Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . ther-in-IHW, James I., in 1606, took Jones with him to England. Being induced to remain, the queen chosehim as her architect; and the place of surveyor-general of the board of works was granted to him inreversion. In 1620, he was appointed one of the commissioners for repairing St. Pauls cathedral;but this was not commenced till 1623.
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . ther-in-IHW, James I., in 1606, took Jones with him to England. Being induced to remain, the queen chosehim as her architect; and the place of surveyor-general of the board of works was granted to him inreversion. In 1620, he was appointed one of the commissioners for repairing St. Pauls cathedral;but this was not commenced till 1623. In the following reign he was much employed in preparingmasques for the entertainment of the court, and in building the banqueting-house at Whitehall; butwhile tihus engaged, he fell under the displeasure of Ben Jonson, who ridiculed him on the stage, andmade Irim the subject of his epigrammatic muse. Jones realized a handsome fortune ; but being aRomasa catholic, and a partisan of royalty, he suffered severely in the civil war. At length, woradown by sorrow and sufFerinsr, he died. July 21, 1652, aged eighty. He wrote a work on the mono*meat at fJtonehenge, giving the singular opinion that it wu a Roman temple, dedicated to Cojlui. 26 402 JAMES JAMES MADISON. JAMES MADISON, the fourth president of the United States, was a native ofOrange county, Virginia, where he was born, on the 16th of March, was of Welsh origin, and his ancestors were among the first settlers ofVirginia. He graduated at Princeton in 1771, and two years afterward com-menced the practice of the law in his native state. He was elected to thegeneral assembly of Virginia in 1776, and the next year was appointed a mem-ber of the executive council. He was chosen a delegate to the continentalcongress in 1779-80, and continued in that post until 1784. Two years after-ward, he was appointed a delegate to a convention held at Annapolis, Md., forthe purpose of adopting uniform commercial regulations
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