FOOTNOTES:
[1] From the same Institution of a Christian Woman (Richard Hyrde’s translation).
[2] J. L. Vives: Ausgeswählte pädagogische Schriften. Leipzig.
[3] De Causis Corruptarum Artium, book ii.
[4] The De Disciplinis consists of two parts—1. De Causis Corruptarum Artium, in seven books; 2. De Tradendis Disciplinis in five books.
[5] Dissertation on Romance and Minstrelsy, by Joseph Ritson, 1891.
[6] Bömer, Die Lateinischen Schülergespräche der Humanisten (1899), p. 182.
[7] Vives deals with this question in his De Tradendis Disciplinis, and it is highly probable that Mulcaster had read that book before he treated on the subject of conferences of parents and teachers. (Positions, p. 284).
[8] It should be remembered, in connection with these dates, that Queen Mary was eleven years older than Philip. Mary was Philip’s second wife; his first wife was Mary of Portugal, whom he married in 1543. She died in 1546.