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4 unusual facts about White Kennett


Luke Milbourne

After listening to one of Milbourne's high-flying sermons in January 1713, Bishop White Kennett asked indignantly ‘why he did not stay in Holland?’ and ‘why he is suffered to stay in England?’

Samuel Pordage

White Kennett, writing in 1728, attributed the work to Samuel.

Simon Gunton

White Kennett, afterwards bishop of Peterborough, wrote large additions in a copy now preserved in the cathedral library.

William Somner

He made collections for a history of Kent, but abandoned this undertaking; a portion of the work was published at Oxford in 1693 by the Rev. James Brome, under the title of A Treatise of the Roman Ports and Forts in Kent, with notes by Edmund Gibson, and a life of the author by White Kennett.



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