6 Fogagcs of Soljtt Sosselgn. 



The principal line of the family was continued by Rich- 

 ard, heir to Sir Thomas of Hide Hall; the faid Richard 

 being brother to our author, John JofTelyn's grandfather. 

 In 1665, Sir Robert Jocelyn of Hide Hall was advanced 

 to the dignity of baronet. The fifth fon of this Sir Robert 

 was Thomas; whofe fon, Robert Jocelyn, Efq., was bred 

 to the law; was Solicitor-General and Attorney-General 

 and Lord High Chancellor of Ireland; and created, in 

 1743, Baron Newport of Newport, and Vifcount Jocelyn 

 in 1755. Robert, fon and fuccefTor of this nobleman, was 

 created, in 1771, Earl of Roden, of High Roding, County 

 of Tipperary; and was anceftor to the prefent Lord 

 Roden. 1 



Our author, John Joflelyn, made his firfl voyage to New 

 England in 1638; arriving in Bofton Harbor the 3d of 

 July, and remaining with his brother at Black Point till the 

 10th of October of the following year. While at Bofton, 

 he paid his refpedts to the Governor and to Mr. Cotton, 

 being the bearer to the latter of fome poetical pieces from 

 the poet Quarles ; and, as he fays, " being civilly treated 

 by all I had occafion to converfe with." In the account 

 of his firft voyage, there is no appearance of that diflike to 

 the Maflachufetts government and people which is obferv- 

 able in the narrative of the fecond, and may there not 

 unfairly be connected with his brother's political and reli- 

 gious differences with Maflachufetts. 2 His fecond voyage 



1 Lodge, ubi supra. Annual Register, 1771, p. 174. 



2 But there is no doubt that the author was himself as far from sharing in the 

 serious English thought of the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay as he was from 



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