Four Letters written by the Rev. George Millard. 41 



Calston) together with y e young People, upon the same Exercise : As I likewise 

 did about y e same time at Marshfield, a Town near me, (lying in Glo'stershire,) 

 where is a charity-school for 24 children (all Boys) taught and cloath'd by a 

 subscription of some of the chief Inhabitants, w ch ., by the way, may serve to 

 correct one mistake in your printed account of the schools, w ch takes notice 

 but of 12 in that Place. The Children and young People of both these Places 

 have already made a very good Progress in their Singing : and I am in good 

 hopes that the Influence of these our Examples will soon extend to a great 

 many other Parishes. I have been lately inform'd y l 2 or 3 more at a small 

 distance from me are going upon it, and I shall be ready to forward it as much 

 [as] lies in my Power, having experimentally found it to be such an excellent 

 means of promoting X tian Knowledge. 



You'll doe me the Favour, I hope, to give my most humble Service to the 

 Honourable Society, upon whose most worthy Labours I shall always continue 

 to begg the Divine Blessing. I am likewise with much Sincerity and Kespect, 



Dear Sir, 



Your most oblig'd Friend 

 and humble Servant 



Geo: Millard. 



[The letter is addressed : — ] 

 • For 



M r . Newman at the Bever d . 

 M r . Shute's in London-house 

 in 



Aldersgate - Street 



London. 



[It is endorsed : — ] 



Wiltshire 

 Box. May 30 th . 1718 

 5618. Geo. Millard 

 Kefer d . to y e Com. 



Report on Box Charity, 



[Printed in "Sessional Papers," 1834, vol. xxii., 1.] 



Dame Kachel Speke, of Haslebury, in the parish of Box, by her will, 1 dated 

 26th Oct., 1710, gave the interest of .£100 for the use and better advancement 

 of such Charity Schools as then were and thereafter should be in the parish 

 of Box, for instructing poor children of the said parish, and for furnishing 

 them with books. It appears by a Table of Benefactions in the parish Church, 



1 This will cannot be found at Doctors' Commons or in the Begistry at 

 Salisbury. 



