[3] As a result of appeals to friends for assistance, Jones was in April 1767 inducted into the vicarage of Shephall or Sheephall, Hertfordshire, where he continued until his death on 8 August 1770.
[3] In 1749, Jones published anonymously Free and Candid Disquisitions relating to the Church of England, and the means of advancing Religion therein.
[9] In 1750 Jones published An Appeal to Common Reason and Candour, in behalf of a Review submitted to the Serious Consideration of all Unprejudiced Members of the Church of England.
Shortly before leaving Welwyn Jones published Catholic Faith and Practice: being Considerations of Present Use and Importance in point of Religion and Liberty (1755), and A Letter to a Friend in the Country.
[3] After Jones's death, Benjamin Dawson edited and published his Free Thoughts on the subject of a Farther Reformation of the Church of England (1771), identified as by the author of A short and safe Expedient for terminating the present Debate about Subscriptions of 1769.
[10] Early in 1783 much of Jones's correspondence with Thomas Birch and other papers of his were presented to John Nichols, who published extracts in the Gentleman's Magazine and in his Literary Anecdotes.