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Four Letters twritten by the Reo. George Millard, 
4.2. 1712—18. 
bi Communicated by the Vicar of Boz.| 
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Am HORGE MILLARD, the writer of the following letters, 
matriculated at Queen’s College, Oxford, 28 Feb., 1694-5, 
as “filius plebis.”” He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1698, and 
_ would appear to have shortly afterwards taken holy orders, for he 
_ was presented in 1701, by George Duckett, Esq., to the rectory of 
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Calston, Co. Wilts. In 1704 he proceeded to his Master’s degree. 
In 1707 he was presented by George Speke Petty, Esq., to the 
Vicarage of Box, and in 1712, by the Queen, to the Rectory of 
Haselbury, a parish long since stripped of Church and parsonage 
and usually served by the Vicar of Box. He retained these three 
livings till his death in 1740, having, so far as can be ascertained, 
- received no further preferment in the Church. 
The letters are the originals, extracted from the archives of the 
S.P.C.K. with the object, it may be presumed, of enabling those 
responsible for its administration to decide whether the Box Charity 
School was or was not established in connection with the Church 
of England. No memorandum is preserved with the letters to 
explain the matter. Possibly, some century and a half after they 
were written they may have contributed to a decision in which 
their author would have rejoiced; but they are not offered now as 
evidence for or against the Commissioners’ report. Apart from 
their style, which is admirable, whoever reads these letters cannot 
but feel the better for their perusal. 
Box June 7th 1712. 
Sir 
This comes late to thank you and the rest of the Honourable Society 
for y° favour of your Letter in November last, but it comes very heartily to 
doe it. I was willing to defer it as long as possible, that I might be able to 
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