According to Jocelin of Brakelond, in 1198 during a fire at the abbey of St Edmundsbury ( now Bury St Edmunds ), the monks ' ran to the clock ' to fetch water, indicating that their water clock had a reservoir large enough to help extinguish the occasional fire.

Both sides appealed to Rome, and Richard journeyed to Rome with Reginald fitz Jocelin, who had recently been elected Bishop of Bath, to rebut the charges of simony, illegitimate birth, and swearing an oath to the king that had been raised.

Jocelin had been prepared to lose his friendship with Anselm as part of the cost of the spire, but we learn by the end of the novel that they appeared not to have a friendship in the first place.

They had a child, Ermengarde of Nevers, who married Miles, Sire of Courtenay, son of Jocelin de Courtenay and Isabel, daughter of Guy I of Montlhéry.

Later, in the eleventh century, the Byzantine emperor gave them to the French Count Jocelin.

The cathedral is also the subject of William Golding's novel The Spire which deals with the fictional Dean Jocelin who makes the building of the spire his life's work.

The area was once part of the historic parish of Cadder-originally lands granted by King William the Lion to the Bishop of Glasgow, Jocelin, in 1180.

Roger becomes a drunkard and Jocelin dies of his illness after receiving the humiliating information from his aunt that his appointment was due only to her influence, not to his merits.

Until the end of the novel, when Father Adam becomes Jocelin's carer, he is largely a minor character who is surprised by how Jocelin was never taught to pray, doing his best to help him to heaven.

Gilbert was born at Sempringham, near Bourne in Lincolnshire, the son of Jocelin, an Anglo-Norman lord of the manor, who bucked the usual trend of the day and actively prevented his son from becoming a knight, instead sending him to the University of Paris to study theology.

The first Douglas on record in Scotland is William I, Lord of Douglas ( c. 1174-1214 ), where he was witness to a charter of bishop Jocelin of Glasgow in 1198, where he signed " Will.

Somewhere between 1175 and 1178 this position was strengthened even further when Bishop Jocelin obtained for the episcopal settlement the status of burgh from King William the Lion, allowing the settlement to expand with the benefits of trading monopolies and other legal guarantees.

The monks of Glastonbury, however, rejected Savaric's authority and the title Diocese of Bath and Glastonbury was therefore used for all practical purposes until his successor, Jocelin of Wells, a native of Wells itself, renounced the claim to Glastonbury in 1219.

There are not wanting writers who, on the authority of Jocelin of Soissons, William of Malmesbury, " Gesta Pontificum " and others, are of opinion that the canonical order was established in Britain by St. Patrick, on his return from Rome to Ireland.

* November 27 – Reginald fitz Jocelin is elected Archbishop of Canterbury.

* Hugh of Wells – native of Wells, Bishop, elder brother of Jocelin of Wells.

* Jocelin of Wells – native of Wells, Bishop, aided in creation of Magna Carta and largely responsible for the construction of the cathedral.

Monks of the priory have included Æthelric I, Æthelric II, Walter d ' Eynsham, Reginald fitz Jocelin ( admitted as a confrater shortly before his death ), Nigel de Longchamps and Ernulf.

" Furthermore, Jocelin, the Dean who wanted a spire on his cathedral in William Golding's " The Spire " probably suffered and died as a result of this disease.

In 1223, with the fall from power of Peter des Roches bishop of Winchester, Ranulph earl of Chester, and Falkes de Breauté, Richard helped Hubert de Burgh take over the government, along with Stephen Langton and Jocelin of Wells bishop of Bath and Wells.

These were: Hugh Tyrell, Baron of Castleknock ; Jocelin de Nangle, Baron of Navan and Ardbrecan ; De Misset, Baron of Lune ; Phepoe Feypou, Baron of Skrine ; Fitz-Thomas, Baron of Kells ; Hussey, Baron of Galtrim ; Richard de Fleming, Baron of Slane ; Adam Dullard or Dollard, of Dullenvarty ; Gilbert de Nugent, Baron of Devlin and later Earl of Westmeath ; Richard Tuite, Baron of Moyashell ; Robert de Lacy ’ s descendants, Barons of Rathwire ; De Constantine, Baron of Kilbixey Petit, Baron of Mullingar ; Meyler FitzHenry of Maghernan, Rathkenin, and Ardnocker.

Variants include Jocilyn, Joscelyn, Joscelin, Josceline, Jocelin, Jocelyne, Jocelynne, Jocelynn, Joslin, Joslyn, Joclyn, Joselyn, Joselyne and Josslyn ; people that have this name may find it is often misspelled by others.

* Jocelin ( d. 1199 ), abbot of Melrose, and Bishop of Glasgow

* Jocelin of Soissons ( d. 1152 )

* Jocelin de Dijon ( fl.

The first Keith on record as Marischal of Scotland is Hervey de Keith ( d. c. 1196 ) described as Marscallus Regis Scotie in correspondence between the monks of Kelso Abbey and Jocelin, the Bishop of Glasgow.

Henry is mentioned in several chronicles, including the Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond.

Jocelin details Henry's trial by battle with Robert de Montfort on Fry's Island in the River Thames at Reading.

The Seal ( device ) | seal or signet ring | signet of Jocelin ( Bishop of Glasgow ) | Jocelin, a Cistercian monk and former Abbot of Melrose, who became one of the most significant bishops of Glasgow.

Although both Longchamp and Coutances were considered as possible candidates and rivals for the see, the cathedral chapter of Canterbury elected the Bishop of Bath, Reginald fitz Jocelin in November 1191.

He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.

It was the night Clayton had tricked them in the poker game.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

He had ordered the ponies brought inside the fortified circle and had assigned Pierre and a band of picked engages the job of trying to keep them steady under fire.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

It had drawn them together, and since his release from prison Dill had worked tirelessly to effect this night's escape.

How could he exert authority over them -- make them toe the line, as he had to -- if he knuckled under to this small-town clown??

But they deliberately avoided the one subject that had them all curious: the failure of the boss's wife and son to join the outfit.

Those who had slickers donned them.

For, with a single exception, nothing had happened to them.

He had received both first and second anonymous notices, and each time he had accused his neighbors of writing them.

He had cursed at them and threatened them.

He stepped inside Jess's guard and landed two blows to the big man's belly, putting everything he had behind them.

Much as they had to look forward to, they didn't begrudge a moment of the time they spent seeing them go.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

Neither of them, I understood, had been present at the filming session earlier.

I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;

The bars were marked as Walter had marked them in a small black book kept in a nearly secret drawer.

He had picked out this pathless trail, instead of the common one, in a moment of romantic fancy, to give them privacy on their honeymoon.