222 ROBERT POCOCK. 



executors' inventory, at 116Z. 14s. 6d and com- 

 prised,, besides three other copies of Holy Writ, 

 books upon theology, and canon and civil law. 



Indeed a few lines may well be devoted to the 

 interesting will of this local precursor of Pocock, as a 

 lover of books ; and no reader who takes up the 

 Bishop's will fails to cull many evidences of his 

 kind, domestic, and amiable character; his recog- 

 nition of his obligations to his predecessor in the See 

 of London, so emphatically expressed by the word 

 " promoter ; " his touching wish to be laid side by 

 side with him on the floor of their common cathe- 

 dral, with the stony record cut into the pavement 

 (as in fact his remains were), until in subsequent 

 troublous times both remains and the memorial were 

 destroyed, either in the reign of Edward VI. or early 

 in that of Elizabeth. 



In the same testament the Bishop gave to his niece 

 Alice, daughter of his brother, Sir Stephen Gravesend 

 (living at Parrock, then the local squire), one hundred 

 marks for her marriage portion; while to his brother 

 himself he forgave whatever he owed him. And to 

 his nephew, Eichard Gravesend, forty shillings. 



Nor indeed could a testamentary document of the 

 kind scarcely be indited which expresses in simpler and 

 more touching words the hopes of the testator in 

 regard to the life to come ; and as Pocock would have 

 given this record (had it been known to him) promi- 

 nence in his History, so its present disinterment may 

 now be not inappropriately dedicated to him, if it be 

 to some small extent reproduced in these pages. 

 The Will runs in the usual official Latin of the day, 

 of which the following is a free and fair translation : 



