Transcriber's Notes: Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently corrected. A list of other changes made can be found at the end of the book. Footnotes were sequentially numbered and placed at the end of each chapter. The page headers of the book on the odd numbered pages have been marked as [Header]. For this text version, diacritical marks that cannot be represented in plain text are shown in the following manner: Ligature [oe] is encoded as oe. p. 87: [O] o with macron above (dOucement). [E] e with macron above (doucemEnt). p. 283: [^] upside down V. Mark up: _italics_ =bold= PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER FRENCH SERIES No. III THE FRENCH LANGUAGE IN ENGLAND Published by the University of Manchester at THE UNIVERSITY PRESS (H. M. McKECHNIE, Secretary) 12 LIME GROVE, OXFORD ROAD, MANCHESTER LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. LONDON: 39 Paternoster Row NEW YORK: 443-449 Fourth Avenue and Thirtieth Street CHICAGO: Prairie Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street BOMBAY: 8 Hornby Road CALCUTTA: 6 Old Court House Street MADRAS: 167 Mount Road THE TEACHING AND CULTIVATION OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE IN ENGLAND DURING TUDOR AND STUART TIMES WITH AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER ON THE PRECEDING PERIOD BY KATHLEEN LAMBLEY, M.A. _Lecturer in French in the University of Durham_ _Sometime Assistant Lecturer in French in the University of Manchester_ MANCHESTER AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 12 LIME GROVE, OXFORD ROAD LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, ETC. 1920 PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER No. CXXIX _All rights reserved._ PREFACE The present work, begun during the author's tenure of a Faulkner Fellowship in the University of Manchester, and completed in subsequent years, is an endeavour to trace the history of the teaching and use of French in England during a given epoch, ending with the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the Revolution of 1689, which events mark the beginning of a new period in the study of the French language in this country. No attempt has been made to treat the wider topic of French influence in England in its literary and social aspects (this has already been done by competent hands), though this side of the question is naturally touched upon occasionally by way of reference or illustration.