238 ROBERT POCOCK. 



Erith, Crayford Stone, Greenhithe, Swanscombe, The Grays ; 



and Miscellaneous Information. 

 Illustrated with Plates, price One Guinea (the Volume), 



in extra Boards. 

 By ROBEET Pococz, Senr. 



Author of the Margate Water Companion ; Memorials of the 

 Tufton Family, Earls of Thanet ; History of Gravesend, &c. 

 Motto. " Pro captu Lectoris habent sua fata Libelli." 

 " Books take their doom from each peruser's will ; 

 Just as they think, they pass for good or ill.'' 



Gibson s Camden, Preface. 



" If books are well chosen, they neither dull the appetite nor strain 

 the capacity," " but polish and perfect at the same time they 

 please and entertain." Gent's Mag., June, 1802, p. 15. 



" Whoever thinks a perfect piece to see, 

 Thinks what ne'er is, ne'er was, and ne'er can be." 



Printed by G. A. Pocock, Lowfield Street, Dartford. 



PBEFACE. 



" Topographical information is as important to the 

 district it describes, as the history of England to the 

 Kingdom of Great Britain. Hence arises a due con- 

 sideration of its value, for if a fictitious ideal novel of 

 three hundred pages large type, written in haste, is 

 worth seven shillings, what ought double the number 

 of pages of true historic composition to be worth, ex- 

 tracted with care, collected by scraps, copied out fairly, 

 written and rewritten repeatedly with much labour and 

 great loss of time by the author, who has endeavoured 

 to introduce all the original matter he could obtain ? 

 The reader, therefore, himself can now calculate about 

 what price the volume before him should be charged 

 to the public. 



" From the perusal of history and biography, we are 



