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Jones, David, d. 1724
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d. 1724
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JONES, DAVID, son of Matthew Jones, Caervallwch, Flints.; b.; adm.; BB; KS 1678; tried at Old Bailey 15 Oct 1679, with Henry Mordaunt and John Osbaldeston (qvv), for the murder of a bailiff, but was acquitted (Elizabethan xviii, 83); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1681, matr. 16 Dec 1681, aged 18, Westminster Student 19 Dec 1681 – 31 Oct 1700 (expiry year of grace as V. Marcham); in 1700 committed to Oxford Castle for contempt of court and expelled from University by Vice-Chancellor, but released from imprisonment by Court of Common Pleas (Luttrell, Brief Relation, 14 May 1700, and HMC Report, v, 359); ordained; Curate, St. Mary Woolnoth, London; Vicar of Great Budworth, Cheshire 24 Aug 1694 – 18 Jan 1696/7; Vicar of Marcham, Berks., from 1699; an eccentric preacher styled “a young Boanerges” by his contemporary Tom Brown; latterly living in poverty and obscurity at Marcham; d. 6 Aug 1724. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.