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KE'NAN, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
KENAPACGMAQUA'. See Longuille. 
KENAPOOS'SAN, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian 
Sea, in the Sooloo Archipelago. Lat, 5. 12. N. Ion. 120. 
2 3 E, 
KENA'REI HA'VAZ, a town of Hindooftan, in 
Moultan : twenty miles eaft of Batnir. 
KENAS'SERIM. See Aleppo, Old, vol. i. 
KE'NATH, [Hebrew.] The name of a city. 
KEN'AW AS, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Kitchwarah : feventeen miles weft of Sheergur. 
KE'NAZ, f. [Heb. a pofleflion.] A man’s name. 
KEN'BOW, adv. [of uncertain derivation ] In a crofs 
paflion; with the one hand on the one hip, and the other 
on the other. 
KEN'CHESTER, a village of England, in the county 
of Hereford, fituated on a fmall river called Ine, which runs 
into the Wye at Hereford ; fuppofed to have been once a 
celebrated city called Ariconium, where Oft’a had a palace, 
far more ancient than Hereford, and of equal bignefs ; 
but the place where the town was, in Leland’s time, was 
all overgrown with brambles, hazles, and fuch fhrubs. 
Nothing remains of the fplendour of Ariconium but a 
piece of a temple. All around the city you may eafily 
trace the walls, fomeftones being left every where, though 
overgrown by hedges and timber-trees. The ground of 
the city is higher than the level of the circumjacent coun¬ 
try. There appears no fign of a fblfe or ditch around it. 
The (ite of the place is a gentle eminence, of a fquarifti 
form ; the earth black and rich, overgrown with brambles 
and oak-trees, full of ftones, foundations, and cavities, 
where they have been digging. Many coins and antiqui¬ 
ties have been found : fix miles weft-north-welt of Here¬ 
ford. See Hereford, vol. ix. 
KEN'DAL, called alfo Kirby Candale. , i.e. a church in 
-a valley, is a corporation town in the county of Weftmore- 
Jand, dillant from London two hundred and fifty-fix 
miles, feventy-fix from Mancliefter, and tw'enty-two from 
Lancaster. The town lies in a valley furrounded with 
bills. There is a very large market on Saturday, and two 
fairs annually, viz. April the 27th, and November the 8th 
and 9th. There are very coniiderable manufactories for 
linfeys and flannels, which employ a great number of 
men,' women, and children, in weaving, fpinning, and 
knitting. The church is a handfome ftru£ture, fupported 
by thirty-two large pillars; the tower is feventy-two feet 
high, and has a ring of eight bells ; alfo a handfome or¬ 
gan; there are twelve chapels of eafe belonging to it. 
The free-fchool Hands by the fide of the church-yard, and 
is well endowed, having exhibitions to Queen’s college. 
The approach to Kendal from the north is pleafant; a 
noble river (the Ken) flowing briikly through fertile 
fields, and vifiting the town in its whole length. It is 
crofted by a bridge, more venerable than handfome, where 
three great roads coincide, from Sedburgb, Kirkby Ste¬ 
phen, and Penrith. The main ltreet, leading from the 
bridge, flopes upwards to the centre of the town, and con¬ 
trails itfelf into an inconvenient paflage, where it joins 
another principal ftreet, which falls with a gentle decli¬ 
vity both ways, and is a mile in length, and of a fpacious 
breadth. The entrance from the fouth is by another 
bridge, which makes a fliort awkward turn into the fu- 
burbs ; but after that the ftreet opens well, and the town 
has a cheerful appearance. A new ftreet has been opened 
from near the centre of the town to the river fide, which 
has much improved the road through it for carriages. The 
objects tnoft worthy of notice here are the manufactures ; 
the chief of thefe are for Kendal cottons, a coarfe woollen 
cloth, of linfeys, and of knit-vvorfted ftockings; a confi- 
derable tannery is alfo carried on in this town. The 
fmaller manufactures are of fifh-hooks ; of wafte filk which 
is received from London, and, after fcouring, combing, 
and fpinning, is returned ; and of wool-cards, in which 
branch coniiderable improvements have been made by 
the curious machine invented here for that purpofe. There 
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are other articles of induftry well worth feeing: as tfie 
mills for fcouring, fulling, and frizing, cloth ; and for 
cutting and rafping dying-wood. Thefe manufactures 
were particularly noticed fo early as the reign of king 
Richard II. and Henry IV. when fpecial laws were en- 
aCted for the better regulation of Kendal cloths. See. 
