n)2 ROBERT POCOCK. 



vived, and which, have been here with difficulty 

 gathered, it was on the whole the more faithful work 

 to set them forth and to let the reader judge of the 

 man at first hand, rather than for the author to have 

 compiled a diagnosis of his own, and to have withheld, 

 as would then be excusable and even necessary, a great 

 part of the data upon which his appreciation or depre- 

 ciation had been based. 



" Sunday, June 1st. Wrote a letter to Mr. Spencer, 

 junior, Chatham, that the Manor of Hertingfordbury, in 

 Hertfordshire, in 1700 was in the possession of Selby, 

 Esq., of the Inner Temple, to whom he pretends to be 

 the right heir. 



" Monday, 2nd. Wrote a letter to Mr. Thatcher, No. 

 51, Newman Street, London, saying I could supply him 

 with shells and curiosities. Also to Mr. Miller, near 

 the river, Bristol, saying I could send him 100 speci- 

 mens in chalk for a guinea I mean a pound note. 

 Sent a love-letter to Mrs. S., at Mrs. D., wishing 

 for an interview. Mr. Aldersley, with a (rent well 

 versed in reading, called and read MS. of Cobham 

 Hall. 



" Tuesday, 3rd. Bought a palate of a fish in chalk, 

 single, but to be perfect they ought to be conjoined, 

 and a series of them. 



" Saturday, 7th. Settled with a poor, honest woman 

 of Northfleet by giving her a shilling. 



" Sunday, 8th. Mr. Peen returned from a journey to 

 the Isle of Oxney, having found some scarce plants. 

 Drunken Millingham from Greenwich (called Tipsy 

 Austen) and his iriend refused seeing my curiosities. 



" Wednesday, llth. Mr. Hally, nurseryman, Black- 



