Putney Schools before 1649), who says of her in 1673: "I am forbidden to mention the Countess _Dowager of Huntington_ (instructed sometimes by Mrs. Makin) howe well she understands _Latin_, _Greek_, _Hebrew_, _French_ and _Spanish_; or what a proficient she is in Arts, subservient to Divinity, in which (if I durst I would tell you) she excells." [Illustration: MRS. BATHSUA MAKIN "Facsimile copy from an almost unique print by Marshall." From an engraving in Woodburn's _Gallery of Rare Portraits_, 1816, Vol. II, page 39.] Mrs. Makin makes enthusiastic mention of other learned ladies, but does not make it clear whether they had been under her instruction. Lady Mildmay could not, she says, be justly omitted. Then there was Mrs. Thorold, daughter of Lady Carr in Lincolnshire, who was "excellent in Philosophy, and all sorts of Learning." She cites also "Dr. Love's daughters,"[402] as "still fresh in the memory of men" for their "Worth and Excellency in Learning." In April, 1649, John Evelyn and a party of ladies visited "the schools or colleges for gentlewomen" at Putney. In all probability Mrs. Makin had charge of this institution. Certainly no other known Englishwoman would have been so competent, or would have had such prestige as a school-mistress, and her _Essay_ of 1673 shows that she remained in the educational field. Accompanying the _Essay_ is a _Prospectus_ for a school she had recently opened. "If any enquire where this education may be performed, such may be informed that a school is lately erected for Gentlewomen, at Tottenham High Cross, within four miles of London, on the road to Ware, where Mrs. Makin is governess who was formerly tutoress to the Princess Elizabeth, daughter to King Charles the First. Where, by the blessing of God, Gentlewomen may be instructed in the _Principles_ of _religion_, and in all manner of sober and virtuous Education: more particularly in all things ordinarily taught in other schools." These things "ordinarily taught in other schools" are listed as "Dancing, Musick, Singing, Writing, Keeping accompts." Half the time in Mrs. Makin's school was to be spent on this portion of the curriculum. The other half was to be "employed in gaining the _Latin_ and _French_ tongues." Greek, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish were optional subjects, but were offered by the Governess who had a "competent knowledge" of all of them. The language requirements could not have been extensive since "Gentlewomen of eight or nine years old, that can read well, may be instructed in a year or two (according to their parts) in the _Latin_ and _French_ tongues." Something in the way of natural history was attempted. Mrs. Makin announces, "_Repositories_ also for Visibles shall be prepared; by which, from beholding the things, Gentlewomen may learn the Names, Natures, Values, and Use of _Herbs_, _Shrubs_, _Trees_, _Mineral-pieces_, _Metals_, and _Stones_," a sort of laboratory course in botany and mineralogy.