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

[597] Letter dated September 1, 1631 (J. Forster, Sir John Eliot, a Biography, London, 1864, i. pp. 16, 17).

[598] J. Howell, Instructions for Forreine Travel, 1642 (ed. Arber, 1869), p. 19.

[599] 1656, p. 102.

[600] Spence's Anecdotes, 1820, p. 184; Dict. Nat. Biog., ad nom.

[601] A Dialogue concerning Education, in Miscellaneous Works, London, 1751, pp. 313 et seq.

[602] Cp. Entries of Passports, in the Cal. State Papers. The necessity of such a course was considered specially urgent if the traveller was himself ignorant of languages (The Gentleman's Companion, by a Person of Quality, 1672, p. 55).

[603] Gailhard, The Compleat Gentleman, 1678, p. 16.

[604] Gailhard, op. cit. pp. 19, 20. A gentleman, he thinks, should be sent abroad betimes to prevent his being hardened in any evil course.

[605] Some Thoughts on Education, 1693.

[606] Walker, Of Education, especially of Young Gentlemen, 1699, 6th ed.