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turer of Headen commonly called Howden, fcituate in Holdernesse, on the winding Shoar of the Mouth of Humber, which formerly was a Place confiderable for Merchants and Shipping, though for fome Years past it fell into Decay, and now hath no Shew of its ancient Grandeur, which was occafioned by the Increase of its neighbouring Town of Kingston, upon the River Hull, and partly because the Haven grew useless by being choaked up with the Sands.

There was also another of the Kettlewell's, a Merchant of good Credit, feated not far from him at a Place called Alverton, of which in the Sequel there will be Occafion to speak further, who was his Brother, and fo Great Grand Uncle to our Mr. Kettlewell. Now the Kettlewell's who were planted here, and in the adjacent Parts of Yorkshire, from The Ori. Time immemorial is a Family of Saxon Extraction, and fo doubtlefs very ancient, the Name whereof is derived from Kellel (which is the fame with Caffel or Calal) out of which by hardening the Letter S into a T (than which nothing is more common for them to do) the Low Dutch and English do form Ketel and Kettle, as our Forefathers the Saxons alfo did their CTDEL And there was one John Ketel, alias Kettel, (which is no other than John Kettelwell, without the Termination) in the fifteenth Century, a Person of most exemplary Piety and Devotion,

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votion, whofe Life was written by that Holy Man Thomas a Campis. So that the Keffels, and the Caffalii, or de Caffalis, of Germany and Italy, the Ketels of Holland and Flanders, and the Kettlewell's of England are indeed all originally but one Name and one it in feveFamily, only the Termination which is ad-ral Counded to this laft, as in many other English Names is done, must have beenof a NORMAN ORIGINAL, by the Corruption of Ville, a Town or Village into Well, as in the following Names, Bofwell, Burwell, Chilwell, Cumberwell, Carswel or Caswell, Carwell or Cordwell Goswell, Kingswell, Barwell, Parwell, Rorwell, &c. which according to the Saxon Termination would have founded, Bofton, Burton, Chefton, Kimberton, Caftleton, Carlton, Gofleton, Kingston, Mafton, Pafton, Rofton, or Royston, &c. And the firft of his Family very probably were fo called, from being of fuch a Town or Village; (as were alfo the Kettlebye's, ) as for Inftance, Caffel under the Prince of that Name in Germany, Cafhel in Ireland, Kefjel and Kettel, in Brabant and Flanders. Thus too the Caffi and the Catti, by the fame eafy Change of a Letter, or the Catti-euclani, might not improbably give name to several Families in the Vicinage where they were feated, particularly in and about Hartfordshire, as to Caffe corrupted into Cafh, Cate or Keate, Catesby and others, as well as to the

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Hundred of Cailkow, in that County. And were this Obfervation but further extended, it might poffibly be of Service to our Antiquaries and Heralds, in Researches of this Nature, and afford no contemptible Light to the Origination not only of feveral of our English Families and Names, but also of Forreign ones; whereof Inftances are easy to be found.

It is moreover obfervable, that we are of ten apt to be mistaken by the feeming Affinity of Names, in their vulgar Signification: As was the aforenamed Writer of the Life of John Ketel or Kettlewell, the good Man who was no Critick, turning it into Johannes Cacabus. Whereas of a Truth Caffel, Kaffel, Ketel, Ketlewell, and Kettlewell, are not properly named from a Kettle, but from the Latin Caftellum, a Caftle; nor Well at the End of proper Names derived from the English Word, as that commonly is underflood, except very rarely; but from the Villa of the Romans, and the Ville of the French and Normans, as was before hinted and exemplified, and might abundantly be confirmed.

Thus Caffel or Keffel, the Metropolis of Heffe, was anciently called Caftellum Cattorum being a fortified Place poffeffed by the Old Catti: And afterwards Caftel and Caffel, omitting (for Shortness Sake) the Names of its Inhabitants: Keffel alfo, a fmall Town in Erabant, between Ruremond and Venloo,

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lying upon the River Maefe, as anciently poffeffed by the Menapii, was called thence Caftellum Menapiorum; whence it hath its modern Name. And fo too, that which was heretofore Caftellum Morinorum, being the chief Refidence of the ancient Morini, (from whence came the Name of MORIN among the French, and of MORE among the English) who were known by Cafar and | Virgil, is at this Day a Village between ExtremiSt. Omers and Ipres, called by the fame Name of Kellels; Which Name, by a fofter or harder Pronunciation, may be fo varied, as hardly to be known. But notwithstanding this Variety, the fame is ftill originally the fame; and the Family howfoever branched forth, or diverfify'd by the Corruption thereof, and Difference of Dialect, must in all Probability have firft come over into England from fome of the lower Parts of Germany with our Saxon Ancestors, or elfe afterwards have been transplanted hither thence. Or perhaps both might be true.

But to return to this Kettlewell of Headon, whatever the Antiquity or Original of his Family might be, he was himfeif a Perfon of good Account in the Country, had the Reputation of a juft Man, and of an useful Member of the Body Politick; and he married a Wife of a good Fortune, by whom he had feveral Children, whom he took Care to dispose of in the best Manner: Now upon

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the Haven of Headon growing ufelefs, as was obferved, there could be but fmall Encouragement longer for the Ancestors of our Mr. Kettlewell (who were bred to Merchandize) to abide in that Place, the Trade of which HisGrand- was loft with the Haven: His Grandfather hereupon was placed with his Father's Brother at North-Alverton in Yorkshire, where he married, and where his Father Mr. John Kettlewell was born, and (for fome Time before he married) exercifed Merchandise with his Father the Grandfather of our Mr. John Kettlewell, who bore his Father's Chriftian Name.

His Father.

His Father was a Perfon very much efteem'd where he liv'd, and was thence frequently called upon to be a Peace-Maker and Mediatour where any Differences did arife among the Neighbours; they generally depending upon him for his great Impartiality and Solidity of Judgment as well as Experience and Candour. He had the Character of a Man of strict Justice, and a fair Trader, one hating Coveteoufnefs, and making a Conscience both in buying and felling, and therefore abhorring to trick or over-reach another, for the Profpect of any worldly Gain whatever. He was alfo of a moft fweet and obliging Difpofition, ready to do good Services unto all according to his utmoft Power; and though it pleased Almighty God to afflict him with feveral Loffes, and though his Father, left