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as a malignant. The king’s death greatly affected him ; 
and he died, worn down with griet' and misfortune, in 
July 1651. 
Mr. Walpole has given a catalogue of the principal 
buildings ereCted and decorated by this architect. After 
the Banqueting-houfe, Walbrook-church is one of his belt 
works. One of the molt admired is the arcade of Covent- 
garden, and the church: “Two ftructures (fays Mr. 
Walpole) of which I want take to fee the beauties. In 
the arcade there is nothing remarkable ; the pilalters are 
as arrant and homely ftripes as any plafterer would make. 
The barn-roof over the portico of the church (trikes rny 
eyes with as little idea of dignity and beauty, as it could 
do if it covered nothing but a barn. It mult be owned, 
that the defedt is not in the architect, but in the order. 
Who ever faw a beautiful Tufcan building? Would the 
Romans have chofen that order for a temple ?” 
Amelbury in Wiltfhire was defigned by Jones, but ex¬ 
ecuted by his fdholar Webb. Jones was one of the firlt 
that obferved the fame diminution of pilalters as in pil¬ 
lars. Lindfay-houfe in Lincoln’s-Inn Fields, which he 
built, owes its chief grace to this Angularity. In 1618, 
a fpecial commiffion was ilfued to the lord-chancellor, the 
earls of Worcefter, Pembroke, Arundel, and others, “ to 
plant and reduce to uniformity Lincoln’s-Inn Fields, as 
it (hall be drawn by way of map, or ground-plot, by Inigo 
Jones, furveyor-gen-eral of the works.” That fquare is 
laid out with a regard to fo trifling a Angularity as to be 
of the exaCt dimenfions of one of the pyramids ; this 
would have been admired in thofe. ages when the keep at 
Kenelworth Caftle was erected in the form of a horfe- 
fetter, and the Efcurial in the fhape of St. Laurence’s 
gridiron. 
Colelhill in Berklliire, the feat of Ar Matthew Pleydell, 
built in 1650, and Cobham-hall in Kent, were Jones’s. 
He was employed to rebuild Caftle Alhby, and finilhed 
one front 5 but the civil war interrupted his prog-refs there 
and at Stoke-park in Northampton (hire. Shaftelbury- 
houfe, now the London Lying-in-Hofpital, on the ealt fide 
of Alderfgate-ftreet, is a beautiful front. The Grange, 
in Hamplhire, is entirely of this mafter. It is not a large 
houfe, but by far one of the belt proofs of his tafte. The 
hall, which opens to a fmall veltibule with a cupola, and 
the ftaircafe adjoining, are beautiful models of the pureft: 
and molt claflic antiquity. The gate of Beaufort-garden at 
Chelfea, deftgned by Jones, was purchafed by lord Bur¬ 
lington, and tranfported to Chifwick. He drew a plan 
for a palace at Newmarket; but not that wretched hovel 
that (lands there at prefent. One of the mod beautiful of 
his works is the queen’s houfe at Greenwich. The firft 
idea of the hofpital is faid to have been taken from his 
papers by his fcholar Webb. Heriot’s hofpital in Edin¬ 
burgh, and the improvements made in his time on Glam- 
mis-caftle in Forfarfhire in Scotland, are fpecimens of the 
defigns of Inigo Jones. Upon the whole, Inigo Jones 
was certainly the greateft Englilh architect previous to fir 
Chriftopher Wren. His defigns with the pen were highly 
valued by Vandyke. A collection of them was engraved 
and publifhed by Mr. Kent, in two volumes folio, 1717 ; 
and fome minor deflgns in 1744. Others were publifhed 
by Mr. Ware, in 1743, quarto. A copy of Palladio’s Ar¬ 
chitecture, with manufcript notes by Jones, is in the li¬ 
brary of Worcefter-college, Oxford. 
