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" ' I must, sir, for I can get no carriage.' 



" ' By iny soul, man,' says the Major, ' you shall do 

 no such thing. Here, take my horse, and I will walk 

 home.' 



" He did so. Soon after West put the sheriff's 

 officer into his house, when he sent for West and 

 said, 



" ( I don't blame you, Mr. West, for I think you have 

 done right ! Now you will get your money. We havo 

 always been friends, and I know of no person I would 

 so soon send to as yourself to be bail for me in case I 

 was arrested ! ! ! ' ' 



To resume. It does not appear that the demand 

 for the " History of Gravesend " was sufficient to 

 have made it remunerative, although in an adver- 

 tisement of the time it is stated that nearly all the 

 copies had been sold; for speaking of himself, Pocock 

 says at a later period " he would have added another 

 volume to the ' History of Gravesend/ but not finding 

 that encouragement among his townsmen he could 

 have wished for, he dropped it." 



In the year 1800, having increasingly turned his 

 attention to antiquarian subjects connected with his 

 native county, he published his interesting account 

 of the Tufton family, Earls of Thanet, whose pedigree 

 he traced from an early period. The book itself he 

 dedicated or inscribed to his friend, R. Gough, Esq. 

 It is a small octavo of 156 pages, and bore the 

 following title-page : 



MEMORIALS 

 OF THE FAMILY OF TUFTON, EAELS OF THANET, 



deduced 

 from various sources of authentic information. 



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