22 ROBERT POCOCK. 



illustrate with as much accuracy as he could the career 

 of this family. 



" He has particularly aimed at impartiality (steering 

 clear of the extremes of political phrensy), and has con- 

 cluded at a period most consistent with the respect due 

 to living characters." 



A person perusing the above work might recognize 

 in one of the epitaphs the idea which Pocock adopted 

 in that which he wrote to his mother's memory. 



It is the monumental inscription of Thomas, Earl of 

 Thanet, who died in 1729, eighty-five years old, and 

 who lies buried with his ancestors at Rainham Church, 

 adjoining Chatham, in Kent, anc after stating his 

 birth, &c., it records his marriage with Catherine, 

 daughter of the Duke of Newcastle, and proceeds 

 (speaking of the deceased) thus, 



" Who believed that no woman on earth would have 

 made him so happy as she did." 



This is a tribute to the Countess all the stronger as she 

 died in April, 1712, some seventeen years before her 

 husband, and by consequence at least that distance of 

 time remote from his kind and faithful record of the 

 conjugal happiness which she had brought him. 



Pocock, in penning his mother's epitaph, writes as 

 follows : 



The 



Prudent Conduct, 

 Constant Care, Frugality, 



and 

 Good Housekeeping 



of 



MARTHA POCOCK 

 enabled 



