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

[253] Bale, Britanniae Scriptorum, 1548, fol. 219.

[254] Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII. ii. pt. 2, 1107.

[255] J. G. Nichols, Memoir of the Duke of Richmond, 1855, Camden Society, Miscellany, iii. pp. xxiii-xxiv; also Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII. iv. 5806, and v. 1596, 1793, 2069, 2081.

[256] Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII. iv. 5806.

[257] Ibid. iv. 4560: Letter dated July 27, 1528.

[258] Ibid. iv. 5806, 5807.

[259] "Instructions for Syr Wm. Stevynson, what he shall do for one John Palsgrave with the Frenche Queenes Grace and the Duke of Suffolk her espouse": ibid. v. 5808.

[260] Wood, Athen. Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 121.

[261] Letters and Papers, v. 621-622: Letter dated Oct. 18, 1532.

[262] Palsgrave received ecclesiastical preferment from time to time. Amongst others, he was collated to the prebend of Portpoole in St. Paul's Cathedral by Bishop Fitzjames in 1514, and to the Rectory of St. Dunstan-in-the-East by Cranmer in 1533, and to that of Wadenhoe, Northamptonshire, in 1545, by the same Archbishop. (Thompson Cooper in the Dict. Nat. Biog.)