Accordingly, her Majefty Queen Anne 
 having granted Letters Patents, at the humble 
 Requeft of Conrad Gulcher, Minifter of the 
 Reform'd Religion, to collect the charitable 
 Benevolence of her well-difpos'd People, to 
 enable the Proteftant Subjects of the Elettor 
 Palatine of the Rhine, to build a Church in 
 the Diftrict of Ober-Barme?i, in the Dut- 
 chy of Berg, and to fupport a Minifter there, 
 dated in Nov. 1707, (tho 5 not brought to 
 effect till feveral Years after) Dr. Kennett was 
 made one of the Truftees to receive and dif- 
 pofe this publick Charity, and was eminently 
 active in promoting of it. He follicited for 
 the Letters of the Lord Archbifhop of Canter- 
 
 l bury. 
 
ii4 TheLlFE of 
 
 bury, and the Lord Bifhop of London, to 
 commend the good Work to their Clergy and 
 People, and exhort them to a liberal Con- 
 tribution in behalf of the poor Protejiants 
 of Ober-Barmen. He, at the Requeft of the 
 other Truftees, drew up an Infer iption on a 
 Marble-Stone affix'd near the great Door of 
 the Church (when finim'd) declaring by whofe 
 Charity and Bounty it was erected -, andjfeve- 
 ral Letters and Epiftles tranfmitted Abroad, 
 relating to that Affair ; and in the Conclufion 
 of it, was the Perfon chofen to prefent the 
 Addrefs of Thanks fent over by the Minifter 
 and People of Ober-Barmen, then in Poffeffion 
 of their new Church and free Exercife of 
 their Proteftant Religion. 
 
 Upon the Conclufion of this good Affair, 
 the Minifter and Congregation at Ober-Bar- 
 men, defir'd fome Memorial of it might be 
 hVd in their new Church; and, after due 
 Confultation here, it was agreed by the Com- 
 miffioners, that a Marble-Stone fhou'd be 
 plac'd by the great Door of the Church of 
 Ober-Barmen, with a Latin Infcription, re- 
 cording the Matter of Fact, and the Form 
 of it left to Dr. Kennett, who tranfmitted it, 
 when the remaining Accounts were given, in 
 
 May 
 
Bijhop Ken net t. n^ 
 
 May 17 16, with this Epiflle, which, I think, 
 deferves a Place in thefe Memoirs, omitting 
 many that interven'd. 
 
 Viro Reverendo & dileBo admodum in Chri- 
 Jio Fratri fohanni Glowing, Verbi divini 
 Minijlro apud Ober-Barmarn ; &? Ccetui 
 ibidem Evangelico. 
 
 TD vobis fit commodo & faluti (Fratres di- 
 leBiJJimi) quod nobis quidem folatium ac non 
 modicam animi Voluptaiem praebuit: Ne?npe 
 Caufce veftrcz exitus non inaufpicatus apud 
 nos ajjiduos ejufdem Advocator & quo ad fieri pot uit 
 Patronos. Negotium enim nobis nuperce Regi- 
 nee Commiffariis demandatum jam (fero nimis) 
 abfolvimus, & ad jupremam ratiocinii tabulam 
 cequa manu lati perduximus. 
 
 Hac vobis latins exponet Civis nofier Londi- 
 nenfis, Fir probus & hcjjeftus, Johannes 'Teflo- 
 maker, ad partes veftras iter modo aggrefurus 
 (quern Deus fofpitem ducat reducatque) cui in 
 hac re communi fas eft utrinque fidem adhibere. 
 Is calculum pecunice tarn expenfz quam re- 
 ceptor in ex amen fedulo revocation, &fub ma- 
 nib us nofiris teflatum, denuo vobis ex hi be bit, ac 
 vicifjim (quod aquum cenfebitis) rem tot am 
 
 T a fcripto 
 
Ii6 The LIFE of 
 
 fcripto agnltam, feu verbo y veftram nobis (Deo 
 wienie) fecum reportablt. 
 
 Diu eft, (charijjimi Fratres) ex quo gratum 
 nobis vifum eft (vos pcrro favor e dignemini) ui 
 ad piarn rei memoriam pofteris confervandam, 
 Epigrapbe five Infcriptio qua dam Latine exa- 
 rata , & lapidi marmoreo pulchre admodum 
 incifa in alt qua JEdis veftra parte palatn re- 
 ponatur, jive columns, five parieti affix a, 
 omnium oculis Jubjecra, prout vos melius expe- 
 dite judicabitis. Hujifmodi exemplar ami- 
 cus ide?n vobis allaturus eft, five judicio veftro 
 comprobandum, five (quod optamus) in melius 
 corrigendum. Hanc fraterni Amor is & com- 
 munis Fidei tefferam tibi, Fir Reverende, & to- 
 il ccetui veftro gratam & acceptam efte volu- 
 mus: Quicquid enim in kac re Anglia noftra 
 vobis impendijfe voluit, id fat is fuperque Ger- 
 maniaveflra nobis remuneravit, ex quo GEOR- 
 GIUS Illenwgnus, apudvos oriundus,Imperium 
 Britannicum jure optimofwi debitum fufcepit, & 
 ab Adventu fuo fails cpportuno Fidem, Pacem, 
 Securitatem nobis reftituit, & (Deo au/picante) 
 Rebus noftris turn Sacris turn Civilibus amplam 
 & perennem fcelickaiern ftabilivit. 
 
 Quid fi unius aut alterius anni Gefta recen- 
 ferem ? Ilk feeder a & pacla intet nos, & ex- 
 
 teras 
 
BIJhop Kennett. 117 
 
 teras Gentes forte non tarn bona fide i?iita y acri- 
 us perjpexit, & in melius redintegravit. Hie 
 honefias Navigandi Mercandique artes fubditis 
 Juts expolivit &? dilatavity prijiino Maris Domi- 
 ni vindicate, ne die am rejlituto. Hie Impera- 
 tores y Reges, Principes, Status artfioribus Pari* 
 & Amicitice vinculis fociavit Jibi, & intime 
 conjunxit. 
 
 Et cum Orbis Chrifiianus tanto Principi 
 nimis angujlus, & quafi impar ejje videatur, 
 Ille T'urciciy Jive Ottomannorum Imperii Ju- 
 dex tandem &f Arbiter cooptatus eft. 
 
 Ille domi pacem & quiet em fixity & in foli- 
 
 do locavit : Ille enim P atria Juce hofies £s? 
 
 tantum non proditores a publico damno & ex- 
 
 itioreduxity &in falvum career em conje city nifi 
 
 qui criminis fimuly & pance confeii in ex Hi urn 
 
 fponte confugerunty latebrafque in ig?iotis tenuis 
 
 quaritarimt. Ille Proceres quo/dam & vefanos 
 
 & ingratos i?i aperta arm a prorumpentes va- 
 
 lida manu fuperavit & procul abegit. Ille 
 
 Idolum quoddam Jive ficJum Regia Majefiatis 
 
 Jimulacrum in fugam vertity & confregity & ni 
 
 fallunt vota y in priftinum nihilum eva?iefcere 
 
 coegit. Ille infimam plebem, mendaciis G? mi lie 
 
 malis artibus exagitatam y ut plurimum Jedavif, 
 
 1 3 & 
 
n8 The LIFE of 
 
 & Ikes nefcio quas inanes ac Populi furores fe- 
 re confopivit extinxitque. 
 
 Me utramque fupremi Concilii, five Parlia- 
 ment? Dotnum ad Saniora & Reipublicce ma- 
 gis falutaria Concilia & Acta prudentia fua 
 bene temper at a concitavit. Ille fuperiorum I'ri- 
 bunalium Judices legum peritifjimos, jujlos & 
 propofti tenaces Viros. conftituit, & Salariis 
 auxit. Inter hos primarium Regni Jujlitiarium 
 Dominum Parkerum, Dotibus & Meritis pra- 
 f ant em, in magnatum Ordinem adjcivit, & 
 Baronis titulo honejlavit. 
 
 Ille Epfcopos fdelicres & melioris not a Cle- 
 
 ritm'y cum fit Fidel Defenfor, Eccleficz Patro- 
 
 nus, Romance tyrannidis Victor,, in ceternum fibi 
 
 devinxit. Ille Academiam Cantabrigienfem 
 
 amplijjima Librorum pre'lis ubique imprefforiim 
 
 & Codicum antiqua manu Jcriptorum fupel- 
 
 leclile injlruxit ac in perpetiium dotavit. Ille 
 
 Academiam inter Hibernos Dublienjem in Filii 
 
 fid Principis tutelam commifit, ut Hares Reg- 
 
 norum fit par iter Liter arum Patronus, ac fum- 
 
 mus Magi fir or um & Scholar ium Cancellarius. 
 
 Et, ne Matrem mi hi dileclifimam Univerfta- 
 
 tem Oxonierfem fdentio praterire videar, ille 
 
 banc etiam dementia fua & patientia J ere to- 
 
 tarn fibi conciliavit, & brevi fa&urus eft, ut ad 
 
 fide- 
 
Bijhop Kennett. up 
 
 jidelitatem folitam & avitam gloriam rediga- 
 
 tur. 
 
 Ille demum Religionis Reformats Vindex a- 
 
 cerrimus, Libert at is gent is humance Fautor & 
 AJfertor optimus, Pads ubique terraram Sta- 
 
 tor & Arbiter, non alia vota nobis vobifcum 
 commiinia reliquit, nifi quod uno ore animoque 
 fupplices Deum rogare conte?idamus nt GEOR- 
 GIUS Ille magnus, Liberator, ViBor, Defen- 
 for, diu vivat for eat que, Britan?iiee noflra co- 
 lumen, & Germanice veftrce decus ac ornamen- 
 tuni : Ut Filius unicus & Hares GEORGIUS, 
 a GEORGIO Spes altera Britannia, valeat, 
 vigeat, & (quod omnia complecJitur) patriis 
 vefiigiis, aquis pafibus inffat. Ut Heroina 
 ilia IVallice Principiffa, omnibus adajnata & 
 admiranda vivat, & char am fobolem fui f mi- 
 le m, fceptris natam, infto Ingenio nob Hem, Virt li- 
 te & Religio?ie infruffiam Pofleris relinquat. Ut, 
 prce cceteris, natu Maximus Fredericus ille Prin- 
 ceps nondum ex Gerrnanice veflrte finibus egref- 
 fus, qui (fi qua fides peregre profecJis) egregia 
 corporis forma fexum antecellit, & fupra at a- 
 tem fapit Parentes, brevi invifat, & terris no- 
 flris novum quafi fdus exoriatur. 
 
 Ita inter alios bono animo erga Deum & 
 Regem affecJos vovet exoptatque 
 
 \ ^ Frattr 
 
120 The LIFE of 
 
 Frater vejler & in Chrijlo Servus Whitia 
 KennettuSy S. 1*. P. Ecclejia Cath. £. 
 "Petri de Burgo Decanus indignity &? Re- 
 gince Majejlati e Sacris Domejiicis. 
 
 Londini, 
 xv die Maiiy 
 MDCCXVL 
 
 The Infcription recommended in the fore- 
 going Letter, to be put upon a Marble in the 
 new Church pf Ober-Barmen, to preferve and 
 tranfmit the Memory of that Piety and Cha- 
 rity of the Queen and Nation of England^ 
 was in this Form ; 
 
 IN DEI OPT. MAX. GLORIAM, 
 
 Ecclefiae Reformats Pacem, 
 
 Et 
 
 Gentis Anglicans Laudem. 
 
 Sub Aufpiciis Sereniffimi Principis 
 
 Eledtoris Palatini ad RHENUM. 
 
 ANNA Dei Grat. Mag. Britan. Fran. & Hibern. 
 
 Regina 
 
 Precibus noftris & Pietate fua commota 
 
 Literas Regias Magno Sigillo munitas 
 
 Solem- 
 
Bi/hop Kennett. 121 
 
 Solemniter evulgavit die xNov.MDCCVIL 
 
 Pro Eleemofynis Populi fui colligendis 
 
 Quarum virtute plus duo Millia Librarum 
 
 Monet® Anglicanae 
 
 Larga manu effufa & nobis tranfmiffa funt. 
 
 Tali Ope & Auxilio haec Sacra iEdes 
 
 A primis fundamentis extructa eft, 
 
 Anno Chrifti MDCC. 
 STET DIU FLOREATQUE. 
 
 Upon the fame Principle of promoting the 
 common Intereft of the Proteftant Churches, 
 he correfponded with fome of the chief 
 Members of them. Among feveral Letters 
 of this Kind, there is a Copy of one now 
 before me, which I think 'tis pity fhou'd be 
 buried with him ; and therefore I will tran- 
 fcribe it for the Reader's Entertainment. 
 'Tis fuperfcrib'd to Mr. Coleman at Bojion m 
 New England -, and begins thus. 
 
 Dear SIR, 
 
 ** \ /T Y Thoughts reprove me often for 
 
 IVX " not being more civil to a Stran- 
 
 " ger, rather to a Friend and Correfpondent, 
 
 " whom, by all that I have read and heard 
 
 " of 
 
122 The LIFE of 
 
 '< of him, I have good Reaibn to value and 
 " efteem. My Thanks have been long due 
 " for the Books you fent over to improve 
 cc our American Library, which is not yet 
 <c difpos'd in a proper Place, for Want of fome 
 " fpecial Benefactor ; but I am adding what 
 cc I can to the Number of Tracts fuitable 
 " to the Arguments of Navigation, &c. and 
 " doubt not (if God fpare a few Years) 
 <c to make it a Collection not unworthy the 
 " good Defign *, That good Defign of Pro- 
 <c pagating Chriftianity in your Parts, has 
 " loft the wifeft Director and Prefident of 
 u it, the late Archbifhop of Cantei^hury^ (Dr. 
 u Teni/on) whofe Aim and Care in thofe 
 <c Matters (as in all others) were guided by 
 " a truly chriftian Spirit for the publick 
 " Good of the Proteftant Religion. He put 
 " a Stop to many indirect Motions and Steps 
 " made to put us out of the Way, and pre- 
 " vented a great Deal of Interruption and 
 " Embarr affluent that wou'd have been o- 
 <c therwife given to us. He was a wife and 
 « honeft Prelate, truly fenfible, that at Home 
 
 * This relates to an Affair that will be mentiond more fully 
 afterwards. 
 
 and 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 123 
 
 « and Abroad, we were in great Danger of 
 « lofing Chriftianity in the Name of the 
 « Church. 
 
 " The two great Difficulties that ftill lie 
 « hard upon our Society for Propagation of 
 " the Gofpel, are, I. The Want of fober 
 "and religious Miffionaries ; few offering 
 " themfelves to that Service for the Glory 
 " of God, and the Good of Souls ; but 
 " chiefly to find Refuge from Poverty and 
 (c Scandal. 2. Such Men, when they come 
 c < to the Places allotted to them, forget their 
 " Miffion ; and inftead of Propagating 
 « Chriftianity, are only contending for Rites 
 " and Ceremonies, or for Powers and Pri- 
 " vileges, and are difputing with the Ve- 
 " ftries of every Parifh, and even with the 
 u Civil Government of every Province. 
 " Thefe two Mifchiefs can hardly be re- 
 " drefs'd, but by fixing Schools and Univer- 
 < c fities in thofe Parts, and fettling, we hope, 
 <c two Bifhops 5 one for the Continent, ano- 
 u ther for the Iilands, with Advice and Af- 
 <c fiftance of Prelbyters to ordain fit Perfons, 
 " efpecially Natives, and to take Care of all 
 " the Churches. V/hich needful Provifions 
 " will not break in upon your National 
 
 " Rites 
 
124 The LIFEo/ 
 
 <c Rites and Cuftoms, at lea ft no other Way 
 * than by laying a Foundation (well hope, 
 " and you'll agree) for the Union of all Pro- 
 cc teftants in fome future Age, when Chari- 
 " ty and Peace fhall prevail above Intereft 
 cc and Paffion. 
 
 " We have no great Profpedt, I confefs, 
 " of fuch Happinefs in our Old England, 
 " where the Spirit of Diffention and Fac- 
 <c tion, nay, of the utmoft Infatuation, has 
 " rag'd horribly, and is not yet caft out. I 
 u think I faw, long fince, that the Begin- 
 " nings of this Sorrow were the Seeds of 
 " Popery fcatter'd in the Minds of common 
 " People, with ftrange Induftry and An y to 
 " fmooth the Way for a PopiJJj Pretender. 
 " Noile and Nonfenfe were very prevailing; 
 v and at laft the Word given out, was, / 
 4t had rather be a Papift than a Prefbyterian ; 
 w and, under this delirious Cant, the poor 
 " Souls were prepar'd to cry out, 'The Church > 
 *• the Church, as loud as if they had been in 
 w the Streets of Rome, and to idolize a fedi- 
 " tious, not to fay ignorant Doftor ; as 
 * £ much as if he had been a Pope of this 
 H other World. 
 
 « The 
 
Bifljop Kennett. i 2 £ 
 
 " The People in this Ferment were difpos'd 
 " to read and admire the Daily Pamphlets, 
 " thrown about to reconcile them more and 
 " more to Popery, under Pretences of Divine 
 <c and Hereditary Rights, uninterrupted Succef- 
 " fion, independent State of the Church, the Ex- 
 " pediency and even Neceffity of private Con- 
 " f effort, the immediate Effects of facer dotal 
 <c Abfolution, the Invalidity of Baptifm out of 
 " Epifcopal Communion, a Priejl, an Al- 
 " tar, a real Sacrifice in the Lord's Supper, 
 < c a Middle State of Souls, no harm, at leaft, 
 " in Prayers for the Dead, and many other 
 <c Devices, approaching as near to Rome as 
 " prefent Shame and Safety wou'd admit. 
 " All which Conceits you well know, fprung 
 < c as Tares of the Enemy, long after our 
 <( bleffed Reformation, and I think never 
 " appear'd 'till a little before the Beginning 
 tc of the civil Wars, under the Influence of 
 u a Court that had too much of the Popifli 
 £c Queen in it, and were now reviv'd to ferve no 
 " other Purpofe but that of the Intereft of a Po- 
 " pifh Impoftor. Only there was fome Diffe- 
 " rence in the Times; for before thofe civil 
 u Wars, none ran into thofe Notions but fome 
 " of the warmer and ambitious Clergy ; 
 
 <£ whereas 
 
126 The LIFEo/ 
 
 11 whereas now the common People and the 
 (c very Women had their Heads full of them. 
 " Under thefe Delufions a Multitude have 
 Cc been given up to believe the Idol at Avig- 
 cc non to be fomething, and worthy to be fet 
 <c tip ; given nf^ alas ! to any Lies, and to the 
 <c Practice of many Popifh Superftitions. 
 c< Some woud not go to their Seats in the 
 " Church till they had kneel'd and pray'd at 
 " the Rails of the Communion Table ; they 
 cC wou'd not be content to receive the Sa- 
 " crament there kneeling, but with Proftra- 
 <£ tion and Striking of the Breaft, and Kiffing 
 cc of the Ground, as if there were an Hoft 
 " to be ador'd -, they began to think the 
 " Common Prayer without a Sermon (at leaft 
 <c Afternoon) to be the beft Way of ferving 
 " God ; and Churches without Organs had 
 u the thinner Congregations; bidding of 
 cc Prayer, was thought better than praying to 
 " God, and even Pictures about the Altar 
 " began to be the Books of the Vulgar ; the 
 " Meeting-Houfes of Proteftant Diffenters 
 " were thought to be more defiled Places 
 « than Popifh Chapels: In fhort, the Herd 
 <{ of People were running towards Rome 
 
 " without 
 
Bijhop Rennet t. i 27 
 
 cc without any Forefight, or Power of look- 
 
 <c ing backward. 
 
 " To this Madnefs of the People was the 
 
 " Rebellion owing; now one is quell'd, the 
 
 <c other will abate; and our greateft Deli- 
 
 <c verance under King George, will be that of 
 
 < c being delivered from ourfelves, and being 
 
 " reftor'd not only to our Religion and Li- 
 
 " berries, but to our Senfes. ■ — My Refpects 
 
 <c and Services to you and your Brethren, 
 
 " and efpecially to the worthy Prefident of 
 
 lc Hawarden College.. Let us join in our 
 
 cc Prayers for the King's fafe Return and long 
 
 " Life, and for the Progrefs of Chriftianity, 
 
 c< and Increafe of the Proteftant Religion. 
 
 / am. Dear S IR, 
 
 Tour affeBionate Friend y 
 Peterborough, 
 July 28, 17 16. 
 
 Wh. Kennett. 
 
 The Affinity of the Subject puts me in 
 Mind to mention here, that the Dean was, 
 by Appointment of Archbiihop lenifon, call'd 
 to Preach at the Anniverfary Meeting of the 
 
 Society 
 
128 The LIFE of 
 
 Society for the Propagation of the Gofpel in 
 foreign Parts, which, upon Defire, he pub- 
 lifh'd, and with great Induftry and Pains add- 
 ed at the Bottom of each Page the full Au- 
 thorities as References to Matter of Faft, 
 and farther drew up with his own Hand an 
 Abftraft of the Proceedings of the Society 
 within the Year laft paft. The Title of 
 the Sermon is, T'he Letts and Impediments in 
 planting the Gofpel of Chrifl, A Sermon 
 before the Society, for the Propagation of the 
 Gofpel, &c. 17 12. By all allow'd to be one 
 of the moil ufeful and excellent Difcourfes 
 delivered on that Occafion. It is believ'd 
 that the Diftribution of thefe Anniverfary 
 Sermons have a continual good Influence on 
 many pious and charitable Perfons, to excite 
 them to fend in their voluntary Prefents, or to 
 leave their dying Legacies to this Society for 
 helping forward fo glorious a Work. I re- 
 member to have heard from the Dean him- 
 felf, that upon his prefenting this laft Ser- 
 mon to a fenfible and religious Widow, (lie 
 refolv'd to leave a Legacy of 50/. to the 
 Corporation for Propagating the Gofpel, and 
 upon her Deceafe, it was paid by her Exe- 
 cutor 
 
Bljhop K E N N E T T. I29 
 
 cutor into his Hands, and by him delivered 
 at the Board in a publick Meeting. 
 
 Within few Days after the Presching of 
 that Sermon, there was publinYd a Letter 
 about the Proceedings in Convocation, upon 
 Complaint of a Sermon publinYd by Dr. 
 Brett, under the Influence of Dr. Hicks, 
 intitled, A Sermon of RemiJJion of Sim, ac- 
 cording to the Scriptures, and the Doctrine of 
 the Church of England, &c. Which Sermon 
 had many mocking Expreffions in it, advan- 
 cing the Neceflity of private Confeffion and 
 facerdotal Abfolution \ and fo, in Effect, fet- 
 ting up one of the Engines of the Church 
 of Rome, for the Ufe of the Clergy in the 
 Church of England, The Complaint was 
 dropt in the Houfe, and the Preacher, and 
 his Difcourfe, rather juftify'd and commend- 
 ed. Upon which, a Letter was publinYd un- 
 der this Title, A Letter to the Rev. Thomas 
 Brett, L.L.D. Rec7or ofBettefhanger in Kent, 
 about a Motion in Convocation. The Dean 
 was fuppos'd to be the Writer, becaufe he 
 was a molt profefs'd Enemy to that new 
 Affectation in fome of the Clergy, to drefs 
 up old Popijh Doctrines, and bring them in- 
 to Fafhion in England ; which was but an 
 K Artifice 
 
130 The LIFE of 
 
 Artifice of Mr. Lejly, Dr. Hicks, &c. to cor- 
 rupt the Minds of People, and fo prepare a 
 Way for Introducing a Fopijh Pretender. 
 
 He was abundantly convine'd, that the 
 Doctrines fo zealcufly propagated at that 
 Time, tending to mollify Popery, and to 
 divide the Proteftant Intereft, were properly 
 fome of the modern Inventions, unknown to 
 our primitive Reformers, or exprefsly con- 
 demn'd by them. To fhew this the more 
 evidently in one Inftance, he caus'd to be re- 
 printed a Sermon of Archbifeop Whitgift'^, 
 preach'd before Queen Elizabeth at Green- 
 wich ; and prefix'd to it an excellent Preface 
 of his own -, which I mall here add for the 
 Reader's perufal. 
 
 To the Bookfeller. 
 
 S 1 R, 
 
 THIS Sermon was preach % and long 
 [nice publijVd by Dr. John Whitgift, 
 then Dean of Lincoln, afterward Bijhop of 
 Worcefter, and at la/1 Archbifop of Canter- 
 bury : A Prelate fo well belovd by the Queen* 
 that in her Choice of a Jingle Lif\ and her 
 
 Pre- 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 131 
 
 Preference of that State of the Clergy, foe ho* 
 nourdhim "with the familiar Name of her Black 
 Hufband. // is a plain honef Chriflian Dif 
 courfe, and the old Edition being very rare to 
 be met with, you may pleafe to reprint it, and 
 thereby do Service to the World upon fever al 
 Accounts. 
 
 It will bear feme Tefimony of Refpedl and 
 Honour to the Age of Queen Elizabeth, to give 
 a Tafe of the good Way of Preaching in her 
 Days ; fober, ferious Gofpel Senfe and Truth, in 
 a juft and eafy Stile, made agreeable to the 
 Confcience, the Reafon, and the Affeclio?is of 
 Mankind. This excellency of Preaching was a 
 fmgular Ornament of her Reign, and in efeel 
 died with her. For there was foon a fad De- 
 generacy under King James the Firft, when 
 to comply with the Humour of the Prince> 
 the Preachers brought in fuch Terms of the 
 Schools, and fuch Scraps of the Poets, as made 
 the Pulpit rather a Place of Diverfion, than 
 of found InJlruBion and Salvation. This af- 
 fected Foolifmefs, by Vfe and Cufiom, ran too 
 far into the Reign of King Charles the Firjl : 
 And if it abated at the Reftoration of his Roy- 
 al Famil\\ the Preachers were apt to fide into 
 another Extreme, that of Words and Periods^ 
 K 2 frong 
 
132 The LIVE of 
 
 ftrong and flijf; a falfe Oratory, an Abufe of 
 the Patie?ice of Chrijlian Hearers, 'till Dr. 
 Tillotfon, and fome other judicious Divines^ 
 dard to rcjlore good Senfe and plain Language ; 
 which now generally obtain, and ought to pre- 
 vail in all our Churches, nay, are very much 
 gotten into the Mouths of the Diffenting Teach- 
 ers, tho y perhaps of lefs Service to them. 
 
 It will do another Honour to that Age, by 
 flawing the Probity and Courage of our Englifh 
 Divines, in Preaching at Court againfl the 
 Flattering of great Men, and againfl the In- 
 conflancy of the Common People, as likewife 
 againfl their Curiofity and Love of ftrange 
 Doctrines , fuch as the Livalidity ofBaptifm, if 
 Adnwiiflred by a Lay-man, or even by a Dea- 
 con: ADoclri?ie of the mofl narrow and unchari- 
 table Spirit, invented by Schifmaticks, and urgd 
 by the Leader of them, M. Cartwright, but 
 admirably well oppofed aud co?ifuted by this 
 Archbifhop Whitgift, in his Anfwer and Re- 
 plies to the Admonition, &c. and condemn d in 
 thij; Sermon, wherein, as if he had livd in our 
 Times, he grievoufly Complains, It is now 
 called into Controverfy, Whether the Minifler 
 be of the Efe?ice and Being of Baptifm, and 
 none to be counted Minifler s but fuch as be 
 
 Preach- 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 133 
 
 Preachers: So that whofoever hath not been 
 baptized of a Mini/ler, of a Treacher, is not 
 baptized? the which Queftions, and other 
 fuch like, fpring out of the Schools of the 
 Anabaptifts, and tend to the Rebaptization 
 of All, or the moll Part of thofe that at this 
 Day are living. 
 
 // will give a farther Proof of the Integri- 
 ty of Preachers in that Reign, that they preach' d 
 freely and earnejlly againfi the fundamental 
 Errors and Corruptions of Popery, and demon- 
 ftrated the Church of Rome to be the common 
 Enemy of the Reformation, and of Chriftianity 
 itfelf And yet by the Craft of that Enemy in 
 fowing Tares, they found, it feems, fome of the 
 common People growing fick and weary of that 
 neceffary Subject, and rather intent upon new- 
 fangled Doctrines and Devices of upfiart Men. 
 Says this excellent Preacher here to his Auditors; 
 " We have taught you more neceffary Points of • 
 " DoBrine, than thefe that are now preacUd 
 « unto you. We have exhorted you to Repen- 
 « tance and to Amendment of Life: We have 
 " taught you the true DoBrine of Jujlifi 'cation • 
 « the true and right Ufe of the Sacraments ; 
 " We have confuted the erroneous and damnable 
 « Points of Paptftical DoBrine, as Tranfub- 
 K 3 " fa?2tiationy 
 
134- The LIFE of 
 
 " ftantiation, the Sacrifice of the Mafs, Pur- 
 1 gatory, JVorfiping of Images, Praying to 
 il Saints, the Pope's Supremacy, and fitch like : 
 u and you have not believed us, nor hearkened 
 tc unto us. But now that we begin to teach 
 ' you thefe 'Things that tend to your own Com- 
 <l modify and to Contention, you magnify us, 
 << you commend us, you make us Gods ; nay, 
 " you make us Devils, for you fo puff us up 
 u with vain Glory, that we know not our- 
 Ci f elves" And yet no Proteftant Preachers 
 had been then fo fond of Ji range Notio?is, as to 
 preach up the Necejjity of private Confefjion to 
 a Prieft, or the IneJ/icacy of Faith and Repen- 
 tance to a Sinner without facer dotal Abfolution ; 
 or a real propitiatory Sacrifice in an Oblation 
 of the Elements of Bread and Wine ; or a mid- 
 die State of Souls after Death, in neither 
 Heaven nor Hell -, or an Independejicy of the 
 Church upon a Chriftian State, even where the 
 civil Magiftrate is by Law fupreme Head and 
 Governour ; or theUnchurching of all other re- 
 formed Churches, and the Unchriflening of all 
 Foreign Proteftants ; (to fay ?iothing of our 
 Brethren and Fathers at Home) or am fuch 
 unjcriptural Fancies, bordering on the Church 
 
 of 
 
Bijhop Kennett. i 3£ 
 
 of Rome, and to be fupported by Nothing but an 
 Infallible Chair. 
 
