[253.] Ellis, Original Letters, 2nd Series, vol. iii. pp. 220-1.

[254.] Archeologia, vol. xxxvi. pp. 343-4.

[255.] Collectania, First Series, ed. for the Oxford Historical Society (vol. v.) by C.R.L. Fletcher, p. 213.

[256.] See Archeologia, xxi. p. 506. Gilbert's and La Nouë's dreams were of academies like Vittorino da Feltre's--not Pluvinel's.

[257.] Oxford Historical Society, vol. v. p. 276.

[258.] Ibid., pp. 280-2.

[259.] The Interpreter of the Academic for Forrain Languages, and all Noble Sciences, and Exercises, London, 1648.

[260.] Evelyn's Diary, 9th August 1682.

[261.] Ibid., 18th December 1684.

[262.] Oxford Historical Society, vol. v. pp. 309-13.