[149] Copy Book of Sir Amias Poulet's Letters, Roxburghe Club, 1866, p. 129.
[150] The Second Book of the Travels of Nicander Nucius, Camden Soc., 1841, p. 14.
[151] Dialogue de l'ortografe et pronunciacion françoese departi en deus livres, Lyon, 1558.
[152] Peiresc wrote in French to the scholars Selden and Camden, who answered in Latin. Other French scholars who maintained a correspondence with Englishmen are de Thou, Jérôme Bignon, Duchesne, du Plessis Mornay, H. Estienne, Hubert Languet, Pibrac, and the Sainte-Marthe brothers.
[153] Lettres missives de Henri IV, 9 tom., Paris, 1843. For an example of Elizabeth's French in her intercourse with her neighbours, see Rathery, Les Relations sociales et intellectuelles entre la France et l'Angleterre, Paris, 1856, p. 31 n.; Unton Correspondence, Roxburghe Club, 1847, passim.
[154] See the Calendars of State Papers for the period.
[155] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1595-97, p. 328.
[156] Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII., vol xiii. pt. i. No. 977.
[157] Henry VII.'s mother, the Countess of Richmond, was also an accomplished French scholar; she translated several works from the French, and encouraged others to follow her example.
[158] J. P. Collier, Annals of the English Stage, 1831, vol. i. pp. 48, 51, 53.