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SIR LEOLINE JENKINS (1623-1685)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 318 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR LEOLINE See also:JENKINS (1623-1685)  , See also:English lawyer and diplomatist, was the son of a Welsh See also:country See also:gentleman . He was See also:born in 1623 and was educated at Jesus See also:College, See also:Oxford, of which he was elected a See also:fellow at the Restoration in 166o, having been an ardent royalist during the See also:civil See also:war and See also:commonwealth; and in 1661 he became See also:head of the college . In the same See also:year he was made registrar of the See also:consistory See also:court of See also:Westminster; in 1664 See also:deputy See also:judge of the court of See also:arches; about a year later judge of the See also:admiralty court; in 1689 judge of the See also:prerogative court of See also:Canterbury . In these offices See also:Jenkins did enduring See also:work in elucidating and establishing legal principles, especially in relation to See also:international See also:law and admiralty See also:jurisdiction . He was selected to draw up the claim of See also:Charles II. to succeed to the See also:property of his See also:mother, Henrietta Maria, on her See also:death in See also:August 1666, and while in See also:Paris for this purpose he succeeded in defeating the See also:rival claim of the duchess of See also:Orleans, being rewarded by a See also:knighthood on his return . In 1673, on being elected member for See also:Hythe, Jenkins resigned the headship of Jesus College . He was one of the English representatives at the See also:congress of See also:Cologne in 1673, and at the more important congress of See also:Nijmwegen in 1676 1679 . He was made a privy councillor in See also:February 168o and became secretary of See also:state in See also:April of the same year, in which See also:office he was the See also:official See also:leader of the opposition to the Exclusion See also:Bill, thodgh he was by no means a pliant See also:tool in the hands of the court . He resigned office in 1684, and died on the 1st of See also:September 1685 . He See also:left most of his property to Jesus College, Oxford, including his books, which he bequeathed to the college library, built by himself; and he left some important See also:manuscripts to All Souls College, where they are preserved . Jenkins left his impress on the law of See also:England in the See also:Statute of Frauds, and the Statute of Distributions, of which he was the See also:principal author, and of which the former profoundly affected the See also:mercantile law of the country, while the latter regulated the See also:inheritance of the See also:personal property of intestates . He was never married .

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William Wynne, See also:Life of See also:Sir Leoline Jenkins (2 vols., See also:London, 1724), which contains a number of his See also:diplomatic despatches, letters, speeches and other papers . See also Sir William See also:Temple, See also:Works, vol. ii . (4 vols., 1770) ; See also:Anthony a See also:Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (See also:Fasti) edited by P . See also:Bliss (4 vols., London, 1813-1820), and See also:History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, edited by J . Gutch (Oxford, 1792-1796) .

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