706 KID 
[From ridwlen, Welfh, a faggot.]- A bundle of heath or 
furze. 
KID, adj. Made of kid-fkin ; as kid gloves. 
To KID, v. n. To bring forth kids.—The fhe-goat was 
not with kid, having kidded but a few days before. Cook's 
Voyages. 
KID'ARNAUT, a town of Thibet: one hundred miles 
north of Sirinagur. Lat. 32.4.. N. Ion. 79.12. E. 
KID'DER, J'. An engroffer of corn to enhance its price. 
Ainfworlh. 
KID'DER (Richard), a learned Englifh prelate, was 
born, according to fome writers, in Suffex, but, according 
to others, and more probably, in Suffolk. Of the date of 
his birth, or of his early education, we have not feen any 
account. In the year 1649 he was fent to Emanuel-col¬ 
lege, Cambridge, where he commenced B.A. in 1652, and 
M. A. in 1656. Two years afterwards he was incorporated 
at the univerfity of Oxford. By his college he was pre- 
fented to the vicarage of Stranground in Huntingdonfhire ; 
from which he was ejected for nonconformity under the 
Bartholomew-aft, in 1662. This circumftance we do not 
find mentioned in Calarny’s Account of the ejected Mi- 
nifters, either in its original form, or under its modern 
arrangement with the title of The Nonconformift’s Me¬ 
morial. Mr. Kidder’s fcruples on the fubjeft of confor¬ 
mity, however, were not of any long duration ; fince we 
find that he had returned to the bofom of the eftabfifhed 
church, and was prefented, by Arthur earl of Effex, to 
the redtory of Raine, in that county, in 1664. Here he 
continued about ten years, greatly elteemed by his con¬ 
nexions, and in high reputation for his learning, particu¬ 
larly his knowledge of the eaftern languages. In 1674, he 
became a reftor in the metropolis, having been prefented 
to the benefice of St. Martin Outwich, by the Merchant- 
Taylors’ company. His next promotion took place in 
1681, when he was appointed a prebend in the cathedral 
church of Norwich ; which was fucceeded by his nomina¬ 
tion to the deanery of Peterborough, in the year 1689. 
About this time he accumulated the degrees of bachelor 
and doctor of divinity. Upon the deprivation of Dr. 
Ken, bifhop of Bath and Wells, for not taking the oaths 
of allegiance and fupremacy to king William and queen 
Mary, and Dr. Beveridge’s refufal of that fee. Dr. Kid¬ 
der was nominated to fucceed him, and was confecrated 
in 1691. In the year 1693, he preached the lecture found¬ 
ed by the Hon. Robert Boyle; and afterwards inferted his 
fermons on that occafion in his “ Demonftration of the 
Meflias,” of which learned and excellent work they con- 
ftitute the firft, fecond, and third, chapters, of the fecond 
part. That performance is defigned to prove the truth 
of the Chriftian religion, more particularly againft the Jews, 
and was publifhed in three volumes 8vo ; which made their 
appearance at different periods, one in 1684, another 1690, 
and the third in 1700. With fuch valuable writings did 
bifhop Kidder continue to benefit the world after his pro¬ 
motion, until he was unhappily killed in his bed, together 
with his lady, by the fall of a Rack of chimneys in his pa¬ 
lace at Wells, during the great ftorm in the night of 
Nov. 26, 1703. His writings are diftinguifhed, by learning, 
perfpicuity, and elegance, and juftify the eulogium which 
has been paffed upon him, of being one of the beft divines 
in his time. His largeft work, excepting the article which 
we have already mentioned, is “ A Commentary on the 
Eve Books of Mofes; with a Differtation concerning the 
Author, or Writer, of the faid Books, and a general Ar¬ 
gument to each of them,” publifhed in 1694, in two vo¬ 
lumes 8vo. This work is the author’s part of an intend¬ 
ed commentary on the whole of feripture, for the ufe of 
families, and a confiderable number of the London clergy 
had divided the work amongft them ; but the engagement 
of the greater part of them in the popifh controversy, and 
the deaths of others, prevented the completion of that ufe- 
ful defign. To the firft of thefe volumes is prefixed a 
learned differtation, in which the bifhop collects together 
and anfwers all the objections againft Mofes’s being the 
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author of the Pentateuch. Bifhop Kidder was alfo the 
author of The Life of Dr. Anthony Horneck, 1698, 8vo. 
