judges who refused to admit Sir John Eliot and his companions to bail (28 November). He was one of the judges who tried Eliot, Denzil Holles and Benjamin Valentine in 1630, and he delivered the judgment of the court. In 1636, he signed an opinion in favour of ship money, and in 1638 he gave judgment for its legality. He died at his house in Holborn on 9 December 1640, and was buried in Lincoln's Inn Chapel. Works Thomas Hearne in his Curious Discourses prints a paper by Jones on the early Britons, read before the Society of Antiquaries in Elizabeth I's reign, and calls him a person of learning in British antiquities. Jones's ‘Reports of Cases from 18 James I to 15 Charles I’ appeared in 1675. Family He married in 1587 Margaret, eldest daughter of Griffith ap John Griffith of Kevenamulch, Carnarvonshire and secondly, Catherine, daughter of Thomas Powys of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, widow of Dr. Robert Hovenden. His sons Charles reader at Lincoln's Inn, and William were also MPs. Notes References Attribution | |- 1566 births 1640 deaths 17th-century Welsh judges Members of the Parliament of England for Beaumaris English MPs 1597–1598 English MPs 1604–1611 English MPs 1614 Lords chief justice of Ireland