Life
Jones came from a recusant Welsh family, who had remained faithful Roman Catholics throughout and despite the Protestant Reformation. As a youth, he entered the Observant Franciscan friary at Greenwich; at its dissolution in 1559, he went to the Continent, and was professed (took his vows) at Pontoise, France.
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