The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times / With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period

by K. Rebillon Lambley

[518] Cp. C. Wordsworth, Scholae Academicae, 1877, pp. 209 sqq.

[519] Letter Book of Gabriel Harvey (1573-1580), Camden Soc., 1884, pp. 78-9. The tutor of John Hall, author of the Horae Vacivae (1646), testified to his pupil's attainments in French, Spanish, and Italian literature. Mullinger, History of the University of Cambridge, ii. p. 351.

[520] One, Jean Verneuil, became underlibrarian of the Bodleian in 1625. Cp. Schickler, Les Églises du Refuge, i. p. 424; Foster Watson, Religious Refugees and English Education, Hug. Soc. Proceedings, 1911; Agnew, Protestant Exiles, i. ch. v. and pp. 137, 147, 148, 156, 163; ii. pp. 260, 274, 388; Smiles, The Huguenots, ch. xiv.

[521] There were also numerous French Protestant students at the University of Edinburgh; cp. Schickler, op. cit. i. p. 366.

[522] Schickler, op. cit. i. p. 244.

[523] Wood, Fasti Oxonienses (Bliss), ii. 195.

[524] Wood, Athenae Oxon. (Bliss), ii. 380.

[525] Oxford Historical Society: Collectanea, i., 1885, pp. 73 sqq.

[526] 8vo, pp. 92.

[527] E. Stengel, Chronologisches Verzeichnis französischer Grammatiken, Oppeln, 1890.