124 A BOOK OF ENGLISH GARDENS 



seems no doubt about the following passage from 

 " A Tale of a Tub " : 



" Medley. 



Indeed there is a woundy luck in names, Sirs, 

 And a vain mystery, an a man knew where 

 To find it. My godsire's name I tell you 

 Was In-and-in Shuttle, and a weaver he was, 

 And it did fit his craft ; for so his shuttle 

 Went in-and-in still this way and then that way. 

 And he named me In-and-in Medley, which serves 

 A joiner's craft, because that we do lay 

 Things in-and-in, in our work. 



But I am truly 



Architectonicus Professor, rather; 

 That is, as one would say, an architect." 



The only occasion on which Inigo Jones himself 

 gives any information about his life is in his book, 

 " Stonehenge Restored," and then it is in a veiled 

 way. " Being naturally inclined, "he writes, " in my 

 younger years to study the arts of design, I passed 

 into foreign parts to converse with the great masters 

 thereof in Italy, where I applied myself to search 

 out the ruins of their ancient buildings which, in 

 despite of time itself and violence of barbarians, are 

 yet remaining. Having satisfied myself in these 

 and returning to my native country, applied my 

 mind more particularly to the study of archi- 

 tecture." 



It was at the end of the sixteenth century that 



