The hours appointed for divine fervice were spent by them in the alehouse, or in the amusements of pitch and tofs, ballplaying, &c. Their children neglected, were fuffered to run wild in a lamentable ftate of ignorance and vice. About eight years ago, a Sunday-fchool was established by Mrs. H. More. A great change for the better was foon apparent. In my attendance on the fchool, I witneffed the propriety with which it was conduated; the children were taught to read their bible, and fuch books as accorded with the principles of the church of England. The principal perfons of Nailfea, convinced of the utility of the school to the interests of the parish, not only exhorted their workmen to fend their children, but fet the example by fending their own; and bound themselves under a penalty to attend in turn, by way of fanction to the inftitution. The good example fet by the youth operated on their feniors to produce an attention to their religious concerns, and to take them off fords me great pleasure to fay, that on my departure from them in October laft, they were a much more orderly, decent and moral fet of people, and regular in their attendance at church, which a very numerous congregation evinced. LEWIS HART, Late Curate of Nailsca. SINCE my appointment to the curacy of Nailfea, which took place in October laft, I have, (at Mrs. More's request,) whenever the time would permit, visited the funday school at Nailfea, and have never feen any thing done there contrary to my approbation. Had I ever observed any conduct which I difapproved, I fhould, (as they have repeatedly defired me,) have informed the Mrs. Mores of it.. The teachers and children attend the church regularly. BOURTON, July 5, 1801. J. SPARROW, Jun. THIS is to certify that the funday fchool inftituted by Mrs. H. More in the parish of Yatton, was, from its firft opening in the year 1791, until the time of my quitting that parish in the year 1798, conftantly under my inspection. That the teachers were nominated by me; and that by a refolution of the veftry, many gentlemen of the parish engaged to, (and did) attend alternately, for the purpose of enforcing the rules of the fchool, and for the maintenance of proper order, both on the part of the governors as of the scholars. BURRINGTON, S. T. WYLDE, a th n r P HAVING HAVING ever ftudiously avoided taking part in controverfies of every defcription, it is with no fmall degree of concern that I feel myself called upon by the author of a late "Appeal to the Public," (in justice to Mrs. H. More, to myself, and to the parish of Yatton,) to declare that the reason therein. affigned by the Rev. Mr. Bere, for Mrs. H. More's withdrawing her school, was not the true one. And, (the circumftances ftated in the thirty-third page of that "Appeal" having never occurred, Mrs. H. More having never recommended a "notorious methodist preacher" as teacher in her school at Yatton, the parifhioners nor the parish-officers having never been confulted with by the Vicar on any fuch occafion,) I feel myself under the neceffity of contradicting the statement in the thirty-third page of the "Appeal to the Public;" and if such statement be grounded on a misrepresentation of the following circumftance B 3 cumstance, it calls on me to pronounce it extremely incorrect. On the feceffion of a fubordinate teacher in her school, Mrs. H. More requested the Vicar to inquire after, and recommend to her, a proper fucceffor; when converfing with a well-meaning, refpectable farmer on that fubject, at a tythe-meeting, Dec. 3, 1799, a perfon, otherwife well qualified, (but who really was a notorious methodist preacher,) was very injudiciously recommended by Him, and immediately rejected by Me, as fuch, without entering into any confultation with the parishioners, (then af fembled,) or parish-officers; a circumftance, which I have reafon to believe to have been unknown at Cowflip-green, until communicated by myself to Mrs. H. More, subsequent to the publication of Mr Bere's late "Appeal," which produced the explanation. YATTON. HENRY HAWES, Vicar of Yatton. THE |