Jones was a member of the English Chartist movement, who spent 2 years in an English prison for "sedition". He lived in the mid-19th century.
For information on him see the Mainly Norfolk article on his poem set to music "Song of the Lower Classes": https://mainlynorfolk.info/martin.carthy/songs/thesongofthelowerclasses.html
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