. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ve been very much employed. As surveyor of the publicbuildings, his stipend was 8s. 4d. a day, besides an allowance of 461. per annum for house-rent, a clerk, and incidental exjjenses. 460. In the passion for masques which prevailed during the reign of Charles I., Jones wasa principal contributor to their splendour. They had been introduced into this country byAnne of Denmark ; and Walpole gives a list of thirteen to which he furnished the sctuesand
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ve been very much employed. As surveyor of the publicbuildings, his stipend was 8s. 4d. a day, besides an allowance of 461. per annum for house-rent, a clerk, and incidental exjjenses. 460. In the passion for masques which prevailed during the reign of Charles I., Jones wasa principal contributor to their splendour. They had been introduced into this country byAnne of Denmark ; and Walpole gives a list of thirteen to which he furnished the sctuesand machinery, 461. They who have seen Wilton can appreciate Tnigos merit for having introduced intoEngland, in the seats of our aristocracy, a style vying with that of the villas of disagreement appears to have arisen between him and Philip Earl of Pembroke,which here it would be irrelevant to dwell on; we will merely mention that in theHarleian library existed an edition of Joness Slonehenge, which had formerly be-longed to the nobleman in question; and that its margins are filled by the former Chav. hi. JA>Ii:S I. TO ANNE. 209. possessor with notes, not on the substance of the work itself, hut on its author, ana anythingelse that could he injurious. He calls him Iniquity Jones, and says he had 16,0(X)/.a year for keeping the kings houses in repair. The censures were undeserved ; and theaccusations, unwarranted by facts, are extremely discreditable to the memory of EarlPhilip. 462. The works of Joneswere exceedingly numerous;many, however, are assigned tohim which were the jjroductionsof his scholars. Such buildingsas the Queens house at Green-wich (much altered, and, indeed,spoiled, of late years, for the [lur-pose of turning it into a publicnaval school); Coleshill,in Berk-shire, built in 1650; Shaftes-bury House, in AklersgateStreet; the square, as planned,and Church of St. Iaul, CoveniGarden ; and many oilier works,are strong proofs of the advance-ment of archi
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