jFamilg of Softn Sossclgn. 3 



graphies, and now more ufually Joceline), are quite one 

 of the old ariftocratic families of England, having feve- 

 ral knights in the early generations; being admitted 

 into the order of baronets, and fubfequently into the 

 peerage. . . . Their main fettlement was in Hertford- 

 shire, at or near the town of Sabridgeworth ; and ac- 

 counts of them may be read in the hiftories — of which 

 Chauncy's, Salmons, and Clutterbuck's are the chief — 

 of that county. But a fuller and better account is to 

 be found in the ' Peerage of Ireland,' by Mr. Lodge, 

 keeper of the records in the Birmingham Tower, Dub- 

 lin: 4 vols. 8vo, 1754." 1 



According to Lodge, the family begins with a Sir 

 Egidius, who paffed into England in the time of Ed- 

 ward the Confeffor, and was defcended from " Carolus 

 Magnus, King of France, with more certainty than the 

 houfes of Lorraine and Guife." Of this Sir Egidius was 

 Sir Gilbert de Jocelyn, who accompanied the Conqueror, 

 and had Gilbert — called St. Gilbert, being canonized by 

 Pope Innocent III. in 1202 — and Geoffry. To this Geof- 

 fry is traced back John Jocelyn, living in 1226; who mar- 

 ried Catherine, fecond daughter and co-heir to Sir Thomas 

 Battell, and had Thomas, who married Maud, daughter 

 and co-heirefs of Sir John Hide, of Hide Hall in Sa- 

 bridgeworth, county of Hertford, Knt., by his wife Eliza- 

 beth, daughter of John Sudeley, Baron Sudeley, in the 

 county of Gloucefter. He had Thomas Jocelyn, Efq., who 



1 Letter of Rev. J. Hunter, 12th April, 1859. 



