122 ROBERT POCOCK. 



making extracts from the ' Keg. Kofi? of the Manning 

 family. 



" Friday, 1 5th. Fine, sunny. Mr. Bullock sailed 

 for Lapland, and Mrs. Manning for the West Indies. 



et Sunday, I7th. Rather dull. Frances Pocock 

 walked to Ash and back, nine miles. A woman and 

 child drowned last night by one of the Gravesend 

 boats running over the sculler, said to be Pullibank's 

 boat as master. 



"Monday, 18th. Sunny. Eecollect Mr. Manning, 

 jun., greatly recommended Hudson's Bay minions 

 at five shillings per hundred, as the best for writing, 

 to be had of the law stationers. Heard that young 

 Ridley, one of our fishermen, went out in the Hecla, 

 bound to Baffin's Bay on discoveries. I am to look 

 out for this ship or its companion, as Mr. Fisher, the 

 surgeon, and author of the former voyage, promised 

 me gifts. 



" Friday, 22nd. Lady Darnley visits the charity 

 children of Gravesend. 



" Saturday, 23rd. Fine day. Mrs. W. (late Miss 

 Mary Gladdish of Chalk), wife of Mr. W., came 

 through the town in grand procession in a hearse and 

 two mourning coaches, &c., to Chalk Church to be 

 buried (where her father, Mr. Townsend Gladdish lies). 

 This was the most decent funeral I have seen some time 

 past, or recollect, at Gravesend ; but it was not by a 

 Gravesend undertaker. The Thames, East Indiaman, 

 lately wrecked on the Sussex coast, arrived in the 

 Reach towed by two steam vessels. 



" Monday, 25th. National School children treated 

 with dinner. 



" Thursday, 28th. Fine, sunny. Walked to North- 

 fleet to John Theobald's, who made his will (by Mr. 



