[271] The Society’s Report, for 1763, contains a notice, “To all Farmers, Gardeners, and other Occupiers of Land in England,” from the Trustees for the Charity Schools in St. Andrew’s, Holborn, to the effect, that, they had been informed, the country was in need of labourers; and that they were prepared “to bind Boys apprentices for seven years, to learn the art of husbandry; and Girls for five years, to do household work;” and, that, they would give £5 with every boy, and £3 with every girl so apprenticed. The Boys had been taught reading, writing, and the first five rules of Arithmetic; and the Girls to read and write, and “to do plain work.”
[272] They were begun in 1688, and were all supported by private subscriptions. (Report of Society, for 1772.)
[273] The Rev. John Clayton, also, was a subscriber, of £2 2s. per annum.
[274] Thomas Broughton, the Secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and Thomas Broughton, Vicar of St. Mary Redcliff, Bristol, and Prebendary of Sarum, have sometimes been mistakenly considered one and the same person. The latter, an eminent author, was son of the Rector of St. Andrew’s, Holborn; and died, at Bristol, in 1774, at the age of 70. It is a curious fact, that, both the Thomas Broughtons died in the same month of the year, and on the same day of the month, and that the day was St. Thomas’s.
[275] Wesley’s Works, vol. xiii., p. 288.
[276] Ibid., vol. xii., p. 6.
[277] Wesley’s Works, vol. i., p. 81.
[278] Supplement to Whitefield’s Answer to Bishop of London’s Letter, p. 8.
[279] Wesley’s Works, vol. viii., p. 335.
[280] Methodist Magazine, 1778, p. 177.