200 ROBERT POCOCK. 



" Saturday, 2nd. Charles Pocock goes out as baker 

 to New South Wales in a ship called the Asia, 

 Captain Lindsey. He is to have 21. 5s. per month ; but 

 if he comes home in the ship then 21. 10.9. Witness to 

 this, Mr. Richard Raspison and Mr. Eliot, waterman. 



" Sunday, 3rd. Mrs. Cleveland buried from the 

 Compass. 



" Monday, 4th. Rainy. Walked to Ivy House and 

 first saw the field opposite laid out as a garden in plots 

 of ground, with canary-beet, &c. &c." [Now part of 

 the grounds of Milton Hall.] " In evening, 200 swifts 

 flying about (high). 



" Wednesday, 6th. Horse-races at Chatham Lines. 



" Saturday, 9th. Walked to Dartford with George 

 Pocock, and took home 300 club articles to Mr. Allchins, 

 the Two Brewers, Lowfield, who paid me 41. 10s. for 

 the same. 



" Sunday, \0th. Mrs. Rowe, my daughter, came 

 from Woolwich. 



" Monday, llth. Fine. Went to Cobham Hall with 

 Miss Fuller, Miss Couves, Mr. George and Kezia 

 Pocock from Oxford, and Sarah Pocock, my daughter; 

 when we found the days of viewing the hall were 

 Tuesdays and Fridays; but upon my writing a note 

 to Lord Darnley we were granted permission, and 

 hurried over the rooms by the housekeeper, who 

 was glad enough to accept of 2s. 6d. for ten 

 minutes' haste ! Drank tea in the college at the room 

 of Mrs. Grant, who by the polish on her goods shows 

 she is a good housewife. 



" Tuesday, 1 2th. Went with Mrs. Rowe in a 

 boat from Northfleet to Long Reach Tavern, and put 

 her on shore on the other side of Dartford Creek to 



