Chapter XVII: Preface: To Russell (2)

These are given as a warning to other editors either to collate in
foot-notes or not at all. The present plan takes up as much room
as printing a fresh text would, and gives needless trouble to
every one concerned.

[Transcriber’s Note:

Each of these Collations will be repeated in or after the appropriate selection.]

p. 260. _The A B C of Aristotle_, Harl. MS. 1706, fol. 94, collated by Mr Brock, omits the prologue, and begins after l. 14 with, “Here be-gynneth{e} Arystoles A B C. made be mayster Benett.”

A, _for_ argue not _read_ Angre the
B, _omit_ ne; _for_ not to large _read_ thou nat to brode
D, „ „ ; _for_ not _read_ thow nat
E, „ „ ; _for_ to eernesful _read_ ne curyons
F, _for_ fers, famuler, freendli, _read_ Ferde, familier, frenfull{e}
G, _omit_ to; _for_ & gelosie þou hate, _read_ Ne to galaunt never
H, _for_ in þine _read_ off
I, _for_ iettynge _read_ Iocunde;
_for_ iape not to _read_ Ioye thow nat
K, _omit_ to _and_ &; _for_ knaue _read_ knaves
L, _for_ for to leene _read_ ne to lovyng;
_for_ goodis _read_ woordys
M, _for_ medelus _read_ Mellous;
_for_ but as mesure wole it meeue
_read_ ne to besynesse vnleffull{e}
N, _for_ ne use no new iettis _read_ ne nought{e} to neffangle
O, _for_ ouerþwart _read_ ouertwarth{e};
_for_ & ooþis þou hate _read_ Ne othez to haunte
Q, _for_ quarelose _read_ querelous;
_for_ weel ȝoure souereyns _read_ men all{e} abowte
R, _omit the second_ to; _for_ not to rudeli _read_ thou nat but lyte
S, _for_ ne straungeli to stare _read_ Ne starte nat abowte
T, _for_ for temperaunce is best _read_ But temp{er}ate euer{e}
V, _for_ ne &c. _read_ ne violent Ne waste nat to moche
W, _for_ neiþer &c. _read_ Ne to wyse deme the

¶ _for_ is euere þe beste of _read_ ys best for vs

_Add_ =X Y Z= x y wych{e} esed & p{er} se.
Tytell{e} Tytell{e} Tytell{e} thañ Esta Amen.

p. 265, _The Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Boke_, with part of the Advocates Library MS., fol. 84, back (collated by Mr David Laing).

l. 1, _for_ children̅ _read_ childur
l. 2, _dele_ þat
l. 3 _dele_ For
l. 6, _for_ with mary, _read_ oure Lady
l. 7, _for_ arn̅ _read_ byn
l. 9, _prefix_ Forst _to_ Loke
and _for_ wasshe _read_ wasshyd
l. 12, _for_ tylle _read_ to
l. 13, _prefix_ And _to_ Loke
l. 14, _is_, To he y^t reweleth y^e howse y^e bytt
l. 16, _put the_ that _between_ loke _and_ on
l. 17, _for_ without any faylys _read_ withowtte fayle
l. 18, _for_ hungery aylys _read_ empty ayle
l. 20, _for_ ete esely _read_ etett eysely
p. 267,
l. 25, _for_ mosselle _read_ morsselle
l. 26, _for_ in _read_ owt of
l. 30, _for_ Into thy _read_ nor in the
_for_ thy salte _read_ hit
l. 31, _for_ fayre on þi _read_ on a
l. 32, _for_ The byfore _read_ Byfore the
_and dele_ þyne
ll. 33-4, _are_ Pyke not y^i tethe wyth y^i knyfe
Whyles y^u etyst be y^i lyfe

The poem in the Advocates’ MS. has 108 lines, and fills 5 pages of the MS. (Wynkyn de Worde’s version ends with this, after l. 105, ‘And in his laste ende wyth the swete Ihesus. Amen. Here endeth the boke of curtesye.’)

p. 265. _The Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Boke_ collated with the Cambridge University MS., by Mr Henry Bradshaw. _Hem_ is always written for _him_ in this MS., and so with other words.

