[567] Ibid. p. 119. A certain Charles Doyley wrote in similar terms from Rouen.
[568] Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1595-97, p. 293.
[569] Purchas Pilgrimes, 1625.
[570] Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae.
[571] As did Sir James Melville (Memoirs, Bannatyne Club, 1827, p. 12), "to learn to play upon the lut, and to writ Frenche," at the age of fourteen. Similarly, Barnaby Fitzpatrick, Edward VI.'s youthful favourite and proxy for correction, was sent to Paris to study fashions and manners (Nichols, Literary Remains, p. lxx).
[572] The practice was also very common in Scotland, especially when the reformers assumed the power of approving private tutors as well as schoolmasters. Gentlemen were driven to evade this restriction by sending their sons to France in the care of what they considered suitable tutors. The Assembly then tried to assert its power by granting passports only to those whose tutors they approved. See Young, Histoire de l'Enseignement en Écosse, p. 52.
[573] Copy Book of Sir Amias Poulet's Letters, Roxburghe Club, 1866, pp. 16, 231.
[574] The Compleat Gentleman (1622), 1906, p. 33.
[575] Ellis, Original Letters, 3rd series, iii. 377.
[576] Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII. vol. viii. 517; vol. ix. 1086; vol. xii. pt. i. 972, etc.