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Sir Leoline Jenkins (1625–1685)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2014

Richard Helmholz
Richard Helmholz*
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Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Professor of Law, University of Chicago
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Notable Ecclesiastical Lawyers: VI
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 2014 , pp. 351 - 356
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2014 

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References

1 A Marshall, ‘Jenkins, Sir Leoline’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; online edition, Jan 2008, available at <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14732>, accessed 29 April 2014.

2 Wynne, W, The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins (London, 1724)Google Scholar.

3 Dick, O (ed), Aubrey's Brief Lives (London, 1949), pp 174–176Google Scholar. See also Coote, C, Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Eminent English Civilians (London, 1804), pp 88–91Google Scholar.

4 For his reputation, see eg Latham, R and Matthews, W (eds), The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, 1974), vol VIII, p 133Google Scholar.

5 Dick, Aubrey's Brief Lives, p 175.

6 Marshall, ‘Jenkins, Sir Leoline’.

7 Wynne, Life, vol I, p vi.

8 See, for example, Burnet, G, History of His Own Time (London, 1724–1734)Google Scholar, vol I, p 481: ‘a man of exemplary life, and considerably learned; but he was dull and slow’.

9 Hardy, E, Jesus College (London, 1899), pp 136–140Google Scholar.

10 Wynne, Life, vol I, p x.

11 Holdsworth, W, History of English Law (London, 1938), vol XII, pp 659–661Google Scholar.

12 Wynne, Life, vol I, p xiii.

13 Roscoe, E, History of the Prize Court (London, 1924), pp 41–42Google Scholar.

14 Wynne, Life, vol I, p 702.

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20 See, eg, Ash v Ardy (1678), 3 Swans 664 (App), 36 Eng Rep 1015.

21 29 Car II, c 3 §21. See also Withers, C, Yorkshire Probate (fifth edition, Chippenham, 2006), pp 111–112Google Scholar.

22 Bonfield, Devising, Dying and Dispute, p 73.

23 22 & 23 Car II, c 10.

24 See Wynne, Life, vol II, pp 695–697.

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26 Eg Tooker v Loane (1618), Hob 191, 80 Eng Rep 338; Hughes v Hughes (1667), 1 Lev 233, 83 Eng Rep 384. The statutory basis for this intervention was 21 Hen VIII, c 5 (1529–1530).

27 Wynne, Life, vol II, p 697.

28 Usury Act 1571 (13 Eliz I, c 8); Perjury Act 1561 (5 Eliz I, c 9); Easter Offering and Tithes Act 1548 (2 & 3 Edw VI, c 13); Bigamy Act 1603 (1 Jas I, c 11); Drunkenness Act 1606 (4 Jas I, c 5).