742 'I!Je HIS T0 R Y of the PuRITANs. VoL. ll. King a jJ;ameful rrjo_ycing; and it was now thought, all conventicles mufl: be Cha~~s II. fuppreifed, when fucb evidence could be received againll fuch a defence. ~ But when the words came to be examined by men learned in the ·law, they were found not tci be treafon by any llatute. So Mr. Rqfewel moved in arrefi of judgment, and though it was doubtful, whether the motion was proper on this foundation after the verdict, yet the king was fo out of countenance at the accounts he heard of the 'i<Jitn1fes, that he ga ve or– ders to yield to it; and 'in the end he was pardoned. The court loll a great deal of reputation by this trial, for befides that Rofewel made a il:rong defence, he pr<;JVed that he had always been a loyal man even in Cromwell's days, that he prayed confl:andy for the king in his £1mily, and that in his fermons he often infifl:ed upon the obligations to loyalty. Suffirings Among other fufferers for non-conformity, we mu (I: not forget the re– fi/,. d'{h of verend Mr. William Jenkins M. A. the ejeCted min iller of Chrifl Church, ki~;. enwho died this year in Newgate ; he was educated in St. John's Col!rge Cambridge; and about the year r 641 was chofen mini fter of this place, and leCturer of Black-Friars, both which pulpits he filled with great ac– ceptaQce till the dellruction of monarchy, after which he was fequefl:er. ed, for refufing to comply with the orders of parliamen t. He was ,fent to the 'Tower for Low's plot, but upon his humble petition, and promife of fubmiffion to the powers in being, he was pardoned, and his fequefl:– ration taken off, and he carefully avoided meddling in politics afterwards. K. Chron. He was fummoned before the council Jan. 2, r66r, and reprimanded, P· 6or. becaufe he forgot to pray for the king; and being ejected with his bre– thren in r662, he retired into the country, but upon the indulgence in 167r, he had a new meeting houfe erected for him in Je-wen-/ireet, where he preached to a crouded audience. He was one of the mer– chants leCturers at Pinners-Ifall. And when the indulgence was revok– ed, he continued preaching as he could, till this year; but September 2, I 684, being at a private fall with [ome of his brethren, the foldiers broke in, and carried Mr. Jenkim before two aldermen, who treated him very rudely, and upon his refufing the Oiford oath, commit– ted him to Ne7vgate; while he was there, he petitioned the king for a releafe, his phyficians declaring, that his life was in danger from his clofe confinement; but no fecurity would be accepted. So that he foon declined in his health, and died in Ne7vgate in the feventy-third year of his age, Jan, 19, r684-5, havi ng been a prifoner four months and one week. A little before his death he faid, a man-might be as dfeClua!ly mur– dered in Newgate as at Tyburn. He was buried by his friends in Bun– hill Fields with great honour, many eminent perfons, and fome fcores of coaches attending his funeral. This
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