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JOCELYN, OF HYDE HALL, IN THE PARISH OF SABRIDGEWORTH, EARL OF RODEN
IN IRELAND 1771; IRISH BARON 1743; BARONET 1665.
[Illustration] A family of Norman origin, said to have come into
England with William the Conqueror, and to have been seated at
Sempringham, in the county of Lincoln, by the grant of that monarch.
In 1249 Thomas Jocelyn, son of John, having married Maud, daughter
and coheir of Sir John Hyde, of Hyde, brought that manor and
lordship into this family, in which it has ever since continued. The
peerage was originally conferred on Robert Jocelyn, Lord Chancellor
of Ireland in 1739, created Baron Newport 1743, whose son, the first
Earl, married the heiress of the Hamiltons, Earls of Clanbrassil, in
1752.
See "Historical Anecdotes of the Families of the Boleyns, Careys,
Mordaunts, Hamiltons, and Jocelyns, arranged as an Elucidation of
the Genealogical Chart at Tollymore Park," Newry, 1839, privately
printed. See also Archdall's Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, iii. 258,
and Chauncy's Hertfordshire, 1st ed. p. 182.
ARMS.--_Azure, a circular wreath argent and sable, with four hawk's
bells joined thereto in quadrature or_.
Present Representative, Robert Jocelyn, third Earl of Roden,
K.P.