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

[716] Ellis, Original Letters, 1st series, iii. 89.

[717] T. Birch, Life of Henry Prince of Wales, London, 1760, p. 20.

[718] On Henry's death, St. Antoine became equerry to his brother Charles (Rye, op. cit. p. 253).

[719] Ellis, Orig. Letters, ser. 1, iii. 95.

[720] "The French fashion of dancing is most in request with us" (Dallington, Method for Travell, 1598).

[721] His dancing-master was a M. du Caus. There were other Frenchmen in his service. Cp. "Roll of Expenses of Prince Henry," Revels at Court, ed. P. Cunningham, New Sk. Soc., 1842.

[722] J. Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Clark, 1898, i. p. 254; Wood, Athen. Oxon. (Bliss).

[723] T. Birch, op. cit. pp. 38, 66, 67.

[724] Rye, op. cit. p. 155.

[725] Mémoires de Madame de Motteville, in Petitot et Monmerqué, Collection des Mémoires relatifs à l'Histoire de France, tom. 37, 1824, pp. 122-3.