Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various
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of the Augustan age, where the law of _apposition_ appears to be so
far violated? A.W. _Pamphlets respecting Ireland._--"J." wishes to be informed where copies may be found of the following pamphlets, described in Ware's _Irish Writers_, under the head "Colonel Richard Laurence," and "Vincent Gookin, Esq.," son of Sir Vincent Gookin, who, in the year 1634, published "a bitter invective, by way of letter, against the nation." 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." |
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