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^' fruit, &c. all uniform buildings, but of single stories, or a little elevated. 

 " At convenient distance, towards the olitory-garden, should be a stable 

 " for two or three horses, and a lodging for a servant or two. Lastly, 

 " a garden-house, and conservatory for tender plants. The estimate 

 " amounts thus : the pavilion, four hundred pounds ; the chapel, one 

 *' hundred and fifty pounds ; apartments, walls, and out-housing, six 

 " hundred pounds ; the purchase of the fee for thirty acres, at fifteen 

 " pounds per acre, eighteen years purchase, four hundred pounds. The 

 " total, fifteen hundred and fifty pounds : sixteen hundred pounds will 

 " be the utmost. Three of the cells or apartments, that is, one moiety, 

 " with the appurtenances, shall be at the disposal of one of the founders, 

 « and the other half at the other's. If I and my wife take up two 

 " apartments, (for we are to be decently asunder however I stipulate, 

 " and her inclination will greatly suit with it) that shall be no impedi- 

 " ment to the society, but a considerable advantage to the oeconomic 

 " part : a third shall be for some worthy person. And, to facihtate the 

 " rest, I offer to furnish the whole pavilion completely, to the value of 

 « five hundred pounds, in goods and moveables, if need be, for seven 

 " years, till there shall be a public stock. There shall be maintained 

 " at the public charge, only a chaplain well qualified ; an ancient woman 

 " to dress the meat, wash, and do all such ofl&ces ; a man to buy provi- 

 " sions, keep the garden, horses, &;c. a boy to assist him and serve 

 « within. At one meal a-day, of two dishes only, unless some little 

 " extraordinary upon particular days or occasions, (then never exceeding 

 " three,) of plain and wholesome meat ; a small refection at night ; wine, 

 " beer, sugar, spice, bread, fish, fowl, candles, soap, oats, hay, fuel, kc. 

 " at four pounds per week ; two hundred pounds per annum : wages 

 " fifteen pounds ; keeping the gardens, twenty pounds ; the chaplain, 

 " twenty pounds per annum. Laid up in the treasury one hundred and 

 " forty-five pounds, to be employed for books, instruments, drugs, 

 " trials, &c. The total four hundred pounds a-year, comprehending the 

 " keeping of two horses for the chariot or the saddle, and two kine. So 

 " that two hundred pounds per annum will be the utmost that the founders 

 " shall be at to maintain the whole society, consisting of nine persons, 

 " (the servants included,) though there should no others join, capable to 

 " alleviate the expense. But if any of those who desire to be of the 

 " society be so well qualified as to support their own particulars, and 

 " allow for their proportion, it will yet much diminish the charge : and 



