Fogagcs of 3ofm Sosscljm. 
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was made in 1663. He arrived at Nantasket the 27th of 
July, and foon proceeded to his brother's plantation, where 
he tells us he ftaid eight years, and got together the matter 
of the book before us. This was firft printed in 1672, but 
occurs alfo with later dates. It was followed, in 1674, by 
"An Account of Two Voyages to New England; wherein 
you have the Setting-out of a fhip, with the Charges; the 
joining in their evangelical faith. Yet there is hardly more than one place in 
either of his books (Voyages, pp. 180-2) where this is offensively brought forward. 
It is worthy of remark, however, that Josselyn's family, in England, was attached 
rather to the Puritan side. " His family connections," says Mr. Hunter, in the 
letter already referred to, " appear to have been adherents to the cause of the 
Parliament; particularly the Harlakendens, in whose regiment a Jocelyn, named 
Ralph, was a chaplain." Nor is this all. " In the year 1663," continues the 
learned authority just cited, " there was a slight insurrectionary movement in 
the North ; which was easily put down by the government, and the leaders exe- 
cuted. In a manuscript list of persons who were either openly engaged, or who 
were vehemently suspected of being favorers of the design, I find in the latter 
class the name of Capt. John Jossline." This plot was not discovered till January, 
1664; and our John Josselyn "departed from London," as he says at page one of 
this volume, " upon an invitation of my only brother," the 28th of May of the 
year previous. But, if it be possible that our author was the person intended in 
the manuscript list as one strongly suspected of being engaged in a design against 
the Royal Government, the evident uncertainty of this is too great to permit us 
to discredit his own exposure of his political leanings, — as in the Voyages, p. 
197, where, speaking of Sir F. Gorges, he says, " And, when he was between 
three and fourscore years of age, did personally engage in our royal martyr's 
service, and particularly in the siege of Bristow; and was plundered and im- 
prisoned several times, by reason whereof he was discountenanced by the pre- 
tended Commissioners for Forraign Plantations," and so forth, — or in the face 
of another passage to be quoted further on, in which he acknowledges " the 
bounty of his royal sovereigness," to question the sincerity — which there is 
nothing in either of his books to throw doubt upon — of his general adhesion to 
the Royalist side. "The family in Hertfordshire," says Mr. Hunter, "were non- 
conformists; but the spirit of nonconformity seems to have spent itself at the 
death of Sir Strange Jocelyn, the second baronet, who died in 1734. But we may 
trace the Puritan influence in the present Earl of Roden, who is a conspicuous 
member of the religious body in England called the Evangelical." — Ms. tit sup. 
