1529 - 1603
John Joscelyn British Historian
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Details
| First Name |
John
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| Last Name |
Joscelyn
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1528
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| Birthplace |
probably High Roding, Essex
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| Died |
28th December, 1603
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| Place of Death |
probably High Roding, Essex
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| Buried |
All Saint's Church, High Roding
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation Text |
Clergyman, secretary
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| Occupation |
Historian
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| Music Genre (Text) |
historian, antiquarian
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John Joscelyn, also John Jocelyn or John Joscelin, (1529–1603) was an English clergyman and antiquarian as well as secretary to Matthew Parker, an Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Joscelyn was involved in Parker's attempts to secure and publish medieval manuscripts on church history, and was one of the first scholars of the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) language. He also studied the early law codes of England. His Old English dictionary, although not published during his lifetime, contributed greatly to the study of that language. Many of his manuscripts and papers eventually became part of the collections of Cambridge University, Oxford University, or the British Library.