 The Author s Name will afford another Ob- 
 fervation, that Archbijliop Whitgift\? Memory 
 is more happy, and has been more favoura- 
 bly treated , than that of moji of thofe 
 who came before or that followed after him, 
 from the Beginning of the Reformation to this 
 prefent Time. We are refervd to thofe Times, 
 when Men who would engrofs to themfclves the 
 Name of Church-Men, have betray d a bit- 
 ter Spirit in cenfuring and reviling the be/l of 
 our Prelates ; they have infulted the hiving and 
 not fpard the Dead ; efpecially thofe who have 
 fate in that emine?it See of Primacy of all 
 England. Archbijhop Cranmer, who adorn d 
 the Reformation by his Life, defended it by his 
 Pen, and feaVd it with his Blood, has been re- 
 prefented as a Betrayer of the Rights of the 
 Church, and the Regal Supremacy, upon which 
 our Reformation was ejlab/iffd, has been caWd, 
 The Cranmerian Herefy. Archbipop Grin- 
 dal, a Man of excellent Temper, Piety and 
 Learning, has been run down by a hard-moutlfd 
 Preacher, for want of Zeal to the Church ; 
 (ind all Moderation has been contemptuou/ly 
 {^//V.-Grindalizing ; tho in the true Hi/lory of 
 
 K 4 him 
 
i3<S The LIFE of 
 
 him it appears, that no Prelate could he more 
 firm, conftant, and couragious in confulting and 
 ajferting the proper Rights and true Liter efts 
 of the Church and Clergy of England. Nay, 
 another intemperate Preacher has lately run 
 down Archbijhop Abbot, as a Favourer of 
 Schifm and Faction, when his Piety, Wifdom 
 and Courage, in ftemming the Tide of Popery 
 and Frofanenefs, hath made him worthy of 
 everlafting Honour, among all, who rather love 
 and jerve the Church, than boaft in great 
 Swelling Words about it. But ft ill, I fay, the 
 Preacher of this Sermon, Archbijhop Whitgift, 
 has efcafd very well, for being more particu^ 
 larly concern d to reprefs the Puritans, who 
 were indeed Angry and Injblent at that Time, 
 he has been on that Account well efteeni d, and 
 his Aftjes, I think, not yet difturUd. This fair 
 Reputation among Church-Men, will, I hope, 
 engage them to read his following Sermon with 
 the better Attention of Mind. 
 
 The Life of this eminent Prelate, will, I 
 hear, be foon publiftid by the fame able Hand 
 who has done the like Honour and J u ft ice to 
 his Predecejfors, Archbijliops Cranmcr, Parker, 
 and Grindal ; and therefore I need not, in the 
 mean Time, offer at any imperfect Account or 
 
 Cha~ 
 
Bijhop K E N N E T T. 137 
 
 Character of him ; only I would tranfcribe for 
 you one Pajfage out of a Letter of his Graces, 
 to the Lord Treafurer Burleigh, dated July 5, 
 1584. That great St ate [men had given him a 
 wife Caution, " not to lay fo hard a Hand up- 
 " on the Puritans, as thereby to gratify and 
 " animate the Papifts. " To which he anfwers, 
 That the Papifts could take no jujl Advantage 
 of his Proceedings againfi the Puritans ; for he 
 doubted the Papifts employ d them, and encou- 
 ragd them at that funclure to create Divifons 
 and weaken the Proteftant Interejl : Says he, 
 " The Objection of our encouraging the Papifts 
 <c hath neither Probability nor Likelihood : For 
 Cl how can Papifts be anijnated, by urging Men 
 <{ to fubfcribe againjl the Pope's Supremacy \ 
 u and to the jufiifying of the Book of Com- 
 cc mon-Prayer, and Articles of Religion, 
 u which they, [the Papifts] Jo greatly condemn ? 
 <c But Papifts are animated becaufe they fee 
 a thefe Kind of Perjons, which herein, after a 
 " Sort come in with them, jo greatly friended ' 
 " fo many born with, and fo animated and 
 " maijitained in their difordered Doings, a. 
 ic gainjl both God's Law and Mans, and a- 
 u gainjl their chief Governours, both Civil 
 " and Ecclefiajtical. This, I Jay, encourageth 
 
 " the 
 
138 The LIFE of 
 
 Cc the Papifts, and maketh much for them. — O 
 Ct my Lord, I would to God Jbme of them, 
 u who ufe that Argument, had no Papifts in 
 <c their Families, and did not otherwife alfo 
 <c countenance them, whereby indeed they re- 
 " ceive Encouragement , and do become too ma- 
 u lapert. Ajjure your f elf , the Papifts are ra- 
 u ther grieved at my Proceedings, becaufe they 
 t; tend to the taking away of their chief Ar- 
 iC gunient, that is, That we cannot agree 
 " among our J 'elves, and that we are not of the 
 <c Church becaufe we lack Unity. And I am 
 " credibly informed, that the Papifts give En- 
 u couragement to thefe Men, and commend 
 ■ c them in their Doings, thereof alfo I have Jbme 
 
 " Experience. " By which it is very plain, 
 
 that this wife Prelate was the quicker in his Re- 
 fentments againjl the Puritans, becaufe he 
 thought them under the Direclion and Manage- 
 ment of the Papifts -, and in his laying all legal 
 Reflraints upon them, he was only labouring to 
 flop the Breaches which he found the common 
 Enemy had -made, in Hopes to enter in at 
 them. He Jaw the Spreaders of flrange 
 'Doctrine:, and the Authors of new Diftin£lion s 
 re Tools in Roman Hands, to break and 
 confound us> if timely Care were not taken by 
 
 all 
 
Bljhop K E N N E T T. I39 
 
 all poffible Me am to unite and ftrengthen the 
 Proteftant Interejl, in Humility^ Charity and 
 
 Brotherly hove. 
 
 Novem. 28, 1713. 
 
 Thefe Obfervations were fo well adapted 
 to the Seafon, wherein they were wrote and 
 publifh'd, that, perhaps, Pofterity will look 
 back upon them, to judge the better of a 
 Picture of the Times, that muft be drawn as 
 impartially as can be, both out of the falfe 
 Colours and wrong Appearances, as well as 
 out of the naked Truth, reprefented by dif- 
 ferent Sides. However, the Dean met with 
 that Reward which, I believe, he expected, 
 to be libell'd, preach'd down, beflav'd, lam- 
 poon'd, hung up in Effigy, with many other 
 dirty Tokens of Spite and Party-Rage upon 
 him. All which he bore, with no Manner 
 of Returns in that Kind; but was often 
 feen to fmile, and obferve, that contending 
 with the High-Flying Party, was to no bet- 
 ter Purpofe, than to encounter one of their 
 Street-Mobs, the beft Eicape was to br 
 thruft againft the Wall, or to be thrown in- 
 to the Kennel. 
 
 There 
 
140 The LIFE of 
 
 There was one Indignity offer'd him about 
 this Time, that cou'd fcarce be born by any 
 Man, without fome Kind of Emotion and 
 Concern, viz. the White-Chapel Altar-piece y 
 contrived by Dr. Welt on (afterwards a profefs'd 
 Nonjuror , if not fomething worfe) to expofe 
 the Dean of Peterborough. In this Altar- 
 piece, or Painting, which was intended for 
 a Reprefentation of Chrift, and his twelve 
 Difciples, eating the Paflbver and the Laft 
 Supper, Judas, the Traitor, was drawn fitr 
 ting in an Elbow-Chair, drefs'd in a black 
 Garment, between a Gown and a Cloak, with 
 a black Scarf and a white Band, and a fhort 
 Wig, and a Mark in his Forehead between a 
 Lock and a Patch, and with fo much of the 
 Countenance of Dr. Kennett, that under it, 
 in Effect, was written, 'The Dean the Traitor* 
 It was generally faid, that the original Sketch 
 was for a Bifiop under Weltons Difpleafure ; 
 which occafion'd the Elbow-Chair. But the 
 Fears of a Scandal urn Magna turn rifing before 
 the Painter'?, Eyes, Leave was given to drop 
 the Bijhop, and make the Dean ; which he 
 did as well as he could. Multitudes of Peo- 
 ple came daily to the Church, to admire the 
 Meaning of the Sight. And, under our un- 
 happy 
 
2?i^jo/> Ke : nne.t.t. 14.1 
 
 happy Divifions, it might have been expected, 
 that one Side, at leaft, would have been pleas'd 
 with the Wittinefs of this Fancy. But it was 
 generally abhorr'd and detefted by every body . 
 as being not only Rude and Indecent, but 
 confidering the Place and Perfons, even 
 as Atheiftical and Diabolical. And indeed, 
 what cou'd be more fhocking and furprizing, 
 than to fee a foolifh, and really a blafphe- 
 mous Picture fet up in the Prefence of God, 
 and in the Face of the Congregation, to repre- 
 fent a Neighbour, a Brother, a Fellow Pref- 
 byter of the Church of England, as a Traitor 
 to their common Saviour? What monftrous 
 Impiety for one Clergy-man to libell ano- 
 ther juft ever the Altar, or Table of the Lord, 
 whereon that very Man was to confecrate 
 a Bleffing, and to Adminifter the Communion 
 of it, in Peace and Charity ? In that, it was 
 efteem'd fo iniblent a Contempt of all that 
 was facred, fuch an Abomination to every one 
 of Confcience or common Senfe, that upon 
 the Complaint of others (for the Dean himfelf 
 never faw it, or feem'd to regard it) the Bifhop 
 of London oblig'd thofe that fet it up, to take 
 it down, and remove fo great a Scandal from 
 
 the 
 
142 The LIFE of 
 
 the Church of God. But to return to the 
 Deans Labours and Writings. 
 
 He went on to affert and defend the Scrip- 
 tural and Legal Foundations of the Protejiant 
 Religion y and the Protejiant SucceJ/ion, not 
 only in a Courfe of Sermons to his own Peo- 
 ple, but even in the Hated turns of his preach- 
 ing at Court ; where the Dean was obferv'd 
 by fome to be remarkably zealous in preach- 
 ing againft Popery y within the three laft Years 
 of the £>ueen, when it was thought not altoge- 
 ther fo feafonable by others. 
 
 And when the Pretenders Party were fo 
 forward in their Hopes and Views, as to pub- 
 lish a ftately Folio in exprefs Affertion and 
 Maintenance of his Hereditary Right, intitled, 
 'The Hereditary Right of the Crown oj England 
 aflerted: The Hijlory of the SucceJJion fmce the 
 Conqnejl clear 'd; and the true Englifli Conftitu- 
 tion vindicated, &c. 17 13. the Dean imme- 
 diately examin'd the Strength of the Argu- 
 ments, and the Truth of the Authorities in 
 it ; and was prepar'd to mew the Unrea- 
 fonablenefs and Infincerity of that new 
 Scheme, and the very wrong Turns of 
 Hiftory and Law that are drawn in to fup- 
 port it. But becaufe the whole Examination 
 
 wou'd 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 14.3 
 
 wou'd run into too great a Length for the 
 Patience of common Readers, who moft 
 wanted to be undeceiv'd, he refolv'd to take 
 a fingle Inftance only by Way of Specimen^ 
 that from thence might be inferred what 
 Credit was to be given to the Reft of that 
 bulky Work. That Inftance was in the Cafe 
 of Thomas Merks, Bifhop of Carlijle, whom 
 this Author had applauded as the Man of 
 Confcience and Integrity, becaufe he adher'd 
 to King Richard II. after his Refignation and 
 Depofition, and took up Arms (after a Speech 
 in Parliament) againft King Henry IV. in 
 legal Poffefiion of the Crown 3 for which 
 he was try'd, condemn'd, and pardon'd. 
 The Dean well knew that this applauded 
 Bifhop was one of the worft Tools in the 
 Miniftry of Richard II. and help'd to bring 
 that Prince to his miferable End ; and was 
 attach'd to him, not upon any Principle of 
 Honour, but for his own Intereft and Pre- 
 fervation ; and that he was by no Means the 
 Deliverer of that Speech in Parliament, long 
 fince invented for him; and that his flying 
 into Arms in Amftance of a French Invafion 
 was, in the moft apparent Manner, a bafe 
 Treafon and Rebellion, for which ha was legally 
 
 trv d 
 
144 The LIFE of 
 
 try'd, convidted, and adjudg'd to die: But 
 after an effectual Deprivation by the civil 
 Power, and a mock Tranflation by the Pope, 
 he made his Submiffion and obtain'd his Par- 
 don, and liv'd in a peaceable Allegiance to 
 King Henry IV. who was perfectly reconcil'd 
 to him as to a faithful Subject, and was not 
 only his Friend, but his Royal Patron, be- 
 ftowing a good Benefice on him, tho' for the 
 Honour of the Church and Nation, he wou'd 
 never truft him in an Englijh Bifvoprich 
 This Character of the Man, and this Hiftory 
 of his Life and Adtions, was the Reverfe of 
 what the Author of Hereditary Right had flou- 
 rifh'd upon him. And therefore to fhow this to 
 the World, the Dean publim'd A Letter to the 
 Lord Bifiop of Carlifle, concerni?ig one of his Pre- 
 decefforsy Bifiop Merks, on Occafion of a new Vo- 
 lume for the Pretender ^intituled. The Hereditary 
 Right of the Crown of England aferted, 
 Printed 1 7 1 3 . 
 
 It was but a little while before, that the 
 Dean, in his fteady Oppofition to Popery and 
 the Pretender, had publiuYd another Tradt, in- 
 tituled, A Memorial for Proteflants, on the 5th 
 of Novemb- containing a more full Difcovery 
 cffome Particulars relating to the happy De- 
 liverance 
 
Bijhop Remnett. 14c; 
 
 liver ance of King James I. &c. from the moji 
 traiterous, and bloody intended Majfacre y by 
 Gun-powder y Anno 1605. In a Letter to a 
 Peer ^Great Britain, dated O&ob. 25, 1 712. 
 But fuch was the Power of Party and Preju- 
 dice, that he could write nothing without 
 Offence, and therefore his Name was then 
 conceal'd from the Publick. The Occafion 
 of writing this Letter, was to help cure the 
 prevailing Fafhion of fmoothing the Cor- 
 ruptions, and filencing the Dangers of Pope- 
 ry ; and even of Juftifying the Severities, and 
 magnifying the Charities, of the Church of 
 Rome; in common talk, and publick Papers, 
 the Complaints were renew'd of the Papijls 
 beino; mifreprefented, not only as to Opinions 
 and Doctrines, but in Hiftory and Matters of 
 Fa<ft. The whole Hiftory of our Reforma- 
 tion was made worfe than Sanders had before 
 made it, by a vile Poem, written by one 
 Thomas Ward* in Imitation of Hudibras j 
 greedily fuck'd in by many corrupt Protejlants ; 
 tho' it was vifibly intended to make the Re- 
 formation both odious and ridiculous : And the 
 Gun-powder Treafon was alfo once more ri- 
 dicul'd as a Feint and Counter-Plot of Cecih 
 or at beft 3 the Whim of a few private defpe- 
 
 L rate 
 
146 The LIFE of 
 
 rate Men, wherein the Church, and the Catho- 
 lick Caufe were not concern'd. To oppofe 
 Truth to this popular Delufion, the Dean 
 drew up and publihYd that Memorial, upon 
 the moft evident Authorities ; and it was 
 highly efteenVd, and thought of great Service, 
 by the beft Protectants at that Time; particu- 
 larly the lateArchbifhop of Canterbury ; who 
 difpers'd great Numbers of the Copies among 
 his own Clergy. 
 
 As the Times grew worfe and worfe, th e 
 Dean was refolv'd to employ himfelf in 
 Works of publick Good and Service to fu- 
 ture Generations, and to the good Eftate of 
 Religion in foreign Parts. As a Member of 
 the Society, for Propagating the Gofpel in 
 the Englifo Colonies and Plantations in Ame- 
 rica, he perceiv'd that the Society in their 
 Meetings and Committees, often wanted 
 Books, Charts, Maps, &c. to confult upon 
 Occafion of their Enquiries and Debates ; 
 that many of the Members wou'd be glad to 
 refort to a Collection of Voyages and Travels, 
 and other Notices of thofe Parts, to be better 
 intrufted in the Nature and Condition of 
 the Places and Perfons committed to their 
 Care of Providing for them; that the 
 
 young 
 
Blfhop Kennett. 147 
 
 young Miffionaries before their departure, 
 might beft fpend fome of their Time in ex- 
 amining and abridging fuch printed Accounts, 
 as might be a very ufeful Information to 
 them; and that many other Benefits and 
 Advantages wou'd arife from the fixing and 
 eftablifhing a Library of that Kind ; and there- 
 fore he refolv'd to attempt the laying fome 
 Foundation of it. Accordingly he pick'd out 
 all the Tracts and Papers of that Sort, which 
 he had been long induftrioufly gathering in 
 the Courfe of his own Studies, upon the 
 View of Writing a full Hijiory of the Propa- 
 gation of Chriftianity in the Indies, (before- 
 mention'd) and communicating the good De- 
 iign to his Friends, he accepted of their con- 
 tributing fome Volumes to it: And when he 
 had been at a confiderable Expence in pur- 
 chafing more and more Materials to augment 
 and improve the Collection, he made a free 
 Prefent of it to the Society \ and for the fafer 
 Cuftody, he publifh'd a Catalogue of all the 
 diftinft Treatifes and Papers in Order of 
 Time, as they were firft printed or written, 
 under this Title, Bibliotbeca A?nericance Pri- 
 mordia : An Attempt towards laying the Foun- 
 dation of an American Library, in fever al 
 
 L 2 Books, 
 
148 The LIFE of 
 
 Books, Papers, and Writings, humbly given to 
 the Society for Propagating the Go/pel in fo- 
 reign Parts, for the perpetual Ufe and Benefit 
 of their Members^ their Mifjionaries, Friends* 
 Correfpondents, and others concern d in the good 
 Defign of Planting and Promoting Chrijiianity 
 within her Majejlfs Colonies and Plantations 
 in the Weft-Indies. 4.W. Printed, Anno 17 13. 
 To this is prefix'd an incomparable Pre- 
 face 5 a true Copy of the Writer's great and 
 generous Mind ; in which, among other 
 Things, he intimates one Ufe of the Cata- 
 logue to be this, that " any Perfon in running 
 " it over, wou'd pleafe to remember that 
 " if they have any Books, or Papers of this 
 ct Kind, not therein mention'd, or bet- 
 ct ter Editions of thofe Books and Papers 
 " that are inferted, and tranfmit them to the 
 <c Society, to inrich and inlarge the com- 
 " mon Stock." Immediately after which, 
 he mentions another Defign he had, that of 
 Gathering together an Antiquarian andHiflori- 
 cal Library for the Ufe of a Cathedral Church \ 
 wherein fome Progrefs was then made, and he 
 hofd in a few Tears to finifld it, and fettle 
 it for ever. This put me upon Enquiry af- 
 ter the Meaning of this; which is reported 
 
 to 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 14.9 
 
 to the Effect following : That the Dean, with 
 ftrict Enquiries, and coniiderable Expences 
 had been long gathering up the fcatter'd Re- 
 mains of our Englijh Writers, or any other 
 Authors upon the Subject of our Englijh Af- 
 fairs, from the very Beginning of Englijh 
 Printing, to the latter End of Queen Eliza- 
 beth, which, when put in Order of Time, 
 wou'd make up fuch a Series and Connexion 
 of the Antiquities and Hiftory of this Church 
 and Nation, as wou'd be of great Light and 
 Service to the World > and wou'd be an Or- 
 nament of publick Ufe in any Cathedral or 
 Collegiate Church, of the moft eafy Accefs 
 to Men of Letters, engag'd in fatiifying their 
 own Curiofity, or rather in ferving Pofterky . 
 That the Collection of thefe Books, to about 
 fifteen hundred Volumes, and fmall Tracts, 
 was plac'd in a private Room, at Peter^ 
 borough, in Order to be daily fupplied and 
 augmented under the Care of the Reverend 
 Mr. Jojeph Sparke, a Member of that 
 Church, of very good Literature, and very 
 able to affift in that good Defign. There 
 is a large written Catalogue of them, thus 
 infcrib'd. 
 
 M 
 
 Index 
 
150 The LIFE of 
 
 Index Librorum 
 
 Aliquot Vetufih 
 
 Quos in Commune bonum congejjit, 
 
 W. K. Decan. Petriburg. MDCCXII. 
 
 In this Collection, there are moft of the 
 printed Legends of Saints ; the oldeft Rituals 
 and Liturgies , the firft printed Statutes and 
 Laws, the moft ancient Homilies, and Sermons* 
 the firft Editions of the Englifli Schoolmen* 
 Pojlillers, Expounders, &c. with a great many 
 Fragments of our ancient Language, U/age> 
 Cujloms, Rights, 'Tenures, and fuch other 
 Things as tend to illuftrate the Antiquities 
 and Hi/lory of Great Britain and Ireland, 
 and the fuccefTive State of Civil Government, 
 Religion and Learning in them. * 
 
 Befides thi?, I am inform'd from the fame 
 Place, that the Dsan enrich'd the common 
 Library of the Church with fome very ufeful 
 
 * In a Letter from the "Dean to a Friend, dated, Pet. Juh 
 27, 17 1 7, he has thefe Words. — 1 have improved the CelleStion, 
 J have been long making for an Hiftorical Antiquarian Library 
 eonftfting of the oldeft Books relating to EngliJh Writers and 
 Affairs. I have eonfiderably increased my Catalogue of the Lire., 
 of eminent Men. Pity but this hit Work fhoifd be made ufefuJ 
 to the Public It. 
 
 Books ; 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 151 
 
 Books 5 and added to their Stock of Monu- 
 ments and Records, anAbftract of the Collec- 
 tions made by Dr. John Cofens, one of hi s 
 worthy PredecefTors. Thus did his liberal 
 Soul devife liberal Things, for the Advance- 
 ment of Religion and Learning, for the Ho- 
 nour and Service pf this Church and Nation, 
 in future Generations. 
 
 After the happy Acceflion of his Majefty 
 King George to the Throne, the Dean of 
 Peterborough was content with his Share in 
 the publick Happinefs. It was Matter of 
 common Obfervation, that he rarely went to 
 Court but when his Duty of Attendance car- 
 ried him; nor was he feeking about the 
 Houfes of Great Men, but he follow'd his 
 Studies, and made his Sermons upon the 
 Subjects of Peace and Piety, and good Living. 
 
 As foon as he faw the Rebellion opening in 
 the North, and the ill Difpofition of many 
 in their countenancing or covering of it, and 
 from thence chiefly a wrong Turn in the 
 Minds of the common People ; he preach'd 
 boldly in Rebuking this evil Spirit, and at the 
 Requeft of the bell of his Parifhioners, pub- 
 lifh'd a Sermon under this Title, condefcend- 
 ing to the Capacities of the Vulgar, The 
 
 L 4 Witch- 
 
igl The LIFE of 
 
 Witchcraft of the frefent Rebellion. A Ser- 
 mon preach 'd in the Parijh Church of St. Mary 
 Aldermary, in the City of London, on Sunday 
 the 25th of Sept. 1715. the Time of a pub lick 
 Ordination, &c. This Sermon preach'd and 
 publifh'dby him, in the Height of a dubious 
 Rebellion, was to do Service to others, not 
 himfelf. He was himfelf expos'd to the 
 grinning Wit of fome People, and to th e 
 Malice and treafur'd Rxvenge. of others. 
 Two or three private Letter-Writers told 
 him fas he declar'd to a Friend) that it waf 
 preaching Treafon again jl the lawful King, 
 and the Time was coming whens he JJooiid cer- 
 tainly anfwer for it \ or to that Effect. And 
 even fome Friends of a lower Spirit, intima- 
 ted, that it was not ib Wife and Cautious. — 
 No exafperating an Enemy when he had a 
 Sword in his Hand; and fuchlike fafe Words 
 of Advice; by which, I doubt, many con- 
 dueled themfelves ; but he was us'd to fay, 
 that he was prepar'd to live and die in the 
 Caufe againft Popery and the Pretender, and 
 he wou'd go out to Fight, when he cou'd 
 no longer ftay to Preach againft them. 
 The only Reward for his Sermon was, 
 that fome good People did afterwards tell 
 
 him, 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 153 
 
 him, that they believed it was owing to that 
 Sermon, that fuch and fuch of their Acquain- 
 tance had kept out of the Rebellion, and not 
 one of the Parifh in it. 
 
 After the Rebellion was providentially fup- 
 prefs'd, and a Day of Thankfgiving appointed 
 for it, the Dean proceeded in his Duty of 
 fpeaking plain Truth in Seafon. He then 
 preach'd and publinYd, A 'Thankfgiving Sermon 
 for the Blefjtng of God, in fupprejjing the late 
 unnatural 'Rebellion : Deliver d in the Parijh- 
 Church of St. Mary Aldermary, &c. on Thurs- 
 day the yth of June, 17 16. 
 
 There is one Piece of Juftice due to him, 
 which his Parifhioners will pay him, and 
 r hat is to acknowledge that it was not his 
 Way to preach Politicks, or mention State 
 Affairs, but when folemn Days of Fafting 
 and Thankfgiving, feem'd naturally to lead 
 to it, and even demand it; or elfe at fuch 
 Junctures of Danger and Diftrefs, as when 
 the Minds of People were before determin'd 
 to that Subject. At other Times his Preach- 
 ing was upon the Articles of Faith, and the 
 Rules of good Life, which was what they call 
 plain and practical preaching. But ftill in Plots 
 and Insurrections, and the Threats of Inva- 
 
 fion- 
 
154 The LIFE of 
 
 fion, the Dean never fail'd to put his People 
 in Mind to be fubjecl: to Principalities and 
 Powers, to the King and Laws, and to be 
 quiet, and to do their own Bufinefs. 
 
 By his Favour, many Years ago, I have 
 an Opportunity of citing one Sermon, not 
 publinYd, upon the ProfpecT: of an Invalion 
 of the Swedes, in order to bring over the 
 Pretender. This Alarm was fo loud in the 
 City, that it not only rais'd the Jacobite Hopes 
 and Infolence, but it affrighted and funk the 
 Spirits of many well-affected Subjects. He 
 thought it proper on this Occafion to check 
 the Arrogance and Prefumption of the King's 
 Enemies, and to ftrengthen the Hearts of 
 his Friends, by a Difcourfe on thofe excellent 
 Words of the Pialmift, Pfal cxii. 12, 13.' 
 He will not be afraid of any evil "Tidings, for 
 his Heart jlandeth fa/l y &c. After opening 
 the Context, and fhewing the Comforts of 
 the good Man for putting his Truft in the 
 Lord, he obferves, " that fuch a Man, in the 
 cc Midft of Infatuation and abounding Iniquity 
 ** knows how to look upwards, and that indo- 
 " ing fo in the Midft of Threats and Dangers, 
 " he has the two ftrongeft Pillars to fupport 
 cc him. Content and Courage, in the Affurance 
 
 « of 
 
Bijhop Kennett. i$£ 
 
 « of a good Caufe, and Reliance upon a gracious 
 << God. He jhall never be movd, v. 6. Nei- 
 cC ther ill News, nor any Thing elfe fhall 
 < c affright him. He Jhall not be afraid of any 
 lc evil Tidings, &c. " 
 
 He then proceeds to fay that cc thefe 
 " Words may be of comfortable Ufe and Ser- 
 * vice to us at this Time, if we confider the 
 l< Things contain'd, or fufficiently implied in 
 H them. 
 
 " i. What a Bleffing it is for good and 
 iC righteous Perfons, not to be afraid of any 
 " evil Tidings, &c. 
 
 " 2. What are the beft Ways and Means 
 " of attaining to this excellent Spirit. 
 
 " La/lly, What proper Ufes we ought to 
 " make of thefe different Tempers and Dif- 
 <c pofitions; the even Mind and fedate Cou- 
 <£ rage of the Righteous on the one Hand, 
 <c and the fearful and abjedt Spirit of the 
 cc Wicked on the other. " 
 
 The Tendency of the whole Sermon was, 
 " to keep up Honefty and Loyalty in the 
 cc Hearts of the People, that they might not 
 " run affrighted out of their Duty to their 
 " King and Country : n Concluding thus. 
 
 « If 
 
i $6 The LIFE of 
 
 €C If we have an Enemy who can be re- 
 Cc ftrain'd by any Rules of Honour, or Motives 
 u of Reafon, or any other prudential Mea- 
 u fures, we have little to fear from an At- 
 cc tempt fo impoffible to fucceed : Yet if we 
 " have to do with inflexible Will and Plea- 
 " Jure, ftirr'd up by a Sort of Enthufiaftick 
 " Impulfe, who can judge of Things poffi- 
 " ble, or impoffible, to be attempted? But, 
 <c furely the Invajion and the Conquejl of a 
 u free Country are no fuch eafy Matters : 
 <c Our brave Fore-fathers wou'd have de« 
 <c fpis'd the Threats of them, wou'd have 
 < c fcorn'd the Thoughts of them. 
 
 tc While our Britijh Anceftors were bar- 
 " barons and rude in Arms, the greateft of 
 " Nations, the Romans, and the greateft of 
 " Generals, Cafar, made a Defcent upon 
 " our Kentijh Coafts; but even they firft 
 " loft their Fleet, and then found fuch a 
 iC warm Reception in the Country, that they 
 <c were foon glad to fit up broken Veffels, 
 (l and to put to Sea again with fo little Ho- 
 €i nour, that one of their own Poets reflected 
 lc on them 5 
 
 " T'errita qitafitis oflendunt terga Britannis. 
 
 cc And 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 1^7 
 
 Cc And when thofe Roman Legions afterwards 
 * c return'd, a Britijh Lady, or Queen of a 
 " fmall Part of the IJland, had the Courage 
 ic to oppofe them at the Head of an Army. 
 
 <c The Saxons and the Danes got not thh 
 cc La?jd in PoJfeJJion thro' their own Sword, 
 " they were call'd in to affift againft the com- 
 " mon Enemy. The Norman Conqueft, was but 
 cC a Conqueft fo call'd 5 by our own Confent, 
 " and with our own Laws and Liberties 
 < c fav'd to us. The Spanift Invafion, tho' 
 " made with the terrible Sound of an invin- 
 <c cible Armada, cou'd not fet one Foot on 
 " Shore, but after the Sinking and Burning 
 " of many laden Bottoms, there were a few 
 " left to fail away. 
 
