Ralph Josselin

This article is about the vicar of Earls Colne. For the mayor of London, see Ralph Josselyn.

Ralph Josselin (26 January 1616[1] – August 1683)[a] was the vicar of Earls Colne in Essex from 1640 until his death in 1683. His diary records intimate details of everyday farming life, family and kinship in a small, isolated rural community, and is often studied by researchers interested in the period, alongside other similar diaries like that of Samuel Pepys.[2]

  1. ^ Hockcliffe, E., ed. (1908). The diary of the Rev. Ralph Josselin. Great Britain: Royal Historical Society. p. 6.
  2. ^ Naomi Tadmor (1 November 2001). Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage. Cambridge University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-139-42989-4.


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