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

[178] Strickland, op. cit. ii. pp. 477-8.

[179] Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII., xvi. No. 1253.

[180] Ellis, Original Letters, 3rd series, ii. p. 236.

[181] One of Elizabeth's Italian masters was Baptista Castiglione, a religious refugee in 1557. Elizabeth, however, had acquired some knowledge of Italian before 1544; in that year she addressed a letter in Italian to Queen Katharine Parr (printed in G. Howard's Lady Jane Grey and her Times, 1822). Other Italian letters of the queen are published in Green's Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies, 1846.

[182] Account of the Venetian ambassador at the Court of Mary—Michel Giovanni. Rye, op. cit. p. 266.

[183] Memoirs of his own Life, 1549-93, Bannatyne Club, 1827, p. 125. Elizabeth's Dutch he pronounces "not gud," and later says that neither the King of France nor the Queen of England could speak Dutch (p. 341).

[184] Memoirs of his own Life, 1549-93, Bannatyne Club, 1827, p. 117.

[185] J. Nichols, Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, 1788-1821, i. p. x.

[186] Rye, op. cit. p. 12.

[187] Rye, op. cit. p. 104.