 " We have had, in our own Memory, 
 ic another dreadful Invafion, threatned from 
 < c the Coafts more oppofite and nearer to us. 
 " And what did that intended Expedition 
 " turn to, but to the Reproach of our Ad- 
 <c verfaries, and to a Lofs that they have 
 tc not yet repair'd ? And the brave Admiral 
 " lives, who then afferted our Britijh Dorni- 
 " nion of the Seas ; and the consummate 
 < c General lives, who taught all foreign Foe- 
 " to turn their Backs upon us, 
 
 « God, 
 
i$8 The LIFE of 
 
 <c God, who hath done fo great Things 
 u for us, will not, we hope, leave his Work 
 <c unfinifh'd: He hath often delivered us, 
 C| yea, and if we are not wanting to ourfelves, 
 " he will ftill deliver us " 
 
 The Deariy for his good Affection to the 
 Government, was invited by the Lord 
 Mayor, to preach the Anniverfary Sermon at 
 St. Paul's, on the 5th Nov. 17 15. which 
 he did, and publifh'd under this Title, A 
 feafonable Difcourfe of the Rife, ProgrefSy Dif- 
 covery, and utter Dif appointment of the Gun- 
 pcwder-Treafony and Rebellion, plotted by the 
 Papifts, in 1605, &c. It contains a great 
 many excellent Hiftorical Obfervations, ap- 
 plied to the then prefent Seafon , and feems 
 to be a Sequel of his Memorial for Pro- 
 teftantSy &c. beforemention'd. 
 
 I have hitherto, for the moil Part, kept 
 to Matters of Fact, well attefted in Writing y 
 I fhall now mention a Matter of Report, 
 and, as it were, of Tradition only , which 
 yet, I believe, is frefh in the Memory of 
 fome People, who have related to this Effedb 
 Soon after the happy Acceffion of King George, 
 a Prelate, of the higheft Station, was talking 
 with the Dean of Peterborough, what Dangers 
 
 the 
 
Bijhop Kennett. i 59 
 
 the Church and the Protefiant Intereft had 
 efcap'd, and what Scandal had been brought 
 upon them, by fome of the miftaken Clergy 
 in their intemperate Sermons, Pamphlets, 
 and Addreffes, and how honeftly and faith- 
 fully others had oppos'd them in their new 
 Notions and exorbitant Claims : What good 
 Service it wou'd now do to the People to look 
 backward, and to have a View given them 
 of what each Party, High and Low, had been 
 doing for the four laft Years ; by reprefenting 
 a very fhort Abftradt of the Speeches, Ser- 
 mons, and political Writings on both Sides; 
 leaving the World to judge which Side had 
 done their Church and Country the beft Ser- 
 vice, and had fhew'd moft of the Spirit of 
 Truth and Charity. 
 
 Upon this feafonable Intimation, ther 
 came out in. a- Month or two a plain Trad, 
 in 8vo, intitled, The Wifdom of looking Bacfc 
 wards, to judge the better of one Side and 
 the other, by the Speeches, Writings, Anions, 
 and other Matters of Faff on both Sides, for 
 the four laji Tears paji, 17 15, To which is 
 prenYd, an excellent Preface to the Reader. 
 
 But paffing over any further Conjectures 
 about the Compiler and Publifher of thofe 
 
 very 
 
160 The LIFE of 
 
 very ufeful Collections, the next Performance 
 of the Dean bore his Name, and was writ 
 upon this Occafion. After the Death of Dr. 
 Hicks there came out a Collection of Papers 
 written by him, wherein it appear'd that he 
 had been confecrated to the Title of Sujfra- 
 gan of Thetford, by fome few of the depriv'd 
 Bifhops, and after their Deceafe had made 
 himfelf the Principle of Orthodox Unity, and 
 Jacobite Loyalty -, condemning the eftablifh'd 
 Church of England as Schifmatical, and the 
 civil Government as tyranny and Ufurpation-, 
 the Bench of Bijhops, and their whole Clergy 
 as of invalid Orders -, their Miniftration of 
 the Sacraments as null and void ; and their 
 very Prayers a Sin. About the fame Time, 
 the Beginning of the Rebellion, there was 
 found a printed Tradt of Schifm, charg'd on 
 the Church of England and the whole Body 
 of the Clergy, by Mr. Lawrence Howell, one 
 of the fame Jacobite Separation. And in a 
 Search made for the Perfon and Papers of 
 the faid Mr. Howell, among other notable 
 Difcoveries, there was one Sheet fuperfcrib'd, 
 A Letter to Dr. Kennett, that feenYd to be 
 an infulting Dedication or Preface of a Book 
 callM, An Anjwer to the brief Hi/lory of the 
 
 Crow?: 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 161 
 
 Crown of England, written at the 1'ime when 
 the Bill of Exclufwn was attempted againfl the 
 Queens Father, then Duke of York. The 
 faid Letter prefix'd, complain'd grievoufly 
 that Dr. Kennett had given a vile Character 
 of Bifjop Merks, and yet againfl his Will, had 
 made him Jlr icily Faithful to his rightful Sove- 
 reign, &c. upon which the Dean drew up, 
 and publiuYd A fecond Letter to the Lord 
 Bifiop of Carlifle, upon the Subject of Bifiop 
 Merks, &c. dated OcJob. 22, 17 16. 
 
 The Controverfy of the new Schifm made 
 a much greater Noiie upon the late Tumults 
 and Rebellion, than it had ever done fince the 
 Filling of the depriv'd Sees by K. William ; and 
 the Jacobite Conventicles were more frequented 
 in the Cities of London and Weflminfter -, and 
 Priefts of that Way were fent down to ga- 
 ther the like Congregations in Country Towns : 
 And many of the high Folk, efpecially the 
 Women, feem'd to come to the parochial 
 Churches in and about London^ for the Sake 
 of their Pews, and their Cloaths, rather than 
 for Conformity to the publtck Worfiip. For 
 they wou'd not join in any Part of the Pray- 
 ers for King George, and his Royal Family, 
 but at the Mention of thofe Names, they 
 
 M wou'd 
 
\6i The LIFE of 
 
 wou'd rile up, or fit down, or, at leaft, exprefs 
 their Diffent in fome vifible Manner. An 
 Iniblence, that the primitive Chriftians wou'd 
 not have been guilty of, under the bloodieft 
 Tyrants and Perfecuters at Rome or Conjlan- 
 tinople; an Infolence, that no Chriftians wou'd 
 now dare to offer, and no Powers wou'd 
 fcarce fuffer, in any other Part of the World. 
 And, in the mean Time, too many of the 
 Church-Clergy, tho' offended with Dr. Hicks 
 for urging a Separation from Parochial 
 Churches, yet they gave in very much to the 
 Principles, upon which that Practice was 
 founded, viz. The Independency of the Church 
 from the State, the more than fpiritual Pow- 
 ers of the Church, the Legijlatare of the 
 Bifhops and Clergy; the Church above and 
 before the King, and fuch like Notions of 
 afluming Authority and Jurifdi&ion, by divine 
 Right, unaccountable to the Prince and Peo- 
 ple : So that it was very plain they were for 
 iaving themj elves, rather than the civil Go- 
 vernment, and the common Rights of the 
 whole Nation. 
 
 Under this unhappy Diipoiition of the 
 Minds of too many of the Clergy, the Dean 
 found it neceffary to write a third Letter in 
 
 Purfuance 
 
Bifhop Kennett. 163 
 
 Purfuance of the Cafe of Bifhop Merks -, to 
 mew how he was a Traitor to Henry IV. 
 only becaufe he had been an evil Minifter to 
 Richard II. that he was, for fuch Treafon 
 and Rebellion, depriv'd of his Bifhoprick by 
 the Civil Power, without the Pope, or any 
 Englifh Synod : That he was try'd for Trea- 
 fon, not by Peers in Parliament, but as a 
 common Lay-Subject, by a Jury before tem- 
 poral Judges; that he was convicted as a 
 Traitor and a Rebel ; that he then fubmitted 
 to the King's Mercy, and obtain'd his Royal 
 Pardon, and gave Security for his Allegiance 
 and good Behaviour; and was indeed ever 
 after a quiet and peaceable Subject, refpected 
 by the Revolution^- Archbifhop, and even pre- 
 ferr'd by the King himfelf to a Country Be- 
 nefice, tho' never reftor'd to his See, nor pre- 
 tending to act as a Bifiop of it. Upon thefe, 
 and many other incidental Matters, the Dean 
 publifh'd, A third Letter to the Lord Bifhop 
 of Carlifle upon the Subject of Bifhop Merks, 
 wherein the Nomination, Election, Invejliture, 
 and Deprivation of Englifh Prelates are jhewd 
 to have been originally conjlituted and governed 
 by the Sovereign Power of Kings a?id thzir 
 Parliaments $ againjl the Prete?ifions of our new 
 M 2 Fa- 
 
1(54- The LIFE of 
 
 Fanaticks, who have withdrawn them/elves from 
 the Ejlablifti d Church into a feparate Communi- 
 on, under the Name of fome deprivd Biflops, 
 and their fupposd SucceJJbrs, dated Jan. 25, 
 1716. 
 
 When thefe three Letters are read in Order* 
 by any who have a Tafte and fome Experi- 
 ence in Hiftory and Laws, and our Englifi 
 Conftitution, they muft needs be fatisfy'd in 
 the Truth and good Service of them. They 
 had this Teftimony from the Dean's Enemies, 
 as well as the Enemies of the Government, 
 that all the Ajijwer given to them, confifted 
 in abufive Libels on the Writer, inftead of 
 endeavouring to mew that he was wrong 
 either in his Facts, or Reafoning upon them- 
 This I had from a good Hand ; that when 
 the Dean was afk'd whether he had any 
 Thing to fay to one of the chief, who had at- 
 tacks thefe Letters, he faid, No ; he had gone 
 thro' his Pamphlet, and found nothing but 
 Anger and Ignorance in it; he wou'd, at 
 Leifure run it over again, and if he cou'd fatis- 
 fy himfelf that any one material Miftake had 
 been committed in any one of the Letters, 
 he wou'd take fome Opportunity to make a 
 
 publick 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 165 
 
 publick Acknowledgment and Amendment 
 of it. 
 
 I am now come to an Affair, wherein the 
 Wickednefs and Perverfenefs of others, with- 
 out the leaft Occafion (fo far as I can poffibly 
 judge) given by him/elf, makes it neceffary 
 for me to fay a few Things in Vindication 
 of the Dean ; I mean, the Difference between 
 him, and the late Bifliop Nicholfon of Car- 
 UJle. The Occafion of which, was briefly 
 this : A Sermon being preach'd by the Right 
 Rev. Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, then Bifhop of 
 Bangor, before the King, and publilh'd by 
 his Majefty's Command, 171*. was fallen 
 upon, in a very indecent Manner, by Dr. An- 
 drew Sjtape, in a Letter addrefs'd to the 
 Bifhop himfelf. His Lordftiip hereupon made 
 a Calm, and, in the Judgment of unpreju- 
 diced Readers, a fatisfadtory Reply ; in which 
 (upon Occafion of a Report fpread by fom e 
 Perfons about the Town, that he was put 
 upon preaching that Sermon at Court to 
 ferve fome political Ends) he ufes thefe 
 
 Words God knows my Sermon was preactid 
 
 without the Knowledge of any Man living* 
 
 Upon this, Dr. Snape, in a J'econd Letter to 
 
 his Lordfhip, drops the Argument, and feems 
 
 M 3 defirous 
 
1(5(5 The LIFE of 
 
 defirous to fupply the Want of that by per- 
 fonal Reflection. Being fhamefully foil'd in 
 his firft Attack, he thought it wou'd be 
 much to his Purpcfe, if he cou'd expofe 
 whom he cou'd not confute ; and fince his 
 Lordfl:ip\ Doctrines cou'd not be dijprovd, it 
 might be as well, if he cou'd prove him a 
 worfe Man than the World took him for ; 
 thus falling foul on his Reputation, in return < 
 for the Keennefs of his Arguments. Dr. Snape 
 had been told a Story by Dr. Hutchinfcn, flatly 
 inconfiftent with his Lordfiip's pofitive and 
 folemn Declaration, namely, that the Sermon 
 was preach" d with the Knowledge, and fubmit- 
 ted to the Correction of a certain Perfon, who 
 advis'd the Making feveral Alterations in it. 
 Accordingly, the DocJcr in the Conclufion 
 of his Letter, thus addreffes himfelf to the 
 good Bifhop. " I mu ft needs fay, your evd- 
 C; five and equivocal Way of Writing, favours 
 " verv ftrongly of fuch Communication: 
 c< (that is, with a Jefuit) and whether the 
 C£ fame Perfon may not have help'd you to 
 tc a mental Refrrvation to juftify a folemn 
 Appeal to God, that what you preach'd 
 " was without the Knowledge of anv Man liv- 
 u ing, when, a living Man has teftify'd that 
 
 <c it 
 
Bijhop K E N N E T T. \6l 
 
 £C it was preach'd with his Knowledge, and 
 " fubmitted to his Correction ; your Lord- 
 <£ £bip beft knows." 
 
 The Moment this was publiuYd to the 
 World, the Bifliop of Bangor (greatly mov'd 
 and affected with fuch an Attack on his Re- 
 putation) call'd upon Dr. Snape for the 
 Proof of what he had afferted. He pre- 
 fently, in Anfwer to this Demand, declar'd, 
 that he firft receiv'd that Account from Dr. 
 Hutchinjon, who had heard the Bifhop of Car- 
 lijle fay, that he had fpoke with the Perfon 
 who advis'd my Lord of Bangor, upon read- 
 ing his Sermon, to infert fuch Words as 
 abfolutely, properly, &c. And that fom^ Days 
 after, the fame Divine did again affure him, he 
 had heard the fame worthy Prelate a fecoiid 
 Time declare that Matter to be true, and 
 that he would juftify it to all the World : 
 Upon which, he drew up that Paffage, waited 
 on my Lord Bifhop of CarliJIe, read that Paf- 
 fage to him, and was allow'd by him to 
 publifb it, with an Affurance that he woud 
 ftand to it. 
 
 This was the Subftance of Dr. Snape s Ad- 
 vertisement ; to which the Bifhop of CarliJIe 
 M 4 was 
 
i68 The LIFE of 
 
 was perfuaded to add, this is true, tho' he af- 
 terwards declar'd, it was not ftrictly fo. 
 
 However, being now call'd upon to name 
 the living Man, who was to atteft the Truth 
 of what he afferted, he fixes on Dr. Kennett ; 
 who, he declares, according to the beft of his 
 Remembrance, was the Perfon that told him, 
 the Sermon was preach'd with his Knowledge, 
 and fubmitted to his Correction ; and that he 
 advis'd, and, with Difficulty, prevaird for the 
 inferting the Words above mention'd. 
 
 This was deny d by the Dean, in the moft 
 folemn Manner imaginable, in all his Conver- 
 fation, publick Advertifements, and private 
 Letters to his Friends; and there is all the 
 Reafon in the World to believe the Miftake 
 was the Bifhop of Carlijles, and not his. I 
 fhall not enter into the Detail of what was 
 then laid, to clear up the Dean?, Innocency 
 in this Matter ; which wou'd be tedious to 
 my felf, as well as the Reader : It may be 
 fufficient to hint a few Things for this Pur- 
 pofe ; and anfwer an Objection or two againft 
 the Dean, in Favour of the Bifhop. 
 
 Now it appear'd very clear from the Adver- 
 tifements and Letters publiflrd at that Time,that 
 the Dean had been no fuch Confident of the 
 
 Lord 
 
Bifhop Kennett. 169 
 
 Lord Bilhop of Bangor s y nor engaged in any 
 fuch controverfial Matters ; that he had con- 
 cern^ himfelf no farther, than often to de- 
 clare his Opinion, that the Bilhop wrote ho- 
 neftly his own Senfe and Judgment, without 
 calling in the Affiftance of any Friend : That 
 if the Bifhop of Bangor had wanted any Friend 
 to communicate his Papers to, Dr. Kennett 
 was not a fit, or likely Perfon, as well be- 
 caufe his Acquaintance with him was but 
 fmall, as that his Thoughts and Studies lay 
 too much another Way: That to have pre- 
 tended himfelf an Affiftant to the Bifhop of 
 Bangor, when he really was not, was beneath 
 the Character, not only of an honefi Man, but 
 a Man of common Senfe: That to haveboafted 
 of this Pretenfion to the Lord Bifhop of 
 Carlijle (in his Lordfhip's Prejudice againfl 
 the Bifhop of Bangor) had been the utmofl 
 Indifcretion : That the Dean had never in- 
 timated the leaft Hint of that Kind to any 
 Mortal befides : That Dr. Hutchinfon, to 
 whom the Bifhop firft told the Story of a 
 Corrector of the Bifhop of Bangor*s Papers, 
 did not underftand it of Dr- Kennett-, nay, 
 he did underftand, or conjecture, the Bifhop's 
 Meaning to be of another Perfon; and he 
 
 namd 
 
i 7 o The LIFE of 
 
 iianid that other fuppos'd Perfon to a Friend 
 near Peterborough : That the Bifhop of Car- 
 lijle wrote feveral Letters to Dr. Kennett, af- 
 ter the Noife of that Story in general ; and 
 even after fome Controverfy had arofe upon 
 it, without intimating one Word, that he fhou'd 
 have Occafion to mention his Name in it: 
 That his Lordihip was got into the Depth 
 oi the Difficulty, and cou'd not extricate 
 himfelf without naming his Man, before 
 ever he appeal'd to Dr. Kennett -, and defir'd 
 to be help'd out by him: That, upon this firft 
 Appeal, his Lordihip himfelf was fo dubious 
 and uncertain of his own Memory, that 'twas 
 plain he rather wanted Evidence, than knew 
 perfectly where to find it : That when the 
 Bifhop of Carlijle had lent the Dean his Opi- 
 nion, that he muft needs be the Perfon who 
 inform'd him of that Matter, he receiv'd it 
 with the utmoft Surprize, and cou'd not well 
 •underftand the Letter at the firft reading ', 
 and when he perceiv'd his Lordfhip's Mean- 
 ing, that he did really apprehend him to be 
 his Informant, he did immediately, to the 
 ry Friend he had with him, pity his Lord- 
 fhip's Miftike; and declare, that he never 
 feid, or fo much as thought of any fuch 
 
 Thing; 
 
Bijhop Rennet t. 171 
 
 Thing ; that he did not only proteft againft 
 his being the Author of this Story, by feveral 
 Letters to the Bifhop of Carlijle himfelf, but 
 to fome other Prelates, with whom he had 
 enter'd into more Converfation, upon the 
 Subject of the Bifhop of Bangor s Sermon ; 
 and who cou'd not but know the Secret, if 
 there had been any fuch : That the Bifhop of 
 Carli/le did manifeftly fall into many Errors 
 Miflakes, Inconfiftencies, and even Self- 
 Contradi&ions, in his Account of this Mat- 
 ter*. Whereas, in the Deans Allegations, 
 every Thing appear'd confonant, fteady, uni- 
 form, and of a Piece: That the Bifhop cou'd 
 never fix upon any T'ime for Dr. Kennetfs 
 telling him fuch a Story, nor upon any Place? 
 'till, at laft, he made it to be the Doctor's 
 Study, when they two had not been together 
 in that Study, without other Company, for 
 fome Months before ; and there mull have 
 been a Witnefs, one of the Doctor's Family 
 
 * Vale Bifhop of Bangor s Anfvver to the Lord Biihop c» ; 
 Carlijle's Letter, in Appendix N°. VIII. and an excellent 
 Pamphlet, publifh'd at that Time, intitlcd, A Layman's Thought* 
 en the Istt Treatment of the Bijhop of Bangor. And another, 
 intitled, Obfervations on a Letter, JaU to be written by the Bijhop 
 of Cariifle to the Bijhop of Bangor. 
 
 at 
 
172 The LIFE of 
 
 at leaft, to any fuch Converfation : That the 
 Bifhop betray'd fo much Diffidence and Con- 
 fufion, at firft opening that Story in the 
 Prints, that it feem'd to argue a Neceffity of 
 faying fomething extraordinary, and out of 
 Courfe : That he us'd a Word, or Phrafe, 
 that of putting in Faftnefles, as from the 
 Mouth of Dr. Kennett, when no fuch Form 
 of Speaking cou'd poffibly come out of his 
 Mouth ; for he had never ufed Faftneffes in 
 any other Senfe, but that of a Sort of ' inaccejjtble 
 Places, as may be about Carli/le, and thofe 
 Parts : That among a hundred Witnefles of 
 Dr. Kennetfs Converfation and Correfpon- 
 dence, no one cou'd ever fay, he had ever 
 any Grounds to believe, that he had ever, in 
 Difcourfe or Writing, intimated any fuch 
 Thing : That his Lordfliip offer'd, indeed, 
 to produce one Witnefs from Child's Coffee- 
 Houfe, that pretended, he heard another 
 Perfon tell fuch a Story of Dr. Kennett: But 
 that other Perfon, a creditable Man, deny'd, 
 in the publick Prints, that he faid, or meant 
 any fuch Thing : And the Accufer was a 
 F arty-Man, broken in Credit and Fortune: 
 And yet his Lordlhip, when he himfelf might 
 have known, that this Story was publickly 
 
 con- 
 
B ifiop K E N N E T ' T. 1 7 3 
 
 contradi&ed, in the fullefl Manner, fent the 
 Dean Word, that the pretended Author of it, 
 did own and avouch it: That the Bifhop of 
 Carlijle, after he had made up his Relation 
 of this Matter, in his printed Letter to the 
 Bifhop of Bangor, wou'd never condefcend 
 to anfwer any Queftions, or Expoftulations 
 about it ; but thought it fufficient, that he 
 had /aid it; and it needed no farther Proof: 
 In a Word, it appear'd, not only from his mofl 
 folemn Denial of it, but alfo from thefe, and 
 many other Circumftances, concurring Pro- 
 babilities, and fair Prefumptions, that Dr. 
 Kennett was not the Author of this Story to 
 the Bifhop of Carlijle, but that his Lordfhip 
 was fome other Way led into this grofs and 
 fatal Miftake, concerning pretended Altera- 
 tions in the Bifhop of Banger 's Sermon. 
 
 But that which I wou'd rather obferve 
 upon this Matter, is, that the Deans Pro- 
 reflation was not only exceeding fole??m, bu t 
 full, pofitive and peremptory, without any 
 evafive Word or Salvo ; whereas the Bi//Jop'$ 
 had a faving Claufe incerted — He fays, to the 
 befi of his Remembrance, it was fo and fo ; 
 which befl, it too evidently appear'd, was fo 
 very bad, that there is no Ground in the 
 
 World 
 
174- The LIVE of 
 
 World to depend upon it againft the Dean 
 of Peterborough's full, pofitive, and peremptory 
 Aflertion *, and molt folemn Appeal to God 
 for the Truth of what he had affirm'd. 
 
 * Dr. Kennett, in his third Letter to the Bifhop of Carlifte, 
 thus expreffes himfelf. — " I wou'd facrifice any Thing to your 
 " Lordihip but my good Confcience and fteady Refolution to 
 << abide by the Truth. In this Queftion of your Lordihip's 
 ** raifing, whether I did not tell you of fome fuch Intrigue, I 
 •• have honeitly anfwer'd No; positively No; never in my Life. 
 " I wou'd have exprcfs'd it to the beft of my Knowledge, and as 
 <* far as I can remember; but that if I had ever done or faid the 
 ** Thing, I cou'd not but remember it, and muft needs know 
 " whether I had ever any fuch Thought in my Heart. I never 
 " had any fuch Thought, nor cou'd I have any fuch Words 
 «' with your Lordihip, nor with any Friend or Foe whatever ,% 
 Vide Appendix, Numb. 5. And in another Letter thus. — ■" In 
 «* the Matters now before us, the Truth doth not depend upon 
 « my Memory good or bad. It is not only my no Way re?nem~ 
 « bring the Thing, but my never once imagining any fuch 
 " Thing, my never hearing the leail of it, 'till your Lord/hip, 
 " too late, imparted to me your own Apprehenfion of it, and 
 '* that in Words very different from thofe in your Lordfhip's prin- 
 " ted Letter to the Biihop of Bangor. So that it is not my Mrmory, 
 ii it is my Knowledge, my full Conviclion, my firmefl Perfuafton, 
 " that I never did fay, I never cou\l fay, what your Lordihip, to 
 i( the beft of your Remembrance hath accus'd me of to the whole 
 '< World. " Numb. 6. And in a Letter to a Right Rev. 
 Biihop (not publifh'J) he thus fpcaks. — Truth is a facred 
 'Thing, and I would not deny it far any Confi 'deration in this World. 
 I d'j by no Means queftion hit h'jrdftifs Sincerity, and I thank God, 
 I am confident of my own. 
 
 This 
 
Bijhop Kennett. i 7 £ 
 
 This however, I was willing to remark, to 
 fhew that both xht' contrary Protections, may 
 ftand with Truth -, that his Lord/hip's oppofite 
 Appeal, does not in the leaft invalidate the 
 Deans-, and that in Charity we may, and 
 ought to attribute his Lordfhip's Conduct in 
 this, and fome other Points, to mijiake in 
 Memory, (which his Lordfhip fhew'd all along 
 he was very apt to fall into) without any 
 fuch impeachment of his Integrity, as fup- 
 pofing him either a defign'd Inventer, or 
 confcious of the Falfhood of fuch a Story. 
 
 There was one or two Things commonly 
 objected againft Dr. Kennett, in Favour of 
 the Lord Billiop of Car life : One was, that 
 the Doctor, in his Anfvver to the Bifhop's 
 Charge, had frankly declar'd his Belief, that 
 his Lordfhip had acted v/ith Integrity in that 
 Matter. This is fully anfwer'd above : The 
 Bifhop declar'd, that what he faid relating to 
 Dr. Kennett was true, to the bejl of his Re- 
 membrance, [p. 17. of his Letter to the Bijhop 
 of Bangor\ which I truly hope and believe, 
 as to other Matters too, wherein his Lord- 
 fiip Cotfd not deny, but he was exceedingly 
 mijlakcn. The Deans refoiving this, into 
 fincere Mijlak.es in Memory, was, indeed, (how 
 
 much. 
 
i 7 6 The LIFE of 
 
 much foever flighted by his Lordfhip) the 
 kindeft Thing that cou'd be faid ; an Expe- 
 dient Jo friendly, that it ought to have been 
 thankfully accepted, and not made an Ob- 
 jection againft him. The Bifiop had once a 
 good Opinion of the Dean : He had been 
 intimately acquainted with him for fifteen 
 Years together , and when he propos'd to 
 cite him for a Witnefs in this yery Caufe 
 he proclaimed to the World, that he was a 
 Per/on of iinqueftionable Veracity > and, I dare 
 fay, his Lordfmp then beiiev'd himfelf. 
 
 There was another Objection againft Dr. 
 Kennett, that, He wrote the Bijhop Word, he 
 believd he could tell how his Lordfhip wa s 
 drawn into that Miflake-, and yet did not 
 tell him. His Lordfhip caught at this Sug- 
 geftion, as one willing to be help'd out of 
 the Briars ; but he complain'd, that he did 
 not explain himfelf, without ftaying a Poft 
 or two for his Explication. The Truth of 
 that Matter was foonreprefented to his Lord- 
 Jhip, and cannot be deny'd. The Bifrop knew 
 he had been irritated extremely much againft 
 the Bifhop of Bangor, on the publick and 
 private Accounts, and fpoke of him in Terms 
 not to be pur in Writing ; that, under all 
 
 thefe 
 
Bifhop Kennett. i 77 
 
 thefe ill Refentments, he was frequently in- 
 veighing againfl the Prefervative, and Sermon 
 before the King, in the fevereft Manner 5 that, 
 upon fuch Difcourfe, the Dean was a frequent 
 Moderator, and labour'd to mitigate his Lord- 
 jhlfs Anger, fpeaking with Charity and De- 
 cency on the Bifhop of Bangor s Side, and 
 declaring his utter Diflike of the inferiour 
 Clergies falling upon a Bifhop, for a Sermon 
 Licenc'd by a Command of the fupreme Or- 
 dinary-, and farther exprefling himfclf, that 
 he did not underfland the hard Senfe that 
 was put upon feveral PaiTages in its that he 
 thought, in the main, it v/as pretty well 
 guarded, and limited, with laving Words, 
 fuch as abfolutely, &c. and that he had wait- 
 ed on the Bifhop of Bangor juft about the 
 Time his Sermon v/as publifh'd, and hop'd 
 his Lordfhip meant very well. 'Tis very 
 probable, that, foon after this, the Bifhop of 
 Carlijle heard, that the Bifhop of Bangor had 
 trufted fome Friend to help guard his Writings, 
 which wou'd have been otherwife (what his 
 Enemies wifh'd) mere ofreniive, and liable to 
 greater Exceptions. The Bifhop might inno- 
 cently report this Story, 'till, he was unhappily 
 drawn in, to undertake to produce his Vouch- 
 
 N er 
 
178 The LIFE of 
 
 er for it. He began then to furmife, that 
 Dr. Kennett might be the Man, becaufe he 
 had talk'd in Favour of the Bimop of Bangor ■, 
 and his Writings, and had own'd the Paying 
 a Vifit to him. Some of the Dean's Enemies 
 were glad to confirm his Lordfhip in that 
 Surmife, and might poflibly offer him other 
 Reafons to imagine, that he had guefs'd right, 
 and might venture to affirm it. The Dean 
 from the Beginning, believ'd the Cafe was 
 fo, or to that Purpofe ; but to open all the 
 Scene of Competition upon which that Matter 
 mov'd, was not thought to be decent; he 
 chofe rather to be wanting to himfelf, than 
 do any Thing unbecoming his Character, or 
 unworthy the Friendfhip he had formerly had 
 with the Bifiop of Carlijle. 
 
