FOOTNOTES:

FOOTNOTES:[1043]A play calledThe French Schoolmasterappeared in 1662 (Fleay,Chronicle of English Drama, 1891, ii. p. 338).[1044]There are, however, no points of resemblance between that work and the grammar which appeared about twelve years later.[1045]Catalogue of the Library of Dean Smallwood, 1684.[1046]Cp. Arber,Term Catalogues, i. 269. Anne was three years younger than Mary.[1047]Schickler,Les Églises du Refuge, ii. p. 311.[1048]Savile Correspondence, Camden Society, 1856,passim.[1049]Huguenot Society Publications, xviii. p. 138.[1050]Stationers' Register, iii. p. 277.[1051]Such was also the opinion of J. Minsheu, author of theDuctor in Linguas(1617): "I have always found that the true knowledge and sure holding of them in our memories, consisted in the knowing of them by their causes, originalls and etymologies, that is by their reasons and derivations."[1052]His work suffered in having to strive against Cotgrave's long settled reputation.[1053]The third edition appeared, like the first, at London, 1690.[1054]Arber,Term Catalogues, i. 477.[1055]8vo: pp. 168, 142. Printed for Th. Bassett....[1056]For instance, that for the gender of nouns, in 1678, states that those ending in "e" or "x" are masculine, and the rest feminine; in 1687, those ending in "e" and "ion" are feminine and the rest masculine; in both cases long lists of exceptions are given.[1057]"To follow the old road I should now decline a noun or two with these articles, and six cases to be sure, to wit, the nominative, accusative, dative, vocative, and ablative, whether our language can afford them or not. But why should I perplex the learned with so improper and needless a thing? For the distinction of cases is come from the variable termination of one and the same noun. A thing incident (I confess) to the Latine tongue, but not to our vulgar speech."[1058]A second edition of Miège's English Grammar appeared in 1691.[1059]Arber,Term Catalogues, iii. 67, 487.[1060]But if they have been grounded in the principles before travelling, they make quicker progress, and do not lose their knowledge.[1061]"Car il n'y a rien de tel pour apprendre une langue que de l'entendre parler."[1062]Later he added rules for Spanish to his work. Colsoni also wroteLe Guide de Londres pour les Estrangers(1st edition, 1693), and several works chiefly on topical subjects, of little interest. In 1694 hisGuidewas followed by Richard Baldwin'sBooke for Strangers.[1063]And again in 1679.[1064]Who translated one of Tillotson's sermons into French (1673).[1065]See Bibliography.[1066]Schickler,op. cit.ii. p. 282.[1067]The Church of Rome evidently proved Heretick(1680);The Church of England evidently proved the holy catholick Church(1682). Towards the end of his career he wrote aDiscourse of the Trinitie ... etc.(1700). Berault calls himself a French minister, and he served as chaplain on several of His Majesty's ships during the war with France at the end of the century.[1068]Le Véritable et assuré Chemin du Ciel en François et en Anglois(1681), and theBouquet ou un Amas de plusieurs veritez Théologiques(1685), dedicated to Anne Stuart, afterwards queen.[1069]Berault is behind the times in retaining most of the Latin cases and tenses. His grammar, on the whole, is fuller and more detailed than most of its kind.[1070]Le Théâtre françois(1674). ed. Monval, 1876, p. 62. Jean Blaeu, in translating from English into French Ed. Chamberlain'sPresent State of England(1669), states: "Je ne l'ay pas sitost veu en Anglois que j'ay jugé qu'il méritoit de paroistre dans la langue françoise, comme estant plus universelle dans la chrestienté qu'aucune autre" (1671). Jusserand,Shakespeare in France, p. 20, note.[1071]De monumentis publicis latine inscribendis.Goujet,Bibliothèque françoise(1740-56), i. p. 13.[1072]Bayle,Œuvres, iv. p. 190, quoted by Charlanne,L'Influence française en Angleterre, pt. ii. p. 202.[1073]F. Watson,Grammar Schools, p. 312.[1074]Epilogue toBellamira.[1075]London, 1678.[1076]Young Gallants' Academy, 1674, p. 44.[1077]A little later Swift wrote that "the current opinion prevails that the study of Latin and Greek is loss of time...." (Works, 1841, ii. p. 291).[1078]A Dialogue ... concerning Education, Miscellaneous Works, London, 1751, p. 338.[1079]Even the universities had to give some recognition to the modern language. A Professorship of Modern History and Modern Languages was founded at both universities in 1724. Cp. Cooper,Annals of Cambridge, iv. 128.[1080]"Some Thoughts,"Educational Writings of Locke, 1912, p. 125.[1081]The same opinions are voiced by later writers, such as Costeker,Education of a Young Nobleman, 1723, p. 18; and the author of a pamphletOn Education, 1734.[1082]Evelyn,Diary, Dec. 6, 1681.[1083]The Compleat Gentleman(1728), ed. K. D. Bülbring, 1890.[1084]Epilogue toBellamira.[1085]Works, ed. A. Wilson, Verity, London, 1888, Preface.[1086]Le Blanc,Lettres d'un Français, à la Haye, 1745, ii. p. 1.[1087]He tells Maupertuis of the great success of hisDe la Figure de la Terre(1738) in England, where it was awaited with impatience and received with acclamation (Lettres, ii. 244).[1088]An Essay to revive the antient Education of Gentlewomen(Mrs. Makin or Mark Lewis).[1089]French no doubt often reached grammar school boys indirectly. Thus Charles Hoole in 1660 (A New Discoverie of the old Art of Teaching School) recommends the Dialogues of Du Grès for their private reading; perhaps, however, he was thinking more of the Latin than of the French part.[1090]Miscellaneous Works, 1751, pp. 320-1.[1091]A New Method of Educating Children ..., 1695.[1092]Th. Sheridan,Plan of Education, 1769, p. 42.[1093]M. Misson,Mémoires et Observations d'un voyageur en Angleterre, à la Haye, 1698, p. 99.[1094]Information supplied by J. Potter Briscoe, Esq., of Nottingham.[1095]C. Deering,An Historical Account of the ancient and present State of the Town of Nottingham, Nottingham, 1751, p. 32.[1096]He remarks on the desire to learn English expressed by several French persons he met, chiefly Huguenots.[1097]Printed by J. D. for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion, and George Wells, at the Sun in Paul's Churchyard. 8vo, pp. 224.[1098]Pp. 17-132.[1099]An Essay to revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen ..., London, 1673.[1100]Essay on Projects(1697), London, 1887, pp. 164sqq.[1101]Cp. Loveday,Letters, 1639, p. 178.[1102]Lewis also interviewed parents any Thursday in the afternoon between three and six o'clock, at the Bolt and Tun in Fleet Street.[1103]Model for a school for the better education of Youth, and Advertisement at the end of hisPlan and Short Rules for pointing periods ...(c.1670).[1104]Advertisement inAn Essay on the Proper Method for forming the Man of Business, 4th ed., 1722, pp. 44-45.[1105]Calendar of State Papers, Treasury Books, 1679-80, pp. 132, 140.

