_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 and others who once pretended to be honest
had kept close to their former good and honest principles."
Vincent Gookin voted for the clause in the "Petition and Advice" giving
the title of "King" to Cromwell.