text:  in procuring for me certain youth of the upper kinds to be by me instructed in the learned tongues and such other branches as I had proficiency in; and in addition thereto he said that peradventure he might obtain a similar charge for my excellent wife in superintending the perfectionment of certain young ladies of his acquaintance in samplers and millinery and cookery and such other of the fine and useful arts as she was known to excel in; and he subjoined thereto that the charges for each pupil would be so large being only those of consideration which he recommended unto me that a few years would be sufficient wherein to consolidate portions for all my children