Henry. See LONGEVITY.

Jenkins, Sir Leoline, a learned civilian and able statesman of the 17th century, born in Glamorganshire about the year 1623. Being rendered obnoxious to the parliament during the civil war by adhering to the king's cause, he consulted his safety by flight; but returning on the Restoration, he was admitted an advocate in the court of arches, and succeeded Dr Exton as judge. When the queen mother Henrietta died in 1669 at Paris, her whole estate, real and personal, was claimed by her nephew Louis XIV.: upon which Dr Jenkins's opinion being called for and approved, he went to Paris, with three others joined with him in a commission, and recovered her effects; for which he received the honour of knighthood. He officiated as one of the mediators at the treaty of Nimeguen, in which tedious negociation he was engaged about four years and a half; and was afterwards made a privy councillor and secretary of state. He died in 1685; and as he never married, bequeathed his whole estate to charitable uses: he was so great a benefactor to Jesus College, Oxford, that he is generally looked on as the second founder. All his letters and papers were collected and printed in 1724, in two vols. folio.