 But whether this was the Cafe, or no -, or, 
 by what other Means foever, the Bijhop came 
 to entertain this Conceit; there is no Manner 
 of Reafon to believe, but that the Dean was 
 very innocent in the whole Matter : He offer'd 
 all the Arguments, Probabilities, and fair 
 Preemptions, that cou'd poflibly be given for 
 the Difproof of any Story: And, that no 
 reafonable Perfon might have any farther 
 Doubt concerning it, he has folemnly declar'd 
 
 in 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 179 
 
 in his Loft Will and Tejlament, that he neither 
 /aid, nor thought any fuch Thing. An Evi- 
 dence not to be refilled, even by thofe who 
 have entertain'd the greateft Prejudices againfl 
 him, when 'tis conlider'd, that the Thing 
 had, for a great while, lain perfectly quiet; 
 and he cou'd have no poffible Motive to 
 make fuch a folemn Declaration, but the 
 Confcioufnefs of his own Innocency, and a 
 Defire to exprefs his Charity towards thofe 
 who had fo highly injur'd him ; which he has 
 pioufly done in the fame Claufe of his Will. 
 
 The Confcioufnefs of the Deans own In- 
 nocency was, no doubt, a great Support to 
 him, while this Affair was fo eagerly can- 
 vafs'd on all Sides -, but there is great Reafon 
 to believe, it gave him more Trouble and 
 Uneafinefs than any he ever had been engag'd 
 in before. He had long oppos'd, and there- 
 fore labour'd under the Prejudices of that 
 Party, that fet themfelves moll violently 
 againll the Bifhop of Bango?\ as, in his Opi- 
 nion, Enemies to the Government, and to 
 the Peace of this Church and Nation : He 
 had fuffer'd Cenfures, and many other Perfe- 
 ctions, (I may call 'em) for being firm to the 
 Intereil of our Religion and Liberties: But 
 N 2 no 
 
i8o The LIFE of 
 
 no Dart of the Enemy cou'd wound him f 
 much as that which was faid to come from 
 the Hand of a Friend ; the Reproach of be- 
 ing JufpeBed of the bafeft Thing in the 
 World, that of telling an officious, formal 
 Story, injurious to the Bifhop of Bangor, 
 (for whom he had a great RefpecT: on Ac- 
 count of his excellent Writings in Defence 
 of our Conftitution in Church and State ; 
 and, in Regard he was a long Fellow- Sufferer 
 with his Lordfhip, in the fame Caufe of En- 
 glip Rights and Liberties, and Protejiant 
 Succejfion) and of no Manner of Advantage 
 to himfelf; a Story that had not the leaft 
 Foundation for it ; and cou'd he have been 
 capable of inventing it, it cou'd have ferv'd 
 no other Purpofe, but (what he utterly ab- 
 horr'd) to have vilify'd one worthy Prelate, 
 and to have deceiv'd another : He knew there 
 was a Party-Prejudice, that wou'd catch at 
 any Thing, and believe, or pretend to believe, 
 any Thing to their Purpofe 3 and that, when 
 the Bifhop of CarliJIe had publifh'd fuch a 
 Conceit, a Number of People wou'd run 
 away with it -, and the fame People wou'd 
 not be fatisfy'd with any Proteflations againffc 
 it ; nor with the beft Reafons and Arguments 
 
 that 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 181 
 
 that cou'd be offer 'd for the Difproof of it. 
 He did not value the fcoundrel Pamphlets 
 that he faw daily advertis'd, and publifh'd 
 againft him, nor the fcurrilous Letters fent 
 to him ; (he us'd to fay, that a good Man 
 mu:ft be above the Notice of foul Paper) but 
 it cou'd not but give him fome Concern, that 
 he had Reafon to think he had loft fome 
 of his greatejl Frie?ids, for no Reafon but that, 
 in Truth, deferving to be the greater Friend: 
 He faw what he had brought upon his own 
 Head, by not fubmitting to the Charge of ma- 
 king a Lye : No Quarter, or Favour, from fome 
 Great Men, who had thought fit to declare 
 themfelves Enemies to the Bifhop of Bangor, 
 The Truth is, the Dean had before been 
 expos'd to the Jealoufy and Difpleafure of 
 fome of his old Friends, for no Caufe, but 
 that of not running into new Meafures with 
 them. He cou'd not but approve the At- 
 tempt of making the Protejiant Dijj enters 
 more eafy, by Repealing a Law made to 
 their Prejudice, meerly for their faithful 
 Adherence to the Protejiant Succejjion in the 
 late Reign*. The Bifhop of Carlijle tells 
 N 3 us, 
 
 * In a Letter to my felf, dated April 13, 1717, he has theie 
 
 Words. The Bill for Relieving the Diflenters in Matters of 
 
 Civil 
 
182 The LIFE of 
 
 us, that " The Repeal of the Law againfl Oc- 
 
 cc cafional Conformity was then on the Anvil* 
 
 lc and 'twas confidently given out, that above 
 
 u twenty of the Biftoops were ready to give their 
 
 Cc Affent to a Bill for that Purpofe : It manifeft- 
 
 1 ly appeared that the very Reverfeofthis Story 
 
 cc was true." Which the Dean was forry 
 
 for ; and cou'd not but own it to thofe who 
 
 did not like fuch Difcourfe. He, in like 
 
 Manner, freely exprefs'd his great Refpect 
 
 for the Lord Bifhop of Bangor y on Account 
 
 of his publick Services to this P rot eft ant 
 
 Church and Nation, and his utter Diflike of 
 
 the Proceedings againft him in the Lower 
 
 Civil Right and Property, confident with the Security of the 
 Eftablifh'd Church, Teems to be due to them as Englijb Protejlants, 
 and faithful Subjects. — However, it muft be oppos'd in the 
 Name of the Church. Had the Miniflry been more early fix'd> 
 and fteady Meafures taken, it had met with lefs Oppofition. I 
 wifh the Bijbops had declar'd nothing 'till they had feen the Bill* 
 and kept it more in their Power of Reconciling it intirely to the 
 Peace and true Intereft of Religion, as by Law Eftablifh'd in 
 the Church of England. I doubt if it go on, fome who were 
 againfl; it will find an odd Expedient for it, and rather than be 
 thought to juftify occafional Communion, will offer more than 
 the flrft Demand, even to Abrogate the Teft Act, when all had 
 been content with reltoring Toleration to the State of the Revolu- 
 tion* 
 
 i 
 
 Houie 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 183 
 
 Houfe of Convocation. Thefe Things rendered 
 him very obnoxious to thofe, who had enter- 
 tain'd other Apprehenfions of Things, and 
 gone into other Meafures -, and this made 
 them the more ready to catch hold of the 
 Occafion given by the Bifhop of Carlijles 
 Report, to fhew him the lefs Countenance 
 and Favour. 
 
 So far did this Prejudice prevail, that the 
 Dean's Enemies hop'd, and confidently re- 
 ported, that it wou'd be an effectual Bar to 
 his farther Advancement in the Church : But, 
 befides many others, there was one, * in high 
 Favour with the King, who faithfully flood 
 by him to the laft, (a Prelate of great Learn- 
 ing, Piety and Charity -, of true Integrity? 
 joyn'd with confummate Wifdom, and a 
 mafterly Addrefs in publick Affairs) and the 
 Dean was fo well known to others at the 
 Helm, to be both an able, and a fteady, ho- 
 neft Man, that upon the Deceafe of Dr. Cutnr 
 ber/and, Bifhop of Peterborough^ he was im- 
 mediately promoted to that See. 
 
 He was confecrated Bifhop of Peterborough at 
 Lambeth Chapel, on Sunday, Novemb. 9, 17 18. 
 
 * Dr. Charles Trlmneh Bifhop of Norwich ; afterwards tran- 
 sited to Wincbefler* 
 
 N 4 His 
 
184. The LIFE of 
 
 His Friend, Dr. Edward Waddington (fince 
 the worthy Bifhop of Chichcfier) preach- 
 ing the Confccration-Sermon : In which See, 
 having fat little more than ten Years, he 
 departed this Life at his Houfe in St. James's 
 Street, Wejlminfter? on 7 'hurfday ', the 19th Day 
 of Decemb. 1728, and was buried (according 
 to the Direction of his Laft Will) in the Ca_ 
 thedral Church of Peterborough? a fraBical 
 Sermon being preach'd at his Funeral, as he 
 himfelf had alio defir'd. 
 
 Having, in the foregoing Account of Bifhop 
 Kennett, kept my ielf chiefly to Matters of 
 Fact, well attefted in Writing, I wou'd now 
 conclude it with the following brief Cha- 
 racter of him, naturally ariiing from the 
 whole. We cannot be fo well inform'd of 
 his Aclions, as we have been of his Writings . 
 becaufe thefe are publiuYd to the World, but 
 thofe were rnoft of them in his own private 
 Keeping. There are, however, fome Things 
 in which he fo much excell'd, and which 
 fo well defer ve the Notice of the World, that, 
 I hope, this imperfect Attempt to point 
 them out, will be excus'd, 'till fome other Perfon 
 ihall undertake i:, who is equal to fuch a Work. 
 
 The Oxford Antiquary and Hijiorian, Mr. 
 
 Anthony 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 185 
 
 Anthony Wood, reprefents him, even at his 
 firft Appearance in the World, as an excel* 
 lent Philologijl, a good Preacher, whether in 
 Englifo or Latin, and well vers'd in the 
 Hi/lories and Antiquities of our Nation, and 
 much deferving of the Church of England. 
 (Athena Oxon. vol. 2. p. 113 1.) 
 
 And indeed, his vaft Stock of Learning 
 began to difplay it felf very early : He was 
 betimes taken Notice of, and admir'd, as an 
 extraordinary Perfon for his Accornpliiliments, 
 both human and divine. 
 
 He was a Man of incredible Diligence and 
 Application, not only in his Youth, but to 
 the very laft. The whole Difpofal of him- 
 felf was to perpetual Induftry and Service. 
 His chiefeft Recreation was Variety of Em- 
 ployment ; for, befides thofe Portions of Time 
 which the Necefiities of Nature, and of 
 civil Life, extorted from him, there was no*- 
 a Minute of the Day which he left vacant. 
 
 He had a noble Library, colle&ed at a 
 great Expence of Time, Pains, and Money ; 
 a iid that, not for Oftentation, or meerly for 
 the Pleafure of poffeffing fuch a Treaiure ; 
 for his Delight was, to be among his Books, 
 and to be rendering them feme Way or other 
 ufefu! to the World. Tho* 
 
m The LIFE of 
 
 Tho' he was well acquainted with all other 
 Parts of Learning, and took a particular 
 Pleafure in Hijlory, yet he was not diverted 
 by thefe, from acquiring a vaft Degree of 
 that kind of Knowledge, which his Profeffi- 
 on more efpecially requir'd of him. He did 
 not indeed much admire Matters of doubtful 
 Dijputation, or apply himfelf to the Study of 
 meer Notion and 'Theory ; but he was an ex- 
 cellent and judicious Divine ; converfant in all 
 the moft weighty and fubftantial Parts of 
 Divinity, and wou'd fpeak very readily and 
 admirably upon any Head of that Kind, when 
 Occafion requir'd. His great Bufinefs was to 
 eftablifh and fecure the effential and moft 
 necefTary Points of Religion ; for the reft, he 
 left them to the Difputers of this World; and 
 did not envy 'em the Pleafure they feem'd 
 to take that Way. 
 
 His Sermons were very excellent ; fo fram'd, 
 as, at once, to improve the Mind, and affed: 
 the Heart. He had a folid Judgment, as 
 well as a lively Fancy; and Quicknefs of 
 Thought, as well as Facility of Exprefiion ; 
 there is fomething in the Style and Manner, 
 peculiar to himfeif, and very entertaining to 
 a pious Perfon. If his Difcourfes were not 
 
 always 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 187 
 
 always fet off with the Ornaments of Lan- 
 guage, it was not becaufe he cou'd not give 
 them that Advantage, (for he was a great 
 Matter in human and divine Rhetorick) but 
 his Judgment chofe it, as fitteft for the Sub- 
 ject and Occafion. In many of his Compofi- 
 tions that are publifh'd, there may be dif- 
 cern'd the moft beautiful Turns of Expreffion, 
 and great Judgment, Clearnefs, and Propri- 
 ety in all. 
 
 His Sermons were delivered with a be- 
 coming Fervor, and enliven'd with proper 
 Geftures, and the juft Decorum of Behavi- 
 our- whereby he exceedingly engag'd the 
 Attention, and affected the Hearts of his 
 Hearers. Indeed, all his publick Miniftra- 
 tions, were perform'd with remarkable Seri- 
 oufnefs, Reverence, and Solemnity. 
 
 He was a truly pajloral Man *, had a great 
 Senfe of the Worth of Souls, and was very 
 
 * I think it, at all Times, my Duty to promote the Intereft of 
 Religion, and the Good of your Parifh, and have therefore, upon 
 your late Vacancy, endeavour'd to make the bell Choice I could 
 of a Minifter, to inftruft you for your Soul's Health. I am verily 
 periuaded, that I have plac'd one among you, who is both able 
 and willing to difcharge the Duty of his Place ; and who, I 
 doubt not, will be careful to watch over you, as becomes a faith- 
 ful Pallor. Mr. Brewfterh Letter to the Parifhioners of St- 
 Jlofolpb Aldgate, &c. 
 
 fol- 
 
188 The LIFE of 
 
 follicitous how he might moft erTectually fervc 
 thofe committed to his Care. His higher Sta- 
 tion in the Church did not hinder his At- 
 tendance on his Parijh. He exprefs'd a An- 
 gular Satisfaction in difcharging all the Duties 
 of his moft holy Calling - y and rejoic'd in 
 nothing more than in the Succefs of his La- 
 bours. 
 
 We mav form the beft Idea of him in his 
 Epifcopal Character, from his own Sermon on 
 the Office and good Work of a Bifloop> and the 
 Introduction to the Advices he delivered to his 
 Clergy at his primary Vifitation: He himfelf 
 was, in all Refpeclis, fuch as he defcribes the 
 truly Chriftian Bifhop to be, in the one ; and 
 fully anfwer'd the Expectations he had rais'd 
 of himfelf, in the other. He well knew his 
 Duty, and faithfully perform'd it. And his 
 Clergy were fo fenfible of their Lofs in his 
 Death, that he was greatly lamented by 
 them. 
 
 What his Behaviour was, as an E?iglijlma?t> 
 a Protejlant in general, and a Member of 
 this Reform'd Church of England in particu- 
 lar, need not be mention'd : It is abundant- 
 ly evident from every Part of the foregoing 
 Memoir?. 
 
 He 
 
Bijhop Rennett. 189 
 
 He was a truly pious and religious Man ; 
 not only regular and devout in the Worfliip 
 of God, in private and publick, but conftant- 
 ly acknowledging God in all bis Ways ; owning 
 his Power and Providence in the daily Oc- 
 currences of Life ; and referring all Things 
 to his Difpofal. It was not uncommon with 
 him both to defire the Prayers of his pious 
 Friends, upon any great providential Occasi- 
 on, and affectionately to recommend them 
 to the divine Favour and Bleffing. 
 
 Next to his Piety towards God, his friend- 
 ly and charitable Temper ought to be men- 
 tion^ 5 as that, for which we mail be moft 
 fenfible of our Lofs in his Death. His Dif- 
 pofition was eafy and gentle ; his Behaviour 
 affable and courteous. He was acceffible, and 
 communicative 5 a true Friend, as well as 
 an admirable Pattern, to the younger Clergy ; 
 always ready to diredt them in their Studies, 
 to affift them in any Affair they were con- 
 cern'd in ; to help them to Cures and Em- 
 ployments, and follicit for their better Sta- 
 tion in the Church. A fober Clergyman, or 
 Scholar, was always welcome to his Study, 
 and fure of his Countenance and Encourage- 
 ment. 
 
 His 
 
ioo The LIFE of 
 
 His good Will and Charity to Mankind in 
 general, was confpicuous in the indefatigable 
 Labours he fuftain'd to promote the Intereft 
 of Religion and Learning, and every good 
 Defign. Far from engroffing any Sort of 
 Knowledge to himfelf, he was exceedingly 
 free and communicative and improving, to 
 all he convers'd with, or that, far or near, 
 defir'd his Affiftance and Advice. 
 
 In Works of Mercy, and Charity, he took 
 a peculiar Pleafure ; and did as zealoufly pro- 
 mote them, as if he had reliev'd himfelf hy 
 affifting the Poor. He was very liberal, and 
 even bountiful to fome of his Relations, whofe 
 meaner Circumftances requir'd his Help *. 
 He not only occafionally reliev'd thofe he 
 thought worthy of it, but constantly diftribu- 
 ted at every Chrijlmas, a confiderable Dole in 
 Meat, Bread, Candles, Money, to the poorer 
 Sort of Houfe-keepers in his Parifh. He had 
 a great Influence on fome other charitable 
 Perfons, to Direff, rather than to Difpofe> 
 
 * Very large Sums of Money were difpos'd of, by the Bi- 
 fliop this Way ; as a Clergyman has declar'd, through whofc 
 Hands it came for that Purpofe, 
 
 their 
 
Bijhop Rennett. 191 
 
 their Charity *. In the moft literal Senfe, he 
 confiderd the Poor and Needy ; for he was e- 
 ver projecting and folliciting for their Relief 
 and Support. As he was well efteenYd by 
 the Magiftracy of the City, and call'd oftner 
 than others, to preach the Spital Sermons, fb 
 
 he 
 
 * Among others he was well efteem'd by the Alderman o> 
 his Ward, Sir Charles Tborold, Bart, who fuffer'd him to fug- 
 geft fome proper Objects of Charity in his Life, .and at his 
 Death. His laft Will had fo many noble Charities bequeathed 
 in it, that, for the Honour of the City, as well as of that 
 worthy Family, Dr. Kennett, thought fit to give an AbftracT: 
 of it, in his Spital Sermon, on Tuefday in Eafter Week, 17 10, 
 p. 25. The Exhibitions to be yearly given to four poor Scho. 
 lars in the Univerfity of Oxon, (there mention'd) were to be 
 affixt to fuch Colleges or Halls as he fliou'd appoint ; who ac- 
 cordingly nam'd St. Edmund Hall, Corpus Chrifii, Univerfity^ 
 and Merton; the firft in refpect to his own Education; the 
 fecond to his Brother's ; and the two laft in regard of Friendihip 
 to the Governours of them. Dr. Kennett had alfo a particular 
 Acquaintance and Confidence with his late Parifhioner at 
 Aldgate* Mr. John Pierrepoint, who, after a Recefs from Bu- 
 finefs, was projecting how to do moil Good in his Generation 
 and to Pofterity ; and was encourag'd by the Dean in what he 
 afterwards accomplilh'd ; which, as I am inform'd, was the 
 Founding a Free-School at LuEion in Herefordjbire, for in- 
 ftrucling of Children in Religion, Grammar Learning, Wri- 
 ting, Arithmetick, and Menfuration ; the Governours where- 
 of were incorporated by Aft of Parliament, and the School 
 endew'd with an Eftate of about 300 /. per Ann. Tax Free j 
 
 the 
 
192 The LIFE of 
 
 heperfoim'd that Service in the moft ufeful 
 and acceptable Manner. His Sermons^ may 
 be reckon'd among the very befi on the Sub- 
 ject. He was a common Father to t\iz per- 
 
 the Profits to be employ'd in the following Manner. To the 
 School-Mafter 70 /. per Ann. To the Ufher 40 /. To a Writing- 
 Mailer 40 /. To put out fix Apprentices yearly 30 /. To be 
 laid out in Books of Piety, to be given to each Apprentice* 
 6 /. To fet up fix Apprentices yearly, if they appear, by Cer- 
 tificate to have ferv'd their Time faithfully, and to be of 
 the Communion of the Church of Eng/and, 60 /• Exhibitions 
 to be allow'd to three Scholars ftudying either at Oxford, or 
 Cambridge, which will amount to about 60/. more. The 
 worthy Founder, in his own life Time, had expended above 
 1500/. in Building the School-Houfe, and in walling in, 
 planting, and making a Garden, and other Conveniences, al- 
 lotting feveral Acres of Land for adjoining Pafture, C5V. And 
 dying, he left a Token of Remembrance to the Dean ; who 
 was foon after blefs'd with an Opportunity of promoting ano- 
 ther Charity. A wealthy and well-difpos'd Merchant, Mr. 
 Arundel, returning from Leghorn, and lying -long at London 
 and the Bath, in a weak Condition, did, by his laft Will, be- 
 queath many charitable Legacies, and among others 500 /. to be 
 difpofed among poor Widows, oV. at the Difcretion, and by the 
 Diftribution of Dr. White Kennett, and his Brother, Mr. 
 Baft! Kennett. Which Sum was duly paid by the Executor, 
 and faithfully diflributed by the f:.id Trufiees in feveral Porti- 
 ons, at feveral Times : Tho' upon this Occafion, the Applica- 
 tions and Importunities were fo very prerling and interrupting, 
 and poor People fo full of Envyings and Murmurs, that the 
 Dean was often heard to complain of the hard Office ; and to 
 obferve, that even a Lord Almoner is not to be envied, 'till 
 he can fatisfy all Perfons, and Anfwer all Requefls. 
 
 fecuted 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 193 
 
 fecuted and ajflicled; and the Brethren and 
 Strangers, whofe Bowels he caus'd to be re- 
 
 frejhed y will bear Witnefs of his Charity b efore 
 the Church. 
 
 I fhall only add, that He was a Man of 
 great Probity, Courage, and Refolution, in the 
 Difcharge of his Duty. He liv'd (efpecially 
 fince the Revolution} in Times of great Trial 
 and Difcrimation ; and in all of them, he 
 approv'd his fteady, inflexible, and fearlefs 
 Temper. The Frowns of great Men in 
 Power, cou'd no more awe him, than popu- 
 lar Clamours cou'd fhake his Stedfaftnefs. 
 However he might be otherwife reprefented 
 by fome, I cannot but think he was too plain 
 a Man for the prefent Mode j which made 
 him once fay to a Friend, that he Jhould ne- 
 ver make a good Court Bijhop. He was dif- 
 pos'd rather to ferve great Men, than to court 
 them ; and perhaps he did not fpeed the bet- 
 ter for that Humour. 
 
 He knew before-hand the Price of doing 
 his Duty; how many factious and i//Men he 
 muft difpleafe, what Cenfures and Abufes he 
 muft endure, and what Hazards he muft 
 run. He was long an Oppofer of the de- 
 ftru&ive Principles and Pra&ices, of the E- 
 
 O nemies 
 
194 The LIFE of 
 
 nemies of our happy Conftitution in Church 
 and State: And, in return, the Rage and bit- 
 ter Zeal of the whole Party appear'd, in 
 various Forms, againft him. But none of 
 thefe Things movd him. He thought it worth 
 his while to fuffer all this for God's Glory, 
 the publick Good, and the true Intereft of 
 our Church and Nation. He JIM held fajl 
 his Integrity -> and had the chrijlian Courage 
 in this Caufe, and the Defence of it> to fear 
 no Man. 
 
 A Man of this Temper, with all his other 
 excellent Qualifications, could not fail of 
 being of great Ufe to the World. If he did 
 not do all the Good that might be expected, 
 the Fault was not his. Many Difficulties and 
 Embarrafments he met with : Not only the 
 conftant Oppofition of bad Men, but the 
 Jealoufy and Emulation of fome good Men ; 
 (for they are but Men) and perhaps his Zeal 
 againft what he thought v/rong, might un- 
 warily engage him in Meafures (in fome one 
 Inftance) apt to raife Prejudices among thofe 
 who were very ready to receive them. But 
 in the main Parts of his Life, he was vifibly 
 infpir'd both with Boldnefs and fervent Zeal 
 to promote the great Ends of Religion and 
 
 Virtue, 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 19c; 
 
 Virtue, Order and Decency, and every good 
 Work, and with great V/ifdom, and Prudence, 
 in the Profecution of them ; and generally 
 faw happy Effects of his inceffant Labours 
 and Endeavours. 
 
 I mall now give an exact Catalogue of his 
 Works, Tracts, Sermons, &c. with fome Ac- 
 count of the Occafion, and Defign of feveral 
 of them, from Wood, and others. 
 
 I. A Letter from a Student at Oxford to a 
 Friend in the Country, concerning the ap- 
 proaching Parliament, in Vindication of his 
 Majefty, the Church of England and Univer- 
 fity, London, 1681. This Pamphlet, which 
 was printed in March, and diverfe Copies of 
 them fent to Oxon, about the 15th of the 
 fame Month, An. 1680. againft the Time 
 that the Parliament was to fit, on the 21ft 
 of the faid Month, gave great Diftafte to the 
 factious Party of the Houfe of Commons, 
 who wou'd have endeavour'd to find out the 
 Author, and have him puniuYd, had not they 
 been fuddenly diffolv'd. John Trenchard, 
 fometime Fellow of New College, then a Bur- 
 gefs for Taunton in Somerfetjhire, to ferve in 
 the faid Parliament, was an active Man in 
 O 2 this 
 
i 9 6 The LIFE of 
 
 this Matter, and pretended to know more 
 than another, that it was writ by an Oxford 
 Scholar. The Vice-Chancellor was defir'd 
 by fome of them to find out the Author, 
 but, for the Reafon before exprefs'd, he de- 
 fifted. 
 
 II. Poem to Mr. E. L. on his Majefty's 
 diffolving the late Parliament at Oxon, March 
 28, 1 68 1. It was printed on one Side of a 
 Sheet of Paper, and hath this Beginning, 
 An Atheifi now majl a Monjler be, &c. Re- 
 printed in a Pamphlet intitled, rfhe Conduct 
 of Dr. Ken net t, London, 17 17. 
 
 III. Morice Encomium, written by Erafmus : 
 Tranflated into Englijh, and entitled, Wit 
 againfl Wifdom-, or a Panegyrick upon Folly, 
 Oxon, 1683, ufher'd into the World by Co- 
 pies of Verfes made by Matth. Morgan, M. 
 A. of St. John's College; William Osborne* 
 M. A. James Shute, B. A. both of Edmund 
 Hall ; and Tho. Wood, Fellow of New College. 
 At the End of which Verfes is the Tranfla- 
 tor's Copy on the Argument of this Book. 
 Which has fince had many other Editions. 
 
 IV. The Life of Chabrias, written by 
 Cornel. Nepos, publiih'd among the Lives of 
 
 illuftrious 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 197 
 
 illuftrious Men, written by the faid Nepos, and 
 done into Englifh by feveral Hands of Oxon, 
 Oxford, 1684. 
 
 V. An Addrefs of Thanks to a good Prince, 
 prefented in the Panegyrick of Pliny, upon 
 'Trajan, the beft of Roman Emperors, London, 
 1686. * This was alfo re-printed by the 
 Jacobite Faction, in 1717. Before which 
 Time, feveral fcandalous Reflections having 
 been made on the Dean for this Performance, 
 it occafion'd the following Account of it, in 
 a Pojffcript to the Tranflation of his Convo- 
 cation Sermon, 1 7 1 o. 
 
 " He (that is the Remarker) fays, the Doc- 
 cc tor Dedicated Pliny's Panegyrick to the 
 < c late King James ; and what if he had? only 
 " it happens he had not. This is an idle 
 " Tale among the Party, who perhaps have 
 <c told it till they believe it. When the 
 cc Truth is, there was no fuch Dedication, 
 <c and the Tranflation itfelf of Pliny was not 
 <c defign'd for any Court-Addrefs. The 
 cc young Tranflator's Tutor, Mr. Allam, di- 
 
 * Add, Before which the Tranflator hath put a large Preface, 
 and the Life of Pliny, according as Sir Robt. Stapylton had done 
 to his Tranflation of the faid Panegyrick, which was printed at 
 Oxw, in 1644. 
 
 O 3 « recte 
 
 A 
 
198 The LIFE of 
 
 " reeled his Pupil, by Way of Excrcife, to 
 < c turn fome Latin Traits into Englijlo : The 
 cc firft was a little Book of Erafmus, intitled, 
 cc Morice Encomium, which the Tutor was 
 <c pleas'd to give to a Bookfeller in Oxford, who 
 <s put it in the Prefs while the Tranflator was 
 " but an Under-Graduate. Another Sort of 
 <c Tafk requir'd by the Tutor, was this Pa- 
 u negyrick of Pliny upon "Trajan, which he 
 cc likewife gave to a Bookfeller in Oxford* 
 " before the Tranflator was M. A. defigning 
 <c to have it publifh'd in the Reign of King 
 <c Charles II. and a fmall Cut of that Prince 
 <c at full length was prepar'd, and afterwards 
 " put before feveral of the Books ; tho' the 
 " Impreflion happen'd to be retarded 'till the 
 <c Death of King Charles-, and then the fame 
 <c Tutor (not long before his own Death) advis'd 
 " a new Preface, adapted to the then receiv'd 
 " Opinion of King James, being a juft and 
 cc good Prince. However, there was no De- 
 " dication to King James, but to a private 
 <c Patron, a very worthy Baronet, who came 
 <l in heartily to the Beginning of the late 
 " happy Revolution. This is the whole 
 cc Truth of that Story, that hath been fo 
 <c often caft at the Doctor -, not that he thinks 
 
 " him- 
 
Bijhop K E N N E T T. 199 
 
 u himfelf oblig'd to defend every Thought 
 <* and Expreffion of his juvenile Studies, when 
 <c he had poflibly been train'd up to fome 
 cc Notions, which he afterwards found Rea- 
 cc fon to put away, as Childijh Things" 
 
 VI. A Book againft Dr. Parker, about the 
 Teft, mention'd in the great Catalogue of 
 MS*, intit. Liber MS. penned per W. Glynn. 
 
 VII. The Life of Mr. Wm. Somner, the 
 fometime Antiquary of Canterbury, prefix'd 
 to his Treatife of the Roman Ports and Forts 
 in Kent, Oxon, 1693. 
 
 VIII. The Righteous taken away from the 
 Evil to come, apply 'd to the Death of Queen 
 Mary ; in a Sermon preach'd in St. Martins 
 Church in Oxon, Jan. 20, 1694. 
 
 IX. Parochial Antiquities, attempted in the 
 Hiftory of Ambrofden, Burcejier, and other 
 adjacent Parts, in the Counties of Oxford and 
 Bucks, Oxford, 1695, 4 ta 
 
 X. Preface to Sir Henry Spelmans Hiftory 
 and Fate of Sacriledge. 1698. 
 
 XL Ecclefiaftical Synods, and Parliamen- 
 tary Convocations in the Church of England* 
 hiftorically ftated, and juftly vindicated from 
 the Mifreprefentations of Mr, Atterbury, 8vo, 
 London, 1701. 
 
