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JE'NI-BA'SAR, or No'vi-Ba'sar, a town of Euro¬ 
pean Turkey, in Bulgaria, on a branch of the river Ibar, 
containing about three hundred houfes, inhabited by 
Chriftians and Turks; anciently the capital of the Raf- 
cians : 175 miles weit of Nicopoli, and eighty-three north- 
eaft of Ragufa. 
JENICO'RO, or Platamo'ne, a river of European 
Turkey, which runs into the Gulf of Saloniki at Piata- 
mone. 
JENI'SA, a river of the Ruffian empire, that runs from 
north to fouth through Siberia, and falls into the Frozen 
Ocean. 
JENIS'KOI, a town of the Ruffian empire, in Siberia, 
feated on the river Jenifa. It is large, populous, and 
pretty ftrong; and there are villages for feveral miles 
round it. It is fubjeft to the Tungufians, who are pa¬ 
gans, and chiefly live on the above river. They pay a 
tribute to the emperor for every bow, reckoning a man 
and a woman for one. The climate is extremely cold ; 
and no other fruits grow there but black and red cur¬ 
rants, ftrawberries, and goofeberries. Corn, butchers’ meat, 
and wild fowls, are very cheap. Lat. 58.40. N. Ion. 86. 
25. E. 
JE'NITZ, a town of Germany, in Upper Saxony, and 
principality of Anhalt DelTau, on the Mulda: two miles 
north-eaft of Deifau. 
JENIT'ZA, a town of European Turkey, in Macedo¬ 
nia, fituated on a lake which communicates with the Gulf 
of Saloniki, by means of a canal about twelves miles long. 
It is little better than a heap of ruins: twenty-four miles 
weft-north-weft of Saloniki, and twenty eaft of Edefla. 
JEN'KIN (Robert), a learned Englith divine in the 
eighteenth century, was bred at Cambridge, became maf- 
ter of St. John’s college, and wrote feveral books much 
efteemed, viz. 1. An Hiftorical Examination of the Au¬ 
thority of General Councils, 4to. 2. The Reafonablenefs 
and Certainty of the Chriftian Religion, 2 vols. 8vo. 3. 
Defenfio S. Auguflini. This book is written againft M. Le 
•Clerc. 4. Remarks on fome Books lately publifhed, viz. 
Mr. Whifton’s Eight Sermons, Locke’s Paraphrafe, See. 
5. A tranflation from the French of the Life of Apollo¬ 
nius Tyaneus. 
JEN'KIN, [the diminutive of John.'] A man’s name. 
JEN'KINS (Henry), of Bolton in Yorklhire, deferves 
notice,on account of the great age to which he attained, 
which is pretty well authenticated. Being produced at 
the York affizes as a witnefs to prove a way over a man’s 
ground, he declared, contrary to the depolitions of other 
witneftes, that there had formerly been a common path 
over-that ground. The judge cautioned him to beware of 
what hefwore, becaufe there were two men in court, who 
were each more than eighty years of age, who had fworn 
they remembered no fuch way, or path. Jenkins replied, 
that thofe men w'ere boys to him ; and the men, upon be¬ 
ing queftioned, confefled that when they w'ere boys Jen¬ 
kins was reckoned a very old man. It was about this 
time that Dr. Robinfon put feveral queftions to this Jen¬ 
kins when he came to aft; alms, for he feerns to have been 
always a beggar, or at leaft a very poor man, and had ne¬ 
ver learned to read. Dr. R. firft demanded how old he. 
was? he laid, About a hundred and fixty-twoor three.— 
What king he remembered ? hefaid, Henry VIII.—What 
public thing he could longeft remember? he faid, The 
fight at Flodden-field.—Whether the king was there ? he 
faid, No, the king was in France, and the earl of Surrey 
was general.—-How old was he then ? he faid, About 
twelve ; and that he had the care of a horfe loaded with 
arrows.—The deftor looked into a chronicle he had by 
him, and found that the battle of Flodden was a hundred 
and -fifty-two years before; that the earl he had named 
was general; and that the king was then at: Tournay. 
There are other teftimonies to the great age of this man, 
for which fee the Phil. Tranf. Fie died on the 8th of De¬ 
cember, 1670, at Ellerton upon Swale, aged 169 years. 
