Note 269 — Chapter XXXVII · PEACE, SETTLEMENT, AND TRANSPLANTATION, 1652-1654

Fleetwood to Thurloe, February 7, 1654-5, Thurloe, iii. 139. The Interest of England in the Irish Transplantation stated, &c., by a faithful servant of the Commonwealth, Richard Lawrence, London, 1655, dated March 9. The Author and Case of Transplanting, &c., vindicated against the Unjust Aspersions of Colonel Richard Lawrence, by Vincent Gookin, Esquire, London, 1655, published May 12. Petty had a hand in Gookin’s first pamphlet, see his Life, by Lord Fitzmaurice. Lawrence was a brother of the English President of Council; he came to Ireland with Cromwell and was governor of Waterford.