 O 4 XII, An 
 
200 The LIFE of 
 
 XII. An Occafional Letter, on the Subject 
 of Englifk Convocations, London, 1701. 
 
 XIII. The Hiftory of the Convocation of 
 the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of 
 Canterbury, fummon'd to meet in the Cathe- 
 dral Church of St. Paul, London, on Feb. 6, 
 1700. In Anfvver to a Narrative of the Pro- 
 ceedings of the Lower Houfe of Convocati- 
 on, 4to. London, 1702. 
 
 XIV. A Sermon preach'd at Bow-Church, 
 London, before the Societies of Reformation, 
 on Monday, the 29th of December, 1701. 
 Publifh'd at their Requeft, Lond. 1702. 
 
 XV. A compaflionate Enquiry into the 
 Caufes of the Civil War. In a Sermon preach'd 
 in the Church of St. Botolph Aldgate, the 
 30th of January, 1703. 
 
 XVI. The Glory of Children in their Fa- 
 thers. A Sermon preach'd in the Cathedral 
 Church of St. Paul, before the Sons of the 
 Clergy, Dccemb. 3, 1702. Publifh'd at the Re- 
 queft of the Stewards. With an Abftracl: of 
 the Royal Charter erecting a Corporation for 
 Relief of the poor Widows and Children of 
 Clergymen ; and an Account of the Chari- 
 ties annually difpos'd to thofe pious Purpofes, 
 Lond. 1703. 
 
 XVII. The 
 
Bi/hop Kennett. 20 i 
 
 XVII. The Cafe of Impropriations, and of 
 the Augmentation of Vicarages, and other 
 infufficient Cures, ftated by Hiftory and Law, 
 from the firft Ufurpation of Popes and 
 Monks, to her Majefty's Royal Bounty late- 
 ly extended to the poorer Clergy of the 
 Church of England. With an Appendix of 
 Records and Memorials relating to that Sub- 
 ject, 8vo. Lond. 1704. 
 
 XVIII. Preface to Sir Henry Spelmans and 
 Dr. Ryve's two Tracts, Lond. 1704. 
 
 XIX. A Sermon preach'd in the Parifh-. 
 Church of St. Botolph Aldgate, in London, on 
 Dec. 7, 1704, the Day of folemn Thankfgi- 
 ving for the late glorious Victory obtain'd 
 over the French and Bavarians, by the For- 
 ces of her Majefty, and her Allies, under the 
 Command of the Duke of Marlborough, 
 Lond. 1704. " Wherein the Preacher, with- 
 < c out any particular Obligation to the great 
 <c General, has given fuch a Character of 
 " him, as feems to have more of the Beau- 
 < c ties of Truth and Decency in it, than are 
 " to be met .with in any of the Variety of 
 .«' Panegyricks, and due Encomiums, that were 
 kC then made from the Pulpit, or the Prefs ; 
 
 " at 
 
202 The LIFE of 
 
 " at leaft, than in any that pan: under my 
 " Obfervation ". 
 
 XX. A Thankfgiving Sermon at St. Paul's, 
 March 8, 1704-5. 
 
 XXI. A Sermon preach'd before the Ho_ 
 nourable Houfe of Commons, at St. Marga- 
 ret's Wejlminjler, on Wednefday, Jan. ^o, 
 1705-6. 
 
 XXII. The Office and good Work of a 
 Bifhop. A Sermon preach'd at Lambeth Cha- 
 pel, at the Confecration of the Right Reve- 
 rend Father in God, Willia?n Lord Biuhop of 
 Lincoln, on Sunday, OB. 21, 1725. Publifh'd 
 at the Defire of the Archbifhop and Bifhops, 
 Lond. 1706. 
 
 XXIIL The Charity of Schools for poor 
 Children recommended. In a Sermon preach'd 
 in the Parifh-Church of St. Sepulchre's, May 
 16, 1706. — Publifh'd at the Requeft of 
 many concern'd in that Charity, London, 
 1706. 
 
 XXIV. The Duties of Rejoicing in a Day of 
 Profperity recommended. In a Sermon 
 preach'd before the Queen, at her Royal 
 Chapel at Wind/or, on Sunday, June 23, 
 1706. " In which, he gives an admirable 
 " Defcriptionof the publick Happinefs which 
 
 " will 
 
Bijhop Rennett. 203 
 
 cc will be found agreeable to thofe who turn 
 <c to the Hiftory of that Time, efpecially the 
 c< Campaign in the Beginning of that Year. 
 " When After- Ages come to judge of the 
 " Language of the Pulpit in the Reign of 
 " Queen Anne y they will compare the 
 " Thankfgiving Sermons for repeated Vic- 
 <c tones and Succeffes by Sea and Land, with 
 <c the Thankfgiving Sermons for what they 
 " calPd the ^ueeii% Peace -, and they will fee 
 " how naturally Engliflmens Thoughts, and 
 " Words, flowed in the juft Praifes of the 
 cC one, and how hard it was to commend the 
 " other. So was it, not long ago, obferv'd 
 " among the Senators, that the fame fluent 
 " Orator has, at different Times, fpoke on 
 " both Sides of the Houfe ; but when he 
 cc fpoke on the wrong Side, the Caufe wou'd 
 " not fupport his Eloquence: Even the Gre- 
 91 cian, and the Roman Oratory, has been of- 
 " ten obferv'd, to be founded on the Love of 
 " their Country, and a Zeal for the Liber- 
 " ties and Honour of it ". 
 
 XXV. The third Volume of the compleat 
 Hiftory of England-, containing, 1. The Hi- 
 ftory and Life of King Charles I. 2. Of 
 
 King Charles II. 3. Of King James II 
 
 4. Of 
 
2o4 The LIFEo/ 
 
 4. Of King William and Queen Mary. 
 
 5. King William III. All new writ by a 
 learned and impartial Hand. FoL Lond. 1706. 
 Since re-printed, with many Corrections, and 
 large Additions. 
 
 XXVI. An Account of the Society for Propa- 
 gating the Gofpel in foreign Parts, eftablinYd 
 by the Royal Charter of King William III- 
 with their Proceedings, and Succefs, and 
 Hopes of continual Progrefs under the happy 
 Reign of her mofl excellent Majefty Queen 
 Anne, 4to. Lond. 1706. 
 
 XXVII. A Sermon preach'd at the Funeral of 
 the Right Noble William Duke of Devon- 
 jhire, in the Church of All-hallows in Derby ; 
 on Friday, Sept. 5, 1707. With fome Me- 
 moirs of the Family of Cave?idijh 3 8vo. 
 Lond. 1708. 
 
 XXVIII. The Chriftian Scholar, in Rules and 
 Directions for Children and Youth fent to 
 Englifo Schools; more efpecially defign'd for 
 the poor Boys, taught and cloath'd by Cha- 
 rity, in the Parifh of St. Botolph Aldgate, 
 Lond. 1708. 
 
 XXIX. The excellent Daughter. A Sermon 
 for the Relief of the poor Girls, taught and 
 cloath'd by Charity, within the Parifh of St. 
 
 Botolph 
 
Bijhop Rennett. 205 
 
 Botolph Aldgate : With proper Leffons of the 
 Duties of Daughters, Lond. 1708. 
 
 XXX. A Vindication of the Church and 
 Clergy of England, from fome late Reproaches 
 rudely and unjuftly caft upon them, Lond. 
 1 jog. 8vo. " The Occafion of this Tradt, 
 " was a Pamphlet publifh'd by one S. Cu- 
 cc rate of a Parifh near the City, then a noi- 
 " fy High-Church-Man, afterwards among 
 cc the Nonjurors, reviling great Numbers of 
 cc the Clergy in a very indecent Manner; 
 c < intitled, An Appeal of the Clergy of the 
 " Church of England to my Lords the Bijhops, 
 " humbly befeeching them to move her mojl Sa- 
 " cred Majejly to redrefs their Grievances, &c. 
 And again, " The Church of England'* Com- 
 " plaint againfi the Irregularities of fome of 
 " its Clergy, Sec". The Anfwer publi{h ; d 
 by the Dean, was defign'd, " to vindicate 
 " the Clergy from the Charge brought 
 " againft them by this Man, on feverai 
 « Heads ; which he ftated with juft Refpedl 
 c < to the Rules of the Church, and to the 
 <c Practice of the better Part of the Clergy ". 
 
 XXXI. A true Anfwer to Dr. Sacheverelh 
 Sermon, before the Lord Mayor, Nov. 5, 1709. 
 
 In 
 
2o6 The LIFE of 
 
 In a Letter to one of the Aldermen, Lond. 
 1709. 8vo. 
 
 XXXII. Glory to God, and Gratitude to Be- 
 nefactors. A Sermon preach'd before the 
 Queen, in her Royal Chapel of St. James's y 
 on T'uefday, the 2 2d of November, 1709, the 
 Day of publick Thankfgiving for the fignal 
 and glorious Vidtory at Blaregnies, near Mom 
 in Hainalt. Publifh'd by her Majefty's Spe- 
 cial Command, Lond. 1709. " In my for- 
 " mer Account of the Deans Writings, I 
 <c had recited feveral large PafTages from this 
 *< Sermon, which cou'd not create Wearinefs 
 " to any true Englifi Reader. I did this, to 
 <c fhew be did not change his Opinion, 'till 
 <c it pleas 'd the Queen to change her Mini- 
 " ftry and Meafures; and to give, or rather 
 <c take a Peace-, that, to fpeak foftly, was 
 " the moft unfuitable Event of a fuccefsful 
 " War. And, I confefs, I had one more 
 <c Deiign, in repeating the Characters there 
 <c given of the Duke of Marlborough, and 
 " his eminent Services to Great Britain and 
 cc Europe, to rebuke a little the Bafenefs of 
 " that Party, who have done all they can to 
 " diminifh and detradl from the Merits of 
 <c that Great Man ; and thereby to leflen the 
 
 " Honour 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 207 
 
 €C Honour of their own Nation. Will Po- 
 u fterity ever believe, that, after all the in- 
 cc trepid Conduct, and unparallel'd Glories 
 " of the Duke of Marlborough, he was, in 
 " the Midft of them, ftopt by a Faction at 
 " Home, was difgrac'd, difarm'd, and driven 
 " into a Sort of Banifhment ? And when 
 " Providence reftor'd him to guard the Pro- 
 " teftant Succeffion, to which the Succefs of 
 " his Arms had given the greateft Strength 
 cc and Security; will Pofterity believe, that 
 « they ftill envy'd and malign'd that Great 
 cc Man above all others , and made an Hero 
 cc of another Kind of Warriour, and cry'd, 
 " High-Church and Ormond for ever ? 
 
 XXXIII. ALettertoMr.B*rw7fe,&c. This 
 is printed in a Book, intitled, " An Account 
 ic of the late Converlion of Mr. John Bar- 
 <c ville, alias Barton, from Popery to the Re- 
 " form'd Church of England: With the 
 " Form of his folemn Abjuration of the Ro- 
 " mijh Religion, written by himfelf. To 
 « which are added, a Letter of the Rev. Dr. 
 " Kennett, Dean of Peterborough, to the faid 
 " Mr. Barville, upon Occafion of his being 
 " reconcil'd to the Church of England. And 
 " alfo the Forms of Renouncing Popery, 
 
 <c made 
 
208 The LIFE of 
 
 " made by fome other late Converts, Lond. 
 « 17 10, 8vo." 
 
 XXXIV. The Works of Charity. In a Ser- 
 mon preach'd before the Right Honourable the 
 Lord Mayor, &c. in the Church of St. Bridget, 
 on Tuefday in Eajier Week, 17 10, Lond. 
 1710. 
 
 XXXV. Conch ad Synodum ab Archiepifcopo* 
 Epifcopis & Clero Provincia Cantuarien/is > &o 
 Lond. 17 10. 
 
 XXXVI. The Chriftian Neighbour. A Ser- 
 mon preach'd in the Church of St. Laurence 
 Jewry, before the Right Honourable the Lord 
 Mayor, &c. upon the Election of a Mayor 
 for the Year enfuing, on the Feaft of St. 
 Michael, 1711, Lond. 171 1. 
 
 XXXVII. The Lets and Impediments in plan- 
 ting the Gofpel of Chrift. A Sermon preach'd 
 before the Society for the Propagation of the 
 Gofpel in foreign Parts, at their Anniverfary 
 Meeting, in the Parifh Church of St. Maty- 
 k-Bow, on Friday the 15 th of February, 
 ijii-12. With fome References relating to 
 Matters of Fact, &c. Lond. 17 12. 
 
 XXXVIII. A Letter, about a Motion in Con- 
 vocation, to the Reverend Tbo. Brett, L. L. D. 
 Rector of Bettefianger in Kent, Lond. 17 12. 
 
 XXXIX, 
 
Bifhop Kennett. 209 
 
 XXXIX. DoingGood the Way to eternal Life. 
 Recommended in a Spiral Sermon preach'd 
 before the Right Honourable the Lord May- 
 or, &c. on Tuejday in Eajler-Week, the 2 2d 
 of April> 17 1 2, London, 17 12. 
 
 XL. A Memorial for Proteftants on the 
 5th of Novemb. containing a more full 
 Difcovery of fome Particulars relating to the 
 happy Deliverance of King James I. and the 
 three Eftates of the Realm of England, from 
 the moft traiterous and bloody intended Maf- 
 facre by Gun-powder, Anno 1605. In a 
 Letter to a Peer of Great-Britain) London, 
 
 XLI. A Letter to the Lord Bifhop of Car- 
 lifit) concerning one of his Predeceffors, Bilhop 
 Merh) on Occafion of a new Volume for 
 the Pretender, intitled, the Hereditary Right 
 of the Crown of England aiTerted, London, 
 
 I7*3- 
 
 XLII. Bibliothecce Americana Primordia. An 
 
 Attempt towards laying the Foundation of an 
 American Library, in feveral Books, Papers, 
 and Writings, humbly given to the Society 
 for Propagation of the Gofpel in foreign 
 Parts, &c, 4to, London, 17 13. 
 
 P XLIII. Pre- 
 
210 The LIFE of 
 
 XLIII. Preface to a Sermon of Archbifhop 
 Wbitgiffs, re-printed in 17 14. 
 
 XLIV. The Witchcraft of the prefent Re- 
 bellion. A Sermon preach'd in the Church of 
 St. Mary Aldermary, in the City of London y 
 on Sunday 1 Sept. 25, 17 15, the Time of a 
 publick Ordination. Publifh'd upon Requefl 
 of the Hearers, London, 17 15. 
 
 XLV. A feafonable Difcourfe of the Rife, 
 Progrefs, Difcovery, and utter Difappoint- 
 ment of the Gun-powder Treafon, and Re- 
 bellion, plotted by the Papijls, in 1605, 
 3d of James I. as delivered in a Sermon, 
 preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 
 London, on the 5th of Novemb. 17 15, before 
 the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, &c. 
 London, 17 15. 
 
 XL VI. The Wifdom of looking backwards 
 to judge the better on one Side and t' other 3 
 by the Speeches, Writings, Actions-, and 
 other Matters of Fact on both Sides, for the 
 four laft Years, London, 171^, 8vo. 
 
 XL VII. 1'hc faithful Steward: A Spiral 
 Sermon, preach'd on Tuejday in Eajler-Week> 
 April 3, 17 16. 
 
 XLV1II. A Thankfeivinsf-Sermon for the 
 Blefiing of God in Suppreffing the late un- 
 natural 
 
Bijhop Kennett. 211 
 
 natural Rebellion ; delivered in the Parifh 
 Church of Aldermary, in the City of London, 
 on ^burfdayi the 7th of June, 17 16. 
 
 XLIX. A fecond Letter to the Lord Bifhop 
 
 of Carlijle, upon the Subject of Bifhop Meris 9 
 &c. London, 17 16. 
 
 L. A third Letter to the Lord Bifhop of 
 Car/iJIe, &c. London, 1717- 
 
 LI. Dr. Snape inftrufted in fome Matters, 
 efpecially relating to Convocations, and Con- 
 verts from Popery, London, 17 18. 
 
 LII. Charity and Reftitution. A Spital 
 Sermon preach'd at the Church of St. Brid- 
 get, on Eajier-Monday, March the 30th, 1719, 
 before the Right Honourable Sir John Ward % 
 Lord Mayor, &c. with an Application to the 
 vain Attempts of a Spanijh Invafion, in the 
 Year, 1588, London, 17 19. 
 
 LIII. A Sermon preach'd before the Lords 
 Spiritual and Temporal, in the Abby-Church 
 of Wejlminjler, the 30th of Jan. 17 19. In 
 the Order of the Houfe for Thanks to the 
 Preacher, Gfc. it is call'd an Excellent Ser~ 
 mon. 
 
 L1V. Monitions and Advices, delivered to 
 
 the Clergy of the Diocefs of Peterborough, 
 
 at the primary Vifitation, held in the Months 
 
 P z of 
 
212 The LIFE of 
 
 of July and Augufl, 1720. In two Parts. 
 PublihYd at the Requeft of the Clergy, for 
 their Ufe and Service, London, 1720. 410. 
 
 LV. An Introduction to the new Edition of 
 a Book, intitled, A Difcourfe concerning the 
 Laws Ecclefmjiical and Civile made againji 
 Hercticks by Popes, Emperors, and Kings, Pro- 
 vincial and General Councils, approvd by thei 
 Church of Rome, &c. London, 1723. The 
 Bifhop of Peterborough's Introduction begins 
 with thefe Words, though Popery, as im- 
 proved by the darker Ages, &c. He ieems to 
 thirik the laid Difcourfe was wrote by Dr. 
 Maurice ; but it fmce appears, that Dr. Whit- 
 by was the true Author, vid. Twelve Ser- 
 mons preach'd at the Cathedral Church of 
 Sarum, p. 256. and a fliort Account of Dr. 
 Whitby, lately publifh'd, p. 5. 
 
 LVI. A Treatife of Gavelkind, both Name 
 and Thing. Shewing the true Etymology 
 and Derivation of the one, the Nature, An- 
 tiquity, and Original of the other. With 
 fundry emergent Obfervations, both pleafant 
 and profitable to be known of Kentijh-Men> 
 and others, efpccially fuch as are ftudiou?, 
 either of the aiicient Cuftom, or the Com- 
 mon Law of this Kingdom. By (a Well- 
 wilier 
 
Bijhop Kennett 213 
 
 wilier to both) Willi am S owner. The fecond 
 Edition, corrected from the many Errors of 
 the former Impreffion. To which is added, 
 the Life of the Author, written, newly re- 
 vis'd, and much enlarged, 4to. London, 
 1726. 
 
 LVIL A Regifter and Chronicle, Ecclefiafti- 
 cal and Civil : Containing Matters of Fact, 
 delivered in the Words of the molt Authen- 
 tick Books, Papers, and Records ; digefted in 
 exact Order of Time. With proper Notes 
 and References towards difcovering and con- 
 necting the true Hiftory of England, from 
 the Reftauration of King Charles II. 2 Vol. 
 Folio, London, 1728. 
 
 p 1 
 
 A N 
 
2 14 
 
 A N 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 CONTAINING, 
 
 Several Advert ifernents, and Letters, 
 relating to the Dean of Teterlo* 
 rough's Difpute with the Bifhop of 
 Carlijle ; fome of which are now 
 firft publifh'd, from the Original 
 Manufcripts. 
 
 Dr. Kennett'j firft Advert fement, N°. i. 
 
 HE RE AS a Report has been 
 induftrioufly fpread, that I (at 
 laft) am the V erf on who advis'd 
 the Lord Bifhop of Bangor, upon 
 reading his late Sermon of the Kingdom of 
 Chrift, to infert fuch Words *«Abfolutely, &c. 
 
Appendix. 2 i £ 
 
 I do hereby declare and avow, in the moft 
 ferious and folemn Manner, that the Lord 
 Bifhop of Bangor never did ask or receive 
 any Advice of mine, in the preaching or 
 publishing that Sermon, nor did I ever read 
 or hear any Part of it, 'till the whole was 
 printed and publifhed to the World. And I 
 do further declare and proteft, that (God fo 
 now help me, and hereafter judge me) I 
 never did fay or fuggeft any fuch Thing to 
 any Right Reverend Prelate, or to any Man 
 alive. I believ'd the contrary, and often 
 affirm'd the contrary, before ever I faw or 
 heard of any Advertifement about it ; for it 
 was my profefs'd Opinion, that the Lord 
 Bifhop of Bangor, had preach'd and publihYd 
 that Sermon, according to hisLordfhip's own 
 Judgment, without the Affiftance or Advice 
 of any other Perfon. 
 
 Peterb. July White Kennett. 
 
 6, 1 7 17. 
 
 Dr. Kenneth fecond Advertifement, N°. 2. 
 
 N our fuffering Injuries, it is natural to 
 
 complain, especially when there is no 
 
 P 4 other 
 
 I 
 
2i6 Appendix. 
 
 other legal Redrefs. I cannot enough com- 
 plain of the hard and infufferable Ufage I 
 have met with, in being reprefented to be the 
 Author of a falfe Story, which I never rela- 
 ted, or intimated, or thought of, 'till I re- 
 ceived the Notice of it in a Letter from the 
 Lord Bifhop of Carlijle, dated June 29' 
 17 17. I beg Leave once more to declare 
 and proteft my Innocency in that Matter, 
 before the Searcher of all Hearts : And I 
 would now only refer Mankind to the Way 
 and Manner of bringing and fupporting that 
 manifold Charge againft me. The firft 
 Charge was drawn up by the Reverend Dr. 
 Snape, as upon Information, from a Perjbn of 
 unquejiionable Veracity, and of a high and fa- 
 cred Station, who would charge himfelf with the 
 Proof of it; that Abfolutely's, and Property's, 
 and fuch like evajive Words were omitted in 
 the Bifhop of Bangor' j Sermon, as it was ori- 
 ginally compos d ; and that his Lor df dip, before 
 it was preacl/J, fhew'd it a certain Perjbn 
 without fuch Limitations, and was with Diffi- 
 culty prevailed upon by him, to infcrt them by 
 Way of Caution. And again, that a living 
 Man had teflified, that it was preach 'd 
 with his Knowledge, and fubmitted to his Cor- 
 
 reclion. 
 
A PPEN DIX. 2I7 
 
 reffion. Dr. Snape's fecond Letter to . the 
 Bijhop of Bangor, p. 40, 67. This Charge 
 was renew'd in a fomewhat different Strain, 
 that the Lord Bifiop of Carlifle declared, that 
 he had fpoke with the Perfon who advisd my 
 Lord of Bangor, upon reading his Sermon, to 
 infert fitch Words as Absolutely, &c. Adver- 
 tifement of Dr. Snape, attefted by the Bifiop 
 of Carlifle, June 28, 17 17. If I was the 
 Perfon and the living Man then meant, or 
 intended to be afterwards exprefly nam'd, did 
 the Perfon of unqu eft Hon able Veracity prove as 
 much as he chargd himfelf with the Proof of? 
 Did he prove the Affirmative, or did he not 
 affirm a contrary Thing ? For he abfolutely 
 denied his faying what Dr. Snape had fo 
 printed. And in another Advertifement under 
 his Lordfhip's Hand, July 1, he declares, I 
 never did affirm that the Words Abfolutely and 
 Properly, &c. were inferted in his Ser?non, by 
 Way of Caution, before it was preach* d, but 
 that before it was publified, they were jo infert- 
 ed, I did, and do fill verily believe, this Mijiake 
 in Dr. Snap's Report of my Evidence, I mark" d 
 in his Advertifement, &c. So that as to that 
 firfi Report of Dr. Snape, the Bifhop is fo 
 far from affirming it in the molt material 
 
 Cir- 
 
218 Appendix. 
 
 Circumftance, that he has deny'd and re- 
 nounced as a Mijlake in Dr. Snape. 
 
 It was fit therefore, that the Lord Bifhop 
 of Carlifle, to avoid fuch Miftakes, mould 
 have the wording of his own Teftimony ; 
 and his Lordfhip did thus word it in a third 
 Report -, I do know and affirm, that there is 
 fuch a Per/on in the Worlds who averrd to me, 
 that he did, with Difficulty, prevail with the 
 Lord Bifhop of Bangor to infert thofe Words 
 in his Sermon before it was publijloed. This 
 now was no fecond-hand Report, as was that 
 before mifaken, but comes forth immediate- 
 ly in the Bifhop's Name. Is this therefore 
 the final Charge in full Form to which I am 
 to anfwer? No, his Lordfhip not abiding by 
 thefe Words, draws up another different Form 
 of Accufation in his printed Letter to the 
 
 Bifhop of Bangor, dated July 5, 17 17. " 
 
 "The Reverend Dr. Kennett, Dean of Peterbo- 
 rough, is the Man I mention, from whom alo?ie 
 I had the Liformation of your Lordjhifs apply- 
 ing to him for Advice before the publifnng of 
 your Sermon, and your agreeing to the Cow f el 
 be gave, in the Manner and Form wherein I 
 have already fpecified it. But was there any 
 Thing in the double Manner and Form be- 
 fore 
 
Appendix. 219 
 
 fore fpecified, of the Bifhop of Bangor s ap- 
 plying to me for Advice, and fo readily a- 
 greeing to the Counfel I gave ? So far from 
 it, that I had before feem'd to offer and to 
 obtrude fuch Advice, to which the Bifhop 
 was fo unwilling to agree, that I did with 
 Difficulty prevail with him to infert other 
 Words. Nor is the Coherence better in the 
 fecond Particular relating to the Prefervative : 
 In the Advertifement of his Lordfhip's, it is, 
 'The fame Perfon averrd to me, that he had 
 formerly usd the like Endeavours, but in vain y 
 to perfuade him [the Bifiop of Bangor] to in- 
 fert them [the Words Abfolutely, Properly, ©V.] 
 infome Paragraphs of his Prefervative, where 
 he thought they might be of equal Service. But 
 in the printed Letter it is implied, that the 
 Perfuafions were not in vain, being never 
 more folUcitous for any Thing in my whole Lift • 
 than I was for the inferting of thefe in fome 
 Parts of that Difcourfe which vifbly wanted 
 them. Befides, there is fome Language ufed 
 in the reciting of my pretended Words, that 
 never came within my Lips or Thoughts in 
 that Senfe ; and that is, that / after d the 
 Bifhop s/Xarlifle, that his Lordjhip [the Bifhop 
 of Bangor] was indebted to me for ihojb Fajt- 
 
 neffes- 
 
220 Ap PENDIX. 
 
 nejfes. I cannot tell whether ever I heard 
 the Word Fajlnejfes in that Senfe of Limi- 
 tations and Reftrictions in Writing: But, 
 fure I am, I never ufed it in that Senfe, nor 
 could have well underftood it in any other 
 Senfe, than as a Sort of military Term for fafe 
 Places of difficult Accefs, 
 
 I was looking in the three firft Reports 
 for the Mention of Time and Place when and 
 where I had told fuch a Story; for thefe are 
 Circumftances feldom omitted in any Accu- 
 fation. If thofe Circumftances were not 
 needful in a firft Report ; yet, upon a fecond, 
 or a third, that Omiffion might have been 
 fupplied, or at leaft in the Bifhop's private 
 Letters to me, his Lordfhip fhou'd have 
 charg'd me home, (efpecially when I had de- 
 nied the Rict) with the very Day at leaft, 
 and the very Place wherein I had fo informed 
 his Lordfhip. Had thofe Particulars of Time 
 and Place been revealed to me, I believe I 
 could have made out the ill Coherence, and, 
 perhaps, the Inconfiftency of them, accord- 
 ing to the Benefit allowed to every accufed 
 Party. There is, indeed, in the fourth Charge, 
 the printed Letter, p. 19. an Intimation of the 
 Place of our Conference, in my Study, but ftill, 
 
 no 
 
Appendix. 221 
 
 no 'Time being mentioned, I am not able to 
 guefs at it : I can only declare, that, to the 
 beft of my Remembrance, the Lord Bifhop 
 of Carlijle was never in my Study with me 
 alone, without fome other Company, for fe- 
 veral Months laft paft. It might be rather 
 in Company than Alone ; for the Bifhop is 
 pleafed to fay, It was not intrufied with him 
 as a Secret. Letter, p. 15. Had there been 
 any Thing fo intrnjled, the Nature of the 
 Thing, and the Dignity of another Perfon 
 concern'd in it, would have made it a very 
 important Secret; and I could not poffibly 
 intrujl it without Intreaties and Injunctions 
 of keeping Silence. My Reputation, my In- 
 tereft, my common Senfe, would lead me to 
 have beg'd his Lordfhip to fay Nothing of it. 
 Yet his Lordfhip is pleas'd to fay, that He 
 had not much concealed my Name -„ that is, re- 
 folving to make ufe of it, he was bound to 
 infill: upon it : Othenvife his Lordihip did con- 
 ceal my Name from thofe who were moft con- 
 eern'd to know it : He did conceal it from 
 MyfelfuW it was too late to call in his Words 
 toothers-, he did conceal it from Dr. Hut chin [on, 
 who, in the Prefence of Mr. Checkely y guefs'd 
 at another Name: And he was pleas'd to con- 
 ceal ic from the Bifhop of Bangor, who had 
 
 mod: 
 
222 Appendix. 
 
 moll Right to know it, and to be put upon 
 his Guard, whether the Thing were true or 
 falfe. And, I dare fay, his Lordfhip did con- 
 ceal it from all Mankind till about the 29th 
 of June, when it became neceffary to name 
 a Man. And yet now, at laft, his Lordfhip 
 is pleas'd to think, that it was fo little a Se- 
 cret, that I was rather fond of proclaiming 
 it. T'be former Part of his Story was told 
 with fuch an Air of Complacency, Satisfaction, 
 and Comfort, that I could look upon it no 
 otherwife than as a certain Sign of the Plea- 
 fur c he took on reflecting on his own Happinefs, 
 in being thus ferviceable to his FRIEND; 
 and I was thereupon the lefs cautious in report- 
 ing what my Friend feemd defirous to make 
 publick for his own Honour. 
 
