Note 296 — XVI. JESUS COLLEGE.

The letter of thanks to Mansell, in which Jenkins acknowledges that he owed his election entirely to Mansell’s influence, came into the hands of Anthony Wood, who had the art of “acquiring” stray papers, and the habit of preserving them; and it is now in Wood MS. F. 31. It may be noted that Jenkins’ good services to his College, and many personal kindnesses to Wood himself, compel the Oxford antiquary for once to give the lie to his reputation that he “never spake well of any man”; the terms in which he speaks of Sir Leoline are always handsome.