[486] Cp. Revue des Deux Mondes, 1901, v. p. 243.
[487] Stationers' Register, iii. 432.
[488] Farrer, op. cit. p. 86.
[489] Himself a good linguist, who translated some of James I.'s compositions into French, and was for many years in the service of the English Foreign Office; cp. S. Lee, Beginnings of French Translations from the English. Transactions of the Bibliog. Soc. vii., 1908.
[490] In an autograph letter; cp. Dict. Nat. Biog., ad nom.
[491] Rolls of expenses of Prince Henry, "Revels at Court," ed. P. Cunningham, New Shakespeare Soc., 1842 (Preface).
[492] Harl. MSS. 7002, quoted Dict. Nat. Biog. At the end of one of the Brit. Mus. copies is the MS. inscription: "Mr. James Winwood, his book and sent him out of England by John More the 18th May [1611]." Evidently Cotgrave's work made its way rapidly into France.
[493] Printed by Adam Islip, 4to.
[494] A French English Dictionary, compil'd by Mr. Randle Cotgrave, with another in English and French. Whereunto are newly added the Animadversions and Supplements etc. of James Howell, Esquire. London, printed by W. H. for Rd. Whitaker ... 4to. Sherwood's dictionary was printed by Susan Islip.
[495] Ninth ed., 1726, pp. 470 sqq.