FOOTNOTES:
[1043] A play called The French Schoolmaster appeared in 1662 (Fleay, Chronicle of English Drama, 1891, ii. p. 338).
[1044] There are, however, no points of resemblance between that work and the grammar which appeared about twelve years later.
[1045] Catalogue of the Library of Dean Smallwood, 1684.
[1046] Cp. Arber, Term Catalogues, i. 269. Anne was three years younger than Mary.
[1047] Schickler, Les Églises du Refuge, ii. p. 311.
[1048] Savile Correspondence, Camden Society, 1856, passim.
[1049] Huguenot Society Publications, xviii. p. 138.
[1050] Stationers' Register, iii. p. 277.
[1051] Such was also the opinion of J. Minsheu, author of the Ductor in Linguas (1617): "I have always found that the true knowledge and sure holding of them in our memories, consisted in the knowing of them by their causes, originalls and etymologies, that is by their reasons and derivations."
[1052] His work suffered in having to strive against Cotgrave's long settled reputation.
[1053] The third edition appeared, like the first, at London, 1690.
[1054] Arber, Term Catalogues, i. 477.
[1055] 8vo: pp. 168, 142. Printed for Th. Bassett....
[1056] For instance, that for the gender of nouns, in 1678, states that those ending in "e" or "x" are masculine, and the rest feminine; in 1687, those ending in "e" and "ion" are feminine and the rest masculine; in both cases long lists of exceptions are given.
[1057] "To follow the old road I should now decline a noun or two with these articles, and six cases to be sure, to wit, the nominative, accusative, dative, vocative, and ablative, whether our language can afford them or not. But why should I perplex the learned with so improper and needless a thing? For the distinction of cases is come from the variable termination of one and the same noun. A thing incident (I confess) to the Latine tongue, but not to our vulgar speech."
[1058] A second edition of Miège's English Grammar appeared in 1691.
[1059] Arber, Term Catalogues, iii. 67, 487.
[1060] But if they have been grounded in the principles before travelling, they make quicker progress, and do not lose their knowledge.
[1061] "Car il n'y a rien de tel pour apprendre une langue que de l'entendre parler."
[1062] Later he added rules for Spanish to his work. Colsoni also wrote Le Guide de Londres pour les Estrangers (1st edition, 1693), and several works chiefly on topical subjects, of little interest. In 1694 his Guide was followed by Richard Baldwin's Booke for Strangers.
[1063] And again in 1679.
[1064] Who translated one of Tillotson's sermons into French (1673).
[1065] See Bibliography.
[1066] Schickler, op. cit. ii. p. 282.
[1067] The Church of Rome evidently proved Heretick (1680); The Church of England evidently proved the holy catholick Church (1682). Towards the end of his career he wrote a Discourse of the Trinitie ... etc. (1700). Berault calls himself a French minister, and he served as chaplain on several of His Majesty's ships during the war with France at the end of the century.
[1068] Le Véritable et assuré Chemin du Ciel en François et en Anglois (1681), and the Bouquet ou un Amas de plusieurs veritez Théologiques (1685), dedicated to Anne Stuart, afterwards queen.
[1069] Berault is behind the times in retaining most of the Latin cases and tenses. His grammar, on the whole, is fuller and more detailed than most of its kind.
[1070] Le Théâtre françois (1674). ed. Monval, 1876, p. 62. Jean Blaeu, in translating from English into French Ed. Chamberlain's Present State of England (1669), states: "Je ne l'ay pas sitost veu en Anglois que j'ay jugé qu'il méritoit de paroistre dans la langue françoise, comme estant plus universelle dans la chrestienté qu'aucune autre" (1671). Jusserand, Shakespeare in France, p. 20, note.
[1071] De monumentis publicis latine inscribendis. Goujet, Bibliothèque françoise (1740-56), i. p. 13.
[1072] Bayle, Œuvres, iv. p. 190, quoted by Charlanne, L'Influence française en Angleterre, pt. ii. p. 202.
[1073] F. Watson, Grammar Schools, p. 312.
[1074] Epilogue to Bellamira.
[1075] London, 1678.
[1076] Young Gallants' Academy, 1674, p. 44.
[1077] A little later Swift wrote that "the current opinion prevails that the study of Latin and Greek is loss of time...." (Works, 1841, ii. p. 291).
[1078] A Dialogue ... concerning Education, Miscellaneous Works, London, 1751, p. 338.
[1079] Even the universities had to give some recognition to the modern language. A Professorship of Modern History and Modern Languages was founded at both universities in 1724. Cp. Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, iv. 128.
[1080] "Some Thoughts," Educational Writings of Locke, 1912, p. 125.
[1081] The same opinions are voiced by later writers, such as Costeker, Education of a Young Nobleman, 1723, p. 18; and the author of a pamphlet On Education, 1734.
[1082] Evelyn, Diary, Dec. 6, 1681.
[1083] The Compleat Gentleman (1728), ed. K. D. Bülbring, 1890.
[1084] Epilogue to Bellamira.
[1085] Works, ed. A. Wilson, Verity, London, 1888, Preface.
[1086] Le Blanc, Lettres d'un Français, à la Haye, 1745, ii. p. 1.
[1087] He tells Maupertuis of the great success of his De la Figure de la Terre (1738) in England, where it was awaited with impatience and received with acclamation (Lettres, ii. 244).
[1088] An Essay to revive the antient Education of Gentlewomen (Mrs. Makin or Mark Lewis).
[1089] French no doubt often reached grammar school boys indirectly. Thus Charles Hoole in 1660 (A New Discoverie of the old Art of Teaching School) recommends the Dialogues of Du Grès for their private reading; perhaps, however, he was thinking more of the Latin than of the French part.
[1090] Miscellaneous Works, 1751, pp. 320-1.
[1091] A New Method of Educating Children ..., 1695.
[1092] Th. Sheridan, Plan of Education, 1769, p. 42.
[1093] M. Misson, Mémoires et Observations d'un voyageur en Angleterre, à la Haye, 1698, p. 99.
[1094] Information supplied by J. Potter Briscoe, Esq., of Nottingham.
[1095] C. Deering, An Historical Account of the ancient and present State of the Town of Nottingham, Nottingham, 1751, p. 32.
[1096] He remarks on the desire to learn English expressed by several French persons he met, chiefly Huguenots.
[1097] Printed by J. D. for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion, and George Wells, at the Sun in Paul's Churchyard. 8vo, pp. 224.
[1098] Pp. 17-132.
[1099] An Essay to revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen ..., London, 1673.
[1100] Essay on Projects (1697), London, 1887, pp. 164 sqq.
[1101] Cp. Loveday, Letters, 1639, p. 178.
[1102] Lewis also interviewed parents any Thursday in the afternoon between three and six o'clock, at the Bolt and Tun in Fleet Street.
[1103] Model for a school for the better education of Youth, and Advertisement at the end of his Plan and Short Rules for pointing periods ... (c. 1670).
[1104] Advertisement in An Essay on the Proper Method for forming the Man of Business, 4th ed., 1722, pp. 44-45.
[1105] Calendar of State Papers, Treasury Books, 1679-80, pp. 132, 140.