 During this time Jones helped sustain John Rigby in his faith, who later also became one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.On 3 July 1598 Father Jones was tried on the charge of "going over the seas in the first year of Her majesty's reign (1558) and there being made a priest by the authority from Rome and then returning to England contrary to statute".He was convicted of high treason and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered.