[849] An Essay on Education, London, 1711.
[850] Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, ed. C. H. Firth, London. 1885, i. p. 16.
[851] Ibid. p. 23.
[852] Autobiography of Lady Anne Halkett, 1622-1699, 1701, Camden Society, 1875, p. 2.
[853] The Lives of Wm., Duke of Newcastle and of his wife Margaret ... written by the thrice noble and illustrious princess Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, ed. M. A. Lower, 1872, p. 271.
[854] Loveday's Letters, Domestick and forrain to several persons ..., London, 1659, p. 31.
[855] Letters, p. 105. Cp. also pp. 26, 47, 79, 135, etc. It is evident from the letter of Dorothy Osborne quoted above, p. 320, that she had learnt French chiefly by ear. Several of the inaccuracies, such as the use of the past participle for the infinitive, would not be noticeable in pronunciation.
[856] F. Watson, Grammar Schools, pp. 276 sqq.
[857] J. Webbe, An Appeale to Truth in the Controversie between Art and Verse about the best and most expedient course in languages, 1622.
[858] There was a strong feeling at this period in favour of a freer use of English in the teaching of Latin, chiefly on account of the time such a course would save. Thus Milton recognized the mistake of spending a great number of years in learning one language "making two labours of one by learning first the accidence, then the grammar in Latin, ere the language of those rules be understood." The remedy, he thought, was the use of a grammar in English (A. F. Leach, "Milton as Schoolboy and Schoolmaster," Proceedings of the British Academy, iii. 1908). Snell (Right Teaching of Useful Knowledge, 1649), Mrs. Makin or M. Lewis (?) (Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, 1671), and others also argued that English should be the groundwork of the teaching of Latin. Most of the English grammars produced in the seventeenth century claim to be useful to scholars as an introduction to the rudiments of Latin; and it was on this footing, no doubt, that English grammar first made its way into the schools. Chief among these, perhaps, was J. Poole's English Accidence for attaining more speedily the Latin Tongue, so that every young child, as soon as he can read English, may by it turn any sentence into Latin. Published by Authority, and commended as generally necessary to be made use of in all schooles of this commonwealth, London, 1655. For a list of English grammars cp. F. Watson, Modern Subjects, chap. i. Lily's Grammar came to be almost always used with the English rendering by Wm. Hume. Cp. Watson, Grammar Schools, p. 296.