Henry Jackson

Son of H [•] n. Jacks. Mercer, was born in S. Maries parish within the City of Oxon, admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. on the first of Dec. 1602, aged 17 years or thereabouts, having for two years before been Clerk of the said house, admitted probat. Fellow thereof 5 of Sept. 1612, to the reading of the Sentences five years after, and at length upon the death of Dr. Seb. Benefield, sometimes his Tutor, he became Rector of Meysey-Hampton near to Fairford in Glocestershire, which was all the preferment he ever look’d after; for being a studious and cynical person he never expected or desired more. He was a great admirer of Rich. Hooker and Joh. Rainolds, whose memories being most dear to him, he did, for the sake of the first, industriously collect and publish some of his small Treatises, and of the latter, several of his Epistles and Orations. He also did diligently recognize, and added marginal notes, with a copious Index to, the twelve books of Jo. Lud. Vives, (sometimes Rhetorick Reader of C. C. Coll.) seven of the former of which, are De corruptis Artibus, the other five, De tradendis disciplinis. He had also made a Collection of several of the Works of Pet. Abaelard from antient MSS. of that Author, had revised, compared and collected them: All which he did intend at his own charge to publish, but the grand Rebellion breaking forth in 1642, the Soldiers belonging to the Parliament rifled his house, scatter’d the said Collection, and made it so imperfect, that it could never be recovered. He hath written, “Vita Ciceronis, ex variis autoribus collecta.”

Commentarii in Ciceronis Quaest. lib. quintum. Both which, dedicated by the Author to Dr. Seb. Benefield, are remaining under the Authors hand in my custody; but whether they were ever printed I cannot tell. He also translated from English into Latine, Commentarii super 1 cap. Amos Openheim 1615. oct. written by the said Dr. Benefield, as I have elsewhere told you. Also Joh. Fryth’s book of Baptisme, which he intituled De Baptismo & cognitione sui; next Joh. Hoopers Lectures on the Creed, and lastly Hugh Latymers Oration to the Convocation concerning the state of the Kingdom to be reformed by the Gospel: Which last Translation had before been done by Sim. Gryneus. But whether these three last (which are in MS. in my hands) are published, I cannot tell: nor do I know any thing of the Translator besides, only, that he dying on the fourth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and two,1662. was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Meis. Hamp. near to the grave of Dr. Benefield before mention’d. I find another Hen. Jackson to be Author of The description of the little world or body of man, printed 1660 in oct. but of what University he was, if of any, I know not.