Proposal for county naval free-schools
Subtitle: to be built on waste lands : giving such effectual instructions to poor boys, as may nurse them for the sea service : teaching them also to cultivate the earth, that in due time they may furnish their own food : and to spin, knit, weave, make shoes, &c., : with a view to provide their own raiment, while good regulations and discipline diffuse a moral & religious oeconomy through the land. --
Contributors: Marine Society (London, England)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1783
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Naval education -- Great Britain
Notes: Engraved t.p.

Dedication signed: Jonas Hanway, Dep. Treas., Marine Society's Office.

Imprint from dedication.

Includes 2 extra pages bound between p. 120 and 121.

"Songs, hymns and psalms, collected, altered, or composed, adapted to moral and instructive amusement and the religious part of the education of the scholars of the county naval free schools ...": p. [113]-141 [i.e. 143] and 1-48 (7th group)

"Prudential moral and religious advice given to the respective scholars in the proposed naval free-schools ...": p. [1], v, [2], 67 p. (at end)

On cover: For the use of the Marine Society.

Bound for Jonas Hanway.

In box.