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William Jenkyn

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137:, and escaped execution only by help of a very submissive petition to the government. John Arthur, D.D., rector of Clapham, Surrey, drew it up for him, and parliament ordered it to be printed (15 October 1651; on 21 July 1688 it was burned by order of the convocation of Oxford University). Jenkyn was released from prison, and his sequestration removed, He allowed Feake to retain the vicarage of Christ Church, but conducted a Sunday-morning lectureship there (at seven o'clock), and another at St. Anne's, Blackfriars. On Gouge's death he succeeded him (1654) as rector of St. Anne's, but resigned this preferment on being again presented, some time (probably 1655) after Feake's deprival, to the vicarage of Christ Church. 167:, and continued to preach there every Sunday. The indulgence of 1672 brought him back to London; his license (2 April) for 'a howse or chamber in Home Alley, in Aldersgate Street,' was the first registered under the indulgence. In the same year he was chosen one of the first conductors of the 'merchants' lecture,' established jointly by Presbyterians and Independents at Pinners' Hall. His congregation built a meeting-house for him in Jewin Street; he always prayed for the king and government, and his service were connived at from the withdrawal of the indulgence in 1673 until 1682. 436: 22: 174:
After this he still preached privately, but was at length arrested (2 September 1684) while attending a prayer-meeting with three other ministers. His friends escaped; Jenkyn owed his arrest to his politeness in stopping for a lady whose train blocked the stair. Refusing the Oxford oath (binding him
67:. His mother was daughter of Richard Rogers of Wethersfield, Essex. On his father's death his grandfather sent for him to Folkestone; when he was nine years old his mother, who had remarried, claimed him, gave him a good education, and sent him to 179:
without option of a fine. His health soon failed; an ineffectual petition for his release was backed by medical certificate confirming that his life was in danger. He was forbidden to pray with any visitors, even his own daughter.
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His popularity was now at its height: he preached before parliament (24 September 1656), and ceased to meddle with dangerous topics.
451: 416: 394: 68: 250:, &c, 1652-4, 2 vols.; reprinted 1658, fol. 1 vol.; also Glasgow, 1783, and London, 1840, 8vo, edited by James Sherman ( 55:, born at Sudbury and baptised at All Saints' Church in December 1613. His father, son of a gentleman of landed property at 259: 155:
Jenkyn preached two farewell sermons at Christ Church on 17 August 1662. He resolved to continue his ministry, and held
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in 1634, and graduated M.A. 1635. Some time afterwards he began to preach. Having held a lectureship at
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brought him back to London about 1642. On 1 February 1643 he was admitted to the vicarage of
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in 1663. On the passing of the Conventicle Act (1664) he retired to a house of his own at
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was present when his meeting was disturbed in the latter year by a band of soldiers.
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Jenkyn was the eldest son of William Jenkyn (died 1618), vicar of All Saints',
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Jenkyn published a number of separate sermons, 1643–75, including a Latin
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to endeavour to make no change in church or state), he was committed to
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Celeuma; seu Clamor ad Coelum adversus Theologos Hierarchiae Anglicanae
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exhibits him as a strong advocate of the presbyterian discipline.
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calls him a 'sententious, elegant preacher.' He welcomed the
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Jenkyn was one of the Presbyterian remonstrants against the
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English Presbyterian ministers of the Interregnum (England)
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He was twice married, one of his wives being a daughter of
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He died in Newgate on 19 January 1685, and was buried in
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View of the Government ... in the Reformed Churches
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A Supplement to the Morning Exercise at Cripplegate
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Index


Interregnum
Christopher Love
Sudbury
Suffolk
Folkestone
Kent
Puritanism
St John's College, Cambridge
Emmanuel College
St. Nicholas Acons
Colchester
ague
Christ Church, Newgate
Edward Finch
St. Anne's, Blackfriars
William Gouge
John Goodwin
trial of Charles I
Christopher Feake
Billericay
Essex
Thomas Cawton
Tower of London
Richard Baxter
Restoration
Act of Uniformity 1662
conventicles
King's Langley
Hertfordshire

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