IN the Preface to the first edition of the Glossary of North Country Words (1825), John T. Brockett (1788–1842), a Newcastle antiquary, thanked Henry Ellis, of the British Museum, for bringing to his attention ‘among the Lansdowne manuscripts, the very curious and select Glossary compiled by Bishop Kennett’.1 Brockett, as the Preface reads, regretted that the 1825 edition of his glossary had not made use of Kennett’s compilation, and announced that additions from the unpublished manuscript, now catalogued as number 1033 in the Lansdowne manuscript collection of the British Library (MS Lansdowne 1033), would ‘appear in a future impression’.2 In fact, the second revised edition that saw the light four years afterwards included a great many additions, amongst which references to Kennett’s work are found.3 A careful inspection of the entries in which Kennett’s contribution is acknowledged shows that Brockett looked not only at the unpublished manuscript, but also, and relatively more profusely, to the glossary appended to Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities (1695).4 This also holds true for the third edition of 1846, published posthumously under the editorship of William Edward Brockett, in which references to Parochial Antiquities outnumber those to the Lansdowne manuscript.5 Although Kennett’s works have gone rather unnoticed for modern historians of English dialects, this seems not to have been the case in the nineteenth century. Major projects in the history of English dialect lexicography such as Halliwell’s Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words (1847) and Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905) were aware of Kennett’s legacy, as some recent studies have shown.6 This note discusses the reception of White Kennett’s material in Brockett’s work, another relevant, but underresearched, dialect source of the Late Modern period. I look at the different editions of the glossary in order to evaluate Kennett’s contribution to the making of Brockett’s compilation, arguing that Brockett relied on Kennett for additions to etymologies and senses. My aim is to cast some further light on the impact of Kennett’s works on later dialect projects, as well as to further our knowledge of Brockett’s glossary.