36 Four Letters written by the Rev. George Millard: 



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Wiltshire 

 Box. 7 th June 1712 

 3088. Geo: Millard 

 Schools 

 The Soc. agrees to what 

 he proposes. 



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The Soc. agrees to w l . he proposes 

 ab* Capps. 



Box May 16 th . 1716. 



Sir, 



I' had the Favour of the Letter you sent, dated the 14 th . 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 again doe. 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 1 : 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 forc'd to get one half of the poor Children 

 out of the Parish of Cain, 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. 



