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The John Jenkins had a family of one daughter and five extravagant and unpractical sons. The eldest, Stephen, entered the Church and held the living of Salehurst, where he offered, we may hope, an extreme example of the clergy of the age.

Soc., i, 65 . See Great Yarmouth Acc'ts, East Anglian, iv , 67 ff. Also St. St. Edmund and St. St. Thos. See E. Freshfield, St. J.V. Kitto, St. D., Vestry Order of 1590. Parish order of Salehurst , Sussex Arch. Coll., xxv, 153. St. Margaret's, Westminster, Overseers Acc'ts in Westminster Tobacco Box, Pt. ii, 18 . E.g., at St.

Then comes the heading, The dutyes belonging to the Parrish for Parrishioners, a catalogue of fees for burial under various conditions. All the above fees are doubled in case of non-parishioners. See also the Salehurst tariff of 1597, most comprehensive and minute also: Sussex Arch. Coll., xxv, 154-5. Also parish order in St. Thos. These are regulated according to the rank of the person. St.

These levies were 2-1/2d. on each householder at St. Margaret, Lothbury, London; 3d. a house at St. Etc. At Salehurst, Sussex, the fee was 1d. a poll yearly, heads of households being empowered in 1585 to abate that sum from their servants' wages: Sussex Arch. Coll., xxv, 154.

The eldest, Stephen, entered the Church and held the living of Salehurst, where he offered, we may hope, an extreme example of the clergy of the age. He was a handsome figure of a man; jovial and jocular; fond of his garden, which produced under his care the finest fruits of the neighbourhood; and, like all the family, very choice in horses. He drove tandem; like Jehu, furiously.