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Uojjages of Soijn 3osselgn. 
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 1 77 1 , Earl of Roden, of High Roding, County 
of Tipperary; and was anceftor to the prefent Lord 
Roden. 1 
Our author, John JoiTelyn, made his firft 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 refpe<5ts 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 Maffachufetts 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 Maffachufetts. 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 
