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MEN OF KENT,

Hebrew Literature and Antiquities is displayed in a number of works of which the principal are the following:—"Tactica Sacra, an attempt to develop and exhibit to the eye by tabular arrangement, a general rule of Composition prevailing in the Holy Scriptures," London, 1825.—"Suppressed Evidence on Miracles," 1832; "A Word for the Bible," 1832; "A Help to Hebrew," 1834.

In addition, he published a number of sermons, and contributed to Blackwood's Magazine many sketches and papers descriptive of his Peninsular experiences, the most important of which appeared in 1849 and 1850, under the title of "My Peninsular Medal," but not the least valuable of his literary productions are to be found in the pages of "Notes and Queries," to which periodical, sometimes in his own name and sometimes under the signature of "Vedette," he contributed many learned papers, amongst which are twelve articles on Chaucer, forming altogether a very valuable study on the difficulties of Early English Literature.

[See Annual Register, and Times Obituary Notices, 1880, the latter reproduced in Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol, ii; also Allibone's Dictionary of Authors.]


Thomas Brett,

DIVINE, AND CONTROVERSIAL WRITER,

Was a native of Betteshanger, where he was born in 1667. He was educated at the Grammar School of Wye, whence he proceeded to Queen's College, Cambridge, thence to Corpus Christi, 1689. On taking his degree, in the same