K E T 
Sftftrufled in clafTical learning at the free-lchool of North¬ 
allerton ; and in 1670 was entered a fervitor at Edmund* 
hall, in Oxford. Here he diftinguifhed himfelf by his di¬ 
ligence, regularity, and tnodefly; and in the year 1674 
was admitted to the degree of B. A. During the follow¬ 
ing year, through the intercft of his learned countryman 
Mr. George Hickes, he was chofen a fellow of Lincoln- 
college, and became eminent as a tutor in that fociety. 
He took the degree of M. A. in 1677 ; and, entering af¬ 
terwards into holy orders, he became celebrated for his 
ufeful and inftru&ive mode of preaching, and for his un¬ 
common knowledge of divinity. In the year 1681, he 
publifhed his “Meafures of Chriltian Obedience, &c. for 
the Promotion of Piety and Peace of troubled Consciences,” 
4to. which met with a very favourable reception from 
the public, and procured the author a high degree of re¬ 
putation, both as a practical writer and as a religious ca- 
fuilt. This work was dedicated to Dr. Compton, bifhop 
• of London ; but, when that prelate took an active part in 
the meafures which terminated in the abdication of James 
II. Mr. Kettlewell ordered the dedication to be erafed 
from all the.copies of the work which were then unfold, 
and directed that it fhould be omitted in future editions. 
In the mean time, the impredion which this work made 
induced the old countefs of Bedford, mother of the ce¬ 
lebrated William lord Ruffel, to appoint him one of her 
domeltic chaplains ; and it alio procured him the patron¬ 
age of Simon lord D'igby, who, in 1682, prefented him to 
the vicarage of Colelhill in War wick (hire. On this liv¬ 
ing he redded, in the diligent and zealous difcharge of 
his paftoral duties, and univerfally efteemed and reipedt- 
ed, till the year 1690, when he was deprived for refudng 
to take the oaths of allegiance and fupremacy to king 
William and queen Mary. After his deprivation, he re¬ 
moved with his wife, w'hom he had married in 1685, to 
London; where he continued to write and publidr feveral 
religious works, as he had done during his reddence at 
Colelhill, together with fome treatifes in defence of the 
caufe of the nonjurors. In this city, he chiefly aflociated 
with gentlemen who entertained fimilar fentiments with 
himfelf; and was particularly happy in the friendfliip and 
intimacy of the good and pious Mr. Robert Nelfon, with 
whom he concerted “a model of a fund of charity for the 
needy fuffering (i. e. nonjuring) clergy.” Having been, 
from his infancy, of a tender and delicate habit of body, 
and inclinable to a confumption, be was at length at¬ 
tacked by that difeafe, and was carried off by it in 1695, 
when only in his forty-fecond year. His friend Mr. Nel¬ 
fon has pronounced this eulogium on his character: “He 
was learned without pride ; wife and judicious without 
cunning; he ferved at the altar without either covetouf- 
nefs or,ambition; he was devout without affeftation ; fin- 
cerely religious without morofenefs ; courteous and affa¬ 
ble without flattery or mean compliances; juft without 
rigour ; charitable without vanity ; and heartily zealous 
for the intereft of religion, without faftion.” His numer¬ 
ous publications were printed in a collective form, in 1718, 
in'2 vols. folio. Biog. Brit. 
KET'TON-STONE, in mineralogy. See Marmor 
hammites. 
KETT'WYCK, a town cf Germany, late belonging to 
the abbey of Corvey : three miles weft-north-weft of Wer- 
den. 
KE'TU, in Hindoo mythology, the regent of the de- 
fcending node, or the Dragon’s Tail. The following le¬ 
gend on this fubjecl is from Moor’s Hindoo Pantheon, 
p. 282. “ Rahu was the fon of Karyapa and Diti, ac¬ 
cording to fome authorities ; but others reprefent Sinhika 
(perhaps the Sphinx) as his natural mother. He had four 
arms; his lower parts ended in a tail, like that of a dra¬ 
gon ; and his afpect was grim and gloomy, like the dark- 
ne/s of the-chaos, whence he had alfo the name of Tamafa. 
