204 ROBERT POCOCK. 



" Tuesday, 23rd. Fine. A hornet brought me, and 

 a monk fish. 



" Monday, 29th. Printed bills 'Beer 4<d. per pot at 

 the White Hart/ 



" Tuesday, 30th. Sally leaves me, to live at 

 Woolwich. 



" Saturday, October 4>th. An insect from a water- 

 butt, with a pair of oars or long legs and two black 

 eyes, and hairy under the belly in rows, was brought 

 me to name. 



" Monday, 6th. Choose Mayor Day, when Mr. Med- 

 hurst Troughton went out of office and Mr. J. Dennet 

 was chosen mayor. The court was near seven o'clock 

 before it broke up, never known so late. 



" Tuesday ,7th. Mr. Oakes and Cruden had a quarrel. 



" Thursday, 9th. In the night died Mrs. Cruden, 

 Mrs. Pattinson, Mrs. Cleverly, Mrs. Eglintine, and 

 Mrs. Nash of Chalk; with Mr. Smithers of Parrock 

 Farm, who some years since was footman to Mr. Dalton 

 of Gravesend (now Colonel Dalton). 



"Friday, 10th. Miss J. Kashleigh sent me two 

 dried plants, viz., the Cornish heath (Erica vagans) , and 

 the sea-pea from Walmer Beach, near Deal. Busy to- 

 day in printing 300 bills (fcap. size) for the mayor 

 (J. Dennet, Esq.), about violation of the Sabbath by 

 publicans suffering tippling on the Lord's Day. 



"Saturday, llth. Last night Mr. Nicholson, shell- 

 dealer, No. 110, Strand, called and bought 170 chalk 

 fossils, at one penny each, and a flute. 



" Monday, 13th. Rain. Wrote a letter last night to 

 Frances Pocock, saying I had had a quadruple dinner 

 viz., one sausage, one potato, one piece of apple-dump- 

 ling, and one piece of damson-pudding by myself, and 



