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Jfour Jitters Written Irjr tjje Jtft. (Scotge §PiHarir, 



9.©. 1712—18. 



Communicated by the Vicar of Itooc.] 



EOBGrE MILLARD, the writer of the following letters, 

 matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, 28 Feb., 1694-5, 

 as "films 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 

 Calston, Co. Wilts. In 1704 he proceeded to his Master's degree. 

 In .1707 he was presented by Greorge Speke Petty, Esq., to the 

 Yicarage 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 Yicar 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 e 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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