William Jenkyn

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 St John's College, Cambridge, where he matriculated on 3 July 1628.

Having held a lectureship at St. Nicholas Acons, London, he was presented by the crown (27 January 1641) to the rectory of St. Leonard's (or the Hythe), Colchester.

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.

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.

Refusing the Oxford oath (binding him to endeavour to make no change in church or state), he was committed to Newgate Prison 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 twice married, one of his wives being a daughter of Daniel Rogers;[3] his only son, William, was executed at Taunton, on 30 September 1685, aged about 22, for complicity in Monmouth's rebellion.

He dissuaded Louis du Moulin from translating into Latin John Durel's View of the Government ... in the Reformed Churches (1662), threatening him, according to Anthony à Wood, with eternal damnation if he did it.