[1043]A play calledThe French Schoolmasterappeared in 1662 (Fleay,Chronicle of English Drama, 1891, ii. p. 338).

[1044]There are, however, no points of resemblance between that work and the grammar which appeared about twelve years later.

[1045]Catalogue of the Library of Dean Smallwood, 1684.

[1046]Cp. Arber,Term Catalogues, i. 269. Anne was three years younger than Mary.

[1047]Schickler,Les Églises du Refuge, ii. p. 311.

[1048]Savile Correspondence, Camden Society, 1856,passim.

[1049]Huguenot Society Publications, xviii. p. 138.

[1050]Stationers' Register, iii. p. 277.

[1051]Such was also the opinion of J. Minsheu, author of theDuctor in Linguas(1617): "I have always found that the true knowledge and sure holding of them in our memories, consisted in the knowing of them by their causes, originalls and etymologies, that is by their reasons and derivations."

[1052]His work suffered in having to strive against Cotgrave's long settled reputation.

[1053]The third edition appeared, like the first, at London, 1690.

[1054]Arber,Term Catalogues, i. 477.

[1055]8vo: pp. 168, 142. Printed for Th. Bassett....

[1056]For instance, that for the gender of nouns, in 1678, states that those ending in "e" or "x" are masculine, and the rest feminine; in 1687, those ending in "e" and "ion" are feminine and the rest masculine; in both cases long lists of exceptions are given.

[1057]"To follow the old road I should now decline a noun or two with these articles, and six cases to be sure, to wit, the nominative, accusative, dative, vocative, and ablative, whether our language can afford them or not. But why should I perplex the learned with so improper and needless a thing? For the distinction of cases is come from the variable termination of one and the same noun. A thing incident (I confess) to the Latine tongue, but not to our vulgar speech."

[1058]A second edition of Miège's English Grammar appeared in 1691.

[1059]Arber,Term Catalogues, iii. 67, 487.

