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 c. viii., and printed by Pinkerton in his ‘Vitæ Antiquæ Sanctorum,’ 1799. 4. ‘A Latin Narrative of the Life and Miracles of Saint Patrick,’ in 196 chapters, prepared under the patronage of Thomas, archbishop of Armagh, Malachy, bishop of Down, and De Curci. This was first printed by Thomas Messingham at Paris in 1624, in his ‘Florilegium Insulæ Sanctorum,’ and again by John Colgan in his ‘Triadis Thaumaturgæ Acta,’ Louvain, 1647, also in the ‘Acta Sanctorum’ of the Bollandists, 17 March. An English version by E. L. Swift was published at Dublin in 1809. A page from a decorated manuscript of Jocelin's work, now in the Bodleian Library, was reproduced in ‘Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Ireland,’ edited by the present writer. 5. Some extracts made in 1377 from ‘A Life of St. Helen,’ attributed to Jocelin, are appended to the manuscript of the ‘Historia Aurea’ of John Tinmouth [q. v.] in the Bodleian Library. 6. Stow, in his ‘Survey of London,’ mentions a work by Jocelin entitled ‘De Britonum Episcopis,’ which is not otherwise known.

 JOCELIN or JOSCELINE (d. 1242), bishop of Bath and Wells, was born and educated at Wells. The ‘Margam Annals’ (Annales Monastici, i. 28) call him Jocelinus Troteman, but he is more usually, like his brother Hugh, bishop of Lincoln [q. v.], distinguished by the name of his birthplace. He probably held some office in the camera regis, or exchequer. In 5 John, 1203–4, he was one of the custodes of the bishopric of Lincoln during a vacancy (, Rot. de Liberate, p. 97). He also attests a number of charters between February and September 1205. For this reason Sir T. Hardy and Lord Campbell have described Josceline as vice-chancellor or keeper of the seal, but it is more probable that he merely acted as the official subordinate of the chancellor, Hubert Walter (, Judges of England, ii. 9–13). From 1203 to 1205 Josceline was one of the justiciars before whom fines were levied at Westminster, and also in the country when the king was present. In 1203–4 he received the benefices of Lugwardine and ‘Urchenefeld’ in Herefordshire (Cal. Rot. Chart. p. 17 a), and he was also a canon of Wells. On 3 Feb. 1205–6 he was elected bishop of Bath and Glastonbury, the canons of Wells, however, concurring in the election (, Fasti, i. 130; MSS. of Wells Cath. p. 58). The temporalities were restored on 3 May, and on the 28th (Trinity Sunday) he was consecrated at Reading by William, bishop of London (Ann. Mon. ii. 257). He was one of the five bishops who left England in consequence of the interdict in 1208 (, ii. 522–3), and was one of those who in the following year met Geoffrey FitzPeter at Dover to negotiate for peace (, ii. 103–4; cf. Rot. de Liberate, p. 123). Josceline came back with the other bishops in May 1213, and received 750l. in recompense for his losses (, ii. 541, 543). From this time he sided with the king, and was one of the councillors named in the preamble of the Great Charter. He also took part in the agreement for freedom of election in churches (ib. ii. 589–90, 608). Josceline was one of the bishops who crowned Henry III at Gloucester on 28 Oct. 1216, and was present at the battle with Eustace the Monk next year (ib. iii. 1–2, 28–9). In 1218 he was one of the justices itinerant for the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Dorset; and a letter in which he and his colleagues ask for advice about a case in which the queen was concerned has been preserved (, Royal and Hist. Letters, i. 10, 11). In the same year, on 17 May, the long dispute with the abbey of Glastonbury was settled; the bishop surrendered his claims in return for certain manors, and the see was known henceforward as Bath and Wells (Anglia Sacra, i. 563, 582–3). The bishop's name frequently occurs during the next few years as witness to official letters, which shows that he kept up his connection with the court and the administration of the country (e.g., u.s. i. 302, 409). When the great change took place in the custody of the counties and royal castles in the winter of 1223–4, Josceline was one of the witnesses to the orders on 30 Dec., and was himself entrusted with the castles of Bristol and Sherborne, and with the county of Somerset (ib. i. 509–11). In 1224 he took part with Langton and the other bishops in their action against Falkes de Breauté. He is said to have expressed his opinion that the defenders of Bedford Castle deserved to be hanged, and to have censured Falkes for his appeal to the pope (ib. i. 236, 240, 254;, ii. 267–8, 270). In October 1224 Josceline sat at Worcester to decide a dispute between the bishop and convent as to the election of the prior (Anglia Sacra, i. 543; Ann. Mon. iv. 417). In September 1232 he settled a dispute between the abbey of Tewkesbury and the Bishop of Worcester (ib. i. 87, 89). In 1234 he deprived Abbot Robert 