Vincent Gookin

(Vol. i., pp. 385. 473. 492.; Vol. ii. p. 44.) is described in a *Narrative of the late Parliament* (Cromwell's Parliament, d. 1656), in the *Harleian Miscellany*, as "One of the letters of land in Ireland, receiving three hundred pounds per annum." He and three other Irish members, Colonel Jephson, Ralph King, and Bice, are classed together in this tract, which is hostile to Cromwell, as "Persons not thought meet to be in command, though they much desire it, and are of such poor principles and so unfit to make rulers of as they would not have been set with the dogs of the flock, if the army a…