(John), a learned divine, born in 1653, was descended from an ancient family in the North-riding of Yorkshire, bred in Edmund-Hall Oxford, and elected fellow of Lincoln-college. In 1675, he went into orders; but after the revolution was deprived of his living, on account of his refusal to take the oaths to king William and queen Mary. He died of consumption in 1695. He published several works, which were collected and reprinted together in 1718, in 2 vols folio. He was a man of great candour, meekness, piety, and charity.

KETCH, a vessel equipped with two masts, viz. the main-mast and mizen-mast, and usually from 100 to 250 tons burden.—Ketches are principally used as yachts, or as bomb-vessels; the former of which are employed to convey princes of the blood, ambassadors, or other great personages, from one part to another; and the latter are used to bombard citadels, towns, or other fortresses. The bomb-ketches are therefore furnished with all the apparatus necessary for a vigorous bombardment; they are built remarkably strong, as being fitted with a greater number of riders than any other vessel of war; and indeed this reinforcement is absolutely necessary to sustain the violent shock produced by the discharge of their mortars, which would otherwise in a very short time shatter them to pieces.