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===[[name::Henry]] [[name::JONES]] [[date of birth::1670;1671|1670/1]]-[[date of death::1707;1708|1707 or 1708]]===

====Biographical Note====
Born in [[place of birth::Sunningwell, Berkshire]], son of [[family::Walter Jones]], [[occupation::rector]] there.  BA [[education::Christ Church, Oxford]] 1672, MA 1675, [[occupation::rector]] of [[location::Sunningwell]] 1673, where he remained for the rest of his life; he may have been a nonjuror and sources vary on the dates of his incumbency.

====Books====
Jones’s library was augmented by the bequest, in 1686, of the books and papers of his uncle [[crossreference::John Fell 1625-1686|John Fell]], [[occupation::Bishop of Oxford]], who left him all his books and papers apart from a number of specific exceptions.  This included a number of [[format::manuscripts]].  In his own will, Jones directed that his [[format::manuscripts]] should be given to the [[organisations::Bodleian Library]], where they were received in 1708; there are ca. 60 volumes, 13th-16th centuries.  He also left his cousin, [[family::Benjamin Marshall]], 12 books from his study, at his choice; all the rest of his property, including his books, was left to his brother [[family::Richard Jones]] of [[location::Oxford]].

Jones’s library (except the mss) was then sold by auction in [[location::Oxford]], 7 July 1710, as part of a joint sale with the books of [[crossreference::Daniel Osborne]].  The sale catalogue contains 2963 lots, divided between [[language::Latin]] [[subject::theology]] and miscellaneous subjects (1366), [[language::Latin]] and [[language::English]] [[subject::medicine]] (287), [[language::French]] and [[language::Italian]] books (18), and [[language::English]] [[subject::theology]] and miscellaneous (1292).  The catalogue does not distinguish which books came from which source.

====Characteristic markings====
Beyond the manuscripts in the Bodleian, none of Jones’s books have been identified.

====Sources====

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*[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D673951 Will of Henry Jones, The National Archives PROB 11/501/123].
*''Bibliotheca Jonesiana & Osborneana'', 1710, ESTC t186846.
*Foster, J., ''Alumni Oxonienses'', Oxford, 1891.
*Macray, W., ''Annals of the Bodleian Library'', 2nd edn, Oxford, 1890, p.177-8. 

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