 If I had thought it any Happi?iefs or Ho- 
 nour, I mould not have communicated the 
 Thing to the Lord Bifhop of Carlifle, of all 
 Men living- becauie he would have thought 
 it a Misfortune and Reproach to me: And 
 had I told his Lordfhip any fuch Secret, he 
 would have been angry at it; and it mufl 
 have immediately broke off that Friendship 
 and Familiarity, which his Lordfhip was 
 pleafed to continue feme Time after ; and 
 
 the 
 
Appendix. 223 
 
 the Continuance of them, was a Demonftra- 
 tion, that I had never inform'd his Lordfhip 
 of any Thing fo difagreeable and offenfive 
 to him. But certainly if I had feemd defi- 
 rous to make it publick, I muft have men- 
 tion'd it to fome other Prelate or Divine j I 
 muft have let it fall to my very worthy 
 Neighbour of the Bifhop of Car lip's Ac- 
 quaintance; I muft have given Hints of it 
 in fome of the too many Letters to my 
 Friends in the Country. But I dare put it 
 upon this Iffue, that no mortal Man will 
 fay, with any Proof, that I ever, in Difcourfc 
 or Writing, have afferted or iniinuated any 
 fuch Thing, as that I affifted or advis'd the 
 Bifhop of Bangor m amending or altering 
 any one Word in his late Sermon before the 
 King, his Prefervative, or any other Wri- 
 ting whatfoever. 
 
 To conclude : If his Lordfhip's Authority 
 were never fo great, and mine were nothing -, 
 if his Lordfhip's AfTertions, not agreeable to 
 each other, muft be believ'd, and my re- 
 peated and uniform Affeverations to the con- 
 trary, can have no Credit 5 I have one more 
 Appeal to make (which I am not willing 
 mould be made without his Lordfhip's Con- 
 fen r) 
 
224- Appendix, 
 
 fent) and that is to his Lordfhip's own private 
 Letters to me, efpecially that of his firft impart- 
 ing the Secret to me, dated, June the 29th. 
 Wherein his Lordfhip hath acknowledged, 
 that he was provoked to fay it-, that it was a 
 c Tra?2fport of extraordinary Indignation in him 
 that when he had blabb'd it out, it was pof- 
 fible for an hone/i Man not to abide by it -, 
 that he has a Quarrel with hi mf elf for his 
 Rafhnefs in bringing me, without my Privity, into 
 the fame Scrape with himfelfy ufing fome other 
 Expreffions that did not affirm, but ftrong- 
 ly hope and fuppofe, that I muft be the 
 Man ; in fome Perplexity and Confufion of 
 Mind. 
 
 I have made the beft Apology I can for 
 his Lordfhip in this whole Matter, refolving 
 it into his Forgetfulnefs upon Variety of Com- 
 pany, and Multiplicity of Bufinefs: If his 
 Lordfhip will not accept of this Apology, I 
 do heartily with he may be able to make a 
 better. For I have long had a great Efteem 
 for his Lordfhip, and muft ever have a Ten- 
 dernefs and Refped for him. And I have 
 neither faid or done any Thing to detract 
 from his Lordfhip's Reputation, but fo far 
 
 as 
 
Appendix. 225 
 
 as was abfolutely neceffary to vindicate and 
 maintain my own Integrity. 
 
 White Kennett. 
 
 A true Copy of the firjl Letter of Dr. Ken- 
 nett, Dean of Peterborough, to the Lord 
 Bijhop ofCarlifle. N°. 3. 
 
 My Lord, 
 u T3 Y y our Lordfhip's of June 29, I 
 X3 " am furpriz'd to the laft Degree 
 " that your Lordfhip fliould fuppofe me to 
 <c be that Perfon, who advis'd my Lord of 
 " Bangor upon my reading of his Sermon, to 
 < c infert fuch Words as Abfolutely^ &c. Your 
 " Lordfhip's miftaking your Man muft arife 
 c< from the Variety of Company, and Mul- 
 " tiplicity of Bufinefs, wherein your Lord- 
 " fhip is engag'd, and may well occafion a 
 " Failure of Memory, in fome particular 
 " Names and Things. In Truth, my Lord, 
 cc I never faid or thought, or could poffibly 
 " infmuate any fuch Story, falfe in it felf, 
 cc and never within my Lips or Heart. I 
 cc had no manner cf CorrefpondsnCe with 
 " the Bifliop of Bangor, about the preaching 
 " or publifhing his late Sermon: I never 
 
 q^ " faw 
 
226 Appendix. 
 
 <c faw or heard any one Paragraph in it, be- 
 u fore it came out of the Prefs; I could not 
 cc poflibly have the Honour to prevail with 
 cc his Lordfhip, to infert or alter any one 
 <c Word in it. I am as fure as of my own 
 cc Breathing, that I never did diredlly or in- 
 " dire&ly, lead your Lordfhip into any fuch 
 " Imagination. And if any other Perfon 
 <c hath made ufe of my Name, in fuch Dif- 
 <c courfe with your Lordfhip, he did me great 
 " Injuftice. I always believ'd, and upon 
 " Occafion affirm'd the Contrary, that it was 
 <c my Opinion, that the Lord Bifhop of Ban- 
 " gor had adted wholly in that Matter, ac- 
 <c cording to his own Judgment, without the 
 cc Affiflance or Advice of any other Per- 
 {< fon. 
 
 " I muft therefore beg your Lordfhip to 
 " recolledl your felf, and not fix an Imputa- 
 <c tion upon me, that is wholly groundlefs 
 " and wrong. I always convers'd with your 
 c< Lordfhip with great Sincerity^ I never im- 
 " pos'd a falfe Thing upon you; nor would I 
 " now for any Hope or Fear in the World 
 <c deny the Saying of any Thing I had once 
 C£ faid. 5iad I told fuch a Tale, I would 
 c have own'd the telling of it, and have 
 
 ct taken 
 
Appendix, 227 
 
 « c taken the Shame juftly to rny felf. But 
 « I never affirm'd, I never fuggefted to your 
 <c Lordfhip or any mortal Man, that the late 
 <c Sermon of the Bifhop of Bangor, was 
 " preach'd wirh my Knowledge, or fubmit- 
 cc ted to my Correction. I knew nothing of 
 <c it, I had no manner of Concern in it, nor 
 cc could I have the Vanity to intimate any 
 <c fuch Thing. 
 
 " And therefore if your Lordfhip, upon 
 " any Miftake in Memory, or any Mifmfor- 
 " mation, has reported me to be the Man, 
 <c I do befeech your Lordfhip, I do infift up- 
 Cc on it, that your Lordfhip would not fuffer 
 " that Miftake to be impos'd upon the 
 Cc World. For I muft do my felf the Juftice 
 " to declare in the moil: folemn Manner, 
 <c that whoever was the Author or Relator 
 <c of fuch a Story, I was not : And before 
 ,<c your Lordfhip's Letter, by this lafi Poft, I 
 " never heard or dream'd of the leaft Sylla- 
 4C ble of it. 
 
 " I believe I could tell how your Lordfhip 
 <c was drawn into fuch a Miftake ; but there 
 fC is no need at prefent, to fay more than 
 u what I muft have leave to fay, that your 
 " Lordfhip is miftaken if you conceive 
 Q_2 <c me 
 
228 Appendix. 
 
 Cc me to be the Perfon, who told any fuch 
 « Thing." 
 
 I am, 
 
 (My good Lord) 
 
 Tour Lordjhifts 'very faithful 
 Humble Friend and Servant, 
 
 White Kennett. 
 
 A true Copy of a fecond Letter of Dr. Ken- 
 nett, Dean of Peterborough, to the Bijhop 
 of Carlifle. N°. 4. 
 
 My good Lord, 
 cc IT Am heartily forry to fee the publick 
 L <c Papers taken up with fuch Advertife- 
 " ments of perfonal Altercation. I do not 
 ic queftion but your Lordfhip has afled with 
 <c Sincerity in it; fome Body no doubt has 
 " told your Lordfhip, that Dr. Kennett had 
 c< done fo and fo. This your Lordfhip be- 
 cc liev'd, and was poffibly confirm'd in it, 
 <c by my talking with due RefpecT: of the 
 u Bifhop of Bangor, and my labouring to 
 <c foften the harfher Senfe that was generally 
 " put upon his Lordfhip's late Sermon. I 
 " prefume your Lordfliip forgot the Perfon 
 
 " from 
 
A P PENDI X. 229 
 
 " from whom you firft had this Notion; 
 " 'till at laft, you began to conclude you 
 " heard me fpeak it my felf. 
 
 " But upon all chriftian Faith, and moral 
 cc Hoiiefty, as I aflur'd your Lordfhip in my 
 <c laft, I made no fuch Report, or Suggefti- 
 fc on to your Lordfhip, in any Convention 
 " whatfoever. Had the Fa6t itfelf been true, 
 <c that the Bifhop of Bangor had advifed 
 cc with me about the preaching or publifh- 
 cc ing that Sermon, and that I recommended 
 <c the inferting fome Words in it , that would 
 <c have been a Secret, that for feveral Reafons, 
 " fhould never have come out of my Lips. 
 " But there was no fuch Fad, nor any Thing 
 " like it ; nor could I be poffibly under 
 Cc any Temptation of inventing fuch a Story, 
 " and impofing it upon your Lordfhip, whom 
 <c I had never deceiv'd in my whole Life. 
 <c Had I fpoke of any fuch Thing to your 
 <c Lordfhip, I fhould have hinted as much to his 
 " Grace of Canterbury \ or the Lord Bifhop 
 « of Lincoln, or fome other Friend. But as 
 <c I have already appeal'd to them, I dare 
 (Q fay, there is no Man in the World can 
 * c fupport your Lordfhip in fuch an Imaginati- 
 a on. Nay, had your Lordfhip believ'd. it 
 
 Q^j " your 
 
230 Appendix. 
 
 c< your felf, before I came out of Town in the 
 
 " Middle of June, I prefume your Lordfhip 
 
 Cc would have taken Notice of it to me, that 
 
 Cc I might have undeceiv'd your Lordfhip In 
 
 " it, or your Lordfhip would at leaft have 
 
 « mention'd it, in the firft Letter I had the 
 
 c $ Favour to receive from you fince my 
 
 <c coming down, dated Jime 25, or in your 
 
 " fecond, dated June 27, and then I could 
 
 " have prevented your Lordihip's running 
 
 " into any further Miflake. But, indeed, 
 
 <c my Lord, I knew nothing in the World of 
 
 cc your conceiving fucha wrong Thing of me, 
 
 " 'till three Advertifements were publifh'd, 
 
 " and even then I fhould have little thought 
 
 " my felf any Way concern'd in them, if your 
 
 " Lordfhip, by the fame Port, had not 
 
 " fent me your Opinion, that I muft needs 
 
 <£ be the Perfon who informed your Lordfhip 
 
 " of that Matter. I received your Letter 
 
 " late on Sunday Night, June 30, with the 
 
 " utmoft Surprize upon it; and could not well 
 
 <c underftand it at firft reading. When I per- 
 
 " ceived your Lordihip's Meaning, that you 
 
 " did really apprehend me to be your infor- 
 
 u mer ; I did immediatelv, to the only Friend 
 
 i% I had with me; pity your Lordihip's 
 
 " Miflake, 
 
Appendix, 231 
 
 ,c Miftake, and declare that I never faid or 
 " thought any fuch Matter. And the next 
 " Morning wrote an Anfwer, faithful and 
 < c exactly true, to which I refer my felf. By 
 « your Lordfhip's laft Advertifement, you 
 " charge the fame Perfon with averring to 
 cc 'your Lordjhip, that he had formerly usd the 
 « c like Endeavours (but in vain) to perfuade 
 " him (the Lord Bifhop of Bangor,) to infer t 
 < c thefe Words in fome Paragraphs of his Pre- 
 €c fervative. This is a Demonftration that I 
 <c could not be that Perfon : For I never was 
 " made Privy to the Bifhop of Bangor 's wri- 
 <c ting or publishing his Prefervative, and I 
 < c believe I did not fee his Lordfhip for a 
 « Month before or after the Publication, and 
 Cc never had one Word or Line with his Lord- 
 Cc fhip about that Book, but to thank him, 
 " at fome Diftance of Time, for a printed 
 " Copy of it. I fee now, my Lord, what 
 " our Enemies have been able to do. They 
 < c have prejudiced your Lordfhip againft me 
 <c as a Friend and Favourite of the Bifhop 
 " of Bangor, they have told you of my In- 
 « timacy with his Lordfhip beyond the De. 
 " grees of it. They have made me his 
 « Lordfhips Confident and even Partaker in 
 
 O4 * his 
 
232 Appendix. 
 
 cc his Writings. Thus they have fuggefted- 
 cc fo long, 'till they have referr'd your Lord- 
 <c fhip to my own Evidence for it, and told 
 " your Lordfhip, thar I had own'd it, and 
 cc would ftand to it. Your Lordfhip, under 
 " thefe Thoughts, talk'd of it, 'till you ve- 
 <c rily belie v'd, that I my felf had inform'd 
 u you of it : When with the moft. folemn Appeal 
 cc to God, I never utter'd or imagin'd any 
 « fuch Things." [Then follows a Paffage 
 out of a News Letter, and the Conclufion.] 
 
 Tour Lordfoifs, &c. 
 
 Wh. Kennett. 
 
 Tthe true Copy of a third Letter of Dr. Ken- 
 nett, to the Lord Bifiop of Carlille. N°. 5. 
 
 My good Lord, 
 cc "T Receiv'd your Lordfhip's of July the 
 JL cc 6th ; and can only allure your 
 <c Lordfhip, I did not furnifh the Bifhop of 
 " Bangor with any new Matter 5 and am con- 
 " tent that your Lordfhip may tell the 
 " World, (as you are pleas'd to fignify you 
 
 " have 
 
Appendix. 233 
 
 « c have done in your printed Addrefs to his 
 " Lordfhip) that you intended me no Injury, 
 " in reporting what you underftand I my felf 
 <c efteem'd as an Honour. 
 
 « I fhall keep only to the Matter of Fa£t ; 
 " that I was not advis'd with by the Bifhop 
 u of Bangor about his Sermon ; and that I 
 " never gave, or offer'd, any Advice or Af- 
 " fiflance in it. 
 
 " I would facrifice any Thing to your 
 
 " Lordfhip, but my good Confcience and 
 
 " Heady Refolution to abide by the Truth, 
 
 c< in this Queftion of your Lordfhips rai- 
 
 " fing, whether I did not tell you of fome 
 
 ' c fuch Intrigue; I have honeftly anfwcr'd> 
 
 cc A^, pojitively No, never in my Life ; there 
 
 " was no fuch Intrigue; and I never faid 
 
 " there was. I would have exprefs'd it 
 
 " to the beji of my Knowledge, and as far as 
 
 " I can remember ; but that if I had ever 
 
 a done or faid the Thing, I could not but 
 
 cC remember it, and muft needs know whe- 
 
 <£ ther I had ever any fuch Thought in my 
 
 " Heart; I never had any fuch Thought^ 
 
 " nor could I have any fuch Words with 
 
 <l your Lordfhip, nor with any Friend or 
 
 *' Foe whatever. 
 
 " I 
 
234 Appendix. 
 
 cc I am enough fenfible, that if your Lord- 
 cc fhip will affirm fucK a Thing, and I deny 
 " it ; your Lordfhip's Reputation is better 
 " than mine, and may it always fo be. But 
 <c tho' in the Matter of fingle Authority, 
 " your Lordfhip hath, and ought to have, 
 "the Advantage of me: Yet, when fome 
 " Circumftances are duely weighed, I can- 
 <£ not but hope for the Charity of many 
 u good Men on my Side. 
 
 <c I. If I had ever faid any fuch Thing, it 
 <c was more likely to be in Company, and fo 
 <c before Witnefles, than in any private Con- 
 <c verfation. Moft, if not all my Difcourfe 
 " with your Lordfhip concerning the Bifhop 
 cc of Ba??gor's Sermon, was in the Prefence 
 €< of Friends : The firft Opportunity, (as I 
 " remember) was in your own Dining-Room, 
 " where the Lord Bifhop of Lincoln, and 
 tc a Fellow of Merton College in Oxford, 
 ** were prefent. The fecond Opportunity 
 " was at the Bifhop of Lificolris Houfe. And, 
 11 I believe,, a third was in my own Study, 
 iC with another Friend or two. Now if I 
 " dropt any Thing of that Senfe, or leading 
 ** towards that Senfe, upon any one of thofe 
 Ci Occafions of common Converfation, fome 
 
 cc one 
 
APP ENDIX. 235 
 
 €i one of thofe worthy Perfons will, and 
 " ought to give Evidence againft me. 
 
 " II. During this Controverfy, I have kept 
 <c a Correfpondence withfeveral old Friends, 
 cc and Men of Letters, in the Country, wri- 
 C( ting, with Freedom, of the Noife and 
 u Paffions'raifed in the Town about that 
 <c Sermon of the Kingdom of Chrift; 
 a and if in any one of thofe Letters I have 
 c< hinted any fuch Thing, as my Advifing 
 " the Bifhop, or Correcting his Papers, I de- 
 Cl -fire, and challenge every one of my Cor- 
 " refpondents to inform your Lordfhip of 
 " any fuch Expreffion, or Intimation, in any 
 " one of my private Letters whatfoever. 
 
 |* III. Had I faid this in private, and to 
 <c your Lordfhip alone, as it is not likely 
 " your Lordfhip would have then betray'd a 
 <c Secret; fo I could not poffibly commit 
 cc any fuch Secret to your Lordfhip becaufe 
 " I had no Knowledge, no Imagination of 
 " it. Had I been Matter of any fuch Se~ 
 " cret, I had a Breaft to contain it; or, had 
 " I been fo foolifh as to let it go, I muft 
 " have adjur'd your Lordfhip to Silence; and 
 " your Lordfliip wou'd have readily promis'd 
 cl never to fpeak of it : But, of my requiring 
 
 " Secrecy, 
 
2%6 Appendix. 
 
 cc Secrecy, or of your Lordfhip'spromifing not 
 c< to expofe me,I dare fay ,your Lordfhip remem- 
 « bers not any one Sign or Token whatfoever. 
 
 " IV. Had I communicated any fuch Mat- 
 ' ter to your Lordfhip, I fhould not have 
 <c been altogether on the Referve in talking 
 " to other Prelates : I fhould have let fall the 
 " fame Thing, or fome Innuendo's of it, to the 
 <c Lord Archbifhop of Canterbury, the Bifhops 
 " of Norwich, Gloucejler, Lincoln, Oxford; 
 cc for I talk'd, more or lefs, of that Subject 
 <c with every one of them - y and I may have 
 <c the Honour to call upon his Grace, and 
 cc their Lordfiips, to declare, whether I ever 
 Cc rais'd the leaft Appearance of any fuch Story, 
 <c before any one of them. I appeal in like 
 % \ Manner to Dr. Bradford, Dr. Waugh, Mr. 
 c< Baker, and other City Divines, with whom I 
 " us'd to converfe with great Freedom, whe- 
 " ther I ever call the leaft Shadow of fuch a 
 <c Thing. 
 
 " V. Had I ever related fuch a Angular Story 
 tc to your Lordfliip, you would have put me in 
 " Mind of it in fome Difcourfe, while we were 
 " together in Town, or in fome early Letter 
 <c to me at this Diftance of above fixty Miles 
 11 ixomljondon* But indeed, my Lord, while 
 
 « in 
 
Appendix. 237 
 
 " in Town, you never once hinted to me> 
 " that I had let fall any fuch Thing : And, 
 cc after my coming down to Peterborough, I 
 " had, favourably, two Letters from your 
 " Lordfhip, (after the publifhing of Dr. S nape's 
 " fecond Letter, nay, after the Advertifement 
 " begun) without a Syllable of that Matter 
 " in them. It was your Lordfhip's third 
 " Letter, of June the 29th, that brought 
 " me the firft Token of your Lordfhip's 
 " fufpedling any Thing of that Kind. 
 
 " The Occafion of your Lordfhip's Mif- 
 u take, muft be, that fome Perfon told you 
 " an idle Story to that Effect, and made Ufe 
 " of my Name at the End of it; implying, 
 €c that I was very intimate with the Lord 
 " Bifhop of Bangor, and the moft likely 
 " Man to be in fuch a Combination. This 
 " Conjecture was receiv'd by your Lordfhip 
 " as the more probable, becaufe you had 
 " heard me inclining always to mitigate the 
 " terrible Offence taken at the Bifhop's Ser- 
 <£ mon 5 and declaring, that the Word Ab- 
 <c folutely did help to obviate the main Ob- 
 <f jeclions ; and profeffing my Opinion of 
 " fome of his Lordfhip's Opponents, that 
 " they did not treat his Lordfhip decently, 
 ? nor feem to write with a chriftian Spirit. 
 
 So 
 
238 Appendix. 
 
 cC So that I doubted that it had more of po- 
 " litical Fafhion, than of true Regard to 
 " the Church, or the Gofpel. Upon this, I 
 cc prefume, your Lordfhip began to think 
 cc me too well affected to the Bifhop of Ban- 
 " g07\ and that I would efteem it an Ho- 
 " nour (as your Lordfhip now writes) to be 
 <c thought an Advifer and Corrector of that 
 <c Sermon. And fo your Lordfhip, without 
 Cc meaning me any great Injury, went away 
 cc with the imperfect Notion, that by what 
 <c you had heard by others, and from my 
 " felf, I might well enough be the Man to 
 cc whom the Lord Bifhop of Ba?igor had 
 tc committed the Perufal of his Notes, and 
 cc the Amendment of fome Paragraphs in 
 <c them. But, my Lord, as I never affum'd 
 " that Honour ; fo I can by no Means ac- 
 <c cept of it. 
 
 u Your Lordfhip was under thefe amufing 
 <c Thoughts when Dr. Hutchinfon came to 
 <c wait upon you, and in the Integrity of 
 " your Lordfhip's Heart you might let fall 
 <c what you had fo imperfe&ly conceived. I 
 <c prefume Dr. Hutchinfon had not your 
 " Lordfhip's Leave to tell that Story to any 
 H writing Adverfary of the Bifhop of Bangor, 
 
 " but 
 
Appendix. 239 
 
 * c but how worthy a Divine foever, he did 
 
 <c go away and give an immediate Account 
 
 cc of it to Dr. Snape, who was very prudent 
 
 <c in fufpending his Belief of that firfl: Ac- 
 
 cc count. And therefore to gain a Confirma- 
 
 <c tion of it, the fame Dr. Hutchinfon came 
 
 « to your Lordfhip a fecond Time to get 
 
 « out the fame Story, and then in a like ex- 
 
 cc traordinary Manner the faid Doftor wenta- 
 
 <c gain to Dr. Snape, (whether by your Lord- 
 
 " fhip's Leave, or not, I cannot tell) and 
 
 " did again affure him he had heard the 
 
 <c fame worthy Prelate a fecond Time de- 
 
 " clare that Matter to be true, and that he 
 
 <c would juftify it to all the World. Upon 
 
 " this Dr. Snape drew up that Paffage in his 
 
 <c fecond Letter, and (as I underftand it) 
 
 " waited on your Lordfhip, read the Paffage 
 
 cc to you, and was allow'd by your Lordfhip 
 
 " to publifli it with an Affurance that you 
 
 <c would ftand to it. That Allowance and 
 
 <c Affurance given by your Lordfhip might again 
 
 sc proceed, not only from the Unwillingnefs 
 
 " to recede (without the utmoft Conviction) 
 
 " from what you had once affirnYd -, but alfo 
 
 cc from a Senfe of your own Innocence, that 
 
 <c you had not invented fuch a Story, and 
 
 " fome 
 
*t 
 
 cc 
 
 240 Appendix. 
 
 " fome Body or other mull needs have told 
 you of it. And yet who, or when, or 
 literally what, could not well be fo punc- 
 tually aflerted, and therefore your Lord- 
 fhip, upon recollecting, did rather believe 
 c< that fuch a Caution was given to the 
 <c Bifhop, not before It was preached, but 
 cc before it was publifh'd. 
 
 " In this Hurry of Thought, and Confufi- 
 on of Hearing and Talking much, your 
 <c Lordfhip went forward in your Surmife 
 <c of my being your Informant; and before 
 your Lordfhip had Time to confult me in 
 it, you fuffer'd it to be fo thought, and fo 
 reported about Town, before I knew that 
 " your Lordfhip lay under any Sufpicion of 
 " me. And yet in all thefe Steps, I can al- 
 Cc low for your Lordfhip's Sincerity, in not in- 
 <c venting fuch a Story, and in not meaning any 
 <{ great Injury to me, by fuppofing in fome 
 c< Amufement that I had told it to you. Yet 
 " had your Lordfhip afk'd me any Queftion 
 " about what you thus imagin'd, and taken a 
 <c little Refpite for my Anfwer, the Matter 
 c< would have clear'd up without appealing to 
 <c an ill-natur'd World. But I take it, my Lord, 
 <f that fome Perfons pulh'd on your Lord- 
 
 " fhip 
 
Appendix. 24.1 
 
 te fhip to name me for that Confident and 
 cc Affiftant of the Bifhop of Bangor: And fo 
 < c the Rumour fpread, and the common 
 cc News Letters had it before I thought of 
 " publishing my firft Letter to your Lord- 
 " fhip, which then became ncceffary towards 
 " flopping the general Report in this ne- 
 " ceffary Defence of the Truth; I have 
 <c written to your Lordfhip, and to other 
 " Prelates, with all the Simplicity of Thoughts 
 " and Words natural to an innocent Man, in 
 <c the Fullnefs of my own Heart, without 
 " confulting any other Perfon, being fure of 
 <c my own Integrity, and again, and again, 
 " appealing to God for it. 
 
 Peterb. Tour Lordjhifs Faithful and 
 
 July 9, 1 7 17. Sincere Humble Servant, 
 
 W H , Kennett, 
 
 A true Copy of the laft Letter of Dr. Kennett, 
 to the' Lord Bifiop of Carlifle. N°. 6. 
 
 a "\ JT AY God of his Mercy endue me 
 
 IV A " with Patience, my Lord, and 
 
 [' enable me to keep my Temper, while I 
 
 R " write 
 
24.2 Appendix. 
 
 <c write this once more to your Lordfhip. I ne~ 
 <£ verfaw your Lordfhip's printed Letter to the 
 " Bijhop of Bangor, faid to be publifh'd on 
 " Monday laft ; but I find fomewhat very 
 " Scandalous recited out of it, and inferted 
 <c in the Evening Pojl of Tuefday> July the 9th. 
 <c Your Lordfhip is made there to tell the 
 c ' Bifhop of Bangor, that you had not much 
 " concealed my Name, being 720 way confcious y 
 < £ that what you had reported from me was in- 
 cc trufled with you as a Secret. True, my 
 " Lord, you did not much co?iceal my Name 
 cc from others, but you did conceal it from 
 <c the Bifiop of Bangor and from my felf% 
 <c you might as well have immediately de- 
 " clar'd it to the Bifhop, or at leaft, have 
 <c told me of it by Word or Letter, Time 
 <£ enough to get Satisfaction in it. Your 
 <c Lordfhip is pleas'd to fay, it was not in- 
 u trufted with you as a Secret ; but had fuch 
 a a Thing been ever intrufled by me, the 
 <f Nature of the Thing would have made ir 
 <c a very great Secret : And who would fufpect 
 " that your Lordfhip fhould take the Liberty 
 c of divulging it without my Leave, when 
 " the Report of it would fo much affect 
 " another Bi/hop's Reputation, as well as 
 
 " your 
 
Appendix. 243 
 
 cc your own Difcretion ? To fay nothing of 
 " betraying a Friend in it : What a Delive- 
 cc ranee is it, that I had no fuch Secret to 
 " commit to your Lordfhip ? 
 
 " Your Lordfhip is made to fay, that upon 
 cc my being at feme Di fiance from the Town, you 
 " thought fo muchRefpeB was due to my Per/on 
 " and Character, as to give me Notice, by Letter, 
 * of what was tranfatting here, before you pub- 
 " HJJfd my Name in Print. I believe I was in 
 cc Town, and very near your Lordfhip, when 
 <c you convers'd once and twice with T)r.Hut- 
 " chinfon ; and a Word to me might have fav'd 
 <c my iWiw^ and your Lordftiip's flower. I be- 
 #c lieve that even Dr. Snape\ fecond Letter was 
 « publifh'd before I came to Peterborough, 
 " and your Lordfhip might have dropt a 
 <c Word to me, that I rnuft vouch for a 
 cc certain Pailage in it. In Truth, my Lord, 
 " I cannot fee that you were then agreed 
 a upon your Voucher y had you then fix'd 
 cc upon me, you muft in all Juftice and 
 " Prudence have told me of it. Who would 
 cc imagine that in a Cafe of fuch Impor- 
 <c tance, your Lordfhip mould give me no 
 «« Manner of Notice, that you would ufe my 
 < c Name, 'till you had us'd it, and toft it into 
 c < the common Papers ? R2 "When 
 
244- Appendix. 
 
 " When your Lordfliip at this Di fiance did 
 " give me Notice in a third Letter, (con- 
 u cealing it in two former Letters) did your 
 cc Lordfliip then or fince give me the fame 
 <c Notice, that is here fo formally inferted, 
 " different from your private Letters to me ? 
 <c Did your Lordfliip fend me any Copy of 
 " the Story to be thus told, to know how 
 " much I could avouch or difclaim ? Is this 
 < c the RefpeB due to his Per/on and Char after 
 " to draw up fuch a Charge againft a chrifti- 
 cc an Divin§, and print it at large, without 
 lc fuffering him to have a Sight of it ? I 
 " could not have done fo by your Lordfliip, 
 tc I could rather fubmit to have my Right 
 <c Hand cut off* with this Pen in it. 
 
 <c My Difcourfing with your Lordfliip on 
 iC the Report of the Lower Houfe of Con- 
 cc vocation, I do acknowledge to be true 
 " in Subftance, not in Words : And I did 
 " fay, that the Bijhop of Bangor V Sermon \ in 
 cc the mighty Heat and Noife about, was very 
 cc much, I hop'd, in: f under food and mifrepre- 
 n fented, or to that Effect. I would acknow- 
 <f ledge more, if more were true. But as to 
 " what your Lordfliip adds, that after fome 
 H little talk about the Words now- under debate \ 
 
Appendix. 24.^ 
 
 cc I affurd you, with a fmiling and pleas d 
 cc Countenance, that the Bifloop of Bangor was 
 cc indebted to me for thofe Faftncfes, for that I 
 " had prevail } d with him to infert them : I 
 " faid nothing of thofe Words, nor any Thing 
 " like them. To be indebted for Fajincffes in 
 " writing could be no Phrafe of mine, nor 
 " had I any Thought that could be poffibly 
 " expreft in that Manner. 
 
