Background
His father Richard Inett married into the Hungerford family of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire.
His father Richard Inett married into the Hungerford family of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire.
He attended Bewdley grammar school, and then aged 14 went to University College, Oxford, in 1661.
He matriculated there on 17 July 1663, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1666 and Master of Arts in 1669. He was ordained deacon by William Nicholson, the Bishop of Gloucester on 22 September 1667, aged 20. Newdigate had him presented by the Crown to the vicarage of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, in 1678, and Inett acted as Newdigate"s chaplain at Arbury Hall, Warwickshire.
In February 1681 (Nova Scotia) Bishop Barlow appointed Inett precentor of Lincoln Cathedral.
In 1685 he was presented by the dean and chapter to the living of Tansor in Northamptonshire. In 1700 Inett was appointed chaplain in ordinary to William III. In 1714 he was presented by the crown to the living of Street Mary"s Church, Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
Inett died in 1717, and a tablet was erected by his widow to his memory in Lincoln Cathedral. In 1680, Inett married Mary, daughter of the Review
Richard Harrison, chancellor of Lichfield Cathedral, at Arbury.