Part 46 (1/2)

_For punis.h.i.+ng Offenders_.

EDUCATION.

1st. For Education.

16 Inns of Court and Chancery, for educating Students to the profession of the Law, &c. &c.

5 Colleges--viz. One for the improvement of the Clergy, London Wall; one for Divinity and Astronomy, called Gresham College; one for Physicians, Warwick Lane; one for the study of Civil Law, Doctors-Commons; and the Heralds College.

62 Schools, or public Seminaries; the princ.i.p.al of which are Westminster School, Blue-coat School or Christ's Hospital, St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Charter-house, St. Martin's School, &c. &c. &c. where about 5000 young persons are educated.

237 Schools belonging to the different Parishes; where about 9000 male and female Children are educated in Reading, Writing, and Accompts.

3730 Private Schools, for all the various branches of male and female Education; including some for Deaf and Dumb.

---- 4050 Seminaries of Education.

_The following Schools seem to deserve particular Enumeration; though probably there are many others which might equally deserve notice:--_

For Education.

1 Asylum for poor friendless, deserted girls, under twelve years of age, Vauxhall Road 1758

2 Orphan Working-School, for Children of Dissenters, City Road.

3 Philanthropic Society, St. George's Fields, for children of criminal parents, and young delinquents.

4 Freemasons' School, for Female Orphans, St.

George's Fields 1788

5 Marine Society, for educating poor dest.i.tute boys to the Sea, in Bishopsgate-street 1756

6 British or Welsh Charity School, Gray's Inn Lane 1718

7 French Charity School, Windmill-street, Tottenham Court-Road 1747

8 School for Soldiers' Girls, at Chelsea, supported by Ladies 1709

9 Neal's Mathematical School, for teaching Navigation, &c. to poor children, King's Head Court, Gough-Square, Fleet-street 1715

10 School for Children of the Clergy; the Boys at _Thirsk_, Yorks.h.i.+re, the Girls at _Lisson-Green_, Paddington.--Secretary, J. Topham, Esq.

No. 5, Gray's Inn Square 1749

11 Day-School of Industry, for Boys and Girls, Paradise-street, Mary-le-bone 1791

12 Another, No. 68, Edgware-Road, for Girls 1784

13 Ladies' Charity School, King-street, Snow Hill 1702