 " To what End or Purpofe could I fay 
 cC any Thing of a Tendency that Way ? 
 cc Was it to impofe upon your Lordfhip ? I 
 " fhould have fcorn'd it, had your Lordfhip 
 cc been fo eafily impos'd upon. Was it to 
 a divert your Lordfhip, when Nothing could 
 " more offend you, or put me more out of 
 cc Favour ? Was it the Vanity of affuming 
 Cc to my felf any Honour, when I knew it 
 <c to be the Way of expofing my felf to the 
 " laft Degree ? Pray, my Lord, is it likely, 
 " is it pofjible, I could fay any fuch Thing 1 
 u Would your Lordfhip have heard it with 
 " any Patience? Would you not have reprov'd 
 " me for it ? Should I not have heard of ita- 
 " gain at every Turn ? Would you not have told 
 fC it to Brethren, as being not confeious it 
 " was intrufled with you as a Secret ? Would 
 
 R 3 " n oc 
 
2z}-6 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 c< 
 
 ct not your Lordfliip have given fome little 
 " Intimation of it to the Biihop of Bangor, 
 Ct as a Thing highly concerning his Lordfliip 
 « and your whole Order ? Muft it not have 
 cc prelently broke off our Friendship and 
 c< Correfpondence? Efpecially if I had told 
 <c another Tale as difagreeable to your Lord- 
 c< fhip as the former, that I was advised with 
 £f before the Publifoing of the Bifiop of Ban- 
 tc govs Prefervative, and that I was never 
 
 more Jbllici tons for anything in my whole Life, 
 '' than I was for infer ting thefe [Faftneffes] 
 cc in fome Parts of that Difcourfe which vijibly 
 " wanted them. Here again, I am an utter 
 " Stranger to the Language, and to the Thing 
 '' fignified by it. I never read a Line of the 
 " Prefers at he, 'till it was publifh'd from 
 <c the Prefs, and I never faw the Bi/hop for, 
 Ci I believe, a Month at leaft before or after 
 cC the Publication. I had, in a very refpect- 
 cc ful Tendernefs, excus'd your Lordfliip upon 
 cC fwgetting your felf 3 and I would not now 
 * £ fay, you have need of a good Memory, 
 
 " Your Lordfliip has indeed at the End 
 <c of the Story qualified it a little by thefe 
 " Words, to the beji of your Remembrance* 
 cc and the ftricktejl RecolleSiion you can make. 
 
 « But 
 
Appendix. 247 
 
 lC But if this can fave your Lordfhip's Cre- 
 u dit, it was not to fave the Reputation of 
 <c your Friend. I have acknowledg'd, and 
 " would ftill believe, that fuch a ftrange 
 tc Story could never be your Lordfhip's own 
 cc Invention \ but to hear it told by God 
 cc knows whom, and to whifper it to one, and 
 cc fpeak it out to others, and yet to fay no- 
 " thing to either of the two Parties concern'd 
 " in it: Oh! this, my Lord, is, — what 
 cc fhould not be. I know indeed, that with 
 " the common Vulgar, they take up a Story 
 Cc at the fecond or third Hand, and deal ic 
 (t out again 'till they believe it, and have the 
 " Confidence to fay they can tell their Au- 
 " thor, and if pinch'd upon it, ten to one 
 " they name the wrong Man. Nay, to con- 
 ^ fefs my own Weaknefs, (for I am but a 
 <c Man of the inferiour Order) I have been 
 cc told a Narration, and have been telling it 
 <c to others, 'till I fancied I had it from fuch 
 cc a Perfon, and could be almoft pq/ithe' in 
 <£ it; when I have afterwards found my felf 
 " mijlaken ; and I have thank'd God that his 
 (C Grace, and theReafon he endued me with, 
 V had reftrain'd me from being drawn into a 
 V. Snare, and that I had not expos'd my felf 
 
 R 4 " and 
 
248 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 " and my Friend by haftily proclaiming the 
 e< Name I was mijiaken in. 
 
 " Your Pojlfcript, my Lord, in the fame 
 ' Paper, about receiving zfeeond Letter from 
 C£ Dr. Kennett, mould have indue'd your Lord- 
 ci ihip to acknowledge, that you had receiv'd 
 " my firji Letter before the Publication of 
 " your infamous Charge upon me ; and yet 
 cc went on to ajfert w T hat I had folemnly de- 
 " nfd> without taking any Notice of my De- 
 " nial It would have been fairer if you had 
 " recited nothing of that fecond Letter, or 
 " had given a Tranfcript of the whole, as it 
 <c was printed a Day or two after. You are 
 C£ pleas'd to call it a friendly Expedient \ I 
 C£ meant it friendly > and I dare ftill appeal 
 u to the cooler Part of Mankind, whether 
 ; what I have faid in my Letters of your Lord- 
 <c (hip s fncere Forgetfu/nefs,bc not a better Ex- 
 cc pedient, I mean a truer Apology, than any 
 " your Lordihip has yet made for your ielf. 
 
 " As to the Share your Lordfhip gives me 
 <c in the Claim of Right to Ml fakes in Me- 
 ic mory\ I accept of it ; I am too often guilty 
 ■" of Mijlakes, and beg no greater Mercy 
 <c than to be thought fine ere in 'em : And 
 u therefore when, fooner or later, I am con- 
 
 " fcious 
 
Appendix. 24.9 
 
 ct fcious of 'em, I freely confefs 'em. But, 
 " my Lord, in the Matter now before us, as 
 £t the Truth does not depend upon my Me- 
 cc mory good or bad ; it is not only my no 
 " Way remembring the Thing, but my never 
 il once imagijiing any fuch Thing, my never 
 " hearing the leaft of it, 'till your Lordihip, 
 " too late, imparted to me your own Ap- 
 " prehenfion of it, and that in Words 
 <c very different from thofe in your Lordmip's 
 u printed Letter to the Bifiop of Bangor. So 
 " that it is not my Memory, it is my Know- 
 <c ledge, my firmeft Perfuafon, my full Con- 
 u viclion, that I never did fay, I never could 
 " fay, what your Lordfhip, to the bejl of your 
 " Remembrance, hath accus'd^rne of to the 
 " whole World. An Injury that I would 
 " never retaliate, were it to the meaneft Cu- 
 " rate in this Country. 
 
 " Your Lordfhip does well to look about 
 " and call in Evidence againft the Defendant, 
 " But I am fatisfied there can be no Evidence 
 
 tc on your Lordfhip's Side. As^ to 
 
 " he is a Stranger to me ; but if 
 
 " he be the fame Man I have heard of, I 
 " forgive his Cuftom of prating, and I mall 
 c< ftill have as much Favour and Affe&ion for 
 
 £t him. 
 
2£o Appendix. 
 
 cc him, as he had for the prefent Govern- 
 tc ment. Your Lordfhip may have more fuch 
 " WitnefTes from Child's Coffee-houfe y or other 
 " privileged Places. His Tefiimony however 
 IC is, I think, fufficiently fet ande, by what 
 <c your Lordfhip muft. have read, before your 
 <c printing that Letter to me, the contrary 
 " Tefiimony given by Mr. Timothy- Child* 
 <c whom I have always taken for a fober 
 " honeft Man. And having here not to do 
 " with a Superiour, I muft fay that the Story 
 
 « of Mr. is but Falfhood and Non- 
 
 " fenfe from the Beginning to the End of it. 
 " He begins with the Ceremony of my wait- 
 « ing on the Bljhop #/' Bangor, and over a L>ijh 
 cc of Tea telling his Lordjhip, &c. When I 
 H verily believe (I appeal to the JBiinop and 
 " his Family) I never, for thefe laft kvcn 
 " Years, drank fo much as one Difli of Tea, 
 " nor any other Liquor that I know of, with 
 <c his Lordfhip. He makes me end the Con- 
 " ference thus -, But, my Lord, why fiould I 
 "fay any Thing of that [making aNoife, and 
 (i giving OrTe"nce] to your Lord/hip? For I am 
 " fure^ if it pleafes your Lordfiip, it mujlpleaje 
 < c every Body. A Speech not fit to be made 
 (c by fuch a Common Council Man himfelf, 
 
 " and 
 
Ap P EN DIX. 2$ I 
 
 cc and of which, I proteft I never made one 
 « Word for him. 
 
 " There is one Thing more, my Lord, 
 
 C£ that I muft take Notice of: a e. that in the 
 
 « fame Evening Poji (for I have no better 
 
 « Authority) there is a Letter of the Lord 
 
 '< Bifiop of Carlifle, to Dr. Kennett, Dean of 
 
 cc Peterborough $ this, whatever your Lord- 
 
 < c {hip meant, will lead the World into a Be- 
 
 " lief, that your Lordfhip firft Jent me fuch 
 
 < c a Letter, and now give a true Copy printed, 
 
 cc that I may compare it with the Original 
 
 £ ' in my own Hands. So I doubt, with your 
 
 " Lordfhip, I publifh'd no Letter but what 
 
 u I had actually fent to you, and what I dare 
 
 cc fay, your Lordfhip had actually receiv'd, 
 
 cc before my being forc'd to print it in my own 
 
 £C Vindication. But as to that printed Letter 
 
 a of ycur Lordfhip, I had never any fuch Let- 
 
 u ter under your Lordfhip's Hand, and I pre- 
 
 cc fame your Lordfhip wrote it only for the 
 
 <c Prefs. Thh again is not what your Lord- 
 
 <c fhip calls, Anfwcring me in my own Way. 
 
 <c There is one ferious Memento given by 
 <c your Lordfhip, that we are both growing 
 cc old, and I would add to it, that we muft 
 " both think the more of Death, and a Day 
 
 " of 
 
2$2 Appendix, 
 
 cC °f Judgment ; in that Day I hope your 
 " Lordfhip will have Pardon for any Defect 
 " in Memory ; but I can never hope to be 
 <c pardon'd for any notorious Defect in com- 
 u mon Honejiy. 
 
 cc But to take my leave : If ever I deferv'd 
 * the Character your Lordfhip lately meant 
 " of me, the being a Man of chrijlian Con- 
 " rage and Integrity, I do deferve it inthisDif- 
 " pute between us ; I never began it, or 
 " inflam'd it, or have done any Thing unjuft 
 <c or difhonourable in it : If I have err'd it 
 <c has been on the Right, and by giving 
 " your Lordfhip the Benefit of Forget l fidnefs , 
 <f in what others will impute to another Caufe. 
 cc I am the injur* d Per/on, extremely abusd> 
 " moft fhamefully mifreprefented, jlanderd 
 c< and infulted ; and yet, by God's Grace, I 
 <c will hold faft my Integrity , and have the 
 " Chrijlian Courage in this Caufe, and the 
 <c Defence of it, to fear no Man. ,: 
 
 Tour Lordflnfs Injur d Friend, &c. 
 Peterb. July 
 13, 1717. 
 
 W II. K E N N E T T. 
 
 4 
 
Appendix. 253 
 
 A Copy of a Letter to a Friend, N°. 7. 
 
 Dear Sir y 
 
 tc^KjT O U think me wholly taken up with 
 
 JL <c removing the Load, that has been 
 
 <c thrown upon me by the Northern Prelate. 
 
 " And, indeed, as Reputation to an honeft 
 
 " Mind is dearer than either Goods, or Life 
 
 u itfelf, I am under a great Concern and 
 
 " Trouble, to find myfelf rudely charg'd with 
 
 < ( the bafeft Thing in the World, with a 
 
 " Complication of Wickednefs and Folly, 
 
 cc the Making of a Lye ; to vilify one Bifhop, 
 
 <c and to delude another, (both my Friends) to 
 
 €i no Purpofebuttoincenfe them both againft 
 
 ' * me • : For fuch alone could be the End of 
 
 cc my telling a falfe Story of my iecret Ser- 
 
 " vice to the Bifhop of Bangor, to one who 
 
 " hated to hear of any fuch Thing. I be- 
 
 " lieve no Man had ever an Accufation forrnd 
 
 < c againft him, fo void of the Shadow of 
 
 Truth, /. e. fo impoffible in its own Na- 
 
 « cure to be true : Yet Men will believe 
 
 « what they are given tip to believe, I can 
 
 £ only proteft my own Innocence, and offer 
 
 the ftrongeft Prefumptions of it, when no 
 
 " better 
 
2^4- Appendix. 
 
 cc better Proofs can be given of a Negative 
 * not to be proved. And I hope, I have 
 " done this in feveral Papers fufficient to 
 " convince any Man, who is not refolv'd 
 " (right or wrong) to believe ill of me be- 
 Cf caufe I am not of his Side. 
 
 " But however follicitous I am for a good 
 " Name, and that chiefly to continue capable of 
 cc doing Good ; yet I am not fo anxious about 
 <c it, as to neglect my other necefTary Bufmefs, 
 u or to intermit my ufual Courfe of Studies. 
 <c Only in regard to the latter, I do indeed 
 <c often find my Thoughts interrupted, by 
 cf applying what I read to my own Cafe, fo 
 " far as to break the Thread of my Author, 
 cC and run away into my dear Experience of 
 Cc the like Matters. 
 
 " For Example ; I have now before me a 
 <f diverting Book, The Life and Death of Sir 
 <c Thomas Moore, written by a great Grand- 
 ' c fon of his own Name, and printed abroad, 
 <£ in4to, 1642. I have been running it over 
 <c this Day or two, by fuch occafional Snatch- 
 <c es, as the Duties of my Church, and the 
 " Avocations of other Bufinefs would al- 
 <c low; but I often ftopt fhort, and thought 
 <c of my felf inftead of the Writer and the 
 
 " Subjec c t 
 
Appendix. 25$ 
 
 cc Subject. For inftance, p. 24, he is ob- 
 " ferving that one Brixius, a rugged German^ 
 cc wrote a Book againft the Epigrams of 
 * Sir 'Tho. Moore -, which he call'd Antimorus, 
 " in a Stile fo paffionate and provoking, that 
 " Erafmus was afraid, leaft his Friend Moore 
 cc fhould fall upon him with equal Heat and 
 <c Paffion. And therefore Erafmm gravely 
 " advis'd him not to let himfelf loofe againft 
 " that foolijh Book-, I hear (fays he) what 
 u learned Men /peak of Brixius now after he 
 - hath written his Antimore, which as I hear 
 Cc it not willingly of him y fo would I lefs wil- 
 u lingly hear them fo fpeak of you. Wherefore 
 cc feeing I perceive how hard a Matter it is to 
 " temper an Anfwer to fo fpiteful a Book, but 
 cc that you mufl give fo?ne Scope unto your 
 " Paffions, I deem it beft for you not to regard \ 
 " but wholly to contemn the Matter. Tet this 
 4C i" would not counfel you (my bejl Friend) to 
 "do, if there were any Thing in that malici- 
 ic ous Antimore, which did truly blemijh your 
 " Fame, fo that it were nccefary for you to 
 " wipe it away, &c. 
 
 " I could not but dwell a little upon this 
 <c Paffage, and indulge a few Thoughts upon 
 [ c it : That a rough Speaker, when he be- 
 
2^6 Appendix. 
 
 " comes a Re viler of any Man, is the more. 
 <c grating and provoking to him: That the 
 lC Party accus'd vehemently by fuch a one 
 Cc muft needs be the more exafperated at the 
 <c Falfenefs of the Charge, and the rugged 
 <c Wording of it: That an honeft Man 
 u therefore can hardly command his Temper 
 " in the Anfwering fuch a boifterous Adver- 
 <c fary : That it would be better for the in- 
 < c nocent Perfon to fay nothing, but let Si- 
 cC lence and Contempt rebuke the evil Speak- 
 <c er : That this indeed would be the fafer 
 <c Rule, where a Man's good Fame and Cre- 
 * c dit are not much concern'd ; but where they 
 <c are, there it becomes neceffary to vindi- 
 " cate them from Slander and Calumny un- 
 cc deferv'd. 
 
 u I met with another Pafiage, p. 323, 
 " where I ftopt again, and reflected awhile 
 " upon what I thought my own parallel 
 <c Cafe. When Sir Thomas Moore was tried 
 cc for Trenfon, the chief Evidence was one 
 Cc Mr. Ricby who fwore to a private Com- 
 " munication with Sir Thomas in the Tower* 
 cc and to Words which he never uttered : 
 <c Againji whom now j worn, and forfwom, Sir 
 " Thomas began in this wife to ffeah If I 
 
App endix. i/57 
 
 cc 'were a Man, my Lords, that did not regard 
 cC an Oath, I needed not at this Time in this 
 c c Place, as is "well known unto every one, to 
 « Jland as an accufed Per Jon. And if this 
 <£ Oath, Mr. Rich, which you have taken, be 
 <c true, then 1 pray that I may never fee God in 
 (< the Face, which I wcu/d not fay, were it 
 i( other wife, to gain the whole World. The n 
 <f did he recite, before all the Court, the whole 
 " Difcourfe of all their Communication in the 
 <c Tower, according as it was truly and fine ere- 
 " ly -, adding this, In good Faith, Mr. Rich, / 
 " am more forry for your Perjury than for 
 a my own Peril -, and know you, that neither 
 ci I, or any other, would vouchfafe to commu- 
 cc ?iicate with you in any Matter of Importance v 
 tc — Can it therefore feem likely to your FLonou- 
 " rable Lord/hips, that in fo weighty a Caufe, 
 " / fiould fo unadvifedly overfioot my felf 
 <c as to truft Mr. Rich, a Man always reputed 
 
 " of me of fo little Truth and Honefty / 
 
 " refer it to your "Judgments, my Lords, whe- 
 cc ther this can feem a Thing credible to any of 
 '< you. — I have Matter fujficient in my Mind to 
 ' c convince this jlanderous Accufation, fo wrong- 
 C€ fully by jhis Man fir mi fed and urged againjl 
 (c me. — Sir Thomas a Hedged many other 
 
 S " Rea- 
 
2$8 
 
 Appendix 
 
 " Reafons in his own Defence, to the utter 
 « Difcredit of Mr. Rich'* forefaid Evidence^ 
 p< and fir Proof of the Clearnefs of his own 
 < c Confcience. 
 
 " After fome Paufe, I fell into a few fhort 
 <c Reflections, how far I thought my felf 
 <c concern'd in this Part of the Hiftory. This 
 " raih Accufer of Sir Thomas had been his 
 " old Acquaintance and pretended Friend, 
 « and under that Advantage labour'd to be- 
 " tray a private Converfation with him: For 
 " 'tis faid, p. 310. Mr. Rich pretending to 
 tC talk friendly with Sir Thomas, faid thus 
 " unto him fas it proved after) of Jet Purpofe, 
 < f There had indeed been a general Difcourfe 
 a between them, upon the Subject of the King's 
 « Supremacy, but not a Word of that parti- 
 <e cular Matter, which Mr. Rich now charg'd 
 " upon Sir Thomas. Yet, when Mr. Rich 
 tc faw it would pleafe and take, he dreft up 
 <c a Story of it, and talk'd it over, 'till for 
 " Shame of going backward, he was drawn 
 <c on to fwear it. That it being a finde Evi- 
 " dence upon private Converfation, the De- 
 cc feridant could not other wife refute it, than 
 << by afolemn Appeal to God, that.there was 
 v< ho Truth in it. Yet he went on to recite 
 
 " the 
 
Appendix. 259 
 
 " the whole Difcourfe that had pafs'd be- 
 < c tween them, and to aver, that there was 
 " not a Syllable of what Mr. Rich had now 
 " alledg'd againft him. He then queftiond 
 tl the boafted Veracity and Integrity of the 
 <c Witnefs, and gave him the Character of 
 " fuch a rafli and loofe Man, that it was not 
 " likely he fhould commit fuch a Secret to 
 " fuch a Perfon. He call'd therefore upon 
 <f the Judges for their Opinion of the Credi- 
 " bility of it. When Mr. Rich offer/d to 
 " produce other Witneffes to fupport his 
 " fingle Teftimony, they fail'd him, and 
 < £ could fay nothing to the Purpofe. And 
 <c tho' it was impoiTible for Sir "Thomas to 
 " prove the Negative, yet he urg'd fo 
 <c many Reafons againft the bpld Affirmation 
 <c of his Adverfary, that he brought an utter 
 (C Difcredit upon his limpid Evidence, and 
 u fufficiently prov'd his own Conference to be 
 Ci clear, &c. 
 
 < c And yet allowing for the Difference be- 
 " tween Treafon and Scandal, my Cafe is a 
 (: little harder than that of Sir Thomas. For 
 li 'tis plain they had qonvers'd together in 
 " the Tower, and that upon the very Mat- 
 iC rer, tho' not in the Form depofed : Where- 
 
 S 2 " as 
 
260 Appendix. 
 
 '* as, the Bifliop of Carlijle and I had not 
 *\ been in any private Talk In my Study (the 
 " Place where at laft he lays the Scene) I 
 " dare fay, not from the Time of the Bifliop 
 " of Bangor s preaching his Sermon, to the 
 " Time of the Bifliop of Carlijle 's giving 
 " out, that I aflifted his Lordfliip in it, 
 " Again, Sir Thomas Moore had in his Heart 
 " (as he denied not) what Mr. Rich urg'd 
 " upon him, of difliking the regal Suprema- 
 " cy, tho' he was too cautious to reveal that 
 cc Secret of his Heart to fuch a vain Talker 
 l< as he thought Mr. Rich to be; but really, 
 <c in my Cafe, I never had in my Heart, or 
 tc in any fingle Thought of it, any fuch 
 tc Matter or Imagination, as that of Advifmg 
 " and Aflifting the Bifliop of Bangor : I ne- 
 C£ ver conceiv'd or fancied any fuch Thing, 
 ■f nay, I verily believ'd, and often affirm'd the 
 <c contrary, that all the Bifliop had wrote, was 
 " his own Judgment, without taking in the 
 <c Help of any other Perfon. Add to this, that 
 " the Witneffes produc'd by Mi. Rich, to cor- 
 <c roborate his Evidence, were Men of Mo- 
 <c defly and Honour, and plainly confefs'd they 
 " could fay nothing to it : But the certain 
 " Witnefs pick'd up by the Bifliop of Car/ijlcs 
 
 " Brother. 
 
Appendix. 261 
 
 « Brother, tho' magnified by the Bifhop as 
 « an eminent Citizen, and a Member of the 
 «< Common Council, tells a more romantick 
 << Story than any that had been before related, 
 
 cc and attefts it by Name, — 
 
 << He begins with what I told his Lordfliip 
 " over a Dip of "tea, when I may be bold 
 " to fay, that I have not drank a Difh of 
 « Tea with the Bifhop of Bangor for thefe 
 « twelve Months at lcaft. He proceeds to 
 « fay, that what I told his Lordfhip was* 
 « that his Sermon had made a great Naife 
 " about Tovmt but I hoped his Lord/hip would 
 " put in fome neccfary Limitations before he 
 << publifnd it, that it might not give C ) fence. 
 « This is plainly tranfcribing the Bifhop of 
 " Carlijle's Account, when amended to no 
 " Purpofe from before he preach 'd it to before 
 " he publijh'd it ; and finally, I then faid very 
 m fmartly indeed, But, my Lord, why Jhould 
 " I fay any Tiding of that to your Lordfiip^ ? 
 « For I am fare, if it pleafes your Lordjhip, 
 « it muft pleafe every Body. Now if I could 
 « be capable of this latter Part of the Speech, 
 " it is no Matter what elfe I faid more or 
 « lefs. And yet, if thefe were my Words, I 
 « could have no Thoughts of amending any 
 S 3 " Thing 
 
262 Appendix. 
 
 <£ Thing that already pleas' d his Lordflnp, and 
 ** for that good Reafon mufl pleafe every 
 " Body. Can any Mortal believe, that this 
 
 <c 150 as related to Mr. by Mr. Ti- 
 
 11 mo thy Child, and reported to him by the 
 * Bijhop of Bangor him/elf? Surely, if Mr. 
 11 Child had not contradicted all this, its own 
 " Abfurdity would have betrayed the foolifh 
 u Invention of it. 
 
 cc But, I am tiring yoii with the Cafe of 
 " my own Grievances, as injur'd Perfons are 
 " wont to do. I heartily wifh you may keep 
 " better Company, and efcape that evil Spirit 
 <c of Lying and Slandering, that goeth about, 
 <c and is fent through this Church and Nati- 
 " on. Let us ferve God, adhere to the King, 
 <c not forfake the true Intereft of the Church 
 " of England, and be doing all the Good we 
 
 c * can. 
 
 four very Ajfeft. Friend i 
 
 Peterborough, 
 July 27, 17 17. 
 
 Wh. Kennett. 
 
 A 
 
Appendix. 263 
 
 A Copy of another Letter to a Friend. N°. 8. 
 
 SIR, -, 
 « /DOMING to Town on Friday kit, I 
 
 V*J found a Letter of yours that .has 
 4c lain fome Time; wherein you defire to 
 " know my Opinion, whether, (after all) 
 " the Doctrine of the Bifhop of Ba?igors Ser~ 
 " mon be not new, and ftrange, and cer- 
 <c tainly unknown to former Writers. You 
 " are the more apt to think fo, becaufe of 
 " the general Surprize and Offence giv-en tp 
 f fo many of the Clergy, who may be bell 
 " prefumed to know the Doctrines of the 
 <{ Church, and the feveral Explications of 
 <c them. To tell you a Truth, in Confe.ffion 
 " of my own Ignorance, I was fo far from 
 <c being able .to correct the Sermon, that I 
 " was too much a Stranger to the Subject of 
 Cf it, and was at firft a little touch'd with 
 " the common Prejudice againft it j I had 
 " heard fuch a Clamour againft the Herefies, 
 " or at leaft the Novelties in it, before it was 
 " publifh'd, that, upon my Word, when it 
 (£ came out, I, was almoft afraid to read it; 
 c< nay, I lent it to my Neighbour, before I 
 « had my felf perus'd it. I thought there 
 
 S 4 a muft 
 
264. Appendix. 
 
 muft be fomething wrong, or very much 
 *' out of the Way ; and when I could not, 
 
 f at firft Reading, find them out, I began to 
 cc think my own Apprehenfion very dull, 
 <f that I could not fee what a whole Multi- 
 cc tude were pointing at, as the plaineft 
 <f Thing in the World. I never had any 
 tf great Appetite to Speculations and Notions, 
 <c and fo was the lefs a Judge of them: But 
 " when, upon the continual Talk in all Com- 
 <c pany, and the Breaking out of a Paper- 
 c: War, I was oblig'd to read it again, and 
 il to confider a little more of it, I could 
 u ftill find nothing of any dangerous Impor- 
 " tance ; the Words only led me thro* one 
 C{ connected Argument againft Human Infal- 
 
 1 hbilit\\ and Chrijlian Persecution ; the one 
 
 c a Pretence, the other a Practice, the moft 
 u contrary to Reafon and Revelation, and 
 (c the Senfe and Peace of Mankind : Both 
 
 f of them in the Height of Scandal within 
 f< the Church of Rome, and too apt to creep 
 " under fome Cover in other Communions. 
 For it has been a common EfFect of human 
 * c Infirmities for Men to be affuming thofe 
 iC Powers to themfelves which they denied 
 " and refuted in others. Upon this Weak- 
 
 " nefs, 
 
Appendix. 26$ 
 
 « £ nefs, fome of the reformed Churches, or 
 C£ rather fome of the warmer Members of 
 cc 'em, when they had juftly renounc'd the 
 « abfolute Authority of the Church of Rome, 
 " and had fufficiently declaimed againft her 
 " Spirit of Perfecution, they were no fooner 
 cc fettled, but they began to think themfelves 
 * inverted with fome fuch like full Autho- 
 " rity, to ordain Decrees, and to have a Right 
 c < of compelling all within their Pale to fub- 
 " mit their Faith and Obedience to them. 
 " And perhaps fome Men in Power meant 
 " honeftly, that fuch a Sort of Kingdom of 
 « this World, was the only Way to what 
 " they thought neceflary, an external Unity 
 " and Peace, fo called. Upon this fecular 
 c( Confideration, it was not much to be ex- 
 < £ pedled that the following Minifters, cf 
 <c any reformed Church, fhould willingly di- 
 " vert themfelves of Powers and Privileges, 
 <c afferted by thofe that went before them, 
 <£ to which they themfelves had as good a 
 cc Right, and they might well leave their 
 " SucceflTors to defend it. And efpecially in 
 <£ this Church of England, wherein there was 
 £t the beft Oeconomy of Ecclefiaftical Order 
 f c and Jurifdidtion, and too much Occafion 
 
 £C of 
 
±66 Appen dix. 
 
 <c of retraining the Fancies and Wills of 
 R private Men ; here it was the lefs to beex- 
 H peeled, that the Clergy mould renounce all 
 <c temporal Advantages of keeping the People 
 " to them, and be content with Powers pure- 
 f! ly Spiritual, efpecially when they had their 
 " Rights interwoven with the civil Conftitu- 
 " tion, and, as a Church by Law eftabliuYd? 
 <l were under the Protection and Favour of 
 cc the Prince and People ; and all little enough 
 c< to withftand the Attacks of Popery, and 
 <c the Attempts of their various Adveriaries : 
 tc Societies, as well as fingle Men, are never 
 u more jealous of lofing Ground than while 
 <c they ftand in flippery Places, and the E- 
 ff nemy is preffing hard upon them. 
 
