" Vincent Gookin's pamphlet is dated London, 1655, 4to. Any
particulars relative to _his_ family and descendants will oblige.
The title of Col. R. Laurence's book is,--
"The interest of Ireland in the first Transplantation stated;
wherein it set forth the benefit of the Irish Transplantation:
intended as an Answer to the scandalous seditious Pamphlet,
entitled 'The Great Case of Transplantation Discussed.'
London, 1655."
The author of the pamphlet was Vincent Gookin, Esq., Surveyor-General
of Ireland. He did _not_, at first, put his name to it; but when
Laurence's answer appeared, he then owned himself as the author of it,
and published a pamphlet under this title:--
"The Author and Case of Transplanting the Irish into Connaught
Vindicated from the unjust Aspersion of Colonel Richard
Laurence and Vincent Gookin, Esq. London, 1655."
_Portrait of Sir John Poley._--Perhaps some of your numerous
correspondents can answer whether the portrait of Sir John Poley in
Bexstead Hall, alluded to No. 14. p. 214., has been engraved.
J.
February 5.
"_Tace is Latin for a candle._"--Whence is this expression derived,
and what is its meaning? I met with it, many years ago, in a
story-book, and, more lately, in one of the Waverley Novels, in which
particular one I do not just now recollect.
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