Critical Remarks upon fome difficult Paffages of Scripture, 
in a Letter to Sir Peter King, 1719, 8vo. a pofthumous 
publication ; feveral practical treatifes; trafis in the po¬ 
pifh controverfy ; the collection of Hebrew proverbs, ad¬ 
ded, by way of appendix, to Mr. Ray’s collection of pro¬ 
verbs ; numerous fermons, &c. 
KID'DERMINSTER, a market-town in Worcefter- 
fliire. The name of this town is written in Doomfday- 
book Chideminjlre. It is diftant one hundred and twenty- 
five miles from London; from Bewdley, three miles; 
Bridgenorth, twelve ; Stourbridge, feven ; Dudley, ten ; 
Birmingham, eighteen; Wolverhampton, fixteen; Bromf- 
grove, nine ; and Worcefter, fourteen ; to each of which 
is a good turnpike-road. 
The inhabitants, about 7000 in number, have for feve¬ 
ral hundred years pad been principally occupied in the 
loom, as appears by a charter dated the 25th of Henry 
VIII. granting fundry privileges to the broad-cloth wea¬ 
vers here. But, this trade falling into decay, it was fuc¬ 
ceeded by the manufacture of fundry forts of linfey-wool- 
feys, better fuited to the frugal tafte of the lad than to 
the more refined fafhions adopted by the ladies of the pre- 
fent century. Here are, however, a few looms employed 
in the'woollen and worfted-tammy branch, although the 
attention of the mailers for more than forty years paft has 
been principally directed to what is called the.ftuff-trade, 
confiding of the fined worded and a confiderable portion 
of filk interwoven with each other, fuch as poplins, crapes, 
bombazeens, &c. See. of all which there are large quanti¬ 
ties fent daily to London and other places. The Scotch 
and flat-carpet trade was begun here about the year 1735, 
and foon after the cut carpets were alfo introduced ; all 
thefe have derived confiderable improvement from the in¬ 
genuity and emulation of the manufacturers, in the vari¬ 
ety and elegance of the patterns, which, added to the un¬ 
rivalled brilliancy of the colours, the neatnefs of the work- 
manfhip, and durability of the materials, has increafed 
the demand to an aftonifhing degree. 
No county-juflice has a right to exercife any judicial 
authority in this town, which is governed by a recorder 1 
and two magiftrates, called the bailiff and jultices ; the 
bailiff, who is always of the quorum, is annually eleCted 
by his brother alderman, twelve in number, with the con¬ 
currence of twenty-five common-councilmen, who collec¬ 
tively are enabled, by virtue of a charter granted in the 
12th of Charles I. to make bye-laws for the government 
of the body-corporate and the trade of the town. It for¬ 
merly lent members to parliament. By the late inland na¬ 
vigation, it has communication, by the junction of the 
Severn canal, with the rivers Merfey, Dee, Ribble, Oufe, 
Trent, Darwent, Severn, Humber, Thames, Avon, See. 
which navigation, including its windings, extends above 
five hundred miles, in the counties of Lincoln, Notting¬ 
ham, York, Lancafter, Weftmoreland, Chefter, Stafford, 
Warwick, Leicefter, Oxford, Worcefter, See. This pa- 
rifh extends to Bevvdley-br-idge. By fundry charters from 
Henry II. Richard II. Henry VI. and Henry VIII. the 
inhabitants are granted an exemption from toll, pontage, 
and murage, throughout the whole kingdom ; all thefe 
privileges are alfo acknowledged and confirmed by ano¬ 
ther charter granted in the reign of Elizabeth. In this 
town the lord of the manor, by his deputy, occafionally 
holds a court-leet, principally for the prevention of en¬ 
croachments and public nuifances ; here is alfo a court of 
requelt for the recovery of debts not amounting to forty 
fhillings. The market is weekly on Thurfday for all forts 
of food and grain; but this lail article is now chiefly dif- 
pofed of by lample. The fairs, for all kind of merchan- 
dife, are held annually on the Monday in the week next 
before Eafter ; on Afcenfion-day, commonly called Holy 
Thurfday; June 20 ; and September 4. 
The church is a venerable Gothic ftrufiure of great an¬ 
tiquity, capable of containing more than two tliouland per¬ 
sons. 
