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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25231	An Account of the general nursery, or colledg of infants, set up by the justices of peace for the county of Middlesex with the constitutions and ends thereof.		1686 (1686)	Wing A294; ESTC R13483	10,978	28

to see the same This Court doth therefore Recommend the same to His Majesties Justices of the Peace of the several Country Divisions in this County desiring them to impart the Convenience thereof to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of their several Divisions and that they do send two at the least out of every Parish without the Weekly Bills of Mortality within this County and such further number of Children out of every Parish in their said Divisions as to them the said Justices shall be thought most meet and convenient Per Cur. Smith Divers of the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the several Parishes having according to the Orders sent in their Children have subscribed this Address to the Bench of Middlesex Midd. ss WE the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the several Parishes appointed by the Sessions of Peace of this County to send some of our poor Parish Children to the Infantory or Colledg of Infants at Clerkenwell do find it not only a great Convenience to our several Parishes but a very great Advantage to the poor Children they being provided for and Educated much beyond the Imaginations of any Persons that do not go to see them and to the great Satisfaction of all that do And we return our humble Thanks to the Sessions for the Encouragement they have already given to this good Work And as much as may become us do humbly desire the further Assistance of this Court for the promoting and supporting thereof And we likewise find that the Matron of the said House doth very diligently and carefully perform her Duty Middl. ss Ad Generalem Sessionem Pacis Dom. Regis tent pro Com. Middl. apud Hicks-hall in St. John-street in Com. praed ’ die Lunae scil Tricesimo die Augusti Anno Regni Regis Jacobi Secundi nunc Angliae c. secundo WE the Grand Jury at Hicks-hall Sworn this present Sessions for the Body of the County of Middlesex going to see this publick House or the General Nursery or Colledg of Infants did examine and inspect into the Methods and Rules thereof and we find that all the Children there are well Lodged well Cloathed kept Neat and Clean taught to Read and Write and well instructed in the Religion of the Church of England as it 's now Established by Law And we find that by such Education both the Bodies and Souls of many Infants will be preserved and many great Evils prevented which daily happen in this County And we find it a great Advantage and Convenience to the several Parishes and that it is a very charitable and exceeding good Work And we return our humble and hearty Thanks to the Justices of the Peace for this County for the Encouragement they have already given it And we humbly desire the further Assistance of this Court for the supporting and promoting thereof William Holden Foreman William Davis William Sanders William Munden John Ilford William Loughton Charles Munden John Thorley Hugh Buxton Henry Barret Robert Drinkwater Thomas Brumwick Davenant Sherborne Lawrence Wright Thomas Rayner Robert Munden Middl. ss Ad General Quarterialem Sessionem Pacis Dom. Registent per adjornament pro Com. Midd. apud Hicks-hall in St. Johnstreet in Com. praed ’ die Martis scil tertio decimo die April Anno Regni Regis Jacobi Secundi nunc Angliae c. secundo coram Roberto Clerk Mil. Joh. Reresbey Mil. Bar. Jacobo Dewy Willielmo Bridgman Carolo Bonithon Simone Parry Thoma Hariot Richardo Price Carolo Hinton Francisco Knollys Petro Lugg Thoma Smith Galfrido Nightingale Armig. al. sociis suis Justic ’ dict ’ Dom ’ Regis ad Pacem in Com. praed ’ conservand ’ necnon ad divers felon transgress al. Malefacta in eodem Com. perpetrat audiend ’ terminand ’ assign ’ HIS Majesties Justices of the Peace abovementioned having observed the loose and idle way of breeding up of the Parish Children in this County and that very few of them come to good by reason that in their first beginning of Life they suck in wicked and debauched Principles for the Prevention whereof and that for the future they who are bred up at the publick charge may be instructed in true Religion and Virtue they have at their General Quarter Sessions appropriated a great part of their Corporation Work-house for their Reception where there are Rules and Methods used for the better Breeding up of those Children which are sent thither And the said Justices having been to view the same this present Sessions do very well approve thereof now the same is put into Practice And whereas the said House hath been fitted up at the great Charge of some few Persons to make trial for the receiving of such as shall be sent thither but if the said House shall Increase as they the said Justices have reason to believe it will it may conduce much to the publick Good For the better Encouragement thereof it is commended by the said Justices to all Persons whatsoever in this County to give their Assistance towards the carrying on of this good Work And the said Justices do desire the Ministers and Church-Wardens of the several Parishes Hamblets and Precincts in this County to commend the same in their respective Parishes Hamblets and Precincts Per Cur. Smith To the Ministers and Church-Wardens of the respective Parishes Precincts and Hamblets in this County of Middlesex FINIS June 30. An. 3. Jacobi Regis The Grand Jury having been to view the Colledg of Infants made this Presentment Midd. ss WE the Grand Jury sworn for the County of Middlesex this present Midsummer Sessions do present That the General Nursery or Colledg of Infants is one of the best and most charitable works that has for these many years been set on foot and we find by what we now see and by the Character which is every where given of it That the Children are well educated in Religion and Virtue and provided for with all things necessary and we are convinced that this way of Education will prevent many great evils which are now daily practiced by breeding up of youths and we are of opinion that the Church-Wardens and Overseers cannot do a more Charitable deed with their publick money than by sending their Infants to that place for incouragement whereof we humbly thank the Justices of Peace And we desire That they will in their several Stations and Places order their Officers of their several Parishes to send their Infants to the said Nursery to be maintained at the publick Charge Richard Robins Foreman Edward Hamstead Thomas Smith Thomas Lord Thomas Long John Coep Robert Harridge Richard Savidg John Dodd Thomas Barker Thomas Harris George Stead William ●hild John Farmer Matthew Horton William Clapshaw John Hartwell The Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex upon many Complaints taking into their Consideration the loose and evil way of the breeding up of the poor Fatherless and Motherless Children committed to the publick Care and