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David Jenkins, Judge (1582 - 6 Dec 1663)

Royalist Judge. He was arrested by parliamentary forces in 1645 and imprisoned with others in the Tower of London. He was brought before the House of Commons in April 1647 to answer charges, but he refused to do so without the King present, handing them a written statement instead, which he then printed for the public record as a statement of vindication. "This was the first among a barrage of cheaply printed tracts that appeared during spring and summer 1647" (ODNB). Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/14726 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jenkins_(Royalist) Relevant locations: Birth place in Wales, Great Britain
Member of Gray's Inn, London
 References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 123. The trew Coppye of the Erle of Arundle his Letters sent from the Tower to the Queene 1585. Judge Jenkyn's Answer, when Prisoner in the Tower, to the Committees, 29 Apr, 1647. Excerpta from the Lord Cook's Speech at the Arraignment of the Rebels about the Gun-Powder-Treason.
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 25 The trew Coppye of the E. of Arundel, his Letters sent from the Tower to the Queen, 1585- Judge Jenkyn's An swer swer when Prisoner in the Tower, 1647- And King Charles I. Farewell to his Lords at Newport, 1648- vide D. L. N° 123, p. 532 and 3 more manuscripts