8th current. You let me see by it how great a charity you can have for me, and I cannot but tremble for fear that so noble well wishes should find themselves disappointed; not that they will be so, if God bless me, for want of entire duty to my
he became Master after the Restoration, having in the interval lived in retirement and acted as a private Tutor. He took to the practice of the civil and canon law; and in 1663 was admitted into Doctors' Commons, about 1664 made Judge of the Admiralty, and in 1668 Judge of the Prerogative Court. In 1673, he went as Plenipotentiary to the Congress of Cologne, with Lord Sunderland and Sir Joseph Williamson. He was joined with Sir W. Temple as Ambassador and Mediator at the treaty of Nimeguen, and in 1 680 he was made Secretary of State, He died in 1 685, aged 62."—Wynne's Life of Sir L. Jenkins.
Burnet describes him as a "man of an exemplary life, and considerably learned; but he was dull and slow. He was suspected of leaning to popery, though very unjustly; but he was set on every punctilio of the Church of England to superstition, and was a great assertor of the divine right of monarchy, and was for carrying the prerogative high. He neither spoke nor writ well, but, being so eminent for the most courtly qualifications, other matters were the more easily dispensed with."
Sir Leoline Jenkins was the leader in the House of Commons of the opposition to the Bill of Exclusion; and, in accordance with the character which Burnet has given of him, we find him resting his argument upon these four grounds of objection.
First, that it was contrary to natural justice to condemn any man before the conviction or hearing of him.
Secondly, that it is contrary to the principles of our religion
