(5) 1. MARY 2 " grand-daughter of the Proto-martyr, John Rogers," m. Rev William Jenkin, of Sudbury, son of a gentleman of considerable estate at Folkstone, Kent, and educated at the University of Cambridge with a view to some preferment in the church. Being here placed under the celebrated Mr. Wm. Perkins, and soon becoming impressed with great seriousness, be embarked with the Puritans. His father discovering this on his return home, and disliking that sort of people, was pleased to disinherit him of the greatest part of his estate; thus, young Jenkin was called to bear the yoke in his youth, and forsake father and mother, houses and lands, for his attachment to Christ and his cause. He trusted in the Lord and found him a constant friend.
When aware his company was disagreeable to his father, he removed to the house of Mr. Richard Rogers, the old Puritan minister above named, where he diligently prosecuted his studies; entering afterward upon the ministerial function, be settled as a preacher, and died young, about the year 1618, leaving one son, whom, the grandfather softened by his son's death took the charge of.
The child lived with him - 'till nine years of age, when his pious mother fearing he would be deprived of a religious education, sent for him home, though in so doing, she greatly displeased the old gentleman. She however, carefully trained him to walk in the the steps of his forefathers.
At the age of 14, he was sent to Cambridge, where he took the degree of M.A. "In the last month of the reign of Charles 2d, WILLIAM JENKYN, an aged dissenting pastor of great note, who had been cruelly persecuted for no crime but that of worshipping God, according to the fashion followed throughout Protestant Europe, died of hardships and privations, in Newgate. The outbreak of popular sympathy could not be repressed. The corpse was followed to the grave by a train of a hundred and fifty coaches. Even the courtiers looked sad. Even the unthinking King showed some concern."
A daughter, ELIZABETH, (sister of Wm. Jenyn,) m. Rev. Thomas Cawton, an eminet Puritan minister in the time of the Commonwealth, who fled to Rotterdam in Holland, and became pastor of the English Church there, where he died in exile, in 1659. He was celebrated for his piety and literature, was an excellent logician, and an in incomparble linguist, having an exact knowledge of the Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, an Arabic ; and familiar in the Dutch, Saxon, Italian and French languages. Their son, the Rev. Thomas Cawton, was also celebrated for his knowledge in the Oriental languages, he d. in 1677.
Calarmy's life of Baxter. - Neal's Hist. of the Puritans. - Brook's lives of do, - Berry's Genealogies Of the county of Kent. - —Memoir of Mrs Elizabeth Long. - Macaulay's History of England vol. I., chap. 3.