128 ROBERT POCOCK. 



robbing Mr. Styles, and on suspicion of robbing Mr. 

 Sothers. Two years ago this day I went to North- 

 fleet Church, and heard the Rev. Mr. Whittaker preach 

 his first sermon. 



" Monday, 8th. Some suspicious men taken up with 

 a cart, having in it saddles and bridles, &c. In the after- 

 noon Mr. Turner and Mr. Kemp, I believe is his name, 

 and brother-in-law called, and bought some spiders, 

 haliotes, &c. Frances gets a new situation and goes. 



f< Monday ,15th. Mr. Peen walked to Boxley in search 

 of plants, and found growing in Boxley Street the 

 golden saxifrage, a scarce plant, noticed by Mr. Jacobs 

 as only growing in Judd's Wood, near Ospringe : it is 

 the Chrysoplenium oppositifolium of Withering, and has 

 bristles on the leaves, which circumstance authors have 

 omitted, and by its taste and brittleness appears good 

 as a salad. Evening, rain. 



" Tuesday, 1.6th . Received a letter from Cambridge 

 to send Mr. Lakes, a student at Clare Hall, four or 

 five butter flies by name, they being not about Cambridge, 

 and to make him up a dozen of scarce sorts, as he is 

 making a calendar of the lepidoptera, and wishes for 

 Papilio comma, Papilio polychloros, Phalena hexa- 

 dactyla, Phalena caja (great tiger moth), Phalena 

 fagi, &c. Two young men taken up on suspicion of 

 being thieves, and discharged. 



" Wednesday, 1 7th. A young man named Marchant, 

 about twenty-four or twenty- five, going out in the 

 Defiance, Captain Barker, promises to collect. 



" Tuesday, 23rd Officers demanded lamp and pave- 

 ment tax due. 71st Regiment, with a very fine band of 

 music pass through for Liverpool. Old Mrs. Beale buried. 



" Wednesday, 24th. The 3rd Regiment of Guards 

 marched up the road, and in the afternoon the Regi- 



