As our author had now much employment in the line of his profession, lie soon realised a handsome fortune ;" but as he was not only a Roman Catholic, but also a favourite of Charles I. lie suffered considerable pecuniary losses during the civil wars. At the instance of the parishioners of St Gregory's, he was called before the house of Lords in 1640 for demolishing part of their church during his ope rations in repairing St. Paul's. This church had been ta ken down in consequence of an order of council in 1639, front its great proximity to the cathedral. This prosecu tion, however, involved him in great expellee ; and he was also lined L.545 in the year 1646 as a malignant. Stone the statuary and Mr. Jones agreed, during the civil wars, to bury their ready money in Scotland Yard ; but as four persons had been acquainted with the transaction, they took it up and interred it in Lambeth Marsh.
At the restoration of Charles 11. Mr. Jones was conti nued in his former offices ; but he had been depressed by age and misfortunes, and he died at Somerset-house on the 21st of July, 1651. He was interred in the Church of St. Bennet's, Paul's Wharf; but his monument was de stroyed during the great fire in London. A collection of Inigo Jones' designs was engraved in 2 vols. folio, by Mr. Kent, and some smaller ones in 1744. Mr. Ware pub lished others in 1743. The celebrated Vandyke used to remark, that in designing with his pen, he was not to be equalled by any great master of his time, for the bold ness, softness, sweetness, and evenness of his touches. The
library of Worcester College possesses a copy of Palla dio's Architecture, with MSS. Notes, by Inigo Jones, which were inserted in the edition of Palladio, that appeared in 1714.
The following is a list of his principal works : Heriot's Hospital. The Banqueting House, Whitehall. Barber's Hall in Monkwell Street, London. The new buildings which front. the gardens of Somerset House. The Church and Piazza of Covent Garden, the former of which has recently been destroyed by fire. Lincoln's Inn Fields, which has the same area as the base of the great pyramid of Egypt. The inner quadrangle of St. John's College, Oxford. The Queen's Chapel, St. James's. Shaftesbury House, lately the Lying-in Hospital, on the east side of Aldersgate Street. The garden front of Wal ler House, Ste. The Queen's House at Greenwich. The Grange in Hampshire, the seat of the Earl of Northington. Cashiubury in Hertfordshire. Gunnersbury near Brent ford, in Middlesex. Ainbresbury in Wiltshire, designed by Jones, but executed by his pupil, Webb. Lord Rad nor's House at Coleshill, Berkshire. Cobham-hall in Kent. Fronts of Holyrood House in Edinburgh. Sur geon's Hall, London. The South and East side of Castle Ashby. Holt Park in Northamptonshire. Inside of the Church of St. Catherine Cree, Leadenhall Street. Part of Glammis Castle in Forfarshire. An account of several of these buildings, particularly Heriot's Hospital, Castle Ash by, and Wilton House, will be found in our article CIVIL ARCHITECTURE.