l. 2, _for_ wrytyne _read_ brekeyd
l. 6, _for_ Elizabeth _read_ cortesey
l. 7, _for_ closide _read_ clodyd
l. 10, _for_ on _read_ yn
l. 11, 12, _for_ þou _read_ ye
l. 14, _for_ hous the bydde _read_ hall þe beyt
l. 15, _for_ þe _read_ they
l. 16, _for_ on _read_ no
l. 17, _for_ any faylys _read_ fayle
l. 18, _for_ aylys _read_ heydyt
l. 19, _for_ Ete ... hastely _read_ yet ... hastey
l. 20, _prefix_ Bot _to_ Abyde
_for_ esely _read_ all yesley
p. 267,
l. 23, _for_ Kerue not thy brede _read_ Kot they bred not
l. 24, _is_ Ne to theke bat be-tweyn
l. 25, _for_ mosselle _read_ mossels;
_for_ begynnysse to _read_ dost
l. 26, _for_ in _read_ owt of
l. 27, _for_ on _read_ yn
ll. 28-30, _are_ Ne yn they met, feys, ne fleys.
Put not thy mete yn þey salt seleyr
l. 32, _is_ Be-fore the, that ys worschep
l. 33, _for_ ne _read_ nother
l. 34, _for_ If _read_ And
_for_ come _read_ comest
l. 35, _for_ And _read_ Seche
_put the_ is _before_ yn
l. 37, _for_ Ete ... by _read_ Kot ... yn
l. 38, _prefix_ And _to_ Fylle; _omit_ done
l. 40, _is_ Weyles thou hetys, bey they leyffe
l. 42, _for_ þow put _read_ take owt
l. 43, _for_ Ne _read_ Nether
l. 44, _is_ For no cortesey het ys not habell
l. 45, _for_ Elbowe ... fyst _read_ Elbowhes ... fystys
l. 46, _for_ whylis þat _read_ wheyle
l. 47, _is_ Bolk not as a bolle yn the crofte
l. 48, _for_ karle þat _read_ charle
_for_ cote _read_ cotte
l. 50, _for_ of hyt or þou art _read_ the or ye be
l. 51, _for_ sterke _read_ lowde
p. 269,
l. 52, _is_ all of curtesy loke ye carpe
l. 53, _for_ at _read_ all
_omit_ loke þou
l. 54, _for_ Loke þou rownde not _read_ And loke ye
l. 55, _omit_ thy
_for_ and _read_ ne
l. 56, _for_ doo _read_ make
l. 57, _for_ laughe not _read_ noþer laughe
l. 58, _for_ with moche speche _read_ thow meche speke
_for_ mayst _read_ may
l. 59, _for_ first ne _read_ ner
and _for the second_ ne _read_ not
l. 60, _for_ fayre and stylle _read_ stere het not
l. 61, _for_ thy _read_ the
l. 66, _omit_ a
l. 67, _for_ I rede of _read_ of j redde þe of
l. 68, _for_ neþer _read_ neuer
_omit_ yn þi _before_ drynk
l. 69, _for_ þat _read_ they
l. 73, _for_ þou see _read_ be saye
l. 76, _for_ þou _read_ yow
_for_ thow art _read_ yow ar
l. 77, _for_ forthe _read_ before yow
l. 78, _omit_ þow not
l. 79, _for_ ynto _read_ yn
p. 271,
l. 83, _for_ ende _read_ hendyng
l. 84, _for_ wasshen _read_ was
l. 85, _for_ worthy _read_ wortheyor
l. 86, _for_ to- _read_ be-
_omit_ &
_for_ þi prow _read_ gentyll cortesey
ll. 87, 88, 89, are omitted.
l. 90, _for_ nether _read_ not
_for_ ne _read_ ne with
l. 91, _omit_ þi
_for_ the hede _read_ they lorde
l. 92, _for_ hyghly _read_ mekeley
l. 93, _for_ togydre ynsame _read_ yn the same manere
p. 271,
l. 94, _for_ no blame _read_ the same
l. 95, _for_ therafter _read_ hereafter
l. 96, _after_ that _add_ he ys
_for_ was heere _read_ þere aftyr
l. 97, _omit_ And
_for_ dispiseth _read_ dispise
l. 99, _for_ Nether _read_ neuer
l. 100, _for_ Ner _read_ ne
l. 101, _after_ for _add_ sent
l. 102, _for_ Louyth this boke _read_ Loren this lesen
l. 103, _omit_ and
_for_ made _read_ wret
l. 106, is omitted.

