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Trustees of 27 May, 1763, made notable by the adoption of the addresses to the King and to Lord Bute to be transmitted to the Provost then in England for due presentation as expressive of the thanks of the Trustees to "his Majesty for his Protection, Countenance and Bounty to our Institution" and "to Lord Bute in acknowledgment of his goodness to us; " and early in June we find him starting on a trip to the Eastern States on postoffice service, from which he did not return until early in November. This May meeting was the last he attended of the Trustees that year; the coming winter found him engrossed in many concerns; the year 1764 was full of political contentions, and in October he was appointed agent for the Province in England, and in November set sail from Philadelphia on his second mission. 3 But before he sailed he signed on the Minute Book the fundamental Resolve or Declaration made by the Trustees in consequence of the letter brought them by the Provost on his return from England, jointly written them 9 April, 1 764 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas and Richard Penn and Dr. Samuel Chandler, and entered on the Minutes of 14 June 1764, and which will come before us in the due progress of this narrative. At the meeting of 13 June, only Messrs. Peters, Coleman, Redman, Stedman, and Duche present, the following minute appears: Some of the parents of the children in the Academy having complained that their children were not taught to speak and read in publick and having requested that this useful part of Education might be more attended to, Mr Kinnersley was called in and desired to give an account of what was done in this Branch of his Duty, and he declared that this was well taught not only in the English School which was more immediately under his care, but in the Philosophy classes regularly every Monday afternoon, and as often at other times as his other Business would permit And it not appearing to the Trustees that any more could at present be done without partiality & great inconvenience and that this was all that was ever proposed to be done they did not incline to make any alteration, or to lay any Burthen upon Mr Kinnersley. 8 and " reached London on the evening of 10 December and went immediately to his old lodgings " Sparks, vii. 282.