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'Recent' events in Baths past.

All items taken from The Bath Chronicle.

1785 Aug - Dec

AT a meeting of the Committee of the Sunday Schools, held at the Committee Room in St James's Street in this city, it was resolved. That twenty-five poor female children be admitted into Mrs Havercomb's weekly school in Bell-tree Lane, and the like number into Mrs Jones's weekly school in Bridewell Lane. That Mrs Ann Smith be appointed the Mistress of a Boys' School, such a school to consist of thirty children, who are to be chosen by the Committee, and that she shall have for her trouble five shillings per week. That the several		Mistresses of these weekly schools be paid every fortnight. That in future no child be admitted into the Spinning School except by an order signed by three of the Committee. And that in future all vacancies in the Weekly Schools shall be filled up with children from the Spinning School. That Ladies, Mistresses of Families etc. be requested to countenance and encourage the Girl's Schools, by entrusting coarse plain work etc. to the Mistresses, as it is intended that all which these children earn shall be applied towards their own clothing and maintenance.
August 11, 1785

DAVID BROCK, (now confined in Bath Prison for £15 who is very ill with the Ague and Fever, and has a Wife and six small children) returns his sincere thanks to J.B. for 10s 6d and to a Gentleman for 2s 6d left at Mrs Cruttwell's - also to a Lady for 10s 6d and to another Lady for 2s 6d left at Messrs Hooper and Keenes. The Debtors in our prison return thanks to Mr Sone, for a quantity of Mutton, which proved a great relief. They are in great want of coals.

September 28, 1785

IT IS with infinite satisfaction we congratulate the publick on the flourishing state of the Sunday Schools in this city. More than six hundred poor children are collected together every sabbath day, for instruction, and at six in the evening are attended by their respective masters and Mistresses at the Abbey Church. Hundreds of these		children, who were so ignorant as not to know a letter, and many who had not even heard of a Saviour, can now read, and most of them repeat their Prayers and their Catechism. The several schools are regularly visited by the Gentlemen of the Committee in rotation every Sunday, and little rewards bestowed to encourage a spirit of emulation and improvement.		The two Schools for Girls established by the bounty of the Right Hon Lady Mary and Lady Isabella Stanley, take in fifty girls, selected from the Sunday Schools, who are every day instructed in reading, knitting, and plain work, at the large House in St James's Street, taken by the Committee of Subscribers for the use of the Children.
October 13, 1785