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according to the Act of Parliament of 24 Aug., 1653. The date of his leaving Burnley is not known, but he was still there in August, 1666. He was afterwards Curate of Daresbury in Cheshire, where he died in 1669. John Wallwork, who suc- ceeded Henry Morris at Burnley, left Old- ham in 1667. HENRY FISHWICK. The Heights, Rochdale.

BAST ANGLIAN FAMILIES : GOSSE AND GOOSE (US. vii. 277, 378). The name of Goose is not uncommon in Norfolk, par- ticularly in Norwich, where its present representative is a well-known bookseller.

Mr. Walter Rye, in his ' Calendar of Norwich Freemen, 1317 to 1603,' includes the following :

9 and 10 Ric. II., Robert Goos.

7 Henry IV., Henry Gosse.

3 Henry V., John Goos, fuller.

6 Henry V., Richard Goos, " bocher."

8 Henry VI., John Goos, cordwainer. 33 Henry VI., Henry Gosse, barker. 15 Henry VIII., John Goos, sawyer.

2-3 Philip and Mary, John Goose, jun., worsted weaver.

In the 'Norwich Rate Book, 1633-4,' edited by Mr. Rye in 1903. are :

Ambrose Goose, overseer of Trowse parish.

John Goose, overseer of Hellesden parish.

John Gosse, of the parish of St. Michael Coslany.

In 1659 Francis Goose, gent., of Little Cressingham, was charged to supply the Commissioners for the Militia with one horse.

In 1658 John Gosse was "surveyor " for the South Ward of the borough of Ipswich.

A pedigree of the Gosse family of Suffolk will be found in the British Museum Library (Add. MS. 19,133).

R. FREEMAN BULLEN,

Bow Library, E.

THE BOOK OF LECAN (11 S. vi. 70). This book is in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin ; it runs to about 600 pages, and was written in 1416, chiefly by Gilla Isa More Mac Firbis. The contents resemble in a general way those of the Book of Ballymote.

The latter book, also in the Irish Academy, is a large folio volume of 501 pages. It was written by several scribes, about 1391, at Ballymote in Sligo, from older books, and contains a great number of pieces in prose and verse. Amongst them is a copy of the ' Book of Invasions,' i.e., a history of the conquests of Ireland by the several ancient colonists. There are genealogies of almost

all the principal Irish familes ; several his- torical and romantic tales of the early Irish kings ; a copy of the ' Dinnsenchus ' ; and a translation of the ' Argonautic Expedition,' and of the ' War of Troy.'

The Yellow Book of Lecan is in Trinity College, Dublin, and is a large quarto volume of about 500 pages. Written at Lecan, co. Sligo, in and about the year 1390, it contains a great number of pieces in prose and verse, historical, biographical, topo- graphical, &c. It was published in facsimile by the Royal Irish Academy.

WILLIAM MACARTHUR. 79, Talbot Street, Dublin.

DANCING ON " MIDSUMMER NIGHT "(US. vii. 269, 398). In 1893 I was at the Breifond Hotel, Horre, on St. John's Eve, and in the evening the peasants assembled outside the hotel balcony and danced with great energy up to 12 o'clock or later, the most energetic being a man aged 76. There were also some fireworks of an indifferent character ; and there was a bonfire in the distance. At supper we partook of the special Norwegian dish called " Roe'mme- groed," which consists of a kind of whipped cream over which grated cinnamon and white sifted sugar are sprinkled. I understood this to be a regular dish on St. John's Eve.

URLLAD.

BUTTON-MAKERS : DATES WANTED (US. vii. 369). J. M'Gowan of King Street, later of Gerrard Street, London, is found in the Directories of 1798 to 1836, not in 1849. John Hunter, later John & Mic, Hunter, of St. Martin's Lane, London, is found from 1798 to 1809; John Hunter of Maddox Street in 1836 may be the same man. Geo. Wm. Boggett, later Boggett & Reynolds, of St. Martin's Lane, London, is found in 1836 and 1849. Thomason, Collis & Co., silver-platers, 12, Bell's Build- ings, Salisbury Square, London, are in the 1836 ' Directory,' but not in 1849. James Kirkwood & Son, engravers, Cess Office Stairs, Parliament Close, Edinburgh, were trading in 1800. BROWNMOOR.

TAYLOR'S ' HOLY DYING ' : CHARLES LAMB (US. vii. 386). If MR. BAYNE would refer to ' Charles Lamb and the Lloyds,' published in 1898, he would find that the author, Mr. E. V. Lucas, had already called attention to, and corrected, Lamb's error. The date of the letter to Robert Lloyd should read 16 August not 6 August, as given by both Mr. Lucas and the late Canon Ainger. S. BUTTERWORTH.