ROBERT POCOCK. 1 7 7 



"Tuesday, April 1st. Busy in " composing " Mr. 

 Penman's card for his fishmonger's shop near 

 the market ; and also Mr. Grafter's card for his new 

 cookshop near the Fountain. 



" Wednesday, 2nd. Went to Wilmington, and got 

 five or six roots of the lizard orchis, all of which 

 must have grown in the two last years, as when I was 

 there in 1821, in March, only one root was left. (Mem. 

 I killed a viper there ; which I have done every time I 

 have been there; although to-day it was so cold.) Came 

 home in a caravan with a young man, about twenty- 

 seven or twenty-eight, of the name of Hunt, of Borden, 

 a farmer. 



"Thursday, 3rd. In my walkyesterday I saw in bloom 

 besides primroses, violets (white and blue), veronica 

 ivy-leaf, alder, hazel, and a garden flower in full 

 blooni (white), I believe an arabis; but the season on 

 the whole is very backward, there being no black- 

 thorn in bloom. The common willow was in bloom, 

 but not the elm. 



" Friday, 4th. Read the ' History of Glasgow/ an 

 octavo, and found in it that St. Mungo and St. 

 Kentigern were one and the same person ! I found 

 also that Oliver Cromwell, and several other gentlemen 

 therein named, readily signed their names towards 

 the relief of the inhabitants of Glasgow, who had 

 suffered much by a dreadful fire which happened 

 there a short time before, viz., on June 17, 1652. 

 This document, as it appears in the appendix, p. 317, 

 of the ' History of Glasgow/ proves that Oliver Crom- 

 well was possessed of some charity and well disposed. 

 And I have somewhere else read that when the 

 Bible (I believe the polyglot) was printed, the paper 