[1060]But if they have been grounded in the principles before travelling, they make quicker progress, and do not lose their knowledge.

[1061]"Car il n'y a rien de tel pour apprendre une langue que de l'entendre parler."

[1062]Later he added rules for Spanish to his work. Colsoni also wroteLe Guide de Londres pour les Estrangers(1st edition, 1693), and several works chiefly on topical subjects, of little interest. In 1694 hisGuidewas followed by Richard Baldwin'sBooke for Strangers.

[1063]And again in 1679.

[1064]Who translated one of Tillotson's sermons into French (1673).

[1065]See Bibliography.

[1066]Schickler,op. cit.ii. p. 282.

[1067]The Church of Rome evidently proved Heretick(1680);The Church of England evidently proved the holy catholick Church(1682). Towards the end of his career he wrote aDiscourse of the Trinitie ... etc.(1700). Berault calls himself a French minister, and he served as chaplain on several of His Majesty's ships during the war with France at the end of the century.

[1068]Le Véritable et assuré Chemin du Ciel en François et en Anglois(1681), and theBouquet ou un Amas de plusieurs veritez Théologiques(1685), dedicated to Anne Stuart, afterwards queen.

[1069]Berault is behind the times in retaining most of the Latin cases and tenses. His grammar, on the whole, is fuller and more detailed than most of its kind.

[1070]Le Théâtre françois(1674). ed. Monval, 1876, p. 62. Jean Blaeu, in translating from English into French Ed. Chamberlain'sPresent State of England(1669), states: "Je ne l'ay pas sitost veu en Anglois que j'ay jugé qu'il méritoit de paroistre dans la langue françoise, comme estant plus universelle dans la chrestienté qu'aucune autre" (1671). Jusserand,Shakespeare in France, p. 20, note.

[1071]De monumentis publicis latine inscribendis.Goujet,Bibliothèque françoise(1740-56), i. p. 13.

[1072]Bayle,Œuvres, iv. p. 190, quoted by Charlanne,L'Influence française en Angleterre, pt. ii. p. 202.

[1073]F. Watson,Grammar Schools, p. 312.

[1074]Epilogue toBellamira.

[1075]London, 1678.

[1076]Young Gallants' Academy, 1674, p. 44.

[1077]A little later Swift wrote that "the current opinion prevails that the study of Latin and Greek is loss of time...." (Works, 1841, ii. p. 291).

[1078]A Dialogue ... concerning Education, Miscellaneous Works, London, 1751, p. 338.

[1079]Even the universities had to give some recognition to the modern language. A Professorship of Modern History and Modern Languages was founded at both universities in 1724. Cp. Cooper,Annals of Cambridge, iv. 128.

[1080]"Some Thoughts,"Educational Writings of Locke, 1912, p. 125.

[1081]The same opinions are voiced by later writers, such as Costeker,Education of a Young Nobleman, 1723, p. 18; and the author of a pamphletOn Education, 1734.

[1082]Evelyn,Diary, Dec. 6, 1681.

[1083]The Compleat Gentleman(1728), ed. K. D. Bülbring, 1890.

[1084]Epilogue toBellamira.

[1085]Works, ed. A. Wilson, Verity, London, 1888, Preface.

[1086]Le Blanc,Lettres d'un Français, à la Haye, 1745, ii. p. 1.

[1087]He tells Maupertuis of the great success of hisDe la Figure de la Terre(1738) in England, where it was awaited with impatience and received with acclamation (Lettres, ii. 244).

[1088]An Essay to revive the antient Education of Gentlewomen(Mrs. Makin or Mark Lewis).

[1089]French no doubt often reached grammar school boys indirectly. Thus Charles Hoole in 1660 (A New Discoverie of the old Art of Teaching School) recommends the Dialogues of Du Grès for their private reading; perhaps, however, he was thinking more of the Latin than of the French part.

[1090]Miscellaneous Works, 1751, pp. 320-1.

[1091]A New Method of Educating Children ..., 1695.

[1092]Th. Sheridan,Plan of Education, 1769, p. 42.

[1093]M. Misson,Mémoires et Observations d'un voyageur en Angleterre, à la Haye, 1698, p. 99.

[1094]Information supplied by J. Potter Briscoe, Esq., of Nottingham.

[1095]C. Deering,An Historical Account of the ancient and present State of the Town of Nottingham, Nottingham, 1751, p. 32.

[1096]He remarks on the desire to learn English expressed by several French persons he met, chiefly Huguenots.