 " And yet the Claim of Dominion over 
 •" Confcience, or of a Right to punifh Dif- 
 V fenters with the leaft temporal Infliction, 
 <c was never challeng'd by any publick Voice 
 " of the Church : And really if it had, the 
 " Church had not been yet reformed; the 
 ** chief Teft of the Reformation was in this 
 " Article, That the Holy Scripture was the 
 <c .Rule of Faith, and had a Sufficiency for 
 <f Salvation, as containing all Things neceffa- 
 « ry to that Salvation. So that whatfoever 
 
 f{ is 
 
Ap p endix. 267 
 
 cC is not read therein, nor may be prov'd 
 
 " thereby, is not to be required of any Man, 
 
 u that it fliould be believ'd as an Article of 
 
 " Faith, or be thought requifite or neceffary to 
 
 " Salvation. So in the laft Article of 1562, 
 
 " in the forme r ten Years before, was this Ex- 
 
 « pofition, Whatever is not read therein, or 
 
 <( may be prov'd thereby (though fometirries it 
 
 " may be admitted by the Faithful, as Pious 
 
 Cc or Charitable, and conducing to Order and 
 
 « Decency, notwithstanding) is not to be re- 
 
 11 quired, &V. whejre is a plain Diftinclion be- 
 
 " tween requiring by publick Authority, and 
 
 iC admitting out of private Difcretion. There 
 
 " be other Limitations of the Authority of the 
 
 <c Church in the fame Articles, that I think 
 
 < c confirm the Senfe of the Biihop, 
 
 cc It is true, our eminent Divines^ being 
 " moft of them intrufted with a Share of 
 " Jurifdi&ion, and naturally bent to enlarge 
 " it, were not forward to leiTen any fuppofed 
 -" Powers of the Church, but rather let 
 c ' them prevail as far as they could prevail : 
 " For this feem'd a Civility to their Fathers 
 " and Brethren, and it was Quiet and Inte- 
 tc reft not to offend them. This, I fay, ge- 
 " nerally made our Bttgiiffi Divines the more 
 
 " referv'd 
 
268 Appendix. 
 
 Ct referv'd and tender upon this Point. Bu t 
 " yet when they were to fpeak home againft 
 " the Papifts, or when they exprefs'd their 
 <c own Thoughts without political Regards? 
 <c they fpoke the fame Thing with the 
 " Bifhop of Bangor- I dare fay, a little Lei- 
 f* fure and Opportunity of fearching Books 
 " and Sermons would difcover a thoufand 
 " Confemons of the fame Kind, with the 
 " main Subftance of his Lordmip's Sermon ; 
 < c and were the Authors now living they 
 11 would notbefo difingenuous as to condemn 
 " that in another, which they had done or 
 " faid, in Effect, themfelves. I could recom- 
 " mend you to fome printed Traces that I 
 " lately dipt into, that may fpare you fome 
 " Labour, and furniih you with Authorities 
 ** ready laid together. As, 
 
 i. <c The Judgment of the late Lord Chief 
 l l Juftice, Sir Matthew Hale, of the Natur e 
 " of true Religion, the Caufes of its Cor- 
 " ruptions, and the Church's Calamity, by 
 " Mens Additions and Violences, with the 
 " delired Cure. In three Difcourfes, written 
 " by himfelf, at feveral Times. To which, 
 <c is annexed, the Judgment of Sir Francis 
 u Bacon, Lord Tmjham, St. Albans, and 
 
 " Chan- 
 
Appendix. 269 
 
 « Chancellor of England: And fomewhat 
 « of Dr. Ifaac Barrows on the fame Subject, 
 < c London, 1684. 4-to. 
 
 2. " The Judgments of God upon the Roman 
 « Catholick Church, from its firft rigid Laws, 
 " for univerfal Conformity to it, unto its End, 
 " with a Profpedt. of thefe near approaching 
 c< Revolutions, viz. the Revival of the Pro- 
 " teftant Profeffion in an eminent Kingdom, 
 " where it was totally fuppreft the laft End 
 £C of all Hoftilities. The general Mortifi- 
 cc cation of the Power of the Roman Church 
 <c in all Parts of its Dominions, &c. By 
 " Drue Creffener, D. D. Dedicated to King 
 c< Willi am, 1689. 4*0. 
 
 3. " Judicium Difcretionis : Or, a juft and 
 
 cc neceffary Apology for the People's Judgment 
 
 Ct of private Difcretion, exhibited againft the 
 
 " arrogant Pretences and imperious Sug- 
 
 cc creftions of I'annerus Valentia, Bellarmine, 
 
 " with other Advocates of the papal Tyran- 
 
 <c ny, and tendered to the Confideration of 
 
 C{ all thofe who would fecure themfelves 
 
 " againft Antichriftian Impoftures and De- 
 
 « lufions, London, 1667. 8vo. WithanEpiftle 
 
 €< dedicated to all fuch in the Nations as are 
 
 " true hearted to the Proteftant Intereft, 
 
 " efpecially 
 
270 Appendix. 
 
 < c efpecially thofe of the Laity. Conluding 
 « thus,— I mall clofe with that Saying, 
 " wherewith Dr. Holland ufed to take Leave 
 u of his Friends, Commendo vos Amori Dei 
 " & odio Papijmi. I commend you to the 
 " Love of God and the Hatred of Popery. 
 
 " You may forgive my recommending two 
 " other Books, written by Mr. Richard Bax~ 
 u fer, a Man cart upon the Way of Separa- 
 < c tion, but otherwife of great Sagacity and 
 " good Service againft the two common 
 " Enemies, the Infidel, and the Papijl. 
 
 1. " Againft the Revolt to a foreign Ju- 
 " rifdidion, which would be to England its 
 <c Perjury, Church-Ruin, and Slavery, in 
 <c two Parts. 1. The Hiftory of Mens 
 " Endeavours to introduce it. 2. The 
 "Confutation of all Pretences for it. 
 " To be offered to the next Convocation, 
 " befeeching them to own the Do&rine of 
 <c foreign Communion, but to note, with 
 " Renunciation, the Doctrine of foreign Ju- 
 u rifdiction, and to vindicate the reformed 
 <c Church of England, from the Guilt and 
 " Sufpicion which the French and Innova- 
 " tors injuriouily feekto faften on them. 4to. 
 
 " 2. An 
 
Appendix. 271 
 
 2. u An Anfwer to Mr. Dodivel and Dr. Sher- 
 i( lock ; Confuting an univerfal human Church 
 cc Supremacy, Ariftocratical, and Monarchial, 
 '* as Church-Tyranny and Popery, and de- 
 " fending Dr. Ifaac Barrows Treatife againft 
 < c it, by Richard Baxter, London, 1682. 4to. 
 
 " If you turn to Page 201, you meet this 
 " Paflfage: The true former Church of England 
 " believed not any fuch Thing as a fuprearh 
 <c human Govern our, Monarchial or Arifto- 
 " cratical under Chrift of the whole Church 
 " on Earth. If any yet doubt of this Senfe 
 (< of the Church of England in the Days of 
 " Archbifhop Abbot, let them read the Wri- 
 11 tings of Jewel, Reynolds, JVotton, Whitaker, 
 " Hall, State, Crackenthorp, Willet, Humfrey, 
 " Sufchkjf, Biljbn, Chillingworth, and other 
 cc fuch. 
 
 <f Upon the Mention of Mr. Chillingwortl\ 
 <c I would obferve to you, that I have not 
 " only read an Account of what mov'd the 
 tc Author to turn Papijl, with his own Con- 
 ic futation of the Arguments that perfuaded 
 iC him thereto, printed amongft his additional 
 " Difcourfes, licenc'd by Mr. Needham at 
 " Lambeth, June 14, 1686, but I have by 
 c me what is there Wanting, a Copy of his 
 
 < c Letter 
 
272 Appendix. 
 
 u Letter to Mr. Gilbert Sheldon, (afterwards 
 " Archbifhop of Canterbury) upon his firft 
 " going over to the Papifls, on the plaufible 
 " Pretence of finding Infallibility in that 
 " Church. After many Expreffions of fami- 
 <c liar Friendship he ftates his only Motive 
 cc of Defer don thus, — Let me intreat you to 
 <c confider moft ferioufly of thefe two Que- 
 u ries. 1. Whether it be not evident from 
 <c Scripture, and Fathers, and Reafon, from 
 «' the Goodnefs of God, and the Neceffity of 
 <c Mankind, that there mull be fome one 
 c< Church infallible in Matters of Faith? 
 " 2. Whether there be any other Society of 
 <c Men in the World befides the Church of 
 u Rome, that either can upon good Warrant, 
 tc or indeed at all Challenge to it felf the 
 H Privilege of Infallibility in Matters of 
 
 <e Faith? So that 'tis plain, he went 
 
 " over to Rome only to ftep upon the Rock 
 ' £ of Infallibility, and yet he could find no 
 <c fure Footing on it, no Foundation of 
 fi Truth in it. So that being convine'd, it 
 u was nothing but Tyranny and Ufurpation 5 
 c< he return'd ferioufly and devoutly into the 
 <c Communion of the Church of England, and 
 u £0 laid open the Snare he was caught in, 
 
 " that 
 
Appendix. 273 
 
 " that of all Writers in the World, no one 
 " has better prov'd Scripture the only Rule 
 iC whereby to judge of Controverfies, and that 
 " no Church, of any one Denomination, is in- 
 <c fallible. He was indeed fo faithful to 
 u thefe Principles, that he run into too much 
 " Doubt and Scruple, leaft he mould feem 
 " to acknowledge that Authority in th e 
 " Church of England, which he had fo juft- 
 <c ly hated in the Church of Rome; this led 
 " him into a tender Fear, that the Subfcrip- 
 " tion required by Law, implied fome Do- 
 " minion over Faith, and was fomewhat in- 
 u confident with the Liberty of his own 
 <c Judgment and Conference. I have likewife 
 " a Copy of his laft Letter, directed to the 
 " Right Worfhipful, and my much Honou- 
 u red Friend Dr. Sheldon, at Durham-Houje, 
 <c dated from Sept. 21, 1635, and 
 
 tc fubferibed, Tour moft Loving and True Ser- 
 
 " vant, William Chillingworth i — 
 
 " delivering his Reafons for not Subfcribing, 
 <c and with the greateft Air of Modefty, 
 <c and Sincerity, that ever breath'd in Pa- 
 
 cc per ; and concluding, It cannot be 
 
 ic avoided, but my Lord of Canterbury muft 
 " conie to know this my Pvefolutions and, 
 
274- Appendix. 
 
 " I think, the fooner the better. Let me in- 
 " treat you to acquaint him with it, (if you 
 cC think it expedient) and let me hear from 
 tc you as foon as poffibly you can. But when 
 " you write, I pray remember that my forego- 
 u ing Preferment, being in this State where- 
 4< in I am, is Grief enough to me, and do 
 " not you add to it, by being angry with me 
 cc for doing that which I muft do, or be mi- 
 
 c< ferable. I tranfcribed both thefe Let- 
 
 " ters at Lambeth, from the Copies taken by 
 
 cc Mr. Henry Wharton, and thus attefted in 
 
 tc his Hand, Ex Auiographis Literis' penes 
 
 ' Danielem Sheldon, Armig. Archiepifcopi 
 
 c Nepotem. I have feen fome othtr Papers of 
 
 c Mr. Chillingworth, which were formerly 
 
 " delivered by Archbifhop Sheldon to Dr. 
 
 u Sancroft, then Dean of St. Paul's, and by 
 
 cc the Lord Archbifhop Saner oft delivered to 
 
 cc his Chaplain Mr. Wharton ; among which, 
 
 " are Papers thus intitled, The Abfurdity of 
 
 < c departing from the Church of England, 
 
 u for Want of SucccJJion of vifible Profejjors in 
 
 lc all Ages, 2. A brief Anjhver to fever a I 
 
 " Texts of Scripture, alledged to prove the 
 
 " Church to be one vifible, univerfally, perpe- 
 
 Ci petual, and infallible.. With fome other 
 
 " Differ- 
 
Appendix. 27^ 
 
 cc Diifertations of good Ufe, and feafonable 
 cc Service ; I know they call him Socinian, 
 " and other ill Names > but as he fought 
 " no Preferment, he was at laft, for his 
 <c Merits, thruft into it, and was every Way 
 <c conformable to the Churchy and faithful 
 €c to the King, and fet an Example of fteady 
 " Moderation. 
 
 " This Paper holding no more, muft be the 
 cc Meafure of my prefent Writing ; I would 
 " croud in my Refpe&s and Service, &c. 
 
 Tour very affectionate Friend, 
 
 St. James's-Street, Wefim. 
 Auguft 27, 1717, 
 
 Wh, Kennett. 
 
 For the fuller Vindication of Dr. Kennett, 
 I think it proper to add, 
 
 The Bijljop of Bangor'* Anfwer to the Bijhop 
 of Carlifle\f Letter, N°. 9. 
 
 C c TfN Anfwer to what the Lord Bifhop of 
 
 J[ " Carlifle hath, publifh'd, under the Ti- 
 
 T 2 tie 
 
~2j6 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 o 
 
 C( 
 
 u 
 
 <c tie of Remarks, I think my felf obliged 
 <c to trouble the World, in this Manner once 
 cc more. The fir ft Accufation of me was> 
 <c that I had folemnly affirmed a Falfhood, in 
 " faying that my Sermon was preach'd with- 
 out the Knowledge of any Man living. 
 Dr. Snape publifh'd to the World, that it 
 had been read, or feen, and, upon Advice, 
 corrected, before it was preach'd ; and that 
 a Bijhop would charge himfelf with the 
 cc Proof of this Accufation. Upon this i" 
 cc put my whole Reputation : And required the 
 cc Doctor to name the Bijhop. He named 
 " the Bijhop of CarliJIe. The Bijhop doth 
 u not once deny that the Doctor read the 
 €t Pajfage to him, laying an Emphajts upon 
 c< thofe Words in it, before it was preach' d> 
 <c nay, he acknowledges this, p. 13, and p. 
 " 40. And yet, in p. 13, he faith, that he 
 ** never thought, and therefore, is verily per- 
 « c fuaded, never /aid, that the Advice about 
 " my Sermon, was given and taken, before 
 " the Preaching of it. In Juftification of 
 <c his allowing the DoSfor to publifh that 
 cc Scandal, he alledges, that he did not mind 
 l( thofe Words particularly, upon which the 
 " whole Scandal relied. But he faith, Had 
 
 " Dn 
 
Appendix. 277 
 
 u jDr, Snape been open with him, in communica- 
 < c ting the Ufe he dejigned to make of that Cir- 
 " cum/lance of Time, all the Clutter had been 
 " prevented. And yet it appears, by his own 
 " Acknowledgment, that the Dotfor was 
 " open with him: For that Paffage he owns 
 €C was read to him; and, in that Pajfage, 
 fi the very Ufe defign'd to be made of that 
 " Circumjlance, is declared fufficiently to be, 
 " to convidi me of a folemn Faljhood. When 
 c< his Lordjhip comes to Dr. Snape's firfi 
 " Advertifement, to which he fet his Hand ? 
 " and thefe Words, This is true, he faith, p f 
 " 9, That it was brought to him fo late, and 
 u fo much upon the Spur, that he could but jujl 
 " point out the main Failure of it-, that is, fo 
 " late, and fo much upon the Spur, that he 
 " had not Time fo much as to refufe to 
 
 * fign it : Which he now begins to repent 
 c < that he did not refufe, not for my fake at all, 
 " but his own. Indeed, it would have been 
 cc to little Purpofe to have refus'd it, becaufe 
 €C he hath over and over again acknowledge 
 Cf the latter Part of it to be true. And 
 « therefore no one can blame the Bookfeller 
 
 * for not altering that which the Bi/hop 
 *< conftantly allows to be true. After all this, 
 
 T 3 f Ws 
 
278 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 his Lordfiip goes on to leave fome little 
 <c Difgrace upon me, inftead of making the 
 " leaft Reparation for the great and fir ft In- 
 u jury. I beg Leave jiow, to put together 
 " the following Injiances of his Lord/hip's 
 " Condufl towards me. In one Page the 
 " Bijhop faith, the Main of his Evidence is 
 " truly reported in the Doctor's fecojid Lef~ 
 " ter. In the next Page, that the one only 
 " report the Doctor had made of it, which 
 u relates intirely to the Alteration of the 
 €t Sermon before preaching, is not true. He 
 cc owns, that he gave the Doctor his Allow- 
 " ance to publifh that Libel : But he faith, 
 ec when the Doctor read to him that Libel, 
 ic which he was to Licence, he did not mind 
 " what was in it. He complains, the Doc- 
 " tor was not open, to acquaint him with 
 his Defign ; and yet owns that the Docto r 
 was open, and read diftinctly that very De- 
 <c f l g n to him exprefs'd in that PafTage. He 
 cc profeffeth, he did not project Infamy again/l 
 ■ me: But owns that he firft willingly fur- 
 " nifh'd it, and then, after hearing it read, 
 K< allowed the Publication of it. He fub- 
 r fcribed Dr. Snapes Advertifement on Sa- 
 * turday - y which was to continue the Infa- 
 
 lc my 
 
Appendix. 279 
 
 cc my upon me, 'till I call'd for the Ex- 
 
 « plication: But he faith, p. 13, that 
 
 " what he intended by that Subfcription 
 
 " was very plain on the Monday after wards* 
 
 " to thofe who heard his Lord/hip and the 
 
 " Bookfeller, whom I never faw, difcourfe the 
 
 " Point in the Lobby, at the Houfe of Lords. 
 
 c< In his own Advert if ement, he faith, that 
 
 " he mark'd that Mi/lake in Dr. Snapes Ad- 
 
 < c vertifement, which related to the Time, 
 
 " and allowed Mr. B. to publifh his Attefta- 
 
 « tion to it, fo amended: But now, he faith, 
 
 cC p. 10, that he did not allow it, without 
 
 cc farther Amendments. In the fame Adver- 
 
 " tifement, he declares, that he takes his In- 
 
 « formant (Dr. Kennett) to be a Man of Chrif- 
 
 « tian Courage and Integrity. But fince the 
 
 " Dean will not teftify the greateft Falfhood 
 
 " in the World, he now leads People to 
 
 " think, that his Informant hath neither Chrif- 
 
 " tian Courage nor Integrity. At the fame 
 
 " Time I would obferve, that his Lordjhip 
 
 " hath been the Deans old Friend, and I 
 
 tc very little acquainted with him : That his 
 
 cc Lord/hip hath written to him, to be fure 
 
 « earneftly, upon this Occafion, and that I, 
 
 " neither dire&ly nor indirectly, neither by 
 
 T 4 " my 
 
280 Appendix. 
 
 c my felf, nor any other Perfon in the 
 C( World, have fent the leaft Word, Hint, 
 " or Meffage to him. The World is to 
 " judge of the Tejli monies of the Bijhop, and 
 " the Dean. But one Thing I will obferve, 
 " that the Dean hath not yet contradicted 
 C( himfelf in his Teftimony, which I am forry 
 c to fay the Bijhop hath done over and over $ 
 £C and that this is an Advantage in all Tefti- 
 " monies. And now, his Lord/hip, after all 
 " this, is fo far from making me any Repa- 
 cC ration for fo great an Injury in the tenderefl 
 u Point, that he treats me, as if I had injured 
 - him ; and having behaved himfelf as he faw 
 " fit, he charges me with all the Confequences 
 1 of his own Behaviour. I mall, when the 
 £c whole of this Matter is finifh'd, collect 
 " both the folemn Charge in Dr. S nape's fe* 
 u cond Letter^ and all the Advert ifements re- 
 c lating to it, and make my own Remarks 
 <£ upon them ; that the Memory of this Af- 
 u fair may not immediately perifh. In the. 
 u mean while, I can only folemnly declare, 
 what I am confident the Dean of Peterbc- 
 c < rough will teftify, that he never faw a 
 iC Line of my Writing defign'd for the Prefs 
 • upon any Subject in the Worlds that I 
 
 " never 
 
App endix. 281 
 
 '< never once confulted him, in any Thing that 
 « I ever intended to publifh ; that long be. 
 « fore, and fome Time after the Prefervative 
 c< was publifhed, I had not the Favour of 
 " one Vifit from him, as far as I can re- 
 <c member^ and that in any Vifit which he 
 " paid me, after the Preaching of my late 
 " Sermon, he never fpoke to me one Word 
 " about adding Limitations. Nor indeed 
 H could he, becaufe he knew not what Li- 
 " mitations were wanting, or where - y having 
 <c only* heard in general, what every one talk'd 
 u of, that fome were difpleafed with it. As 
 " for the other Calumny, that it was preached 
 " without thofe Words in it, I do here fo- 
 " lemnly profefs, that to the beft of my Re- 
 Ci membrance, thofe Words were rather more 
 i(r frequently repeated in it, when I preach 'd 
 " it, than they are now in the pri-ated Ser- 
 " mon: Some being added by me in Places 
 <£ where they were not written down. I have 
 <c heard of federal very credible Perfons al- 
 * c ready, who can and will teftify that they 
 " heard thofe Words. But I can give his 
 u Lordfiip a Demonflration how little can be 
 <c concluded for the Negative, from thofe 
 ** who can pretend to fay, They do not re- 
 
 cc member 
 
282 Appendix. 
 
 <f member them, viz. that a Bijhop owns he 
 '' heard a L/^/ againft another Bifhop read 
 c< to him, and believes that iome particular 
 <c Words, upon which the whole depended 
 c c were read to him, in it, with an extraordi- 
 " nary Emphajis : And yet faith, he did not 
 " mind fo much as to remember, that he heard 
 " thofe Words. I thank God, I can bear, and 
 " forgive. I defire no more, but that Ca- 
 c< lumny may lie where it ought to lie ; and 
 " that the Infamy of the Chrijiian Name 
 " may reft, where it ought in Juftice to reft. 
 
 Ben j. Bangor. 
 
 About the Middle of July, 1727, the 
 Dean went with his Son-in-Law, Captain 
 Howe, to dine with the Bifhop of Lincoln 
 at Buckden. After Dinner, the Bifhop told 
 him, he cou'd not invite him to ftay, be- 
 caufe he expected the Bifhop of Carlijle 
 there that Evening. When the Dean went 
 away to the Inn, he faw the Bifhop of Car- 
 lifle, and Chaplain, and Servant, come riding 
 into the Yard. He refolv'd, he wou'd take 
 no firft Notice, nor yet feem to decline him 
 by going away ; fo he went with a Friend, 
 or two, into one Chamber ; and his Lord- 
 
 (hip, 
 
Appendix. 283 
 
 mip, and his Retinue, into another. The 
 Chaplain (or Kinfman) paffed by, and look'd 
 in upon him two or three Times; but the 
 Bifhop neither ftirr'd, nor fent to him. From 
 hence, a vile Story was made up, and pub- 
 lifh'd in the Pojl-Boy, to affront and abufe 
 the Dean ; which only fhew'd how aban- 
 don'd the Party was, to invent Lies without 
 one qualifying Circumftance of Truth in 'em, 
 or any one right Conje&ure. It was drefs'd 
 in fuch a Stile, and with fo little an Air of 
 Truth, that the Dean himfelf was afham'd 
 to take the leaft Notice of it ; but Captain 
 Howe thought fit to publifh tha following 
 Advertifement. 
 
 N°. X. 
 
 WHEREAS there is a bafe and rail 
 cally Letter diredled to the Author 
 of the Poji-Boy, and inferted in his Paper of 
 'Tuefday, Sept. 12. And whereas I cannot 
 yet come at the Writer, to give him the 
 Corre&ion he deferves; I think, in the mean 
 Time, that I ought, in Juftice and Honour, 
 to inform the World, that I was a Witnefs 
 of that whole Matter, relating to the late 
 
 Vint 
 
284 Appendix. 
 
 Vifit paid by the Dean of Peterborough to 
 the Lord Bifhop of Lincoln at Buckden, and 
 (know every Circumftance to be contrary to) 
 what that Fellow has affirm'd. He fays, that 
 Dr. K. going to P — gh, thought he could not, 
 in Civility, pafs fo near my Lord of L~c— n> 
 without calling to fee how his Lordjhip did. 
 But I fay, that Dr. K. was neither going to 
 Peterborough, nor returning from it, nor was 
 there any Civility in not pafjing fo near with- 
 out calling ; but, in Truth, the Dean and I, 
 in his Time of Refidence at Peterborough, 
 came over to Buckden one Day, purpofely to 
 make his Lordfhip a refpeclful Vifit. He 
 fays, It being jujl about Dinner-time, he (the 
 Dodlor) refolvd to fee whether the Bifhop kept 
 a good Houfe or no. I do fay, that we were 
 there before Prayers, and were at Chapel 
 before we were at Dinner, it being a publick 
 Day, and other good Company with us. He 
 fays, that My L. of L. is a very jocofe Gentle- 
 man, and an excellent Companion. To which 
 I muft needs fay, that his Lordfhip has all 
 the Gravity and good Manners that becomes 
 his facred Order. He fays, My L. being wil- 
 ling to divert himfelf, and try the Courage of 
 ike Doctor, told him, that he was heartily glad 
 
 to 
 
Appendix.' 285 
 
 to fee him, and the more, becaufe the B. o/C. 
 was to be with him that Day, and that he hoped, 
 that being together, they would clear feme Matters, 
 which' till then had feem'd very dark and intricate. 
 I do fay, that there is not a Word of this! true, 
 any farther than that the Bifliop took No- 
 tice, that he expected the B. of C. that Even- 
 ing in his Road to the North ; and I think 
 his Lordfhip did not fay fo much 'till after 
 Dinner. He fays, this unwelcome News Jlart- 
 led the DoBor to fuch a Degree, that it made 
 him WHITE again, &c. I fay, that he is 
 a dull Dog, and has no more Wit or Senfe 
 than he has Truth or Manners in him. He 
 fays, the B. perceiving he had carried the Je/l 
 too far, and not willing to fpoil his Friend's 
 Dinner, defer ed him to be eafey, for that he did 
 not expecl my L. of C. 'till Six or Seven 
 0' Clock in the Evening. I do fay, that there 
 was no fuch Jefting at all ; it is his own 
 Banter, without any Thing of good Air or 
 Spirit in it, 'tis Lying for its own fake. He 
 continues on, and fays, ^Thereupon K. when he 
 faw, or at leafe believ'd the Danger pafe, re- 
 felv'd to make the befe of a bad Market, and 
 anfwered, that for his Part, he was only ferry 
 that he could not flay 'till the Bijhop came, for 
 
 that, 
 
286 Appendix. 
 
 that, far from fearing him, he Jhould be very 
 glad offuch an Opportunity to clear up Matters, 
 and fee what my L. of C. could fay for himfelf 
 I fay, this is all of the fame Stuff, impudent 
 Falfhood all -, and fo is every Word of what 
 follows -, But by this c Ti?ne Dinner was brought > 
 a?id after having eaten plentifully, and drank 
 the Kings Health, jujl as they were adjourning 
 to the 'Tea Table, they heard the rattling oj a 
 Coach in the Yard. The B, of L. rofe np at 
 the Noife, and looking out of the Window, O 
 dear, faid he, here is my L. of C. come three 
 Hours fooner than I expelled him. Pray ex- 
 cufe me, Mr. D. / muft go and receive him. 
 Accordingly he went down. I fay, the B. of 
 C. did not come to the Palace while we were 
 there, and when he came afterwards to an 
 Inn, he came on Horfeback, Ergo, not in a 
 rattling Coach. He fays, hi the me a?i while, the 
 Docfor creeps out at the Back-door, goes to the 
 Stable, bridles his Horfe, and gallops away as 
 fajl as if he had ten thoufand Duyvelkindts at 
 his Crupper. Poor Wretch, not fit to guefs 
 when he never sueffes right ! There was no. 
 Back-door to creep out at, but one Way of 
 coming or going by the Bridge and Fore-Gate. 
 Nor were our Horfes fet up in the Bifhop's 
 
 Stable, 
 
Appendix. 287 
 
 Stable, but at the Inn ; nor did the Do&or 
 come or go away on Horfeback, but in my 
 Chaife, with a Pair of my Horfes. He fays, 
 When the two BBs. came up, they found the 
 D. gone. I am fure the Dean was gone from 
 the Palace fome Hours before the BBs met 
 in it. For, to tell the whole Truth, that 
 this Tory Puppy has made the Foundation 
 of fo many Lies -, when flaying fome Time 
 after Dinner, we had taken our Leaves of 
 the B. of L. we went to the Inn where we 
 had fet up, and having good Company, a 
 Knight of the Shire, and another Juftice of 
 the Peace, we agreed to reft awhile, and 
 take a Glafs of Wine : As the D. was upon 
 the Stairs, he faw the B. of C. come riding 
 in, and alighting from his Horfe within the 
 Gate: The Dean did not ftir 'till the B. 
 went haftily into another Room, and ftaid 
 there without fpeaking or fending one Word 
 to the D. In about an Hour's Time we 
 went away, and left his Lordfhip, I think, 
 
 in private What can I fay more to fuch 
 
 an impudent Writer, but that if ever I meet 
 him, I fhall deal a better Way with him; 
 and if I cannot find him out, I will make 
 the Boft-Boy anfwer for him. In the mean 
 
 Time, 
 
288 Appendix. 
 
 Time, it is a Pleafure to me, to fee how 
 much the Dean has fuffer'd from an impo- 
 tent Fa&ion, for his Loyalty to my Mafter 
 the King, and for his good Opinion of the 
 Publick Services, done by my Friend to the 
 Lord Bifhop of Bangor , who has been perfe- 
 cuted and unmov'd with a Multitude of Ca- 
 lumnies and virulent Reflexions. To pre- 
 vent another falfe Story, I mull declare, that 
 his Lordfhip has given me no Advice, nor 
 has any Knowledge of this Matter. My 
 Writing is a Volunteer to ferve my King, 
 and Church, and Country. It is a Part of 
 my Profeffion to hate Lies, and chailize Re- 
 bels. I honeftly fet my Name, and dare any 
 Man in the World to contradict me. 
 
 Pall-Mall, 
 Sept, 18, 1717 
 
 John Howe- 
 
 F I N I S. 
 
•▼- &r S> ifc <& $&, Sfe> $&> <£• 45- <$£■ «£t i*t 
 
 9 O'STS C'R ITT. 
 
 THE Reader is dcfir'd to leave out a Line or 
 two in the fir ft Page, viz. that Mr. ifo/J/ 
 Kennett was pofifefs'd of the Sine Cure of Orgaf- 
 wick \ he only, it feems, performing the occafio- 
 nal Duties in thefaid Parifh, as the Author is fince 
 inform'd : Whofe Defire to publifh this Account 
 of the Life and Writings of Bifhop Kennett, as 
 foon as poflible, may have occafion'd fome other 
 fmall Miftakes ', but he aflures the Reader, there 
 are none that are wilful •, and, he hopes, none mate- 
 rial. If any fuch appear, he will be very glad to 
 correct 'em, if thefe Papers come to another Edi- 
 tion -, or in the Supplement, which he has Thoughts 
 of Publifhing fome Time or other, by itfelf, con- 
 taining feveral other Letters and Papers of the 
 Bifnop's, now in his PonefHon. 
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 PAge 50. Line 15. for was, read is. p. 52. 1. 19. after par- 
 ticular, add, Favour, p. 61. 1. ult. after Sermons, add, 
 fome of which, p. S9. 1. 16. after Lord, add, D. p. 90. 1. 8. 
 after me, add, out. p. no. 1. 1. omit, and indeed, p. 108. 1. 
 
 7. for Dr. r. Mr. p. r 14. leave out the Words an Infcrip- 
 
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