The Scholemaster

Produced by Judy Boss
Or plaine and perfite way of tea- chyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientle- men and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, with- out a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnder- stand, write, and speake Latin.
By Roger Ascham.
An. 1570.
Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate.
Cum Gratia & Priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis, per Decennium.
To the honorable Sir William
Cecill Knight, principall Secretarie to
the Quenes most excellent Maiestie.
174 Preface.
be receiued vnder your name, and that the world should owe thanke therof to you, to whom my husband the authour of it was for good receyued of you, most dutiefully bounden. And so besechyng you, to take on you the defense of this booke, to auaunce the good that may come of it by your allowance and furtherance to publike vse and benefite, and to accept the thankefull recognition of me and my poore children, trustyng of the continuance of your good me- morie of M. Ascham and his, and dayly commen- dyng the prosperous estate of you and yours to God whom you serue and whoes you are, I rest to trouble you. Your humble Margaret Ascham.
A Præface to the Reader.