[1097]Printed by J. D. for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion, and George Wells, at the Sun in Paul's Churchyard. 8vo, pp. 224.

[1098]Pp. 17-132.

[1099]An Essay to revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen ..., London, 1673.

[1100]Essay on Projects(1697), London, 1887, pp. 164sqq.

[1101]Cp. Loveday,Letters, 1639, p. 178.

[1102]Lewis also interviewed parents any Thursday in the afternoon between three and six o'clock, at the Bolt and Tun in Fleet Street.

[1103]Model for a school for the better education of Youth, and Advertisement at the end of hisPlan and Short Rules for pointing periods ...(c.1670).

[1104]Advertisement inAn Essay on the Proper Method for forming the Man of Business, 4th ed., 1722, pp. 44-45.

[1105]Calendar of State Papers, Treasury Books, 1679-80, pp. 132, 140.

The Middle Ages

A. Manuscripts

* Indicates that there are also other manuscripts of later date.

Henry III. (1216-1272):

c.1250Short Treatise on French Verbs (Trinity College, Cambridge, R. 3, 56).

Edward I. (1272-1307):

* Le treytyz ke moun sire Gautier de Bibelesworthe fist a ma dame Dionisie de Mounchensy pur aprise de langwage (ed. T. Wright, "Volume of Vocabularies," 1857).* Tractatus Orthographiae of T. H. Parisii Studentis (ed. M. K. Pope, "Modern Language Review," April 1910).c.1300* Orthographia Gallica (ed. J. Stürzinger, "Altfranzösische Bibliothek," viii., Heilbronn, 1884).

Edward II. and Edward III. (1307-1377):

Commentaries in French on the Orthographia Gallica (ed. Stürzinger,ut supra).Epistolaries, or Collections of model letters (MSS. Harl. 4971, Harl. 3988, Addit. 17716 Brit. Mus.; Ee 4, 20, Camb. Univ. Libr.; B 14. 39, 40, Trinity Col. Camb.; 182, All Souls, Oxon.; 188, Magdalen Col.).Cartularies, or Collections of Bills, Indentures, etc. (Harl. 4971; Ee 4, 20, Camb. Univ. Libr.; Addit. 17716).Undated Vocabularies and Verb Tables and Fragments on Grammar (Ee 4, 20, Camb. Univ. Libr.; Harl. 4971, Addit. 17716, Brit. Mus.; 188, Magdalen Col., Oxon.).c.1340Nominale sive Verbale in Gallicis cum expositione eiusdem in Anglicis (ed. Skeat, "Transactions of the Philological Soc.," 1903-1906).

Richard II. (1377-1399):

Tractatus Orthographiae of Coyfurelly, Doctor in Law of Orleans (ed. Stengel, "Zeitschrift für neufranzösische Sprache und Literatur," vol. i., 1878).1396* Maniere de Language (ed. P. Meyer, "Revue critique," 1873).1399Petit Livre pour enseigner les enfanz de leur entreparler comun francois (ed. Stengel,op. cit.).c.1409Donait francois pur briefment entroduyr les Anglois et la droit language de Paris et de pais la d'entour fait aus despenses de Johan Barton par pluseurs bons clercs du language avandite (ed. Stengel,op. cit.).Conjugation of Verbs, by R. Dove. Le Donait soloum douce franceis de Paris (Sloane MSS. 513).c.1415Liber Donati (MSS. Dd 12, 23, Gg 6, 44, Camb. Univ. Libr.; Addit. 17716 Brit. Mus.).Femina. Liber iste vocatur Femina, quia sicut Femina docet infantemloqui maternam, sic docet iste liber iuvenes rethorice loqui Gallicum prout infra patebit (ed. W. A. Wright, Roxburghe Club, 1907).1415Maniere de Language (ed. P. Meyer, "Romania," xxxii., 1903).John Lydgate, Praeceptiones linguae gallicae, li. 1. (Bale, "Scriptores Britanniae," fol. 203.)c.1500?Dialogues in French and English (MS. Ii. 6, 17, Camb. Univ. Libr.).

B. Printed Books

c.1483Tres bonne doctrine pour aprendre briefment francoys et engloys. Printed by William Caxton. B.L. 4to. (Ed. H. Bradley, "Early English Text Society," extra series, lxxix., 1900.)Another edition. Fragment of one leaf in the Bodleian.c.1492?Here is a good boke to lerne to speke French. B.L. 4to. Colophon: Per me Richardum Pynson.c.1498?Here beginneth a Lytell treatyse for to lerne Englisshe and Frensshe. B.L. 4to. Colophon: Here endeth a lytyll treatyse for to lerne Englysshe and Frensshe. Emprinted at Westmynster by my Wynken de Worde.Another edition. Fragment of one leaf in the British Museum. B.L. 4to.

