MEMOIR 



CHAPTER I. 



The Jenkins of Stowting Fleeming's grandfather Mrs. Buckner's fortune 

 Fleeming's father ; goes to sea ; at St. Helena ; meets King Tom ; service 

 in the West Indies ; end of his career The Campbell-Jacksons 

 Fleeming's mother Fleeming's uncle John. 



IN the reign of Henry VIII,, a family of the name of Jenkin, 

 claiming to come from York, and bearing the arms of Jenkin ap 

 Philip of St. Melans, are found reputably settled in the county 

 of Kent. Persons of strong genealogical pinion pass from 

 William Jenkin, Mayor of Folkestone in 1555, to his contem- 

 porary ' John Jenkin, of the Citie of York, Receiver General of 

 the County,' and thence, by way of Jenkin ap Philip, to the proper 

 summit of any Cambrian pedigree a prince ; ' Guaith Voeth, 

 Lord of Cardigan,' the name and style of him. It may suffice, 

 however, for the present, that these Kentish Jenkins must have 

 undoubtedly derived from Wales, and being a stock of some 

 efficiency, they struck root and grew to wealth and consequence 

 in their new home. 



Of their consequence we have proof enough in the fact that The Jen- 

 not only was William Jenkin (as already mentioned) Mayor of 

 Folkestone in 1555, but no less than twenty-three times in the 

 succeeding century and a half, a Jenkin (William, Thomas, 

 Henry, or Robert) sat in the same place of humble honour. Of 

 their wealth we know that, in the reign of Charles I., Thomas 

 Jenkin of Eythorne was more than once in the market buying 

 land, and notably, in 1633, acquired the manor of Stowting Court. 

 This was an estate of some 320 acres, six miles from Hythe, 



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