[243] Ellis, Orig. Letters, 3rd series, vol. ii. p. 214.
[244] He found it useful in diplomatic service. He writes to his patron: "I am well asseyed here and my little knowledge of French well exercised" (Brussels, Nov. 20, 1538), Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII. xiii. pt. ii. No. 882.
[245] "O devotz amateurs de bonnes lettres pleust a Dieu que quelque noble cœur s'employast a mettre et ordonner par regle nostre langaige françois! Ce seroit moyen que maints milliers d'hommes se evertueroient a souvent user de belles et bonnes paroles. S'il n'y est mis et ordonné on trouvera que de cinquante en cinquante ans la langue françoise pour la plus grande part sera changée et pervertie" (folio 1, verso). Tory sketched a plan of a great work on the language to which his Champ fleury was intended only as an introduction.
[246] Génin is 'certain' that the date given on the frontispiece of Palsgrave's work is a year earlier than that on which it actually appeared. He draws this conclusion from the date of the king's privilege, twenty-second year of Henry VIII., who came to the throne in 1509; 9 + 22 = 31. This leaves Palsgrave a longer period to gather what he could from Tory's work, says Génin. But the twenty-second year of the reign of Henry VIII. began in April 1530, and the printing of Palsgrave's work was completed on the 18th of July.
[247] Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII. i. Nos. 513 and 3094.
[248] Ibid. vi. No. 1199. Duwes also received numerous grants of money and licences to import Gascon wine.
[249] Printed in Theatrum Chemicum, Ursel, 1602, vol. ii. pp. 95-123, and reprinted in J. J. Manget's Bibliotheca Chemica, Geneva, 1702, vol. ii. Two copies of an English translation are in the Bodleian (Ashmole MSS.). See Dict. Nat. Biog.
[250] He is called "schoolmaster to my Lady Princess of Castile," in the Book of Payments, March 1513, Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII. ii. No. 1460.
[251] Ibid. ii. 295.
[252] Ibid. i. 5582.