The Mother's Legacy to her unborn Child, by Elizabeth Joceline. This is the title to a thin octave volume printed at "Oxford at the Theater for the satisfaction of the person of quality herein concerned, 1684." This, the first edition, is of rare occurrence; that in the British Museum being a dirty duodecimo chap book. "The Approbation" of the volume bears the signature of "Thos. Goad." It is addressed as a legacy "to her truly and most dearly-loved husband, Tourell Joceline." The letter to her husband, and The Mother's Legacy, are two of as beautiful, pious, and feeling compositions, as were ever penned by woman. The latter is so full of religious instruction and exhortation to faith in the mercies of a Redeemer, under the apprehension that she might not survive the birth of a child, that it is surprising this valuable little tract has not become a standard book for distribution by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
My reason for bringing it under the notice of the correspondents of "NOTES AND QUERIES" is my strong desire to learn of what family was Tourell Joceline, the husband of this most excellent lady. Of that of the lady herself, I gather the following particulars from Mr. Goad's Approbation of the volume.
Elizabeth Joceline was the wife of Tourell Joceline, granddaughter of Doctor Chaderton, sometime Master of Queen's College, Cambridge, and Professor of Divinity in that university; afterwards Bishop, first of Chester, and then of Lincoln; by whom she was, from her tender years, carefully nurtured. Her father was Sir Richard Brooke; her mother the daughter of Dr. Chaderton. She was born in 1595, and died in childbed in 1622, six years after her marriage, as she seems to have anticipated; and hence her previous writing of the Legacy. The child, a daughter, survived the mother.
I ought to add, that I parted with the first edition of The Mother's Legacy to the Rev. C. H. Craufurd, Rector of Old Swinford, Worcestershire, in exchange for a volume of his sermons, 1840; at the end of which he had printed the entire of The Mother's Legacy, which is well worthy to be printed separately.
J. M. G.
Worcester.
Minor Queries.
261. Early Muster Rolls.
—Are the muster rolls of the army that landed with King William at Torbay, or of the army that served in Ireland in 1690 and 1691, now to be met with, and if so, where? Any information on this subject will oblige
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