30 ROBERT POCOCK. 



" The ebb is done ; list how yon bell's loud charms 

 The ears of anxious passengers alarms. 

 Now busy boatmen run from side to side, 

 ' Sir, Madam, Miss, do you go up this tide ? ' 

 ' Here, Serjeant, Master, let us put you off; 

 We're the first boat (at this the others laugh) ; 

 We start directly, Sir, we never wait ; 

 In three hours hence you'll be at Billingsgate.' " 



In the same connexion occurs on a fly-leaf of a 

 MS. in the Bodleian Library, entitled " The Pricke of 

 Conscience/' the following curious reference to what 

 must have been a well-known and most popular modo 

 of travelling to London from Kent : 



" The Grave Counsell of Gravesend Barge 

 Gevethe John Daye a privylege large 

 To put this in prynt for his gaynes, 

 Because in the Legend of lyes he takethe paynes, 

 Commandinge other upon payn of slavery 

 That none prynt this but John Daye the prynter of Foxe his 

 Knavery." 



This was probably the same John Daye as the 

 printer of that name of Foxe's Martyrs, and of the 

 seven satires upon the doctrine of the Eeal Presence in 

 the reign of Henry VIII. (for which at the time he 

 got into great trouble), such as his dialogue between 

 John Bon and Master Parson. 



In the same year (1802) as the above guide-books, 

 Pocock wrote and published his 



SEA CAPTAIN'S ASSISTANT ; 



Or, FresJi Intelligence for Salt- water Sailors ; giving an account of 



Merchandise exported from or imported into Great Britain ; with 



the names and residences of the principal Brokers, Consuls, and 



Agents ; the Monies and Ministers in Foreign Ports. 



