Arms.—Sable, three greyhounds courant in pale argent, collared gules, within a border of the last.
Present Representative, John Berington, Esq.
HERTFORDSHIRE.
Knightly.
Jocelyn, of Hyde Hall, in the parish of Sabridgeworth, Earl of Roden in Ireland 1771; Irish Baron 1743; Baronet 1665.
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.