Edward Jones (martyr)

Edward Jones (died 6 May 1590) was a Welsh martyr of the Roman Catholic Church.

In December 1588, he returned to England and stayed for some time in a grocer's shop in Fleet Street.

At the Old Bailey "he made a skillful and learned defense, pleading that a confession elicited under torture was not legally sufficient to ensure a conviction.

Together with Anthony Middleton, he was hanged, drawn and quartered on 6 May 1590, opposite the grocer’s shop where he had been captured; "over the gallows there was placed an inscription: 'For treason and favouring of foreign invasion'.

When he [Jones] protested he was thrown off the scaffold ... and the butchery began".