EDUCATION.

1st. For Education.

16Inns of Court and Chancery, for educating Students to the profession of the Law, &c. &c.
5Colleges—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.
62Schools, or public Seminaries; the principal 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.
237Schools belonging to the different Parishes; where about 9000 male and female Children are educated in Reading, Writing, and Accompts.
3730Private Schools, for all the various branches of male and female Education; including some for Deaf and Dumb.
4050Seminaries of Education.

The following Schools seem to deserve particular Enumeration; though probably there are many others which might equally deserve notice:—

1Asylum for poor friendless, deserted girls, under twelve years of age, Vauxhall Road1758
2Orphan Working-School, for Children of Dissenters, City Road.
3Philanthropic Society, St. George's Fields, for children of criminal parents, and young delinquents.
4Freemasons' School, for Female Orphans, St. George's Fields1788
5Marine Society, for educating poor destitute boys to the Sea, in Bishopsgate-street1756
6British or Welsh Charity School, Gray's Inn Lane1718
7French Charity School, Windmill-street, Tottenham Court-Road1747
8School for Soldiers' Girls, at Chelsea, supported by Ladies1709
9Neal's Mathematical School, for teaching Navigation, &c. to poor children, King's Head Court, Gough-Square, Fleet-street1715
10School for Children of the Clergy; the Boys at Thirsk, Yorkshire, the Girls at Lisson-Green, Paddington.—Secretary, J. Topham, Esq. No. 5, Gray's Inn Square1749
11Day-School of Industry, for Boys and Girls, Paradise-street, Mary-le-bone1791
12Another, No. 68, Edgware-Road, for Girls1784
13Ladies' Charity School, King-street, Snow Hill1702
14Walworth Female Charity School.
15Saint Anne's Society, hitherto at Lavenham, Suffolk, about to be removed to Camberwell, for Boys and Girls, (extended in 1733 and 1791)1709
16Grey Coat Hospital, Artillery Ground, Westminster.
17Green Coat Hospital, Ditto.