He early lost his father, a Spanish merchant in London; his mother (whose second husband was Sir Thomas Crooke, bart.)
He was also chaplain to the Clothworkers' Company, preaching once a quarter in this capacity at Lamb's Chapel, where he celebrated the communion on a common turn-up table.
The high court of justice fined him, and sent him to the Fleet Prison (Richard Baxter says the Tower of London) for seventeen weeks.
[2] At the Restoration he waited at the head of the city clergy to present a bible to Charles II as he passed through St. Paul's Churchyard (in Jackson's parish) on his entry into London.
[2] He lost his living in the Great Ejection that followed the Uniformity Act 1662, and Jackson retired to Hadley, Middlesex, afterwards moving to his son's house at Edmonton.