He was the advifer of all mifchief among the Daityas, or 
evil fpirits, and his chief delight was to fow diflention 
among the Devatas, or beneficent deities. When the gods 
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had produced the Arnrita, or .elixir of immortality, by 
churning the ocean, he difguifed himfelf like one of them, 
and received a portion of it; but, the Sun and Moon dif- 
covering the fraud, Vifhnu fevered his head and two of 
his arms from the reft of his monftrous body. That part 
of the nehiareous fluid that he had time to fwallow fe- 
cured his immortality; his trunk and dragon-like tail fell 
on the mountains of Malaya, where Mini, or Brahman, 
carefully preferved them by the name of Ketu ; and, as if 
a complete body had been formed from them, like a dif- 
membered polype, he is laid to have adopted Ketu as his 
own child. The head, with two arms, fell on the fands 
of Barbara, where Pithenas was then walking with his 
wife Sinhika; they carried the Daitya to their palace, and 
adopted him as their fon. This extravagant tale is no 
doubt aftronomical; Rahu and Ketu being the nodes, or 
what aftrologers call the head and tail of the dragon. It 
is added, that they appealed Vifhnu, and obtained re-ad* 
million to the firmament, but were no longer vifible from 
the earth, their enlightened fides being turned from it; 
that Rahu ftrives, during eclipfes, to wreak vengeance on 
the Sun and Moon who detected him ; and that Ketu of¬ 
ten appears as a comet, a whirlwind, a fiery meteor, or 
water-fpout, or a column of fand. Fifty-fix comets are 
faid, in a book called Chintamani, to have fprung from 
Ketu ; and Rahu had a numerous progeny of Grahas, or 
crocodiles.” The Hindoo zodiac of courfe includes Ralm 
and Ketu, the former appearing merely as a head of a black 
colour, handfomely ornamented, and refting againft a pil¬ 
low. Ketu is mounted on a frog; the meaning of which, 
if it have any, has not been explained. See the article 
Hindoostan ; and the plate of the Indian Zodiac, fig. 9. 
vol. x. p. 163. 
KET'VER, a town of Grand Bukharin, on a moun¬ 
tain ; taken by Timur Bee in 1398: one hundred miles 
fouth of Badafhkan. 
KET'URAH, [Heb. perfumed.] Abraham’s fecond 
wife. The Jews fay, that Keturah and Hagar, whom 
Abraham after the death of Sarah invited again to his 
houfe, are the fame : others think fhe was a Canaanite: 
but this is uncertain. It appears ft range, that Abraham, 
aged an hundred and feventy-five. years, fhoujd marry a 
wife, perhaps a Canaanite, and have children by her, when 
at ninety-nine he had defpaired of ilTue. Some fay, with 
Auguftine, that God miraculoufly prolonged his prolific 
virtue : others, that he married Keturah long before Sa¬ 
rah’s death, and that he kept her in the quality of a wife 
of the fecond rank till after Sarah’s death, and then gave 
her the rank or quality of matron and wife of the firft or¬ 
der; that he had children by her a little after the birth of 
Ifaac and the expulfion of Hagar: her fons are Zimri, 
Jokfhan, Medan, Midian, Ifhbak, and Shuah. Abraham 
gave prefents to thefe, and fent them each into Arabia 
Deferta. Caimet. 
KET'ZIN, a town of Brandenburg, in the Middle 
Mark : eight miles north-weft of Potzdam. 
KET'ZLSDORF, a town of Bohemia, in Chrudim s 
twelve miles fouth-eaft of Leutmifehl. 
KEVALCOT'TY, a town of Thibet: eighteen miles 
north-weft of Sirinagur. 
KEVASHI'R, or Bard'shir, a town of Perfia, in the 
province of Kerman : fifty-five miles eaft-north-eaft of 
Sirgian. Lat. 29, 50. N. Ion. 58. 20. E. 
KEVEN'YE, a river of Wales, in the ifland of Angle- 
fey, which runs into the Irifli Sea three miles weft of New** 
burgh. 
KE'VER,yi A cover or veflel ufed in a dairy-houfe for 
milk or whey. Paroc/i. Antiq. 386. 
KEV'IL, f. A fmall wooden pin on which the tackle 
is hung to dry on-board a fit ip. 
KEUK'ZER, a town of Perfia, in Far lift an : forty miles 
fouth of Jezdkaft. 
KEU'LA, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Schwartzburg : eleven miles north of Mulhaufen, and 
fourteen welt of Sunderflraulen. 
KEU'LROD,, 
