D. Jenner (died 10 September 1691) was an English clergyman and controversialist.

Life

He was educated at

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, where he proceeded B.A. in 1657–8. Afterwards, he became a fellow of

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and took the degree of M.A. by royal mandate in 1662, and that of B.D., also by royal mandate, in 1668. He was installed in the prebend of Netherbury, in

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on 28 June 1676, and was instituted on 15 October 1678 to the rectory of Great Warley,

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, which he resigned in or about October 1687. He was also chaplain to the king. He died in 1691.

Works

He published, besides two separate sermons (1676 and 1680): * ‘Beaufrons, or a new Discovery of Treason under the Fair Face and Mask of Religion, and of Liberty of Conscience,’ London, 1683–4; a reply to Daniel Whitby's ''Protestant Reconciler'', 1683. * ‘The Prerogative of Primogeniture: shewing that the right of Succession to an Hereditary Crown depends not upon Grace, Religion, &c., but onely upon Birth-Right and Primogeniture; and that the Chief Cause of all, or most, Rebellions in Christendom, is a Fanatical Belief that Temporal Dominion is founded in Grace,’ London, 1685; dedicated to

James, Duke of York James II and VII (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Monarchy of Ireland, Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II of England, Charles II, on 6 February 1 ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jenner, D Year of birth missing 1693 deaths 17th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge