Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.Malcolm, James Peller
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.
Malcolm, James Peller
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
"III. That they be very careful in the choice of a
treasurer, who is to keep a fair account of all receipts
and disbursements, for the view of all subscribers and
contributors, who may desire to know how the money is
disposed of.
"IV. That the person who shall be chosen for master or
mistress of any school, be a member of the Church of England,
of known affection to His Majesty King George, and to the
Protestant succession as by law established; of a religious
life, and sober conversation, a constant communicant,
understanding the grounds and principles of the Christian
religion, and having a capacity for educating children,
according to the rules herein recommended.
"V. That, in training up of children, particular regard be
had to the business they are most like to be employed in,
either as servants, or in husbandry, or else in the woollen,
iron, or such other manufactures, as are most used in those
places where charity-schools are maintained. And in order
thereto, that the children whilst at school be (so far as is
consistent with their necessary learning, and the different
circumstances of particular places) inured to some kind of
work or labour, and in some measure daily employed in it;
so that they may be rendered most useful to the publick; and
for this end it may be proper that their earnings be applied
towards finding them in diet, lodgings, and other necessaries.
"VI. Whereas Thomas Neale, esq. deceased, did devise part of
his estate to be applied for supporting of Charity schools,
or for such other charitable uses as his executors thought
fit; and Frederick Slare, doctor in physick, the surviving
executor of the said Mr. Neale's will, hath, out of the
surplus of the said estate, appointed a considerable sum of
money for the payment of an annual salary for a master, to
instruct poor children in such part of the mathematicks as
may fit them for the sea service; and this appointment hath
been established by a decree of the high court of Chancery;
and a Charity-school for that purpose is erected in the City
of London; and the Trustees of the said school have ordered
that each boy that should be sent from any of the Charity
schools, shall be taught the said science, upon the payment
of twenty shillings a year for each boy: It is therefore in a
particular manner recommended to the trustees of each school
within the cities of London and Westminster, that such boys
as may be thought fit for the sea-service, be sent to the
said school, to be instructed in an art which will render
them so very useful to the publick.
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