Kennett, White 1660-1728

Overview

Works:	640 works in 1,233 publications in 6 languages and 10,102 library holdings
Genres:	Sermons, English
Roles:	Translator, Other, Editor
Classifications:	ac4, 016.97

Publication Timeline

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Publications about White Kennett

Publications by White Kennett

Publications by White Kennett, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about White Kennett

White Kennett, 1660-1728, Bishop of Peterborough, study in the political and ecclesiastical history of the early eighteenth century by Gareth Vaughan Bennett ( Book )
Some considerations on Doctor Kennet's second and third letters. Wherein his misrepresentations of Mr. Collier's Ecclesiast. history are lay'd open; and his calumnies disprov'd. By Jeremiah Collier, M.A by Jeremy Collier ( Book )
The conduct of the Reverend Dr. White Kennett Dean of Peterborough. from the year 1681, to the present time. Collected from his own writings. Being a very proper supplement to his Three letters to the Bishop of Carlisle, upon the subject of Bishop Merks. By an impartial hand by White Kennett ( Book )
The sense of the people upon the dispute between the Bishop of Bangor on the one part; and Dr. Snape, the Bishop of Carlisle, and Dr. Kennet on the other ( Book )
A letter to the curate of Stepney in answer to The would be bishop: or, lying dean ( Book )

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Most widely held works by White Kennett

The Primordia of Bishop White Kennett, the first English bibliography on America by White Kennett ( Book )
3 editions published in 1960 in English and held by 526 libraries worldwide

In praise of folly by Desiderius Erasmus ( Book )
38 editions published between 1683 and 1925 in English and Undetermined and held by 312 libraries worldwide

The interpreter of words and terms used either in the common or statute laws of this realm, and in tenures and jocular customs : with an appendix, containing the antient names of places in England, very necessary for the use of all young students, that converse with antient deeds, charters, &c by John Cowell ( Book )
17 editions published between 1701 and 2005 in English and held by 185 libraries worldwide

A treatise of the Roman ports and forts in Kent by William Somner ( Book )
5 editions published in 1693 in English and held by 152 libraries worldwide

Parochial antiquities attempted in the history of Ambrosden, Burcester, and other adjacent parts in the counties of Oxford and Bucks by White Kennett ( Book )
9 editions published between 1695 and 1818 in English and held by 145 libraries worldwide

An address of thanks to a good prince presented in the panegyrick of Pliny, upon Trajan, the best of Roman Emperours by Pliny ( Book )
8 editions published between 1685 and 1686 in English and held by 138 libraries worldwide

A dialogue between two friends occasioned by the late revolution of affairs, and the oath of allegiance by White Kennett ( Book )
3 editions published in 1689 in English and held by 130 libraries worldwide

A treatise of gavelkind both name and thing shewing the true etymologie and derivation of the one, the nature, antiquity, and original of the other : with sundry emergent observations both pleasant and profitable to be known of Kentish-men and others, especially such as are studious, either of the ancient custome, or the common law of this kingdome by William Somner ( Book )
6 editions published in 1726 in English and held by 126 libraries worldwide

The case of impropriations, and of the augmentation of vicarages and other insufficient cures, stated by history and law from the first usurpation of the popes and monks, to Her Majesty's royal bounty lately extended to the poorer clergy of the Church of England : with an appendix of records and memorials relating to that subject by White Kennett ( Book )
5 editions published between 1704 and 1705 in English and held by 125 libraries worldwide

The itinerary of John Leland the antiquary by John Leland ( Book )
2 editions published in 1770 in English and held by 120 libraries worldwide

Some remarks on the life, death, and burial of Mr. Henry Cornish, B.D., an eminent dissenting teacher who died on Sunday, Dec. 18, and was interr'd on Thursday, Dec. 22, 1698, in the church of Bisiter in the county of Oxford as received in a letter from a friend by White Kennett ( Book )
4 editions published in 1699 in English and held by 107 libraries worldwide
Written by White Kennett. Cf. DNB.

A letter from a student at Oxford to a friend in the country concerning the approaching Parliament, in vindication of His Majesty, the Church of England and University by White Kennett ( Book )
5 editions published in 1681 in English and held by 106 libraries worldwide
Attributed to White Kennett by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints.

The righteous taken away from the evil to come applied to the death of the late excellent Queen, in a sermon preach'd at St. Martin's Church, on Sunday, January the twentieth, 1694/5, before the mayor, baliffs, and commonalty of the city of Oxford by White Kennett ( Book )
3 editions published in 1695 in English and held by 106 libraries worldwide

To Mr. E.L. on His Majesties dissolving the late Parliament at Oxford, March 28, 1681 by White Kennett ( Book )
3 editions published in 1681 in English and held by 102 libraries worldwide
In verse.

A third letter to the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, Lord Almoner to His Majesty, upon the subject of Bishop Merks wherein the nomination, election, investiture, and deprivation of English prelates are shew'd to have been originally constituted and govern'd by the sovereign power of kings and their Parliaments : against the pretensions of our new fanaticks who have withdrawn themselves from the establish'd church into a separate communion under the name of some deprived bishops and their supposed successors by White Kennett ( Book )
7 editions published in 1717 in English and held by 95 libraries worldwide

An Account of the burning the city of London as it was publish'd by the special authority of King and Council in the year, 1666 : to which is added, the opinion of Dr. Kennet, the present bishop of Peterborough, as publish'd by His Lordship's order, and that of Dr. Eachard, relating thereunto : also the whole service appointed for the day ... : from all which, it plainly appears, that the papists had no hand in that dreadful conflagration ( Book )
3 editions published in 1721 in English and held by 90 libraries worldwide

An Account of the burning the city of London as it was publish'd by the special authority of King and Council in the year, 1666 : to which is added, the opinion of Dr. Kennet, the late bishop of Peterborough, as publish'd by His Lordship's order, and that of Dr. Eachard, relating thereunto : with an account of the service appointed for the day ... : from all which, it plainly appears, that the papists had no hand in that dreadful conflagration ( Book )
2 editions published in 1729 in English and held by 89 libraries worldwide

A letter to the Lord Bishop of Carlisle concerning one of his predecessors Bishop Merks; on occasion of a new volume for the Pretender, intituled, The hereditary right of the Crown of England asserted by White Kennett ( Book )
18 editions published between 1713 and 1717 in English and Undetermined and held by 89 libraries worldwide

A true answer to Dr. Sacheverell's sermon before the Lord Mayor Nov. 5. 1709. In a letter to one of the aldermen by White Kennett ( Book )
11 editions published in 1709 in English and held by 58 libraries worldwide

A compassionate enquiry into the causes of the civil war In a sermon preached in the Church of St. Botolph Aldgate, on January XXXI, 1703/4. ... By White Kennett by White Kennett ( Book )
8 editions published in 1704 in English and held by 44 libraries worldwide

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