The name of this man, (Jones,) which Corbet, for the sake of the rhyme,
has corrupted, sufficiently denotes his extraction; and I would have
ascertained the time of his death, but the register was not to be found
upon application for that purpose.
Antony à Wood says, in his History of the City of Oxford, “Thomas Jonce,
a clergyman and inhabitant of this place, (St. Giles’s parish, Oxford,)
desiring here to lay his bones, was of note sufficient to excite bishop
Corbet to write an epitaph on him.”
‘Say’st thou this of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?’