Tudor and Stuart Times

1521Barclay.The introductorie to wryte and to pronounce frenche.?Valence.Introductions in frensche....1528Fragment of grammar in Lambeth Library.1530Palsgrave.Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse.c.1534Duwes.An introductorie for to lerne ... french trewly.c.1535Duwes.An introductorie for to lerne ... french trewly.c.1547Duwes.An introductorie for to lerne ... french trewly.1552Veron.Dictionariolum puerorum....1553?Du Ploich.A Treatise in English and Frenche....1553?Traicté pour apprendre a parler françoys et angloys.1557G. Meurier.La Grammaire Françoise....1557(Barlement.) A Boke intituled Italion, Frynsshe, Englysshe Latin.1559Ane A.B.C. for Scottes men to read the frenche toung....1563Meurier.Communications familieres.1565Holyband.The French Schoolemaister.1566Holyband.The French Littleton.1568(Barlement.) A Boke intituled Ffrynshe, Englysshe and Duche.1571A Dictionarie french and english.1572Higgins.Huloets dictionarie ... the French thereunto annexed.1573Holyband.The French Schoolemaister.1574Baret.An Alvearie ... in Englishe, Latin and French.1575* A plaine pathway to the French Tongue.1576Ledoyen de la Pichonnaye.A Plaine Treatise to larne ... French.1578Bellot.The French Grammer.1578Du Ploich.A Treatise in English and Frenche, new ed.1578Holyband.French Littleton.1578(Barlement.) Dictionaire ... en quattre Langues.?Holyband.French Schoolemaister.1580Holyband.A Treatise for Declining of Verbs.1580Holyband.De Pronuntiatione Linguae Gallicae.1580Holyband.The Treasurie of the French Tong.1581Baret.Alvearie ... New ed.1581Holyband.French Littleton.1581Bellot.Le Jardin de Vertu.1582Holyband.French Schoolemaister.1583Holyband.Campo di Fior.1585Higgins.The Nomenclator or Remembrancer of Adrianus Junius.1588Bellot.The French Methode.?Holyband.French Schoolemaister.1590De Corro.The Spanish Grammer with certeine Rules teaching ... French.1591Holyband.French Littleton.1591Corderius.Dialogues in French and English.1592De la Mothe.The French Alphabet.1593Holyband.French Littleton.1593Holyband.A Dictionarie French and English.1593Eliote.Ortho-Epia Gallica.1595E. A. Grammaire Angloise et Françoise.1595De la Mothe.French Alphabet.1596Morlet.Janitrix ... ad perfectam Linguae Gallicae cognitionem.1597Holyband.French Littleton.1598The Necessary ... Education of a Young Gentlewoman, Italian, French and English.1599Holyband.A Treatise for Declining of Verbs.1602A Short Syntaxis of the French Tongue.1602Holyband.French Littleton.1604Sanford.Le Guichet François.1605Sanford.A Briefe Extract of the former grammar ... in English.1605Erondell.The French Garden.1606Holyband.French Schoolemaister.1607Holyband.French Littleton.1611Cotgrave.A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues.1612Holyband.French Schoolemaister.1615The Declining of Frenche Verbes (Holyband?).1615The French A.B.C.1615Holyband.French Schoolemaister.1617Jean Barbier.Janua Linguarum Quadralinguis.1618Farrear.A Brief Direction to the French Tongue.1619Laur du Terme.The Flower de Luce.1619Holyband.French Schoolemaister.1620Colson.The First Part of the French Grammar.1623Wodroeph.The spared Houres of a souldier in his Travels.1623J. S. A Shorte Method for the Declyning of Ffrench Verbes.1625Sherwood.The French Tutour.1625Holyband.French Littleton.1625De la Mothe.French Alphabet.1625Wodroeph.The True Marrow of the French Tongue.1625L'Isle.Part of Du Bartas, French and English.1625Grammaire Angloise et Françoise.1630Holyband.French Littleton.1631Anchoran.Comenius's Janua Linguarum.1631Holyband.French Schoolemaister.1631De la Mothe.French Alphabet.1632Cotgrave.French-English Dictionary, withSherwood'sEnglish-French Dictionary.1633Holyband.French Littleton.1633De la Mothe.French Alphabet.1633Anchoran.Comenius's Janua Linguarum.1633Saltonstall.Clavis ad Portam.1633De Grave.The Pathway to the