The History of the Parochial Chapelry of Goosnargh. By Henry
Fishwick, F.H. S. (Triibner.)—The county historians of the future, if the future is to have county historians, will find their task much simpli- fied. Again and again they will find in handsome, well-printed volumes what their predecessors would have had to search for in almost un- decipherable MSS. We have failed to discover anything of special moment in the history of Goosnargh, a place hitherto, we must confess, unknown to us, and of which some of our readers may require to be in- formed that it is and was a part of Kirkham in Amounderness. But whatever there is to be told of the place is to be found here, and doubtless there is a local public to whom these details will be interesting. To ourselves the most noteworthy thing in the volume is the extract which the author, a propos of Mr. Thomas Cranage, Presbyterian minister, 1646-48, gives from a document entitled "The Harmonious Consent of the Ministers of the Province, &c.," and which is interesting as giving the Puritan view of toleration. It would, they thought, be an evil "for the establishing whereof damned souls in hell would accuse men on earth." Passing to quite another region of affairs, we find it to have been the practice of otter-hunters to eat their otter.
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