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Thomas Ward, a Papist in the 16th Century, published a poem entitled "England Reformation" recounting the persecutions, as he regarded them, suffered by the Roman Catholics and the secularization of the abbeys and other religious houses under King Henry VIII. In connection, he says "the learned Abbot Farringdon and Commissary Peterson, John Beck, Abbot of Colchester, and Jennison (not further identified) renowned in war, were put to death, etc." "This Jennison," he adds in a note, was a Knight of Malta." The following is an extract from the History of Popish Sham Plots, etc., printed in London in 1682: "We must not forget here how Mr. Jennison (not further identified), a Jesuit, and then in Newgate for this plot, endeavored to frighten his brother, Robert Jennison, from prosecuting his discovery by charging him in a letter he wrote him with the blood of an innocent man, and a kinsman, perjury, perfidiousness, apostasy, imitating, yea undoing Judas himself, and then devoting him to destruction, in several verse collected out of the Psalms, but he being wholly innocent of all these crimes, slighted this vain and empty thunder, "for as birds flying, so the curse causeless shall not come," and his brother could not prevent him, though he did the Holy Scriptures. This Robert Jennison it appears "was a gentleman of Gray's Inn," who bore testimony in 1678 in concurrence with Oates, Bedloe, Prauce, Dugdale, and others, to the existence of a Popish plot to murder King Charles II, set fire to London, murder the Protestants, and elevate the Duke of York to the throne. Thoesby, in his diary, speaks of Sir Ralph Jennison of Newcastle in 1681, and of Walworth Hall, "a delicate seat of the Jennisons" near Pierce Bridge. The neice and heiress of Sir Matthew Jennison married Sir Samuel Gordon, who was created a baronet on 1764. They were the parents of Sir Jennison William Gordon, customer or collector of the port of Newcastle-upon- Tyne, who died in 1831, aged 84.
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