46 JONES'S VIEWS ON ARCHITECTURE 



of these appointments having resulted in any architectural work. 

 Prince Henry died in 1612, and in 1613 Jones secured the 

 reversion, after Simon Basil, of the office of surveyor of works 

 to the king. 1 In the same year he went to Italy for the second 

 time, where he studied the work of celebrated painters and 

 architects, as well as the splendid remains of ancient architecture 

 which were even more abundant in those days than in these. 

 His intercourse with living architects and painters shaped his 

 own methods of study and design, and there can be no doubt 

 that he returned not only fully equipped to undertake any work 

 that might fall to his lot, but deeply imbued with the spirit of 

 Italian art and the prevalent Italian methods of design. 



He walked on a high plane, his outlook was wider than that 

 of any of his contemporaries at home. He had acquired con- 

 ceptions of architecture nobler than those engendered by its 

 application to the ordinary needs of daily life. He has left us 

 very little record of his own opinions on any subject ; it is all 

 the more interesting, therefore, to find in his sketch-book, under 

 the date, " Friday y e 20 January 1614 " (1615 new style), a page 

 of reflections of which the following is the gist. "In all design- 

 ing of ornament one must first design the ground plain as it is 

 for use, and then adorn and compose it with decorum according 

 to its use. To say true, all this composed ornament resulting 

 from abundance of design, such as was brought in by Michael 

 Angelo and his followers, does not in my opinion suit solid 

 architecture but is more appropriate to gardens, the ornaments 

 of chimneys, friezes and the inside of houses, where such things 

 must of necessity be used. For as outwardly every wise man 

 carries himself gravely in public places, yet inwardly has 

 imagination and fire which sometimes flies out unrestrained, 

 just as Nature sometimes flies out to delight or amuse us, to 

 move us to laughter, contemplation, or even horror ; so in 

 architecture the outward ornament is to be solid, proportionable 

 according to rule, masculine and unaffected." 



No epithets more suitable than the two last masculine and 

 unaffected could be applied to Jones's own work. 



The amount of Jones's own work in architecture is scarcely 

 so large as has hitherto been supposed. In regard to the 

 various buildings with which he has been credited, some of 



1 "Cal. State Papers, Domestic," April 27, 1613. 



