352 Obituaries. Br. Baron and Canon Rieh-Jones. 



University Libraries. To him the smallest details of the cathedral 

 history were matters of the keenest interest, and the spirit of the 

 thirteenth century was at least as familiar and natural to him as 

 that of the nineteenth. His unbounded veneration for that spirit 

 of piety in which the cathedral was founded made the working* of 

 its principles, the distribution of its offices, the manner of its worship, 

 the points at which it touched and powerfully influenced the world 

 around it, a more absorbing study than any other history presented 

 to his mind. And to this concentration of his we owe those most 

 valuable and in every way remarkable books, the Fasti tiarisberienses, 

 the Osmund Register, and the Statutes of the Cathedral Church of 

 Sarum, this last work being edited by him in conjunction with Canon 

 Dayman. At the time of his death there was almost ready for 

 publication a work of much research, upon which the last months 

 of his literary life had been bestowed, dealing with the ancient 

 documents connected with the diocese and city of Sarum. This 

 work was to have been published, as the Register of St. Osmund 

 had been already published, in the series of Historical Documents 

 issued by the Master of the Rolls. It is no slight tribute to the 

 ability of Canon Jones that he had contrived to invest with a living 

 interest those by-paths of ecclesiastical antiquity which, until illumi- 

 nated by the flash of original genius, appear as uninviting as they are 

 intricate and obscure. But that Canon Jones was by no means a 

 man moving in only one groove, that of the ecclesiological antiquarian, 

 is abundantly shown by his early proficiency in Sanscrit literature 

 (he was Boden scholar in 1837), by the practical character of his 

 work as a parish clergyman, by the active interest that he took in 

 all matters relating to the welfare of the poor, and by his strong 

 sympathy with all those forms of active work into which the energies 

 of the Church are being thrown under the pressure of modern re- 

 quirements. Though by far the greater part of his clerical life was 

 spent in the incumbency of Bradford-on-Avon, of which parish he 

 was vicar for thirty-four years, he was not without experience of 

 London work, having served for ten years in that diocese previously 

 to his appointment by the Dean and Chapter of Bristol to the 

 Vicarage of Bradford. Of his literary works, in addition to those 



