His father Richard Inett married into the Hungerford family of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire.
[1] Inett was presented to the rectory of St Ebbe's Church, Oxford, where he made the acquaintance of Thomas Barlow, who recommended him to Sir Richard Newdigate, 1st Baronet.
In 1706 he resigned the living of Tansor in favour of his son Richard, and took instead that of Clayworth, Nottinghamshire.
In 1714 he was presented by the crown to the living of St Mary's Church, Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
[1] Inett died in 1717, and a tablet was erected by his widow to his memory in Lincoln Cathedral.
[1] Inett's major work was his book Origines Anglicanæ, of which the first volume was published in London in 1704.
It had a vogue in its own time, and was republished, edited by John Griffiths, Oxford, 1855; but was shortly superseded by Jeremy Collier's Ecclesiastical History.