12 MEMOIR OF DK. DALTON, AND 



Mr. Gough, his cousin George Bewley gave up the school, 

 and the two brothers who had assisted him thus announced 

 their intention of continuing it. 



"Jonathan & John Dalton respectfully inform their Friends, 

 and the Public in General, that they intend to continue the 

 school taught by George Bewley, where Youth will be care- 

 fully instructed in English, Latin, Greek, & French; also 

 Writing, Arithmetic, Merchant's Accounts, and the Mathe- 

 matics. The school to be opened on the 28th of March, 

 1785. 



N.B. Youth boarded in the Masters' house on reasonable 

 terms." 



Their sister Mary came to keep the house, and their father 

 and mother, then old people, frequently went to see them, 

 walking through on one day over " mountain and slack" a dis- 

 tance of 45 miles.* 



George Bewley lent them some money, probably the house 

 or furniture answering to the sum, which was returned the 

 same year; the father lent them seven guineas, "to be paid 

 9 mo. 29th," which they paid only a week behind time. And 

 so they began life on a larger scale. They took care of their 

 money, balanced their books every month, and put down 

 every penny they spent. They had more than once to get a 

 guinea from Mr. Lickbarrow and two from Mr. Kendal, and 

 Mary had to give up her thirteen shillings and sixpence, and 

 got paid in portions, " Mary, in part, 0. 0. 6^-" Mr. Benson 

 too was paid all his money, and borrowings soon ceased. 

 The whole sum got the first year was about £107, but a 

 good deal of this had to be paid back, and indeed the average 

 of the school was about seventy pounds a year. This was 

 increased a few pounds by " drawing conditions," " collecting 

 rents," "making wills," and "searching registers," but the 

 amount gained by this means was seldom above five pounds a 



* John Robinson, in Mr. Dickinson's Letter. 



