OR,

A HISTORY OF

THE ENGLISH CHURCH

FROM THE CONVERSION OF THE ENGLISH SAXONS

TILL THE DEATH OF KING JOHN.

BY JOHN INETT, D. D.,

PRECENTOR AND CANON RESIDENTIARY OF LINCOLN.

A NEW EDITION, IN TWO VOLUMES,

BY THE REV. JOHN GRIFFITHS, M. A.,

LATE FELLOW AND TUTOR OF WADHAM COLLEGE.

VOL. I.

OXFORD:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

M.DCCC.LV.

Clar. Oness

14.104.

PREFACE OF THE EDITOR.

OF the author of "Origines Anglicana” there is no memoir published, or known to be extant, beyond the short account given by Anthony Wood in the Fasti Oxonienses1 and a note or two appended to that work by bishop White Kennett2. But it has been ascertained, that he belonged to a family named Inette, of good position in Picardy, who, having embraced the doctrines of the Reformation, came over from France in the persecution of the Huguenots, and settled in Gloucestershire; that his grandfather, Richard, removed from that county into Worcestershire; and that his father, also named Richard, married a lady of the family of Hungerford of Down Ampney in Gloucestershire3.

This Mr. Richard Inett, the author's father, seems to have been a gentleman of independent though small fortune, but nothing more is known of him except the pains he took to give a good education to his two sons. Richard, the elder of the two, appears to have been born at Rock near Bewdley in Worcestershire

Bliss.

Among the M.A.s of July 8, 1669, in Part II, col. 308, ed.

2 Ibid. n. 6, and col. 254, n. 6.

3 For this information I am indebted to Thomas Rossell Potter, Esq., of Wymeswold in Leicestershire, who has investigated the history of the family, but whose memoranda happen to be locked up for the present through the absence of a friend abroad. Mr. Potter therefore writes from memory, and cannot cite his authorities; and, as this sheet was in type before his obliging communication reached me, I have not time to search them out afresh. My own inquiries have given me no clue to them.

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