JONES. 
nients, called masques, introduced by- 
James’s queen, Anne of Denmark, and in 
vogue during the gay part of the succeed- 
ing reign, gave Jones frequent employ- 
ment in the invention of the scenery and 
decorations. The poetical composer of 
most of these pieces was Ben Jonson, be- 
tween whom and Jones a violent quarrel 
took place, productive of much virulent 
abuse, in detestable verse, on the part of 
the testy bard. It appears that the archi- 
tect too, was a dabbler in poetry, which, 
perhaps, might be the occasion of the dif- 
ference between them. 
The repairs of St. Paul’s did not com- 
mence till 1633. Of our architect’s per- 
formance in this business, Mr. Walpole thus 
speaks : “ In the restoration of that cathe- 
dral, he made two capital faults. He first 
renewed the sides with very bad Gothic, 
and then added a Roman portico, magnifi- 
cent and beautiful indeed, but which had no 
aflinity with the ancient parts that remained, 
aud made his own Gothic appear ten times 
heavier. He committed the same error at 
Winchester, thrusting a screen in the Ro- 
man or Grecian taste, into the middle of 
that cathedral. Jones, indeed, was by no 
means successful when he attempted Go- 
thic.” He had much employment both from 
the court and among the nobility, and re- 
alized a handsome fortune,, which was di- 
minished by sufferings during the troubles 
which succeeded. He was obnoxious, both 
as a favourite of his royal master, and as a 
Roman Catholic. The first attack made 
upon him was in 1640, when he was called 
before the House of Lords, on a complaint 
of the parishioners of St. Gregory’s, for de- 
molishing part of their church, in order to 
make room for his additions to St. Paul’s. 
In 1646 he was obliged to pay 5451. by way 
of composition as a malignant. 
The King’s death greatly affected him ; 
and he die)d, worn down by grief and mis- 
fortune, in July, 1651. He is said to have 
been a skilful geometrician, and to have 
been well acquainted with various branches 
of knowledge. He was certainly the great- 
est English architect previous to Sir Chris- 
topher Wren. His designs with the pen 
were highly valued by Vandyke. A collec- 
tion of them was engraved and published by 
Mr. Kent, in two volumes folio, 1727, and 
some lesser designs in 1744. Others were 
published in 1743, 4to., by Mr. Ware. A 
copy of Palladio's Architecture, with ma- 
nuscript notes by Jones, is in the library of 
Worcester College, Oxford. Mr. Walpole 
has given a catalogue of the principal build- 
ings erected aud decorated by this archi- 
tect. 
Jones (William), in biography, a very 
eminent mathematician in the seventeenth 
and former part of the eighteenth cen- 
tury, was born in the parish of Llan- 
fihangel tier Bard, at the foot of Bodavon 
mountain in the Isle of Anglesea, North 
Wales, in the year 1680. His parents were 
yeomen, or small farmers, on that island, 
and he there received the best education 
which they were able to afford ; reading, 
writing, and accounts, in English, and the 
Latin grammar. Having, however, an ex- 
traordinary turn for mathematical studies, 
by file industrious exertion of vigorous in- 
tellectual powers, he supplied the defects 
of adequate instruction, and laid the foun- 
dation of his future fame and fortune. He 
began his career in life by teaching mathe- 
matics on board a man of war; and in this 
situation he attracted the notice, and ob- 
tained the friendship, of Lord Anson. In 
his twenty-second year, Mr. Jones pub- 
lished “ A New Compendium of the whole 
Art of Navigation,” &c. 8vo., which is a 
a neat little piece, and was received with 
great approbation. He was present at the 
capture of Vigo, in the same year, and 
haying joined his comrades in quest of pil- 
lage, he eagerly fixed upon a bookseller’s 
shop as the object of his depredation ; but 
finding in it no literary treasures, which 
w'ere the sole plunder that he coveted, he 
contented himself with a pair of scissars, 
which he frequently exhibited to his friends 
as a trophy of his military success, relating 
the anecdote by which he gained it. After 
the return of the fleet to England, he im- 
mediately established himself as a teacher 
of mathematics in London, where, in the 
year 1706, lie published his “ Synopsis Pal- 
mariorum Matheseos or, “ A New Intro- 
duction to the Mathematics,” &c. contain- 
ing a- perspicuous and useful compendium 
of all the mathematical sciences, and af- 
fording a decisive proof of his early and con- 
summate proficiency in his favourite stu- 
dies. The private character of Mr. Jones 
was respectable, his manners were agree- 
able and inviting ; and those qualities not 
only contributed to enlarge the circle of 
his friends, whom his established reputation 
for science had attracted, but also to secure 
their attachment to him. 
Among others who honoured him with 
their esteem, was the great and virtuqus 
Lord Hardwicke, whom he attended as a 
