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[882] Discourse in derision of the Teaching in Free Schools, 1644.
[883] One John Gifford, for instance, obtained permission to spend seven years in France in order to educate his family there (Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1623-25, p. 282). Mr. Storey sent his grandson Starky to France to learn the language (ibid., 1649-50, p. 535).
[884] Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1654, p. 427. Care was taken to prevent English students abroad from going to Roman Catholics; in 1661 Francis Cottington made a successful application for the remission of a forfeiture he incurred by going to Paris without a licence and living three months in the house of a Papist (Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1661-62, p. 566).
[885] Memoirs of the Verney Family, i. pp. 477, 497.
[886] Among the books he read were Monluc's Commentaires, the Secrétaire à la mode, and the Secrétaire de la cour (Memoirs of the Verney Family, iii. p. 80).
[887] Memoirs, iii. p. 66.
[888] An Edict of 1683 restricted the number of such pupils allowed to French pastors to two.
[889] An account of the schools of the French Protestants is given by M. Nicolas in the Bulletin de l'Histoire du Protestantisme français, vol. iv. pp. 497 et seq.
[890] Cp. pp. 233 sqq., supra. The names of many famous families are found in the registers of Geneva University—the Pembrokes, Montagus, Cavendishes, Cecils, etc. Borgeaud, L'Académie de Genève, p. 442.