help of Friends she manag'd to give each of them a little schooling."

"ROBERT was accordingly sent to Mr. RODWELL, [Footnote: This respectable
Man is senior Clerk to the Magistrates of the Hundred of BLACKBOURN, in
which Honington is situated, and has conducted himself with great
propriety in this and other public employments. L.] of Ixworth, to be
improved in _Writing_: but he did not go to that School more than two or
three months, nor was ever sent to any other; his Mother again marrying
when ROBERT was about seven years old."

"By her second Husband, JOHN GLOVER, she had another Family."

"When _Robert_ was not above _eleven_ years old, the late Mr. W. AUSTIN,
of SAPISTON, [Footnote: This little Village adjoins to HONINGTON. L.] took
him. And though it is customary for Farmers to pay such Boys only 1s. 6d.
per week, yet he generously took him into the house. This reliev'd his
Mother of any other expence than only of finding him a few things to wear:
and this was more than she well knew how to do."

"She wrote therefore," Mr. G. BLOOMFIELD continues, "to me and my Brother
NAT (then in London), to assist her; mentioning that he, ROBERT, was so
small of his age that Mr. AUSTIN said he was not likely to be able to get
his living by hard labour."

Mr. G. BLOOMFIELD on this inform'd his Mother that, if she would let him
take the Boy with him, he would take him, and teach him to make shoes: and
NAT promis'd to clothe him. The Mother, upon this offer, took coach and
came to LONDON, to Mr. G. BLOOMFIELD, with the Boy: for she said, she
never should have been happy if she had not put him herself into his
hands.