David Jenkins (Royalist)

Jenkins was captured by the parliamentarians in December 1645 in Hereford after the surprise attack on the city and imprisoned in the Tower of London, Newgate Prison and latterly in Wallingford and Windsor Castles.

[citation needed] The obituary for Jenkins is apparently the first of its kind in the English-speaking world, published in The Newes on 17 December 1663 by Charles II's Surveyor of the Press, Roger L'Estrange.

[2] Part of it read: "... that Eminent, Loyall, and renowned Patriot, Judge Jenkins, Departed this Life at his House in Cowbridge, [at] 81..in perfect Sence and Memory.

Whilst in prison, Jenkins wrote Rerurm Judicatarum Centuriæ Octo, a set of reports on 800 cases at the court of the Exchequer and writs of Error at the Kings Bench, over the period 1220[a] to 1623.

[6][5] Charles Francis Morrell published the fourth edition in 1885, a verbatim reprint of the Barlow edition, including the original page numbering so that citations (which conventionally employ page numbers) to the original still worked whilst reducing the paper size of the book from folio (less common by the 19th century), that included additional notes of his own.

[4] Jenkins's own preface to the work describes how he wrote it: "Amidst the sound of drums and trumpets, surrounded by an odious multitude of barbarians, broken with old age and confinement in prisons, where my fellow subjects, grown wild with rage, detained me for fifteen years together, I bestowed many watchful hours upon this performance.

[11][5] When brought before the Parliamentary committee of Examinations on 1647-04-10 instead of answering he presented to the presiding officer Miles Corbet a pamphlet explaining that he was not a traitor and that the Parliament had no legal authority.

[13] His pamphlets collected in 1648 include Lex Terræ, or a Breife Discourse Collected out of the Fundamentall Lawes of the Land, Some Seeming Objections to Master Prinn's ... answered (1647-04-28), A Declaration of Mr. David Jenkins (1647-05-17), The Cordiall of Judge Jenkins for the Good People of London, in reply to a Thing called An Answer to the poysonous seditions Paper of Mr. D.J.

by H. P. of Lincolns Inne[d] (1647), The Inconveniences of a Long-continued Parliament, An Apology for the Army, and A Scourge for the Directory and Revolting Synod, which hath sitten these five hears, more for 4s.

[5] These include the aforementioned Pacis Consultum, the Exact Method for Keeping a Courth of Survey for setting for and bounding of Manors, and Some Difficult Questions in Law, proposed unto and resolved by Judge Jenkings (1657).