Gate of Tongues.1634Sherwood.The French Tutour, 2nd ed.1634Aufeild.A French Grammar and Syntaxe.1635Cogneau.A Sure Guide to the French Tongue.1636Holyband.French Schoolemaister.1636Du Grès.Breve et accuratum grammaticae gallicae Compendium.1637(Barlement.) The English, Latine, French, Dutch Scholemaster.1637Bense.Analogo Diaphora ... trium Linguarum, Gallicae, Hispanicae et Italicae.1637Anchoran.Comenius's Janua.1639De la Mothe.French Alphabet.1639Holyband.French Littleton.1639Grammaire Angloise et Françoise.1639Du Grès.Dialogi Gallico-Anglico-Latini.1639Anchoran.Comenius's Janua.1639(Barlement.) New Dialogues or Colloquies ...1641Meurier.A treatise for to learne to speake Frenshe and Englishe.1641Holyband.Treatise for Declining of French Verbs.1641Holyband.French Schoolemaister.1643Gostlin.Aurisodinae Linguae Gallicae.1645Cogneau.Sure Guide ...1647De la Mothe.French Alphabet.1648Gerbier.An Introduction of the French Tongue.1649Holyband.French Schoolemaister.1650Cotgrave.French Dictionary.1651Cogneau.Sure Guide.1652Du Grès.Dialogi ...1653Mauger.True Advancement of the French Tongue.1655Holyband.French Schoolemaister.1655Lainé.A Compendious Introduction to the French Tongue.1656Mauger.French Grammar, 2nd ed.1658Cogneau.Sure Guide.1658Mauger.French Grammar, 3rd ed.1659Leighton.Linguae Gallicae addiscendae Regulae.1660Du Grès.Dialogi ...1660Cotgrave.Dictionary.1660Herbert.French and English Dialogues.1660Howell.Lexicon Tetraglotton.1662Mauger.French Grammar, 4th ed.1662Leighton.... Regulæ.1666Æsop's Fables in English, French and Latine.?Castellion's Sacred Dialogues ... French and English.1667Mauger.French Grammar, 5th ed.1667Festeau.French Grammar.1667De Lainé.Princely Way to the French Tongue.1668Holyband.French Schoolemaister.1668Grammaire Françoise et Angloise.1668Grammaire Françoise et Angloise.1670Mauger.Grammar, 6th ed.1671Mauger.Lettres françoises et angloises.1671Festeau.Grammar, 2nd ed.1673Mauger.Grammar, 7th ed.1673Cotgrave.Dictionary.1674A French Grammar ... Published by the Academy.1674Smith.Grammatica Quadralinguis.1674A very easie Introduction to the French Tongue.1675Festeau.Grammar, 3rd ed.1676D'Abadie.A New French Grammar.1676Mauger.Grammar (the English edition).1676Mauger.Lettres, 2nd ed.1677De Lainé.Princely Way, 2nd ed.1677Grammaire françoise et angloise.1677Miège.A New Dictionary, French and English.1678Miège.A New French Grammar.1679Mauger.Grammar, 8th ed.1679Festeau.Grammar, 4th ed.1679Grammaire Françoise et Angloise.1679Miège.Dictionary of Barbarous French.1680Villiers.Vocabularium Analogicum.1681Berault.Chemin du Ciel.1682Mauger.Grammar, 10th ed.1682Miège.Short and Easie French Grammar.1683Vairesse d'Allais.Short and Methodical Introduction.1684Miège.A Short French Dictionary.1684Kerhuel.Grammaire Françoise.1684Mauger.Grammar, 11th ed.1684Cheneau.French Grammar.1685Festeau.Grammar, 5th ed.1685Berault.Bouquet . . . de Plusieurs Veritez Theologiques.1686Mauger.Grammar, 12th ed.1687Æsop's Fables in English, French and Latine.1687Miège.Grounds of the French Tongue.1688Miège.Great French Dictionary.1688Berault.New ... French and English Grammar.1688Colsoni.The New Trismagister.1689Mauger.Grammar, 13th ed.1690Miège.Short French Dictionary, 3rd ed.1690Mauger.Grammar, 14th ed.1690Colsoni.A new Grammar of three languages.1691Miège.Short French Dictionary.1691Berault.Grammar, 2nd ed.c.1691Lane.French Grammar.?Grolleau.Compleat French Tutor.1693Festeau.Grammar, 6th ed.1693Berault.Grammar, 3rd ed.1693Eloquent Master of Languages.1694Boyer.Compleat French Master.1694Mauger.Grammar, 16th ed.1695Colsoni.New and Accurate Grammar [new edition].1698Miège.Last and Best French Grammar.1698Berault.French and English Grammar.1698Mauger.French Grammar.1699Mauger.French Grammar [new edition].1699Boyer.French Master, 2nd ed.?Vaslet.Nomenclator Trilinguis.1699Boyer.Royal French Dictionary.

