ROBERT POCOCK. 1 1 



executed, but the means of publication, the expenses of 

 printing and paper, remained insoluble obstacles. 



Adverting to the refusal of the corporation to afford 

 him access to its archives for the purposes of his His- 

 tory ; it seems clear that he possessed a friend in the 

 then mayor, or had acquired other partisans in that 

 body, since in his " History of Gravesend and Milton/' 

 printed by himself and published in 1797, he gave in 

 extenso, at page 183, the town charter of the 7th 

 Charles I. (A.D. 1632). 



This public invasion, however, of the privileges of the 

 close incorporation (as then understood), was most 

 distasteful to the majority of its members, and it was 

 resolved by way of punishment that Pocock should 

 lose their corporate support in regard to the public 

 printing. This he felt very acutely, and the timely 

 establishment of a second printing-press in the town 

 enabled the infliction to be carried out with all the 

 greater promptitude and exactitude. The following 

 is the title-page of his " History of Gravesend/' upon 

 256 pages, small quarto : 



THE HISTORY 



of the 

 INCORPORATED TOWN AND PARISHES 



of 

 GRAVESEND AND MILTON, 



In the County of Kent. 



Selected with accuracy from Topographical Writers. 

 And enriched from Manuscripts hitherto unnoticed, 



Recording 

 Every event that has occurred in the aforesaid Town and Parishes 



from the 



Norman Conquest to the present Time. 



Learn the Laws by which you are Governed. 



Gravesend : Printed by R. Pocock. 



1797. 



