i8o ROBERT POCOCK. 



type to Caslons, of Chiswell Street ; but did not like 

 their price or behaviour. Found all the founders in one 

 mind, as if in combination. Mr. Figgins said printing 

 was only six months old ! Bought the ' History of 

 Rochester/ and some other books. Came home. 



"Friday, 18th. Miss Brenchley married last Monday 

 or Tuesday to Dr Day of Maidstone. 



" Saturday, 19th. Season very backward. Mr. 

 Brown called and paid 10s., being the balance for his 

 cards. 



" Sunday, 20th. The 5Z. lottery club which I be- 

 long to, by my number eleven, viz., the eleventh week 

 from the beginning, is to be found by my day-book 

 when I am to receive it from Mrs. Jones. 



" Wednesday, 23rd. Walked to the boundary-stone 

 in Shinglewell Lane, marked MP, for Milton Parish 

 (although placed on the Gravesend side, viz., west side 

 of the road) ; and there I planted (about nine feet from 

 the said post marked MP), on the west side of the 

 hedge, a lizard orchis to remain as a breeder, which 

 root I had brought from near Roe Hill in Wilming- 

 ton. Those roots are very scarce, and I want to pro- 

 pagate them. 



" Thursday, 24th. Matthew Buckinger (grandson of 

 Matthew Buckiuger born without hands or feet), having 

 been to Mr. Southgate, the attorney, to relate his claim 

 to two estates, one the house wherein Pierce, the copper- 

 smith at Dartford, lives, and the other the Arnolds' 

 estate at Gravesend, returned back to Dartford. 



" Friday, 25th. Heard it was the Hebe, brig, bound 

 to Antwerp with shot and shell, which had foundered 

 off Margate, about November last, with Bentley, the 

 pilot, on board. 



