FOOTNOTES:
[685] Florio, First Frutes, 1578.
[686] J. Aubrey, Brief Lives (ed. A. Clark, Oxford, 1898), ii. p. 140.
[687] A fragment of one leaf, the title page, leaving no date; British Museum, Harl. MSS. 5936.
[688] Arber, Transcript of the Stationers' Register, iii. 413; iv. 152 and 459.
[689] Vocabulaire de nouveau ordonné et derechief recorigé pour aprendre legierement a bien lire, escripre, et parler françoys et flameng, Anvers, 1511 (E. Stengel, Chronologisches Verzeichnis, p. 22 n.; and Michelant, Livre des Mestiers, Introduction).
[690] Arber, Stationers' Register, i. 343.
[691] Ibid. i. 389.
[692] Arber, Stationers' Register, ii. 338.
[693] Cp. Ch. Beaulieux, "Liste de Dictionnaires, Lexicographes et vocabulaires français antérieurs au Thrésor de Nicot" (1606), in Mélanges de Philologie offerts à Ferdinand Brunot, Paris, 1904.
[694] Cp. E. Stengel, "Über einige seltene französische Grammatiken," in Mélanges de Philologie romane dédiés à Carl Wahlund. Macon, 1896, pp. 181 sqq.
[695] Of similar import, no doubt, were the Boke of Copyes Englesshe, Ffrynshe and Italion, licensed to Vautrollier in 1569-70 (Stationers' Register, i. 417); and the Bills of Lading English, French, Italian, Dutch, licensed to Master Bourne in 1636 (ibid. iv. 364).
[696] H. Vaganey, Le Vocabulaire français du seizième siècle, Paris, 1906, pp. 2 sqq.
[697] Advice to a Son, 1656, p. 83.
[698] Cp. Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1666-67, pp. 57, 104. At a later date A. de la Barre, a schoolmaster of Leyden, published a Methode ou Instruction nouvelle pour les etrangers qui desirent apprendre la manière de composer ou écrire a la mode du temps et scavoir la vraye prononciation de la langue françoise, Leyden, 1642. In 1644 he issued, also at Leyden, a book probably intended as reading material for his pupils, and called Les Leçons publiques du sieur de la Barre, prises sur les questions curieuses et problematiques des plus beaux esprits de ce temps.
[699] Farrer, La Vie et les œuvres de Claude de Sainliens, Bibliography.
[700] G. S. Rowlands, The Letting of Humour's blood in the Head-Vaine (1600). Edinburgh, 1814.
[701] Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1595-97, p. 173; 1601-1603, pp. 18, 111.
[702] Printed in the Camden Miscellany, vol. i., 1847, pp. 65 sqq.
[703] Memoirs of the Verney Family, i. 171.
[704] During the Commonwealth there were many English troops in the service of France, and the Duke of York, afterwards James II., spent much of his first exile in serving under Turenne.
[705] Cp. Dict. Nat. Biog., ad nom. An Englishman, Gilbert Primrose, was for a time minister at Bordeaux (till 1623), and afterwards of the Threadneedle Street Church, London (Dict. Nat. Biog.).
[706] Arber, Stationers' Register, iv. 100.