introduction to Breton's ‘Bower of Delights’ (1591), but Breton complained in the preface to ‘Pilgrimage to Paradise’ (1592) that the book had been printed by Jones ‘altogether without my consent and knowledge, and many thinges of other mens mingled with a few of mine’ (J. P. Collier, Bibliographical Account, 1865, i. 83). Jones had printed for Breton in 1575, 1577, and 1582, and issued in 1597 a second edition of what he called ‘Britton's Bowre of Delights.’ He also collected and published ‘The Arbour of Amorus Delightes, by N. B.,’ consisting only partly of Breton's pieces. The last entry to Jones in the registers was on 4 June 1602 (Arber, Transcript, iii. 206).
[Authorities quoted: J. Johnson's Typographia, 1824, i. 584–5; Timperley's Encyclopædia, 1842, pp. 425–6; Bigmore and Wyman's Bibliography of Printing, i. 376; W. Roberts's English Book-selling, 1889, pp. 60–2.]
JONES, RICHARD (1603–1673), mnemonist and Welsh nonconformist, the son of John Pugh of Henllan, near Denbigh, was born in 1603 in the neighbouring parish of Llansannan, according to Calamy. He entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1621, graduated B.A. on 9 Feb. 1625, and proceeded M.A. on 11 July 1628. Although he refused to take holy orders, he became master of the free school at Denbigh, and proved ‘very useful and successful’ there, being, according to Calamy, a ‘man of ingenuity, considerable learning, and noted piety,’ and having a ‘vein of poetry in Latin, English, and Welsh.’ He was ejected from his post on account of his nonconformity, and on similar grounds was subsequently compelled to abandon a private school which he opened at Henllan. In January 1652 and August 1655 he describes himself as a minister of the gospel residing at Llanfair Caereinion in Montgomeryshire (title-page to Testun Testament Newydd, and preface to Perl y Cymro). Wood, on the authority of Dr. Michael Roberts, principal of Jesus College, states that Jones died in Ireland, but that the date was unknown; but Calamy, with more probability, says that he died at Denbigh on 15 Aug. 1673, and that ‘Mr. Roberts, the conforming minister of that town, preached his funeral sermon.’ Owing to this conflicting account, some writers have erroneously assumed that Wood and Calamy have confused two persons called Richard Jones (Foulkes, Enwogion Cymru, p. 629; J. T. Jones, Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol, ii. 36, 120).
Jones was the author of the following translations into Welsh: 1. ‘Galwad i'r Annychweledig’ (being Baxter's ‘Call to the Unconverted’), 1659, 12mo. 2. ‘Hyfforddiadau Cristionogol,’ London, 1675, being a translation of Thomas Gouge's ‘Christian Directions to walk with God,’ and published at Gouge's expense. 3. ‘Bellach neu Byth,’ a translation of Baxter's ‘Now or Never,’ published in ‘Trysor i'r Cymro,’ London, 1677, 8vo. Jones was also author of two metrical mnemonic digests of the Bible. 4. ‘Testun Testament Newydd … yn Benhillion Cymreig mewn egwyddoraidd drefn,’ London, 1653, 8vo. 5. ‘Perl y Cymro; neu Cofiadur y Beibl ar fesurau Psalmau Dafydd,’ &c., London, 1655, 12mo, with title-pages also in English and Latin, viz. ‘The British Gemm, or Extract of the Bible,’ and ‘Gemma Cambri, seu Mnemonica Bibliorum;’ among the ‘encomiasticks on the author and his book’ is a letter by James Howell [q. v.] (see Epistolæ Ho-elianæ, Nutt's edition, 1891, p. 582).
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 344, where the bibliography of the works numbered 4 and 5 above is wrong; Calamy's Account of Ministers, 2nd edit. ii. 844; Rowlands's Welsh Bibliography, s.a. 1655, 1675, 1677; G. ab Rhys's Llenyddiaeth y Cymry, pp. 443–5; Enwogion y Ffydd, i. 196.]
JONES, RICHARD, third Viscount and first Earl of Ranelagh (1638?–1712), son and heir of Arthur, second viscount, and Catherine, daughter of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, and grandson of Thomas Jones [q. v.], archbishop of Dublin, was, according to Carte, ‘a man of good parts, great wit, and very little religion: had an head turned for projects, and was famed for intrigue, artful, insinuating, and designing, craving and greedy of money, yet at the same time profuse and lavish.’ He represented co. Roscommon in the Irish parliament from 1661 till the death of his father in January 1669 raised him to the upper house. In early life he owed much to the favour of the Duke of Ormonde, whose friendly interposition healed the breach between him and his father, and who, on the death of Sir Robert Meredith, appointed him (22 Oct. 1668) chancellor of the exchequer in Ireland, with a seat at the council table. But, coming to England about the end of 1670, he joined the cabal of the Duke of Buckingham, and, foreseeing considerable profit likely to accrue to himself, he took advantage of the publication of a paper styled ‘The State of his Majesty's Revenue,’ compiled by the vice-treasurer, Sir John Temple, to enter into an engagement with the king, whereby, in consideration of the revenue being assigned to him and his partners, he undertook to defray all the expenses connected with the government
