They kept their accounts of expenditure and receipts, and acquired good habits of business while learning the occupation of their lives.

Some mechanical trades were taught, as well as the arts of agriculture.
'Part of the wisdom of the management lay in making the pupils pay.

Of one hundred pupils, half were boarders.

They paid little more than half the expenses of their maintenance, and the day-scholars paid threepence per week.

Of course, a large part of the expense was borne by Lady Byron, besides the payments she made for children who could not otherwise have entered the school.