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Chelsea in the fifties and sixties was a small Thames-side village, still insulated from the encroachments of an expanding London by. The King's private lands. Young Gillray passed his first three years at a tiny cottage in Robinson's Lane, set back a few hundred feet from the town docks. By September 1759 the senior Gillray had moved his family to the Moravian settlement in Milman's row. This line of dwellings, adjacent to the sect's burial ground, stretched from the King's Road to a point on the Thames near the present site of Battersea Bridge.

The Moravians (or United Brethren) trace their origin to the Hussite reforms of the fifteenth century. Banished from Silesia in 1736 by a prince of Saxony, the group began a migration to England. A belief in the importance of isolating the young from worldly contaminations led them to establish their own schools soon after their arrival. By the sixties an extraordinarily broad range of subjects was offered to pupils of both sexes. The range of subjects was all the more remarkable as these schools were intended for families of limited means.

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