When William the Conqueror gave the barony of Kendal 
to Ivo de Taillebois, the inhabitants of the town were vil¬ 
lain-tenants of the baronial lord ; but one of his fucceflbrs 
emancipated them, and confirmed their burgages to them 
by charter. Queen Elizabeth, in the 18th year of her 
reign, ereCled it into a corporation by the name of alder¬ 
men and burgelfes, and afterwards king James I. incorpo¬ 
rated it with a mayor, twelve aldermen, and twenty-four 
capital burgelfes ; but it fends no members to parliament; 
indeed the whole of Weftmoreland fends but four; two 
for the county, and two for Appleby, the county-town; 
though Kendal is the largeft town in the county, and 
much fuperior to Appleby in trade, wealth, buddings, 
&c. &c. There are feven companies here, who have each 
their hall, viz. mercers, (heermen, cordwainers, glovers, 
tanners, tailors, and pewterers. By the late inland navi¬ 
gation, it has communication with the rivers Mercey, Dee, 
Ribble, Oufe, Trent, Darwent, Severn, Humber, Thames, 
Avon, &c. which navigation, including its windings, ex¬ 
tends above five hundred miles in the counties of Lin¬ 
coln, Nottingham, York, Lancafter, Chefter, Stafford, 
Warwick, Leicefter, Oxford, Worcefter, See. Here are 
kept the feflions of the peace for this part of the county, 
called the Barony of Kendal. The river here, which runs- 
half through the town in a ftony channel, abounds with 
trout and falmon; and on the banks of it live the dyers 
and tanners. The canal from Lancafter to Kendal was 
completed in the year 1805. 
Mr. Gray’s defeription of this town is equally injurious 
to it and his memory ; but his account of the church and 
caftle is worth tranferibing. The church Hands near the 
end of the town : it is a very large Gothic fabric, with 3 
fquare tower, and double aides; and at the eaft end four 
chapels or choirs: one of the family of the Parrs; another 
of the Stricklands; the third is the proper choir of the 
church ; and the fourth of the Bellinghams, a family now 
extinff, and who came into Weftmoreland before the 
reign of Henry VII. and were feated at Burnefide at the 
reign of king Henry VIII. Adam Bellingham purchafed 
of the king the twentieth part of a knigdit’s fee in Hel- 
fington, a parcel of the polfeflion of Henry duke of Rich¬ 
mond, and of fir John Lumley, (lord Lumley,) which his 
father Thomas Bellingham had farmed of the crown ; he 
was fucceeded by his foil James Bellingham, who erected 
the tomb in the Bellingham chapel. There is an altar- 
tomb of Adam Bellingham, dated 1577, with a flat brafs 
arms and quarterings; and in the window their arms 
alone; argent, a hunting-horn fable, ftrung gules. In the 
Strickland’s chapel are feveral modern monuments, and 
another old altar-tomb, not belonging to the family; this 
tomb is probably of Ralph d’Aincourt, who, in the reign 
of king John, married Helen, daughter of Anfelm de Fui- 
nefs, whofe daughter and foie heirefs, Elizabeth d’Ain- 
couri, was married to William, fon and heir of fir Ro¬ 
bert de Strickland, of Great Strickland, knight. In 
the 23d year of Henry III. the fon and heir was Walter 
de Strickland, who lived in the reign of Edward I. was 
poflefied of the fortune of Anfelm de Furnefs and d’Ain¬ 
court, in Weftmoreland, and erefted the above tomb to 
the memory of his grandfather, Ralph d'Aincourt. The 
defeendants of the laid Walter de Strickland have lived 
at Sizergh in this neighbourhood ever flnee, and this cha¬ 
pel is the family burying-place. In Parr’s chapel is a 
third altar-tomb in the corner; no figure or infeription, 
but on the fide, cut in ftone, an efcutcheon of Rofs of Keir- 
dal, three water-buckets, quartering Parr, two bars in a 
border ingrailed; fecondly, an efcutcheon, three vaive-a— 
fefs for Marmion ; thirdly, an efcutcheon, three chevro- 
nels braced, and a chief, which we take for Eitzhugh ; at 
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