1783 HANWAY'S COUNTY NAVAL FREE SCHOOLS FOR POOR BOYS 060. [HANWAY, Jonas.] Abstract of the proposal for county naval free schools 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 they may learn to furnish their own food; and to spin, knit, weave, make shoes, etc. with a view to provide their own raiment, while good regulations and discipline diffuse a moral and religious economy through the land. In four letters. London. Sold by Dodsley in Pall Mall. 1783. [2],lvi,liii-lxlv,105,[1]p. Frontispiece and engraved title page. Rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards. From the library of the Department of Education and Science with the old oval stamp of the Science and Art Department Educational Library and the old round stamp of the Education Department Library on the title page. Lu, Mwn, C; MnU in ESTC. No copies added in NUC. The most cherished project of Hanway's final years was the promotion of training schools for future seamen. During the autumn of 1782 he worked on a proposal to that purpose, and in December announced to the Marine Society that he had a plan. By March 1783 he had completed a book, Proposal for County Naval Free Schools to be built on Waste Lands. The resulting publication was almost certainly the most lavish charity prospectus produced. in the eighteenth century. Its cost was very substantial; at £800 a sum equal to the Society's annuity income for an entire year. In September of the same year Hanway produced this Abstract which, typically, was not merely an abstract but a new work containing a progress report of progress to date. See J.S.Taylor Jonas Hanway Founder of The Marine Society 1985. p.172-6.