Background
He was born at Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, about 1593. He early lost his father, a Spanish merchant in London. His mother (whose second husband was Sir Thomas Crooke, bart) died in Ireland.
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Arthur Jackson
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Education
His uncle and guardian, Joseph Jackson of Edmonton, Middlesex, sent him to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor in 1614 and Master of Arts in 1617.
Career
In 1619 he left Cambridge, married, and became lecturer, and subsequently rector, at Saint Michael"s, Wood Street, London. There he remained amidst his flock during the plague year of 1624. He was also chaplain to the Clothworkers" Company, preaching once a quarter in this capacity at Lamb"s Chapel, where he celebrated the communion on a common turn-up table.
He declined to read The Book of Sports.
William Laud remonstrated with him, but took no action against him. He accepted the rectory of Saint Faith"s under Saint Paul"s, vacant about 1642 by the sequestration of Jonathan Brown, dean of Hereford.
He was a strong royalist, signing both of the manifestos of January 1649 against the trial of Charles I. In 1651 he got into trouble by refusing to give evidence against Christopher Love. The high court of justice fined him, and sent him to the Fleet Prison (Richard Baxter says the Tower of London) for seventeen weeks.
At the Restoration he waited at the head of the city clergy to present a bible to Charles II as he passed through Saint Paul"s Churchyard (in Jackson"s parish) on his entry into London.
He lost his living in the Great Ejection that followed the Uniformity Acting 1662, and Jackson retired to Hadley, Middlesex, afterwards moving to his son"s house at Edmonton. He then devoted himself to exegetical studies. He died on 5 August 1666, aged 73.
