[698] Cp. Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1666-67, pp. 57, 104. At a later date A. de la Barre, a schoolmaster of Leyden, published a Methode ou Instruction nouvelle pour les etrangers qui desirent apprendre la manière de composer ou écrire a la mode du temps et scavoir la vraye prononciation de la langue françoise, Leyden, 1642. In 1644 he issued, also at Leyden, a book probably intended as reading material for his pupils, and called Les Leçons publiques du sieur de la Barre, prises sur les questions curieuses et problematiques des plus beaux esprits de ce temps.
[699] Farrer, La Vie et les œuvres de Claude de Sainliens, Bibliography.
[700] G. S. Rowlands, The Letting of Humour's blood in the Head-Vaine (1600). Edinburgh, 1814.
[701] Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1595-97, p. 173; 1601-1603, pp. 18, 111.
[702] Printed in the Camden Miscellany, vol. i., 1847, pp. 65 sqq.
[703] Memoirs of the Verney Family, i. 171.
[704] During the Commonwealth there were many English troops in the service of France, and the Duke of York, afterwards James II., spent much of his first exile in serving under Turenne.
[705] Cp. Dict. Nat. Biog., ad nom. An Englishman, Gilbert Primrose, was for a time minister at Bordeaux (till 1623), and afterwards of the Threadneedle Street Church, London (Dict. Nat. Biog.).
[706] Arber, Stationers' Register, iv. 100.