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Jones, William, 1726-1800


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    • Bull, Thomas, 1726-1800
    • Jones, W., 1726-1800
    • Jones, William, of Nayland, 1726-1800
    • Jones, Nayland, 1726-1800
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    • found: LCCN 11-23438: His Physiological disquisitions, 1781(hdg.: Jones, William, 1726-1800; usage: William Jones)
    • found: His One penny-worth of truth from Thomas Bull to his brother John, 1792?
    • found: LC data base, 8-28-84(hdg.: Jones, William, 1726-1800; usage: William Jones)
    • found: Halkett & Laing(Thomas Bull, William Jones, of Nayland)
    • found: Comenius, Johann Amos. Joh. Amos Comenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est Omnium principalium in mundo rerum, et in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura, 1810:page 4 ("To the editor of the twelfth edition..." signed at end: W. Jones, Pluckley)
    • found: W.C.B. "John Amos Comenius," in Notes and queries, 8th series, v. 1, 1892, pages 447-448, via Google Books, March 23, 2018:page 447 (re Comenius' Orbis sensualium pictus: "An edition called the twelfth by the Rev. William Jones, of Pluckley, afterwards of Nayland, 1777, was reprinted at New York, 1810")
    • found: Ditchfield, G.M. "Jones, William (known as William Jones of Nayland)" in Oxford dictionary of national biography, 2004, via online edition, dated January 3, 2008, accessed March 23, 2018(Jones, William (known as William Jones of Nayland), Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist, born at Lowick, Northamptonshire, on 30 July 1726; graduated BA from University College, Oxford, 1749; in 1764 Archbishop Secker presented him to the living of Bethersden in Kent, and the following year to the rectory of nearby Pluckley; in 1777 Jones became perpetual curate of Nayland, in Suffolk, where he resided until his death and with which his name became closely associated; wrote principally on the Anglican tradition and its justification, but also on natural science topics; called by contemporaries "Nayland Jones"; died at Nayland on 6 January 1800)
    • found: Jones, William. The catholic doctrine of a Trinity proved by above an hundred short and clear arguments ..., 1756, via Google Books, March 23, 2018:title page (by the Reverend William Jones, late of University College in Oxford, author of A full answer to An essay on spirit)
    • found: Jones, William. A disquisition concerning the metaphorical usage and application of sleep in the scriptures, 1772, via Eighteenth Century Collections Online, March 23, 2018:title page (By William Jones, Rector of Pluckley, in Kent)
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    • 1984-08-31: new
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