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White Kennett (10 August 1660 – 19 December 1728) was an English bishop and antiquarian. He was educated at Westminster School and at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where, while an undergraduate, he published several translations of Latin works, including Erasmus' In Praise of Folly. (From Wikipedia) More about White Kennett:
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1 additional book about White Kennett in the extended shelves:Books by White Kennett: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Kennett, White, 1660-1728: Bibliothecae Americanae Primordia: An Attempt Towards Laying the Foundation of an American Library, in Several Books, Papers, And Writings (London: Printed for J. Churchill, 1713) (multiple formats at archive.org)- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: 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 (fourth edition; London: Printed by S. Buckey, 1717) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: The Primordia of Bishop White Kennett: The First English Bibliography on America (originally published 1713; this edition Washington: Pan American Union, 1959), contrib. by Frederick Richmond Goff (page images at HathiTrust)
Additional books by White Kennett in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Kennett, White, 1660-1728: An address of thanks to a good prince : presented in the Panegyrick of Pliny upon Trajan, the best of Roman emperours (Printed for Tho. Fickus, and William Hart, booksellers in Oxford, 1686), also by Pliny the Younger (page images at HathiTrust)- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: Bibliothecæ americanæ primordia. Catalogue of the remaining portion of the famous collection of early Americana formed by the Right Rev. White Kennett, D. D. (1660-1728) bishop of Peterborough, and given by him in 1712 to the Society for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts. Sold by order of the society under a scheme authorised by the Charity commissioners of England ... Also of certain other books bequeathed at different times to the society ... Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... auctioneers ... the 30th of July, 1917. (Dryden Press, J. Davy & Sons, 1917), also by Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: A complete history of England: with the lives of all the kings and queens thereof; from the earliest account of time, to the death of His late Majesty King Williaam III. Containing a faithful relation of all affairs of state, ecclesiastical and civil. (Printed for B. Aylmer [etc.], 1706), also by John Strype and John Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: A dialogue between two friends occasioned by the late revolution of affairs, and the oath of allegiance by W.K. ... (London : Printed for Ric. Chiswell, 1689) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: The duties of rejoycing in a day of prosperity : recommended in a sermon preach'd before the queen, at her royal chappel in Windsor, on Sunday, June 23, 1706 ... (H. Hills ..., 1708) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: The excellent daughter; a discourse more especially design'd for the benefit of poor girls taught and cloathed by charity. With proper lessons of the duty of daughters ... (Printed by J.T. for J. Wilford, 1742) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: The glory of children in their fathers. A sermon preach'd in the cathedral church of St. Paul London, before the sons of the clergy, December the 3d 1702. With an abstract of the royal charter erecting a corporation for relief of the poor widows and children of clergymen ... (Bonwicke, 1703) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: A glossary to explain the original, the acceptation, and obsoleteness of words and phrases; and to shew the rise, practise, and alteration of customs, laws and manners. (Printed by R. and A. Taylor, 1816) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: The history and antiquities of Bicester, a market town in Oxfordshire (Printed by R. and A. Taylor, for the author, 1816), also by John Dunkin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: In praise of folly (Reeves & Turner, 1876), also by Desiderius Erasmus and Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: The itinerary of John Leland the antiquary (Printed at the [Sheldonian] theatre, for James Fletcher, and Joseph Pote, at Eton college, 1770), also by John Leland, Nicholas Fitzherbert, William Fitzstephen, Ralph Thoresby, Francis Brokesby, John Woodward, William Vallans, Robert Plot, Roger Gale, and Thomas Hearne (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: The lets and impediments in planting and propagating the Gospel of Christ. A sermon preach'd before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, at their anniversary meeting, in the parish church of St. Mary-le-Bow, on Friday the 15th of February, 1711 ... and an abstract of the proceedings of the 12 Society within the last year past ... (Printed by J. Downing, 1712) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: 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. (London : Printed for John Seeres, 1681) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: Moriae encomium. English (Oxford : Printed by L. Lichfield ... for Anthony Stephens ..., 1683), also by Desiderius Erasmus (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: Panegyricus. English (London : Printed by M. Flesher for Tho. Fickus ..., 1685), also by Pliny the Younger (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: Parochial antiquities attempted in the history of Ambrosden, Burcester, and other adjacent parts in the counties of Oxford and Bucks. (Clarendon Press, 1818), also by Thomas Delafield and Bulkeley Bandinel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: Praise of folly (Reeves & Turner, 1870), also by Desiderius Erasmus and Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: 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 ... (Oxford : Printed by Leonard Lichfield, for George West ..., 1695) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: A sermon preach'd at the funeral of the right noble William duke of Devonshire, in the church of All-Hallows in Derby, on Friday Septemb. 5th. MDCCVII. With some memoirs of the family of Cavendish. (J. Churchill, 1708) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: A sermon preached before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Abbey-Church at Westminster : the XXXth of January, M.D.CC.XIX (Printed for W. Taylor ..., 1720) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: A sermon preached in the church of St. Botolph Aldgate, in London, on September VII, 1704, the day of solemn thanksgiving for the late glorious victory obtain'd over the French and Bavarians by the forces of Her Majesty and her allies under the command of the Duke of Marlborough. (Awnsham, 1704) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: 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. (London : Printed for John Nutt ..., 1699) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: To Mr. E.L. on His Majesties dissolving the late Parliament at Oxford, March 28, 1681 ([London?] printed : [s.n.], 1681) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: 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 (Printed for F. Gyles, J. Woodman and D. Lyon, and C. Davis, 1726), also by William Sommer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: A treatise of the Roman ports and forts in Kent by William Somner ; publish'd by James Brome ... ; to which is prefixt, The life of Mr. Somner. (Oxford : Printed at the Theater, 1693), also by William Somner and James Brome (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: White Kennett Library. (John Wilson and Son, University Press, 1883), also by Charles Deane and Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kennett, White, 1660-1728: The wisdom of looking backward, to judge the better of one side and t'other by speeches, writings, actions, and other matters of fact on both sides, for the four years last past. (Printed for J. Roberts, 1715) (page images at HathiTrust)
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