John Joscelyn: Difference between revisions

| birth_place = probably [[High Roding]], Essex

| resting_place = All SaintSaints's Church, High Roding

Joscelyn was born in 1529, and was the son of Sir Thomas Joscelin and Dorothy {{nee|Gate}}, of Hyde Hall, [[Sawbridgeworth]]. John was their third son to survive childhood, and was probably born on his father's estate at [[High Roding|High Roding]], [[Essex]]. He matriculated as a [[Commoner (academia)|pensioner]] at [[Queens' College, Cambridge|Queens' College]] at [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]] in 1545, attaining a Bachelor of Arts in 1549.<ref name=DNB/> In the academic year 1550–1551 he taught Latin at Queens' College, and the following school year he taught Greek. At the end of 1552, he was awarded a [[MA (Cantab)|Master of Arts]]. In 1555, during Queen [[Mary I of England|Mary I]]'s reign, Joscelyn subscribed to the required church doctrine, and was once more a teacher of Greek during the academic year 1556–1557. However, in 1557 he resigned from his fellowship at Queens'.<ref name=DNB>Martin "Joscelin (Joscelyn), John" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.</ref>

Joscelyn also published an edition of [[Gildas]]' work ''[[De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae]]'' in 1568,<ref name=DNB/> for which he wrote the preface.<ref name=McK46>McKisack ''Medieval History'' p. 46</ref> He also wrote a history of [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge|Corpus Christi College]] at''Historiola CambridgeCollegii Corporis Christi'' that remained unpublished until 1880, 200&nbsp;years after his death. He contributed extensively to Parker's ''[[A Testimonie of Antiquitie Shewing the Auncient Fayth in the Church of England]]'', the earliest printed book containing portions in Old English.<ref name=DNB/> Joscelyn also contributed a large part of Parker's ''De Antiquitate Britannicae'', published in 1572.<ref name=Graham422/>

Parker died on 28 December 1603, probably at High Roding, and was buried in All SaintSaints's Church in High Roding where the inscription of his memorial brass survives.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1141272|desc=Parish Church of All Saints, High Roothing|grade=II*}}</ref> He never married.<ref name=DNB/>

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* {{cite encyclopedia |author=Martin, G. H. |title= Joscelin (Joscelyn), John (1529–1603) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15130 |format ={{ODNBsub}} |encyclopedia =Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdatedoi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/15130 |access-date=1 February 2010}} {{ODNBsub}}

* {{cite book |author=McKisack, May |authorlinkauthor-link= May McKisack |title=Medieval History in the Tudor Age |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford, UK |year=1971 |oclc= 142899 }}

* {{cite book|author1=Graham, Timothy |author2=Andrew G. Watson |lastauthorampname-list-style=yesamp |year=1998 |title=The Recovery of the Past in Early Elizabethan England: Documents by John Bale and John Joscelyn from the Circle of Matthew Parker |series=Cambridge Bibliographical Society Monograph 13 |location=Cambridge, UK|publisher= Cambridge Bibliographical Society |isbn= 9780902205567}}

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