Life

Born in St. Mary's parish, Oxford

Oxford

The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

, he was the son of Henry Jackson, a mercer, and was a relation of Anthony Wood

Anthony Wood

Anthony Wood or Anthony à Wood was an English antiquary.-Early life:Anthony Wood was the fourth son of Thomas Wood , BCL of Oxford, where Anthony was born...

. On 1 December 1602 he was admitted a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Corpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom...

, where he had worked as a clerk and proceeded B.A. 1605, M.A. 1608, B.D. 1617. In 1630 he succeeded his tutor, Sebastian Benefield

Sebastian Benefield

-Life:He was a native of Prestbury, Gloucestershire, where he was born on 12 August 1559. He was admitted scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 30 August 1586. He is found probationer-fellow of the same college 16 April 1590. Shortly afterwards he took his degrees of B.A. and M.A., and,...

, as rector of Meysey Hampton

Meysey Hampton

Meysey Hampton is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, approximately 30 miles to the south-east of Gloucester...

, Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....

. He died there, on 4 June 1662.

Works

In 1607 John Spenser

John Spenser

John Spenser was an English academic, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.-Life:He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London, and Oxford....

, president of Corpus Christi College, employed Jackson in transcribing, arranging, and preparing for the press Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker was an Anglican priest and an influential theologian. Hooker's emphases on reason, tolerance and the value of tradition came to exert a lasting influence on the development of the Church of England...

's papers. Jackson printed at Oxford in 1612 Hooker's answer to Walter Travers

Walter Travers

Walter Travers was an English Puritan theologian. He was at one time chaplain to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, and tutor to his son Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury.He is remembered mostly as an opponent of the teaching of Richard Hooker...

's Supplication, and four sermons in separate volumes; of that on justification a ‘corrected and amended’ edition appeared in 1613. Two sermons on Jude, doubtfully assigned to Hooker, followed, with a long dedication by Jackson to George Summaster, in the same year.

After Spenser's death, in April 1614, Hooker's papers were taken out of Jackson's custody, but he may have supervised the reprints by William Stansby

William Stansby

William Stansby was a London printer and publisher of the Jacobean and Caroline eras, working under his own name from 1610. One of the most prolific printers of his time, Stansby is best remembered for publishing the landmark first folio collection of the works of Ben Jonson in 1616.-Life:As for...

, London, of Hooker's Works, in 1618 and 1622, which included the Opuscula and the first five books of the ‘Ecclesiastical Polity.’ The preface, with Stansby's initials, has been conjectured to be Jackson's. When Hooker's papers were taken from Jackson's care, he was engaged on an edition of the hitherto unpublished eighth book of the ‘Polity,’ and complained (December 1612) that the president (Spenser) proposed to put his own name to the edition. John Keble

John Keble

John Keble was an English churchman and poet, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, and gave his name to Keble College, Oxford.-Early life:...

 suggests that Jackson, aggrieved by Spenser's treatment, retained his own recension of Hooker's work when he delivered up the other papers, and that when his library at Meysey Hampton was plundered and dispersed by the parliamentarians in 1642, his version of book viii., or a copy of it, came into James Ussher

James Ussher

James Ussher was Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625–56...

's hands. It went to the library of Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , formally known as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", Extracts from Letters Patent of Elizabeth I, 1592: "...we...found and...

, and was the basis of the text printed in Keble's editions of Hooker's works.

Besides his editions of Hooker's Sermons, Jackson published:

• ‘Wickliffes Wicket; or a Learned and Godly Treatise of the Sacrament, made by John Wickliffe. Set forth according to an ancient copie,’ Oxford, 1612.
• ‘D. Gulielmi Whitakeri … Responsio ad Gulielmi Rainoldi Refutationem, in qua variæ controversiæ accurate explicantur Henrico Jacksono Oxoniensi interprete,’ Oppenheim, 1612.
• ‘Orationes duodecim cum aliis opusculis,’ Oxford, 1614. Jackson's lengthy dedication to Summaster is inserted after the first two orations, which had been previously published.
• ‘Commentarii super 1 Cap. Amos,’ Oppenheim, 1615, 8vo, a translation of Benefield's ‘Commentary upon the first chapter of Amos, delivered in twenty-one sermons.’
• ‘Vita Th. Lupseti,’ printed by Knight in the appendix to his ‘Colet,’ p. 390, from Wood's manuscripts. in the Ashmolean Museum.

Jackson projected editions of Juan Luis Vives

Juan Luís Vives

Juan Luis Vives , also Joan Lluís Vives i March , was a Valencian Spanish scholar and humanist.-Biography:Vives was born in Valencia...

's ‘De corruptis Artibus’ and his ‘De tradendis Disciplinis,’ and of Abelard's works. The rifling of his library destroyed his notes for these works, but Wood mentions as extant ‘Vita Ciceronis, ex variis Autoribus collecta;’ ‘Commentarii in Ciceronis Quæst. Lib. quintum’ (both dedicated to Benefield); translations into Latin of works by Fryth, Hooper, and Latimer. Jackson collected the ‘testimonies’ in honour of John Claymond

John Claymond

John Claymond was the first President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.He was admitted to Magdalen College, Oxford at the age of 16 in 1484, where he remained until his appointment as President in 1507...

 prefixed to Shepgreve's ‘Vita Claymundi,’ and translated Plutarch

Plutarch

Plutarch then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia...

's ‘De morbis Animi et Corporis.’ Among Wood's manuscripts are ‘Collectanea H. Jacksoni,’ regarding the history of the monasteries of Gloucester, Malmesbury, and Cirencester.