220 ROBERT POCOCK. 



in which, treating of his own "History of Graves- 

 end/' he says, ee The author now regrets that this 

 volume is neither printed with a good pica type, nor 

 of a fashionable size. In it we find page 165 

 wants to be transposed to 164, because the occurrences 

 do not follow in regular order of time (the narrative 

 of the Duke of Albemarle being in 1667, and the 

 building of Tilbury Fort in 1683). Secondly, in page 

 119, so much as relates to the Manor of Melestun 

 should be cancelled ; because the author, by closely 

 following Hasted's * History of Kent/ has fallen into 

 that historian's error. The mistake perhaps was 

 originally made by the transcriber of Domesday using 

 an I for anr, and so Melestun for Merestun, Merestun 

 being in the Hundred of Shamel, whilst Melestune is 

 in Toltingtrough Hundred. Mr. Hasted thought 

 Melestun meant Parrock, but on looking over Hen- 

 shall's ' History of Britain,' I find no mention of Par- 

 rock in Domesday : hence Mr. Hasted made a wrong 

 conjecture. 



" As an apology for the type made use of in the 

 ' History of Gravesend ' (since which time type- 

 founders have greatly improved its beauty), the author 

 assures the public that on a second edition, for which 

 he is preparing, and should be glad to receive hints 

 for its improvement, they shall have no cause for com- 

 plaint : nor yet of the paper, which shall be a quarto 

 demy size/' 



This second edition never saw the light, nor is it 

 believed that the author ever completed his " Errata ;" 

 but it will not be inappropriate to follow up his self- 

 accusations in reference to the Gravesend History 

 by stating that he has really little to charge himself 