BIBLIOGRAPHY, ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY, OF MANUALS FOR TEACHING THE FRENCH LANGUAGE TO THE ENGLISH, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO THE END OF THE STUART PERIOD

A., E.:

Grammaire Angloise et Françoise pour facilement et promptement aprendre la langue Angloise et Françoise. Revûë et corrigée tout de nouveau d'une quantité de fautes qui étoient aux précédentes impressions par E. A. Augmentée en cette dernière édition d'un vocabulaire Anglois et François. Rouen, 1595. Cp. sub "Anonymous Works," Grammaire Angloise et Françoise.

Æsop:Cp.CODRINGTON.

Anchoran, J. A.:

Porta Linguarum Trilinguis reserata et aperta, sive seminarium linguarum et scientiarum omnium, hoc est compendiaria Latinam, Anglicam, Gallicam (et quamvis aliam) Linguam una cum artium et scientiarum fundamentis sesquianni spatio ad summum docendi et perdiscendi methodus sub titulis centum periodis mille comprehensa. The Gate of Tongues unlocked and opened.... London, George Millar for Michael Sparke, 1631.

Another issue, George Millar for the Author, 1631.Another ed.: Porta linguarum ... J. A. Anchorani ... Th. Cotes sumptibus M. Sparke, 1633.3rd ed. Anna Griffin sumptibus M. Sparke. London, 1637.4th ed. E. Griffin for M. Sparke, 1639.

Another issue, George Millar for the Author, 1631.

Another ed.: Porta linguarum ... J. A. Anchorani ... Th. Cotes sumptibus M. Sparke, 1633.

3rd ed. Anna Griffin sumptibus M. Sparke. London, 1637.

4th ed. E. Griffin for M. Sparke, 1639.

Anonymous Works(Arranged chronologically):

De la Prosodie, etc. (Fragment in the Lambeth Library dated 1528.)(Barlement.) A boke intituled Italion, Frynsshe, Englysshe and Laten. London, Ed. Sutton, 1557.Another ed.: A Boke intituled Ffrynsshe, Englysshe and Duche. London, John Alde, 1569.Another ed.: Dictionaire, Colloques ou Dialogues en Quattre langues, Flamen, Ffrançoys, Espaignel et Italien, with the Englishe to be added thereto. George Bishop, 1578.Another ed.: TheEnglishLatine}{FrenchDutchScholemaster, or an Introduction to teach young Gentlemen and Merchants to travell or trade. Being the only helpe to attaine to those Languages. London, for Michael Sparke, 1637.Another ed.: New Dialogues or Colloquies and a little Dictionary of eight Languages. A Booke very necessary for all those that study these tongues either at home or abroad, now perfected and made fit for travellers, young merchants and seamen, especially those that desire to attain to the use of the tongues. London, Printed for Michael Sparke, 1639.Ane A, B, C for Scottes men to read the frenche toung with ane exhortatioun to the noblis of Scotland to favour thair ald friendis. Licensed to Wm. Nudrye, 1559.A Dictionarie french and english. 1571. Col.: Imprinted at London by Henry Bynneman for Lucus Harrison. An. 1570.[1106]A plaine pathway to the French Tongue, very profitable for Marchants and also all other which desire the same, aptly devided into nineteen chapters. The contents whereof appear in the next Page. Printed in London by Thomas East, 1575.Another ed. Newly corrected. London, by Th. East (date unknown).Corderius. Dialogues in French and English. John Wyndet, 1591.Grammaire Angloise et Françoise . . . Revûë et corrigée . . . par E. A. (q.v. subA., E.)Another ed.: Grammaire Angloise pour facilement et promptement apprendre la langue angloise. Qui peutaussiaider aux Anglois pour apprendre la langue Françoise. Alphabet anglois contenant la prononciation des Lettres avec les declinaisons et conjugaisons. Paris, 1625.Another ed. Rouen, 1639.Another ed. Rouen, 1662.Another ed. Rouen, 1670.Another edition. London, 1677.The Necessary, fit and convenient Education of a young Gentlewoman, Italian, French and English. Adam Islip, 1598.A Short Syntaxis in the French Tongue. 12º. London, 1602.The French A. B. C. Licensed to Rd. Field, 1615.The Declining of Frenche Verbes. Rd. Field, 1615 (another edition of Holyband's Treatise for declining of Verbs?).(Sébastien Châteillon.) Sacred Dialogues translated out of Latin into French and English for the benefit of youth. Sold by R. Hom and J. Sims. (Date unknown, between 1666 and 1668?)A French Grammar Teaching the knowledge of that language, how to read and write it perfectly without any other precedentStudy than to have learnt to Read only. Published by the Academy for Reformation of the French Tongue. London. Printed by W. G. for Wm. Copper at the sign of the Pelican in Little Britain, 1674.A very easie Introduction to the French Tongue, or A very brief Grammar, proper for all persons who have bad memories. Containing all the principal grounds for the more speedy practice of discourse. Also many peculiar phrases; with a very useful Dialogue for young factors. 8vo. Sold by J. Sims at the King's Head in Cornhill,c.1673.

