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[710] "Autobiographie," _Bull. de la Soc. de l'Hist. du Protestantisme Francais_, vii. pp. 343 _sqq._

[711] Another famous Frenchman at the Court of James I. was Theodore Mayerne the Court Doctor (cp. _Table Talk of Bishop Hurd_, Ox. Hist.

Soc. Collectanea, ser. 2, p. 390); also Jean de Schelandre and Montchretien among men of letters. James refused to give audience to the poet Theophile de Viau, exiled for his daring satires. Boisrobert, St.

Amant, Voiture, likewise visited England at this period.

[712] Thurot, _p.r.o.nonciation francaise_, i. p. xiv.

[713] Gerbier, _Interpreter of the Academy_, 1648.

[714] Aufeild: Translation of Maupas's _Grammar_, 1634.

[715] Young, _L'Enseignement en ecosse_, p. 78.

[716] Ellis, _Original Letters_, 1st series, iii. 89.

[717] T. Birch, _Life of Henry Prince of Wales_, London, 1760, p. 20.

[718] On Henry's death, St. Antoine became equerry to his brother Charles (Rye, _op. cit._ p. 253).

[719] Ellis, _Orig. Letters_, ser. 1, iii. 95.

[720] "The French fashion of dancing is most in request with us"

(Dallington, _Method for Travell_, 1598).

[721] His dancing-master was a M. du Caus. There were other Frenchmen in his service. Cp. "Roll of Expenses of Prince Henry," _Revels at Court_, ed. P. Cunningham, New Sk. Soc., 1842.

[722] J. Aubrey, _Brief Lives_, ed. Clark, 1898, i. p. 254; Wood, _Athen. Oxon._ (Bliss).

[723] T. Birch, _op. cit._ pp. 38, 66, 67.

[724] Rye, _op. cit._ p. 155.

[725] _Memoires de Madame de Motteville_, in Pet.i.tot et Monmerque, _Collection des Memoires relatifs a l'Histoire de France_, tom. 37, 1824, pp. 122-3.

[726] _Cal. State Papers, 1660-61_, p. 162; cp. p. 207, _supra_.

[727] Probably the second Duke, whom Charles, out of friendship for his father, the first Duke, brought up in his own family.

[728] Foster, _Alumni Oxon._, ad nom.

[729] _Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1663-64_, pp. 384, 526, 527; _1668-69_, p. 129; Shaw, _Calendar of Treasury Books, 1667-68_, pp. 346, 365, 620.

[730] He received the order of knighthood from Charles I. in 1629.

[731] _Cal. State Papers, 1633_, p. 349.

[732] Le Grys translated several works from Latin into English. He died early in 1635; cp. _Dict. Nat. Biog._, ad nom.

[733] E. G.o.dfrey, _English Children in Olden Time_, New York, 1907, p.

133.

[734] Davenant, _The Wits_, Act II.; cp. Upham, _French Influence in English Literature_, p. 7.

[735] Preface to Lyly's _Euphues_, 1623.

[736] T. Middleton, _More Dissemblers among Women_, Act I. Sc. 4; cp.

Upham, _op. cit._ p. 6.

[737] Watt, _Bibliotheca Britannica_, 1824, ad nom.

[738] Probably before he left school (Ma.s.son, _Life of Milton_, 1875, i.

p. 57).

[739] E. G.o.dfrey, _op. cit._ p. 178.

[740] De la Mothe devoted a short chapter to enumerating women's clothing.

[741] Thurot, _p.r.o.nonciation francaise_, pp. 374, 376.

[742] _Treatise for Declining French Verbs_, 1580, 1599, and 1641.

[743] Perhaps this is Bellot's _French Methode_ of 1588, of which there is no copy in the British Museum, the Bodleian, or Cambridge University Library. There is no trace of his having written a third grammar called the _French Guide_; in his French Grammar of 1578 the verbs are arranged in five conjugations.

[744] This section in particular bears a close resemblance to the _Exercitatio_ of Vives. See Dialogue 17, in F. Watson's _Tudor Schoolboy Life_.

[745] In Broad Street Ward; see Cooper, _List of Aliens_, Camden Soc., 1862; Hug. Soc. Pub., x. Pt. iii. p. 187.

[746] Lambeth Library, 8vo, B-E in fours. Hazlitt, _Bibliog. Collections and Notes_, ii. 206.

[747] It is included in almost all the Sale Catalogues of private libraries at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century.

[748] Erondell was probably also responsible for numerous other translations from French into English; cp. p. 277, note 2, _infra_.

[749] Strickland, _Lives of the Queens of England_, 1884, iv. p. 160.

[750] J. Payne Collier, _History of English Dramatic Poetry, and Annals of the Stage_, 1879, i. pp. 451 _sqq._; F. G. Fleay, _A Chronicle History of the English Stage_, 1890, p. 334.

[751] "Not women but monsters," wrote the Puritan Prynne in his _Histriomastrix_, 1633, p. 114.

[752] Prynne, _op. cit._ p. 215.

[753] Payne Collier, _op. cit._ ii. pp. 2 _sqq._; Fleay, _op. cit._ p.

339.

[754] The former was first acted in France in 1629 and the latter in 1633; cf. Upham, _French Influence in English Literature_, p. 373.

[755] Scudery's work is in verse; a king and queen of England figure among the characters. It was first performed in France in 1631.

[756] Probably a tragi-comedy by Du Ryer, acted in 1634; Upham, _op.