| Description | Also, a more personal answer to a request of the Viscount conveyed (it seems probable) in a covering letter with the addresses, for an express avowal of the King's confidence and trust in him "by removing all Prejudices if any were entertayn'd, that might work with His Matie to have other than a very good opinion of your Lordship and your family". All this was agreed to, and expressed in highly correct and diplomatic form by "L. Jenkins”, i.e. Sir Leoline Jenkins, the distinguished Welshman who acted as Secretary of State to Charles II from 1680 to 1684, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, from 1661 to 1673, and great benefactor both of that College and Cowbridge School. Per the atmosphere in which the loyal addresses ware sent up, see Lodge: Pol. Hist. Eng., 1660-1702, p.220 |