Jocelin, 1142—1184. 198) 
think from another, which is apposite enough; viz., that after 
Jocelin’s death, Hubert Archdeacon of Canterbury was elected as 
his successor, but his nomination being appealed against, the elevation 
was set aside on the ground of his illegitimacy. This same Jocelin 
Bishop of Bath and Wells was subsequently Archbishop elect of Can- 
terbury, but died, in 1194, before his actual removal to the primacy. 
In the following year (1175) Bishop Jocelin had the gratification 
also of seeing the dean of his cathedral, Johu of Oxford, who had 
all along shared his troubles, and with him been the object of the 
especial enmity and dislike of Becket,—having been denounced again 
and again as an intruder into the office of Dean and ultimately ex- 
communicated,—advanced to the sce of Norwich. 
After this time we hear little of Bishop Jocelin. Increasing age 
and infirmities compelled him to withdraw from active work, and we 
find associated with him in the eare of his diocese, as a suffragan, 
Geoffrey, who had been Bishop of St. Asaph, but had been compelled 
to quit his post through poverty and the hostile invasions of the 
Welsh. When he came into England he was kindly received by the 
king, who gave the then vacant abbacy of Abingdon into his charge. 
He resigned his bishopric in 1175 and after that time would seem 
to have been a coadjutor to Bishop Jocelin. 
We read of Bishop Jocelin being present at the great council held 
at Woodstock in 1175, when the king, and his crowned son, met the 
bishops and abbots of tbe principal monasteries, and appointed pastors 
to the different sees and abbeys which were then vacant throughout 
England. This was but a few months after the celebrated synod of 
Westminster, held by Richard Archbishop of Canterbury, in which 
were enacted decrees for the correction of the many scandals and 
_ abuses that had arisen among the clergy—decrees which themselves 
shew the state of things that existed in the Church, and how difficult 
the same time Reginald Fitz-Jocelin to the see of Bath. The two went at once 
_ to Rome for the purpose of ‘‘ confirming their elections,” which were appealed 
against. In the end, Pope Alexander III. consecrated Richard on April 7th, 
1174, at Anagni, to the see of Canterbury, and two months afterwards Arch- 
_ bishop Richard, assisted by a foreign bishop, consecrated Keginald to the see of 
Bath at the Church of S, Jean de Maurienne. Dicto 581. See also Rog. de 
-Hovedon sub anno 1174. 