p. 273,
l. 107, _before_ vs _put_ hem and
l. 108, _for the first_ Amen _read_ Sey all
_for the_ Explicit &c. _read_
Expleycyt the Boke of cortesey.

CORRIGENDA, ADDITIONAL NOTES, &c.

[Transcriber’s Note:

Where appropriate, changes listed have been incorporated into the e-text; they are marked here in double brackets as [[corrected]]. Conversely, notes and larger corrections have been added to the main text in [[double brackets]], with added footnotes shown as [[6a]], [[10a]]... The bracketed paragraph, following, is from the original text.]

[A few corrections of letters and figures have been made in this Reprint.]

p. iv. l. 6. ‘Your Bele Babees are very like the _Meninos_ of the Court of Spain, & _Menins_ of that of France, young nobles brought up with the young Princes.’ H. Reeve. [[6a]]

p. v. last line. This is not intended to confine the definition of Music as taught at Oxford to its one division of _Harmonica_, to the exclusion of the others, _Rythmica, Metrica_, &c. The Arithmetic _said_ to have been studied there in the time of Edmund the Confessor is defined in his Life (MS. about 1310 A.D.) in my _E. E. Poems & Lives of Saints_, 1862, thus,

Arsmetrike is a lore: þat of figours al is
& of drauȝtes as me draweþ in poudre: & in numbre iwis. [[10a]]

p. xviii. l. 16. The regular Cathedral school would have existed at St David’s. [[24a]]

p. xix., note 4. “There are no French universities, though we find every now and then some humbug advertising himself in the _Times_ as possessing a degree of the Paris University. The old Universities belong to the time before the Deluge--that means before the Revolution of 1789. The University of France is the organized whole of the higher and middle institutions of learning, in so far as they are directed by the State, not the clergy. It is an institution more governmental, according to the genius of the country, than our London University, to which, however, its organization bears some resemblance. To speak of it in one breath with Oxford or Aberdeen is to commit the ... error of confounding two things, or placing them on the same line, because they have the same name.” --E. Oswald, in _The English Leader_, Aug. 10, 1867. [[30a]]

p. xxiv. l. 9, _for_ 1574 _read_ 1577. [[Corrected in reprint.]]

p. xxv. l. 17, related apparently. “The first William de Valence married Joan de Monchensi, sister-in-law to one Dionysia, and aunt to another.” _The Chronicle_, Sept. 21, 1867. [[35a]]

p. xxvi. One of the inquiries ordered by the Articles issued by Archbishop Cranmer, in A.D. 1548, is, “Whether Parsons, Vicars, Clerks, and other beneficed men, having yearly to dispend an hundred pound, do not find, competently, one scholar in the University of Cambridge or Oxford, or some grammar school; and for as many hundred pounds as every of them may dispend, so many scholars likewise to be found [supported] by them; and what be their names that they so find.” Toulmin Smith, _The Parish_, p. 95. Compare also in Church-Wardens Accompts of St Margaret’s, Westminster (ed. Jn. Nichols, p. 41).

1631.
Item, to Richard Busby, a king’s scholler of Westminster, towards
enabling him to proceed master of arts at Oxon, by consent of the
vestrie £6. 13. 4.