JONES (Jeremiah), a learned Englilh nonconformift 
divine, fuppofed to have been born in the north of Eng¬ 
land, and of parents in opulent circumftances, about the 
year 1693. He entered on his academical ftudies under 
the tuition of his uncle, the Rev. Samuel Jones, of Tewkf- 
bury in Gloucefterftiire, from whofe feminary many pu¬ 
pils were fent into the world who became eminent for 
their literature, or ftations in life; and among others, 
Samuel Chandler, Butler, afterwards biftiop of Durham, 
and Seeker, afterwards archbilhop of Canterbury. The 
latter was fellow-ftudent with Mr. Jones in the year 1711, 
Soon after Mr. Jones had completed his courfe of acade- 
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mical learning, he became minifter of a congregation of 
Proteftant dilfenters at Avening in Gloucefterfhire, and 
reftded at Nailfwortli, where be alfp kept an academy. He 
had the character of being an eminent linguift ; and of 
his extenfive learning, and critical (kill, the labours which 
he left behind him afford abundant evidence. His cha¬ 
racter was luch as fecured him refpeCt from the clergy of 
the eftabiifliment. His anxiety to fulfil an engagement 
to perform fome minilterial fervice at a place on the other 
Adeof the Severn, haftened his death ; for, having quite for¬ 
gotten it till the appointed time-drew near, he made luch 
hafte, in order to prevent difappointment, that he injured 
his tender conftifution, and contracted a complaint which 
proved fatal to him, in 1724, when he was at the age of 
thirty-one. His only literary production which was pub : 
lifhed during the author’s life-time, is a learned ami in r 
genious “Vindication of the former Part of St. Matthew’s 
Gofpel from Mr. Whifton’s Charge of Diflocations; or, 
an Attempt to prove that our prefent Greek Copies of 
that Gofpel are in the fame Order wherein they were ori¬ 
ginally written by that Evangelift; in which are contained 
many Things relating to the Harmony and Kiftory of the 
Four Gofpels;” 1719. But his molt valuable and impor¬ 
tant work, which he had prepared for the prefs before his 
death, was his “ New and full Method of fettling the Ca¬ 
nonical Authority of the New Teftament,” two volumes 
of which were publilhedin 1726, oCtavo; and a third loom 
afterwards. This work is a ftriking monument of the 
learning, ingenuity, and indefatigable induftry,oHo young 
a man, which would have reflected credit on the ability 
and aillduityof a literary character of twice his years. It 
had become exceedingly fcarce, and bore a high price, 
when the conductors of the Clarendon prefs, with a de¬ 
gree of liberality and zeal which does them great honour, 
republiflied it at Oxford. We think it no linal! circum- 
(tance, in recommendation of the merit of this work, that 
it is frequently quoted and commended by the judicious 
Lardner, in his grand work on the Credibility of the Go(- 
pel Hiftory, particularly the Supplement. Mr. Jones in¬ 
tended to have drawn up another and diftinCt volume oil 
the apoftolical fathers. Monthly Mag. vol. xv. p. 240. 
JONES (William), a very eminent mathematician in 
the feventeenth and former part of the eighteenth century, 
was born in the parifli of Llanfihangel trer Bard, at the 
foot of Bodavon mountain, in the ille of Anglefea, North 
Wales, in the year 1680. His parents were yeomen or 
little farmers on thatifland, and he there received the belt 
education which they were able to afford ; reading, writ¬ 
ing, and accounts, in Englifh, and the Latin grammar. 
Plaving, however, an extraordinary turn for mathematical 
ftudies, by the indultrious exertion of vigorous intellec¬ 
tual powers he (Applied the defeats of inadequate inftruc- 
tion, and laid the foundation of his future fame and for¬ 
tune. He began his career in life by teaching mathema¬ 
tics on-board a man of war; and in this Atuation he at¬ 
tracted the notice, and obtained the friendfliip, of lord 
Anfon. In his twenty-fecond year, Mr. Jones publifhed 
A New Compendium of the whole Art of Navigation, 
&c. 8vo; which is a neat little piece, and received with 
great approbation. He was prefent at the capture of Vigo 
in the lame year; and, after the return of the fleet to 
England, he immediately eftablifhed himfelf as a teacher 
of mathematics in London, where, in the year 1706, he 
publifhed his Synopjts Palmariorum MalheJ'eos ; or, New In¬ 
troduction to the Mathematics, See. containing a perf'pi- 
cuous and uleful compendium of all the mathematical fei- 
ences, and affording a decifive proof of his early and 
confummate proficiency in his favourite ftudies. 
The private character of Mr. Jones was ref'peCtable, his 
manners were agreeable and inviting; and thefe qualities 
not only contributed to enlarge the circle of his friends* 
whom his eftablifhed reputation for fcience had attracted, 
but alfo to fecure their attachment to him. Among 
others who honoured him with their efteem, was the great 
and virtuous lord Hardwicke, whom he attended as a 
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