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 There is also an edition entitled ‘The Country Literary Chronicle,’ &c., beginning in 1820 with a part numbered 59. The ‘Literary Chronicle’ was succeeded by another popular miscellany projected by Kendall, called ‘The Olio; or, Museum of Entertainment,’ 11 vols. 8vo, 1828–33. Kendall also wrote some heavy ‘Letters to a Friend on the State of Ireland, the Roman Catholic Question, and the Merits of Constitutional Religious Distinctions,’ 3 pts. 8vo, London, 1826, in which he argued that Ireland enjoyed a vigorous and paternal government, whose duty it was to repress Roman catholicism there, and in Great Britain also. His fame will rest on his pleasing books for children, some of which are still reprinted, especially ‘Keeper's Travels in Search of his Master,’ 1799; ‘The Crested Wren,’ 1799; and ‘Burford Cottage and its Robin Red Breast,’ 1835. Kendall died at Pimlico on 14 Oct. 1842, aged 66 (Gent. Mag. new ser. xviii. 671). His other writings include: 1. ‘The Stories of Senex; or, Little Histories of Little People,’ 12mo, 1800. 2. ‘The Swallow: a Fiction interspersed with Poetry,’ 12mo, 1800. 3. ‘The Pocket Encyclopædia,’ 6 vols. 12mo, 1802. 4. ‘Parental Education; or, Domestic Lessons: a Miscellany intended for Youth,’ 12mo, 1803. 5. ‘An Argument for construing largely the right of an Appellee of Murder to insist on his Wager of Battle, and also for abrogating Writs of Appeal,’ 8vo, 1817; 3rd edit., greatly enlarged, 1818. 6. ‘The English Boy at the Cape: an Anglo-African Story,’ 3 vols. 12mo, 1835. Among his translations from the French may be mentioned ‘The Indian Cottage,’ by Saint Pierre, 12mo, 1791; ‘Beauties of Saint Pierre, selected from his “Studies of Nature,”’ 8vo, 1799; and ‘The Travels of Denon in Egypt,’ 2 vols. 8vo, 1802. Kendall was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

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KENDALL, GEORGE (1610–1663), theologian, eldest son of George Kendall of Cofton in Dawlish, Devonshire, collector of customs for Exeter and Dartmouth, who married Katharine, daughter of Robert Moor of Exeter, was born at Cofton in 1610. He was educated at the Exeter grammar school and at Exeter College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 18 Feb. 1626–7, and graduated as B.A. 3 July 1630, M.A. 9 May 1633, B.D. January 1641–2, and D.D. 4 July 1654. Evelyn heard him in 1654 ‘perform his act incomparably well, concluding it with an excellent oration, abating his presbyterian animosities, which he withheld not even against that learned and pious man, Dr. Hammond’ (Memoirs, 1870, ed. p. 230). From 5 July 1630 until 1647 he held a Devonshire fellowship at his college, but the rest of the fellows would not elect him rector in 1642, although he was recommended to them by the king. In that year the House of Commons, ‘upon the petition of the inhabitants of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, supported his nomination for the church lectureship’ (Hist. MSS. Comm. 6th Rep. App. pp. 8–10). On 22 Nov. 1643 he was presented by the crown, in spite of his strong presbyterian sympathies and his agreement with the acts of the parliament, to the rectory of Blisland in Cornwall, and he was installed prebendary of Exeter Cathedral on 7 Feb. 1644–5. He is said to have been dispossessed from these preferments about 1654, but another and more probable account is that he vacated his charge in the country in order to oppose the doctrines of John Goodwin from the church of St. Benedict, Gracechurch Street, London. In 1655 he acted as moderator of the first general assembly of the ministers of Devonshire. At the Restoration, when Kendall applied to be reinstated in his old rectory of Blisland, his application proved fruitless; but, as some consolation, he was appointed to the rectory of Kenton, near Exeter. In 1662 he was deprived of his benefice and his prebendal stall, whereupon he withdrew to his house at Cofton. He died there on 19 Aug. 1663, and was buried in the chapel adjoining his house. A view of this edifice and a copy of the inscription to his memory are in the ‘Gentleman's Magazine,’ 1794, p. 1106. His wife was Mary, daughter of Periam Pole of Tallaton. She died 10 April 1676.

Kendall contributed to the Oxford set of verses styled ‘Musarum Oxoniensium pro rege suo Soteria,’ 1633, and, according to Wood, he published about 1644 a tract called ‘Collyrium, or an Ointment to open the eyes of the poor Cavaliers in the West.’ He dated from Blisland, 14 Sept. 1652, his volume, ‘Θεοκρατία, or a Vindication of the Doctrine concerning God's Intentions of Special Grace and Favour to his Elect from the Attempts of Master John Goodwin,’ 1653, and on 3 Sept. 1653, ‘ex claustris meis in terra beata Cornub.,’ he issued another work, entitled ‘Sancti Sanciti, or the Common Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints through Faith unto Salvation, vindicated from Mr. John Goodwin. As also an Appendix in Answer to Master Horne, goring all University-learning,’ 1654. These works led to much controversy. Horne's reply was ‘Διατριβὴ περὶ Παιδοβαπτισμοῦ, or a Consideration of Infant Baptism, together with a Digression, in