1628.
Item, to Richard Busby, by consent of the vestry, towards enabling
him to proceed bachelor of arts £5. 0. 0.

Nichols, p. 38. See too p. 37. [[38a]]

p. xxvii., last line. Roger Bacon died, perhaps, 11 June, 1292, or in 1294. _Book of Dates._ [[41a]]

p. xxvii., _dele_ note 3 [[41]]. ‘The truth is that, in his account of Oxford and its early days, Mr Hallam quotes John of Salisbury, not as asserting that Vacarius taught there, but as making “no mention of Oxford at all”; while he gives for the statement about the law school no authority whatever beyond his general reference throughout to Anthony Wood. But the fact is as historical as a fact can well be, and the authority for it is a passage in one of the best of the contemporary authors, Gervaise of Canterbury. “Tunc leges et causidici in Angliam primo vocati sunt,” he says in his account of Theobald in the Acts of the Archbishops, “quorum primus era{t} magister Vacarius. Hic in Oxonefordiâ legem docuit.”’ E. A. F.

p. xxxiii. note [[45]], l. 1, _for_ St Paul’s _read_ St Anthony’s [[Corrected in reprint.]]

p. xxxiv., _for_ sister _read_ brother [[Corrected in reprint. The word “brother” appears twice on this page: “brother of Anne Bulleyn” and “Jane Seymour’s brother”.]]

p. xlv. l. 2, _for_ poor _read_ independent. ‘Fitz-Stephen says on the parents of St Thomas, “Neque fœnerantibus neque officiose negotiantibus, sed de redditibus suis honorifice viventibus.”’ E. A. F. [[Corrected; Footnote 63a]]

p. liii. Thetford. See also p. xli. [[Author’s intention unclear. List on page liii shows Thetford grammar school, founded 1328. Page xli text has “between 1091 and 1119 ... schools at Thetford”.]]

p. lxxix. last line. A Postscript of nine fresh pieces has been since added, on and after p. 349, with ‘The Boris hede furst’ at p. 264*. [[Section rewritten for reprint.]]

p. 6, l. 77, _for the note on_ plommys, damsons, _see_ p. 91, _note on l. 177_. [[Note corrected from “177” to “77” in reprint; note moved in e-text.]]

p. 7, l. 2 of notes, _for_ Houeshold _read_ Household [[Corrected in reprint.]]

p. 27, l. 418, Areyse. Compare, “and the Geaunte pulled and drough, but he myght hym not _a-race_ from the sadell.” _Merlin_, Pt. II. p. 346 (E. E. T. Soc. 1866). [[Added to footnote 80.]]

p. 35, note 3 (to l. 521), _for_ end of this volume _read_ p. 145 [[Corrected in reprint.]]

p. 36, l. 536. _Pepper_. “The third thing is Pepper, a sauce for vplandish folkes: for they mingle Pepper with Beanes and Peason. Likewise of toasted bread with Ale or Wine, and with Pepper, they make a blacke sauce, as if it were pap, that is called _pepper_, and that they cast vpon theyr meat, flesh and fish.” _Reg. San. Salerni_, p. 67. [[127a]]

p. 58, l. 851; p. 168, l. 13, 14. Green sauce. There is a herb of an acid taste, the common name for which ... is _green-sauce_ ... not a dozen miles from Stratford-on-Avon. _Notes & Queries_, June 14, 1851, vol. iii. p. 474. “of Persley leaues stamped withe veriuyce, or white wine, is made a _greene sauce_ to eate with roasted meat ... Sauce for Mutton, Veale and Kid, is _greene sauce_, made in Summer with Vineger or Verjuyce, with a few spices, and without Garlicke. Otherwise with Parsley, white Ginger, and tosted bread with Vineger. In Winter, the same sawces are made with many spices, and little quantity of Garlicke, and of the best Wine, and with a little Verjuyce, or with Mustard.” _Reg. San. Salerni_, p. 67-8. [[Added to note 237.]]

p. 62, l. 909, ? _perhaps a comma should go after _hed_, and _‘his cloak or cape’_ as a side-note. But see _cappe, p. 65, l. 964. [[242a]]

p. 66, l. 969. Dogs. The nuisance that the number of Dogs must have been may be judged of by the following payments in the Church-Wardens’ Accounts of St Margaret’s, Westminster, in _Nichols_, p. 34-5.

