jfamtls of Jofjtt Josselgn. 
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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 fettle ment was in Hertford- 
mire, at or near the town of Sabridgeworth ; and ac- 
counts of them may be read in the hiftories — of which 
Chauncy's, Salmon's, 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 palled 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 Gloucefler. He had Thomas Jocelyn, Efq., who 
Letter of Rev. J. Hunter, 12th April, 1859. 
