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.

RELIGION AND MORALS.

2. For promoting Religion and good Morals.

1The Society for giving effect to his Majesty's proclamation against Vice and Immorality1787
2The Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn1699
3The Society for propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Dean's Yard, Westminster1701
4The Society for promoting Religious Knowledge, by distributing books among the poor.—Secretary, Mr. Watts, Founder's Hall, Lothbury1715
5The Society for promoting Charity Schools in Ireland, Merchant Seaman's Office.
6The Society for Religious Instruction to the Negroes in the West Indies1793
7The Society for preventing Crimes, by prosecuting Swindlers, Sharpers, and Cheats; Gough-Square, Fleet-street1767
8British Society for the Encouragement of Servants, No. 27, Hay-market1792
9Society for giving Bibles to Soldiers and Sailors, No. 427, Oxford-street1780
10Dr. Bray's Charity for providing parochial Libraries, No. 5, Ave-Maria Lane.
11Society for Relief of poor pious Clergymen1788
12Queen Anne's Bounty for the Augmentation of small Livings of Clergymen.—Secretary, R. Burn, Esq. Duke-street, Westminster1703
13Sunday Schools, in various parishes.
14Sunday School Society, for giving Bibles, &c. and otherwise furthering the purposes of Sunday Schools.—Sec. Mr. Prestill, No. 47, Cornhill1785

THE ARTS.

3. For learning, and the useful and fine Arts.

1Royal Society, incorporated for promoting useful Knowledge;—Instituted1663
2Antiquarian Society, Somerset Place1751
3Society or Trustees of the British Museum1753
4Society of Artists of Great Britain, Strand1765
5Royal Academy of Arts, Somerset Place1773
6Society for the encouragement of Learning, Crane-Court, Fleet-street.
7Society for encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi Buildings.
8Medical Society of London, Bolt-court, Fleet-street1773
9Society for the improvement of Naval Architecture.
10Veterinary College, near St. Pancras Church.
11Royal Institution for applying the Arts to the common purposes of Life1799