De la Prosodie, etc. (Fragment in the Lambeth Library dated 1528.)

(Barlement.) A boke intituled Italion, Frynsshe, Englysshe and Laten. London, Ed. Sutton, 1557.

Another ed.: A Boke intituled Ffrynsshe, Englysshe and Duche. London, John Alde, 1569.

Another ed.: Dictionaire, Colloques ou Dialogues en Quattre langues, Flamen, Ffrançoys, Espaignel et Italien, with the Englishe to be added thereto. George Bishop, 1578.

Another ed.: TheEnglishLatine}{FrenchDutchScholemaster, or an Introduction to teach young Gentlemen and Merchants to travell or trade. Being the only helpe to attaine to those Languages. London, for Michael Sparke, 1637.

Another ed.: New Dialogues or Colloquies and a little Dictionary of eight Languages. A Booke very necessary for all those that study these tongues either at home or abroad, now perfected and made fit for travellers, young merchants and seamen, especially those that desire to attain to the use of the tongues. London, Printed for Michael Sparke, 1639.

Ane A, B, C for Scottes men to read the frenche toung with ane exhortatioun to the noblis of Scotland to favour thair ald friendis. Licensed to Wm. Nudrye, 1559.

A Dictionarie french and english. 1571. Col.: Imprinted at London by Henry Bynneman for Lucus Harrison. An. 1570.[1106]

A plaine pathway to the French Tongue, very profitable for Marchants and also all other which desire the same, aptly devided into nineteen chapters. The contents whereof appear in the next Page. Printed in London by Thomas East, 1575.

Another ed. Newly corrected. London, by Th. East (date unknown).

Corderius. Dialogues in French and English. John Wyndet, 1591.

Grammaire Angloise et Françoise . . . Revûë et corrigée . . . par E. A. (q.v. subA., E.)

Another ed.: Grammaire Angloise pour facilement et promptement apprendre la langue angloise. Qui peutaussiaider aux Anglois pour apprendre la langue Françoise. Alphabet anglois contenant la prononciation des Lettres avec les declinaisons et conjugaisons. Paris, 1625.

Another ed. Rouen, 1639.

Another ed. Rouen, 1662.

Another ed. Rouen, 1670.

Another edition. London, 1677.

The Necessary, fit and convenient Education of a young Gentlewoman, Italian, French and English. Adam Islip, 1598.

A Short Syntaxis in the French Tongue. 12º. London, 1602.

The French A. B. C. Licensed to Rd. Field, 1615.

The Declining of Frenche Verbes. Rd. Field, 1615 (another edition of Holyband's Treatise for declining of Verbs?).

(Sébastien Châteillon.) Sacred Dialogues translated out of Latin into French and English for the benefit of youth. Sold by R. Hom and J. Sims. (Date unknown, between 1666 and 1668?)

A French Grammar Teaching the knowledge of that language, how to read and write it perfectly without any other precedentStudy than to have learnt to Read only. Published by the Academy for Reformation of the French Tongue. London. Printed by W. G. for Wm. Copper at the sign of the Pelican in Little Britain, 1674.

A very easie Introduction to the French Tongue, or A very brief Grammar, proper for all persons who have bad memories. Containing all the principal grounds for the more speedy practice of discourse. Also many peculiar phrases; with a very useful Dialogue for young factors. 8vo. Sold by J. Sims at the King's Head in Cornhill,c.1673.

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