1625 Item paid to the dog-killer for killing of dogs 0. 9. 8.
1625 Item paid to the dog-killer more for killing
14 dozen and 10 dogs in time of visitacion 1. 9. 8.
1625 Item paid to the dog-killer for killing of
24 dozen of dogs 1. 8.

See the old French satire on the Lady and her Dogs, in _Rel. Ant._ i. 155. [[250a]]

p. 67, last line of note, _for_ Hoss _read_ Hog’s [[Corrected in reprint]]

p. 71, side-note 12, _for_ King’s _read_ chief [[Corrected in reprint]]

p. 84, note to l. 51. Chipping or paring bread. “_Non comedas crustam, colorem quia gignit adustam_ ... the Authour in this Text warneth vs, to beware of crusts eating, because they ingender a-dust cholor, or melancholly humours, by reason that they bee burned and dry. And therefore great estates the which be [_orig._ the] chollerick of nature, cause the crustes aboue and beneath to be chipped away; wherfore the pith or crumme should be chosen, the which is of a greater nourishment then the crust.” _Regimen Sanitatis Salerni_, ed. 1634, p. 71. Fr. _chapplis_, bread-chippings. Cotgrave. [[Added to note.]]

p. 85, note to l. 98, _Trencher_, should be to l. 52. [[Note corrected to “52” in reprint; note moved in e-text.]]

p. 91, last note, on l. 177, should be on l. 77. [[See above under “p. 6”.]]

p. 92, l. 6, _goddes good_. This, and _barme_, and _bargood_ (= beer-good) are only equivalents for ‘yeast.’ Goddes-good was so called ‘because it cometh of _the_ grete grace of God’: see the following extract, sent me by Mr Gillett, from the Book of the Corporate Assembly of Norwich, 8 Edw. IV.:

“The Maior of this Cite com{m}aundeth on the Kynges bihalve, y^t
alle man{er} of Brewers y^t shall brewe to sale w^tynne this
Cite, kepe y^e assise accordyn to y^e Statute, & upon peyne
ordeyned. And wheras berme, otherwise clepid goddis good,
w^toute tyme of mynde hath frely be goven or delyv{er}ed for
brede, whete, malte, egges, or other honest rewarde, to y^e valewe
only of a ferthyng at y^e uttermost, & noon warned, bicause it
cometh of y^e grete grace of God, Certeyn p{er}sons of this Cite,
callyng themselves com{m}on Brewers, for their singler lucre &
avayll have nowe newely bigonne to take money for their seid
goddis good, for y^e leest parte thereof, be it never so litle and
insufficient to s{er}ve the payer therefore, an halfpeny or a
peny, & ferthermore exaltyng y^e p{ri}ce of y^e seid Goddis good
at their p{ro}p{e}r will, ageyns the olde & laudable custome of
alle Englande, & sp{eci}ally of this Cite, to grete hurte &
slaunder of y^e same Cite. Wherefore it is ordeyned & provided,
That no man{er} of brewer of this Cite shall from this time foorth
take of eny p{er}son for lyvering, gevyng, or grauntyng of y^e s^d
goddis good, in money nor other rewarde, above y^e valewe of a
ferthyng. He shall, for no malice feyned ne sought, colour, warne,
ne restregne y^e s^d goddis good to eny p{er}sone y^t will
honestly & lefully aske it, & paye therefore y^e valewe of a
ferthyng, &c.” [[Added as second footnote to note on l. 178.]]

p. 161, l. 4. Flawnes. ‘Pro Caseo ad _flauns_ qualibet die . panis j’ (allowance of). _Register of Worcester Priory_, fol. 121 _a._ ed. Hale, 1865. [[Added to editor’s Note on this word.]]

p. 296, col. 1, Clof. Can it be “cloth”? [[Added to Index. The entry is in col. 2, not col. 1; the word occurs on p. 192.]]

p. 181, l. 144, Croscrist. _La Croix de par Dieu._ The Christs-crosse-row; or, the hornebooke wherein a child learnes it. Cotgrave. The alphabet was called the _Christ-cross-row_, some say because a cross was prefixed to the alphabet in the old primers; but as probably from a superstitious custom of writing the alphabet in the form of a cross, by way of charm. This was even solemnly practised by the bishop in the consecration of a church. See Picart’s Religious Ceremonies, vol. i. p. 131. _Nares_. [[8a.]]

