ROBERT POCOCK. 115 



In the following year, 1818, Pocock lost his second 

 wife, Frances, who died in the month of July at his 

 shop in the High Street, and was buried at Gravesend 

 (the place of interment of his first wife Ann) on the 

 23rd of that month, at the age of fifty-three years. 



Becoming thus a second time a widower, he never 

 accomplished a return to the " holy estate :" probably 

 the absence of his frugal helpmate had its baneful 

 effect upon his steadily declining pecuniary fortunes. 



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