Real Colegio de San Telmo de Sevilla (nautical college for orphan boys, refounded by the Ordenanzas of 1786)

A boarding school in Seville that took in poor boys of eight to fourteen, orphans preferred, and taught them mathematics, the nautical faculties, commerce, drawing, French and English. Its 1786 ordinances open by admitting the place had been badly governed, endow it on one per cent of the silver arriving from the Indies, and bind every boy admitted to serve afterwards in the Royal Navy or the Indies trade.