An Address from the Gentry of Norfolk and Norwich to
General Houck in 1660. (Norwich Jerrold. 10s. net,)—At the sale of the Townehend heirlooms the Corporation Of Norwich purchased a manuscript described in the catalogue as an address, "apparently to Oliver Cromwell." Further investigation identified it with an address to General Mooch, printed as a broadsheet in 1660. It congratulates him on the fact "that the late differences in the Armyes are now so happily composed without bloodshed," and encloses a copy of a paper of grievances sent to Speaker Lentliall. This address, with its more than eight hundred signatures, lots been pub- lished in facsimile, together with a transcription. Mr. Hanlon Le Strange contributes an historical introduction, and Mr. Waller Rye has compiled a small biographical dictionary, with two hundred entries, of the principal names. The book is illustrated with portraits, and makes a valuable contribution to the history of East Anglia.
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