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Iloinan disinterestedness, and .showing that architecture vas not the only thing he had
learned in Home, on the comi)troller and paymaster of the office, to give up, as he did, all
the profits of the office till the arrears were cleared.
457. By the Fvedera, vol. xviii. p. 99., we find that there was issued to him, in conjunction
with the Earl of Arundel and others, a coipmission to prevent the building on new found-
ations within two miles of London and the palace of Westminster ; and in 1620 he was, if
possible, more uselessly employed by James I. in guessing, for it was no more, who were
the builders of Stonehenge. For this last, the necessary preliminary information had not
even dawned, although Walpole, in his usual off-hand manner, loses not, in alluding to it, tlie
ojjportunity of displaying his own dreadful ignorance on the subject. (See Chap. II. Sect. II.,
where this monument has been examined. ) In the year last named, Jones was one of the
commissioners for the repair of old St. Paul's, though the repairs were not commenced till
16:3.5, in which year Laud, then Bishop of London, laid the first stone, and Inigo Jones
the fourth. Our architect was now too much disinclined to Gothic to bend his genius to
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