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This method is proposed as more eligible, becaufe an application to the Company to give paffage to a Master, does not come with near the advantage as when they themselves offer to give his paffage whenever a Master shall be recommended to them. Befide the Society are under fo many obligations already to the Company, that they would avoid troubling them with an addrefs of this nature, except it cannot be done otherwise. I am, Sir,

Your moft humble fervant,

Henry Newman.

To Mr Henry Newman, Secretary to the bonourable Society for promoting Chriftian Knowledge, London.

Sir,

Bombay Caftle,
Sept. 17, 1719.

THE repeated favours from the honourable Society, with yours of the 14th of February 1718-19, were received with all thankfulness; the books I distributed amongst the inhabitants of this Place, and your letter have made bold to lay before the Honourable Charles Boone Efq; our very worthy Prefident; who was fo well pleased with the honourable Society's offer of affiftance and care in providing us an able Schoolmafter, that amongst other good works fet on foot in this Place, his Honour's endeavours I am affured will not be wanting to the promoting this alfo, the fetting up a Charity School at Bombay in imitation of that at Fort St George. Whereupon a day being appointed, and a Sermon upon the occafion, recommending the usefulness and advantages of it, the inhabitants, to fhew their good intentions to the defign, after a fplendid entertainment at the Governor's lodgings, fubfcribed unanimously and freely

freely, though but conditionally, to the fame, drawn up and propofed after the following man

ner.

LAUS DE O.

"Subfcribed conditionally towards a Charity"School in Bombay, for educating poor Children "in the chriftian religion, according to the use

of the Church of England, i. e. provided the "honourable Company will contribute thereunto "as they have to that at Fort St George, or pro"vided the fubfcriptions amount to 8000 rupees "in two years time from the date hereof; that "then the fubfcriptions to become due for the "use aforefaid, or else to be void and of no "force." Dated Bombay, Sept. 8, 1719.

This method was propofed as most eligible at present, because by making a beginning without fomething of a foundation, might difcourage the work, and render it ineffectual; however, as a proof of our fincerity herein, the Inhabitants, animated by the Governor's liberality, raised among themselves 6000 Rupees and upwards, without ftirring out of doors; of which the Governor, according to his ufual generofity, lanched out 2000 Rupees himself, leaving a blank for the honourable Company, in hopes of their affistance.

We raised in all 6610 Rupees, befides the annual fubfcriptions of feveral as long as they ftay in India. The Governor was not a little pleafed at the fuccefs of our School, being no less ambitious of feeing it fettled, than in having it first fet on foot in his time; he has prefented the honourable Company with a copy of the fubfcriptions, and acquainted them in the general letter of our want of a Schoolmafter; who will not want for due encouragement, efpecially if he comes recommended from the Society.

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The honour, Sir, you did me in your collection of letters was too great to be expected for fo fmall a piece of fervice; be pleased, Sir, to excufe that honour for the future, and you will equally oblige me in the fatisfaction of our continued friendfhip and correfpondence.

Please, Sir, to pay my humble refpects to the honourable Society, and be affured that I am, Sir, Your moft humble fervant,

P. S. This comes over land by way of Perfia, having the advantage of the Company's

packet.

Richard Cobbe.

To the Rev. Mr Richard Cobbe, Chaplain to the bonourable East India Company at Bombay

Caftle, Eaft India.

Rev. Sir,

MY

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laft to you was of the 24th of February, 1719-20, fince which I received your kind letter of the 17th of Sept. 1719, and communicated it to the Society, who were not a little pleased to find your zeal continue for erecting a Charity-School after you had near accomplished the expensive undertaking of building a Church. I hope the fame bleffing which has accompanied you in one of these undertakings will alfo attend

the other.

The Society were very much pleased with your account of the Governor's liberality, and the prudence by which the fubfcription has been conducted; and am glad to tell you that several of the honourable Directors of the East India Company shew an inclination as much to favour a School at Bombay,

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Bombay, as they have that at Fort St George: but this Seffion of Parliament, which is not yet ended, has taken up so much of their time in matters of fo great confequence to their own and the nation's intereft, that you are not to wonder if they poftpone the confideration of what has been proposed by the government of Bombay in relation to a School, though I hope they will fignify their pleasure, at least so far as may be neceffary to fet the affair going.

I do not repeat to you what I have faid to the Governor in relation to a Master, because I prefume he will inform you thereof. The Reverend Mr Watts undertook to convey a fmall packet of the Society's books to you, and I hope he received it in due time to fend it by these ships. When I have the honour of another letter from you, pray let me know who is your friend here that fends over parcels to you, that I may fometimes give him the trouble of a small parcel which is too big to be fent among the Company's letters, and too little to be sent by itself: The rule at the India House requiring as formal an application for leave to fend a thing of ten fhillings value as of one hundred pounds value; and when I have addreffed the Court for leave to fhip what is fent yearly to the Miffionaries on the coast of Coromandel, I am ashamed to trouble them with a fecond address for a small matter.

May God Almighty profper your labours: and please to believe that I am, with very great respect,

Reverend Sir,

Your most humble fervant,

Henry Newman.

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