36 Four Letters written by the Rev. George Millard. 
[It is endorsed!:—] 
Wiltshire 
Box. 7 June 1712 
3088. Geo: Millard 
Schools 
The Soc. agrees to what 
he proposes. 
[And again :—] 
The Soe. agrees to wt. he proposes 
abt Capps. 
Box May 16. 1716. 
Sir, 
I had the Favour of the Letter you sent, dated the 14*. of April last, 
giving me an account of the Pacquett sent the last year, which came safe to 
my hands, and for which I did then, soon after the Reception, return my 
hearty thanks to the Honourable Society, as I now againdoe. The Business 
of the Schools in my Parishes goes on, I bless God, very successfully. I keep 
up here the full Number of 30: the last year 4 of the Children were dismiss’t the 
School; one of ’em went off to a Trade, 2 to Husbandry, and another, which 
is a girl, settles at home with her friends. Since the first Erecting of this 
School, A.D. 1708 there have been Educated in all, and dismiss’t, 34 Children. 
It pleas’d God the last year to take away my Man-Servant in the Small-Pox, 
and in his Room I took a young man, about 18 years of Age, who was 
formerly one of the Scholars, and he proves a very honest, sober, and 
industrious Servant: A Blessing which I look upon more than sufficient to 
recompence me for all the Care and Pains I have hitherto bestow’d about the 
Education of the Poor Children of this Parish. 
In my other Parish of Calston, (which is miscall’d Catston in the printed- 
sheet-account of the Charity Schools, as I hinted to you before, and do now 
again desire you to rectify) I keep the same Number at School as I did at 
first, viz': 6, finding them Books. This I began A.D. 1711, and have since 
dismiss’t from thence 8 children, well instructed; most of which are employ’d 
in husbandry. I fear I shall not be able here to put out any to Trades, 
because I have not one to assist me in this Blessed Undertaking throughout 
the Parish, which consists only of 4 Families; and for that reason, to keep 
up the full number, I am sometimes fore’d to get one half of the poor Children 
out of the Parish of Caln, which lies near to it. 
I cannot be positive whether in any of my former Letters I acquainted the 
Society with the Method I have us’d for 3 or 4 years, at Box, which has 
prov’d very successful, in the Instructing of such young men and maidens, of 
the poorer sort, as think themselves too bigg to goe to School: It is this; I 
find Books for as many of them as are willing to learn to read, and give the 
Person that teaches them 5 shillings, each, and the like summ of 5 shillings, 
each, for the loss of their Labour, when they are able to read a chapter in the 
Bible. By this method I have prevail’d with 8 or 9 overgrown persons to 
learn to Read, which otherwise, I have reason to think, would never have 
done it. 
