Judge David Jenkins of Hensol (1582-1663) Judge and Law Reporter.
Judge of the Court of Great Sessions of Wales. A prominent royalist he was imprisoned during the Civil War when he devoted his time to compiling the first digest of common law case reports the forerunner of the modern casebook. In 1650 when he was amongst the royalist prisoners that the Rump Parliament considered executing, he said that if he was to go to the scaffold he would be “hanged with the Bible under one arm and Magna Carta under the other”.