William Jones

, the eldest Son and Heir of Will. Jones Esq; was born at Castellmarch in Carnarvonshire, the ancient Seat of his Family, educated in the Free-School at Beaumaris in Anglesey, whence, at 14 years of age, he was transplanted to S. Edmunds hall, an. 1570. and continued there 5 years. But taking no degree, he went to Lincolns Inn and was there admitted a Student, yet before he resided in that Society he spent two years in Furnivals Inn, according to the course of those times. After he had been a Counsellor of repute for some years, he became Lent-Reader of the said Inn 13. Jac. 1. Serjeant at Law the year following, and a Knight, in order to the chief Justiceship in Ireland, in which place he continued three years, and then left it upon his own request. In 19. Jac. 1. he was made one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, in the room of Sir Augustin Nicolls, and in the 22 year he was removed to the Kings-Bench. He hath written and collected,

Reports of divers special cases, as well in the Court of Kings Bench, as of the Common Pleas in England, as well in the latter time of the Reign of K. James, as in the years of K. Ch. 1. &c. Lond. 1675. fol. They contain the cases of greatest remark which hapned either in the Common Pleas or Kings Bench, during the time our author was Judge in the said Courts, which was from the 18. Jac. 1. to 16. Car. 1. In the said book also is reported three Iters, together with the great case in Parliament between the Earl of Oxford, and the Lord Willoughby of Eresby. This book also coming into the hands, after the authors death, of Sir Jo. Glynn Serjeant at Law, he made very good notes on it, as it appears in the original copy, sometimes in the hands of Dorothy Faulconberg and Lucy Jones Daughters and Executors of Sir Will. Jones.

Several Speeches in Parliament.—He concluded his last day in his house in Holbourne near London on the ninth of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and forty, 1640 and was buried under the Chappel (standing on pillars) of Lincolns-Inn, on the fourteenth day of the same month. Over whose grave, tho no writing or Epitaph appears, yet his eminence in the knowledge of the Municipal Laws, will make his name live to posterity, more especially in these parts, where he had, his education, and when Justice, did constantly keep Oxford circuit.