"Mr. _Atterbury_ has lately forc'd a Dedication upon you, which favours too much of Presumption or Design; he has presum'd to surprize you with an unexpected Address, and appears very indecently before your Grace, because he has taken no care to express upon this Subject a due Respect and Reverence to the Governors in Church and State, such as is suitable to the Christian Religion, and his particular Function: The Reports and Authorities in his Book are Fruits of other Mens Collections, not the immediate Effects of his own Searches into _Registers_ and _Records_; he imperiously summons your Grace and my Lords the Bishops to an immediate Compliance upon pain of being pronounc'd Betrayers of the Church----This, my Lord, is the Character of the Person _I set up_ against; but as for me, I am quite another sort of Man, I am very well bred, a great Antiquary, beholden to no body, _some Wits and merry Folks call me a Tool and a Play-thing_ (_Pref. p._ 8.) But I assure your Grace, that what Freedom soever I may have taken in taxing the Vices of the inferior _Clergy_, (_p._ 77. 188.) and in reflecting _upon the ambitious Designs of dignify'd Presbyters_ (_p._ 196.); yet _I am however tender and dutiful in treating the Governors of our Church_ (p. 78.); especially _those of them who are of the Ecclesiastical Commission for Preferments_, (p. 311). I have a very great Respect and Reverence for every body that will give me any thing; and how resolute soever Mr. _Atterbury_ may be, your Grace may do what you please with _Your Grace's most humble_ _and obedient Servant_, WHITE KENNET. But for _Drollery_, the Reverend Dr. _South_ outdoes even _Christ-Church_, and fills all his Performances with it, and throws it out against the Enemies of the Church, and in particular against the late Dr. _Sherlock_, whom he thought fit to single out. I shall select some Passages from his Writings against the said Doctor, which cannot but entertain the High-Church Orthodox Reader, and reconcile him to a _Drollery_ so well employ'd. He stiles him _a great good Man, as a certain poor Wretch_, meaning _Prior, calls him_.