deceased, are parties. I have been informed that a lengthened account of Sir Vincent Gookin is to be found in Lord Stafford's State Letters; that much information may be gathered from the Privy Council Papers _tempore_ Cromwell, which are deposited in Dublin Castle, with respect to Captain Robert Gookin; and that in the year 1620 Daniel Gookin was one of the undertakers in the county of Longford, and that his estate of five hundred acres afterwards passed to an ancestor of the late popular novelist Miss Edgeworth. J. F. F. Dublin. [Footnote 3: Amongst the Inquisitions of the county of Cork which are preserved in the Rolls Office of Chancery, there is one which relates to Vincent Gookin, and was taken at Mallow, on the 14th of August, 1638; and is probably an inquisition _post mortem_.] * * * * * "STABIT QUOCUNQUE JECERIS." (Vol. vii., p. 65.) This little Query may perhaps come under the category you mention in the address of your opening Number for the year, although it might be a sufficient reply merely to say that it was the legend round the common Manx halfpenny, encircling the three legs of man on its reverse; but when we consider these three conjoined limbs in their awkward and impossible position, the propriety of the legend may be doubted, and its presence attributable only to the numismatic necessity of accompanying the figure with its motto. The following epigram has been composed by some Manxman thoroughly convinced of the propriety of the application: "Reader! thou'st seen a falling cat, Light always on his feet so pat; A shuttlecock will still descend, Meeting the ground with nether end; The persevering Manksman thus, A shuttlecock or pauvre puss; However through the world he's tost-- However disappointed, crost-- Reverses, losses, Fortune's frown, No chance or change can keep him down. Upset him any way you will, Upon his _legs_ you'll find him still. For ever active, brisk, and spunky, _Stabit jeceris quocunque_." Where, however, we perceive in the last line the rhyme has destroyed the metre of the Latin poet, if the words be really a classical quotation, which I should wish to form into a Query for some of your readers.