1 74 ROBERT POCOCK. 



I think, must be a German or Danish quaker, and 

 dumb, as he never spoke a word, sat with his hat on, 

 and spat on the carpet ! 



" Saturday, 8th. Paid T. Harris my rent to Christ- 

 mas last, when he talked about taking away the large 

 composing-room. Bought new gridiron of a poor man 

 for Is. 2d., from Deptford. 



" Composed a bill, to print 500 copies, that a 

 sermon will be preached in the Parish Church of 

 Gravesend, on Sunday, March 16th, 1823, in aid of 

 the funds of the Incorporated Society for the Propa- 

 gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, by the Rev. 

 Samuel Watson, D.D., Rector. Prayers will begin at 

 eleven o'clock. Yesterday, came into the shop a 

 woman who lives at the Dover Castle, about three 

 miles from Gravesend, who said her mother was alive at 

 Ash, and 108 years old ! having been born in 1713 

 at Bexley parish, and for some time worked for Lady 

 Fermanagh at May Place, near Crayford ; that she had 

 been married three times, and that her maiden name 

 was West, and she would die a West (her first hus- 

 band was Vaughan, second Woodman, and third West); 

 that her appetite at present was very good, and she 

 could walk well (which I know she did, two or three 

 years ago, coming from the Dover Castle to Graves- 

 end) ; but now her eyes begin to fail, and she is 

 getting blind, but she did not want for plenty of 

 victuals, as Mr. James Wade, of Ash (well known 

 for his repeated charity to the Gravesend poor people, 

 where he was born), assisted her. 



" Printed off the 500 bills announcing Dr. Watson's 

 sermon for next Sunday, as said yesterday. Heard 

 Mrs. Evans was dead. She was the mother of the 

 town clerk, and her maiden name was Mills. 