JEN'KINS (Sir Leoline), a learned civilian and able 
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ftatefman, born in Glamorganftiire about the year 1623. 
Being rendered'obnoxious to the parliament during the 
civil war by adhering to the king’s caufe, he coniulted 
his fafety by flight; but, returning on the reftoratibn, he 
was admitted an advocate in the court of arches, and fuc- 
ceeded Dr. Exton as judge. When the queen-mother 
Henrietta died in 1669 at Paris, her whole eftate, real and 
perfonal, was claimed by her nephew Louis XIV. upon 
which. Dr. Jenkins’s opinion being called for and ap¬ 
proved, he went to Paris, with three others joined with 
him in a commiffion, and recovered her'eirefts; for which 
he received the honour of knighthood. Fie 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 counsellor and 
fecretary of ftate. He died in 1685 ; and, as he never mar¬ 
ried, bequeathed his whole eftate to charitable ufes: he 
was fo great a benefaftor to Jefus college, Oxford, that he 
is generally looked on as the lecond founder. All his 
letters and papers were collefted and printed in 1724, in 
2 vols. folio. 
JEN'KINTOWN, a village in Montgomery county, 
Pennfylvania : ten miles north of Philadelphia. 
JENKS, [from Jenkins.] A man’s name. 
JEN'LIS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Cote-d’Or, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Dijon : three leagues fouth-eaft of Dijon. 
JEN'NE, a town of Japan, in the province of Kaga. 
JEN'NET, the name of a woman. 
JEN'NET,yi [See Genet.] A Spanilh horfe: 
The Spanilh king prefents a jennet. 
To Ihow his love. Prior. 
JEN'NETING, f. [corrupted from Juneting, an apple 
ripe in June.] A fpecies of apple foon ripe, and of » 
pleafant tafte. Mortimer. 
JEN'NINGS (David), a learned Englilh non-conformift 
divine and eminent tutor in the feventeenth century, was 
the fon of the Rev. John Jennings who had been ejected 
from the reftory of Hartley-Wafphill in Hampfhire, un¬ 
der the aft of uniformity ; and born at Kibworth in Lei- 
celterfhire, in the year 1691. He preached his firft fer- 
mon in the year 1714. In the following year he was ap¬ 
pointed one of the preachers at an evening lefture then 
carried on at Rotherhithe ; and in 1716 was chofen aflift- 
ant to Mr. Foxcn, paftor of the congregation at IFaber- 
daftiers’-hall. Two years after this he accepted of ail in¬ 
vitation to become paftor to the congregational or inde¬ 
pendent church in Old Gravel-lane, Wapping, with which 
lie maintained that relation during forty-four years,equally 
ufeful and relpefted. After he had been fettled at Gra¬ 
vel-lane about twelve years, he publiflied a ftnali volume - 
of fermons addrefled to young people on New-year’s-days, 
entitled. The Beauty and Benefit of early Piety, 1730, 
i2ino. In 1733, our author was invited by Mr. Coward 
to be one of the preachers of a courfe of fermons on the 
principal heads of the Chriftian religion, at Berry-ftreet, 
in connection with Dr. Watts, and others. Thefe fer- 
mons were publiflied in 1735,111 2 vols. 8vo. and our au¬ 
thor’s proportion of them does not conftitute the leaft va¬ 
luable part of the work. In the year 1736, Mr. Jennings , 
publiflied a tranflation of profcflbr Auguftus-Herman 
Francke’s Letter to a Friend, concerning the molt ufeful 
way of preaching ; to which is prefixed a hiftory of the 
profelfor’s extraordinary exertions in the caufe of hu¬ 
manity and good morals, of which we have given an ac¬ 
count in - his life, vol. viii. p. 5. Mr. Jennings’s next pub¬ 
lication was a fermon preached to the.- focieties for the re¬ 
formation of manners, in 1737 ; and he afterwards printed 
feveral Angle fermons, and an ordination charge. In the 
year 1740, Mr. Jennings entered the lifts againft Dr. 
John Taylor, of Norwich, in the contrcverfy concerning- 
the doftrine of original fin. His treatile was anonymous, 
and entitled, “ A Vindication of the Scripture Doctrine 
of original Sin, from Mr. Taylor’s free and candid Exami- 
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