p. 185, l. 267, _for_ be, falle, _read_ be-falle (it befalls, becomes) [[Corrected]]

p. 189, l. 393, side-note, _Hall,_ should be _Hall._ Fires in Hall lasted to _Cena Domini_, the Thursday before Easter: see l. 398. Squires’ allowances of lights ended on Feb. 2, I suppose. These lights, or _candle_ of l. 839, would be only part of the allowances. The rest would continue all the year. See _Household Ordinances & North. Hous. Book_. Dr Rock says that the _holyn_ or holly and _erbere grene_ refer to the change on Easter Sunday described in the _Liber Festivalis_:-- “In die paschẽ. Good friends ye shall know well that this day is called in many places God’s Sunday. Know well that it is the manner in every place of worship at this day _to do the fire out of the hall;_ and the black winter brands, and all thing that is foul with smoke shall be done away, and there the fire was, shall be gaily arrayed with fair flowers, and strewed with green rushes all about, showing a great ensample to all Christian people, like as they make clean their houses to the sight of the people, in the same wise ye should cleanse your souls, doing away the foul brenning (burning) sin of lechery; put all these away, and cast out all thy smoke, dusts; and strew in your souls flowers of faith and charity, and thus make your souls able to receive your Lord God at the Feast of Easter.” --Rock’s _Church of the Future_, v. iii. pt. 2, p. 250. “The holly, being an evergreen, would be more fit for the purpose, and makes less litter, than the boughs of deciduous trees. I know some old folks in Herefordshire who yet follow the custom, and keep the grate filled with flowers and foliage till late in the autumn.” --D. R. On Shere-Thursday, or _Cena Domini_, Dr Rock quotes from the _Liber Festivalis_--“First if a man asked why Sherethursday is called so, ye may say that in Holy Church it is called ‘Cena Domini,’ our Lord’s Supper Day; for that day he supped with his disciples openly.... It is also in English called Sherethursday; for in old fathers’ days the people would that day sheer their heads and clip their beards, and poll their heads, and so make them honest against Easter-day.” --Rock, _ib._, p. 235. [[Corrected; 15a. The Sidenote belongs to the Latin line between 394, 395.]]

p. 192, l. 462-4, _cut out_ . _after_ hete; _put_ ; _after_ sett, _and_ , _after_ let; l. 468-9, _for_ sett, In syce, _read_ sett In syce; l. 470, ? some omission after this line. [[Corrected; 28a.]]

p. 200, l. 677, side-note, steel spoon _is more likely_ spoon handle [[Corrected]]

p. 215, l. 14. _The _T_ of _T the_ is used as a paragraph mark in the MS._

p. 274, l. 143-4, ? sense, reading corrupt. [[Corrected; 63a.]]

p. 275, Lowndes calls the original of _Stans Puer ad Mensam_ the _Carmen Juvenile_ of Sulpitius. [[Corrected; 63b.]]

p. 312, col. 2, Holyn. Bosworth gives A.S. _holen_, a rush; Wright’s Vocab., _holin_, Fr. _hous_; and that Cotgrave glosses ‘The Hollie, Holme, or Huluer tree.’ _Ancren Riwle_, 418 note *, and _Rel. Ant._, ii. 280, have it too. See Stratmann’s Dict.

p. 317, col. 2, _The extract for_ Lopster _should have been under_ creuis _or_ crao.

p. 318, col. 1, Lorely may be _lorel-ly_, like a lorel, a loose, worthless fellow, a rascal.

p. 339, col. 1, Syles _is_ strains. SILE, _v._, to strain, to purify milk through a straining dish; Su.-Got. _sila_, colare.--SILE, s., a fine sieve or milk strainer; Su.-Got. _sil_, colum. Brockett. See quotations in Halliwell’s Gloss., and Stratmann, who gives Swed. _sîla_, colare.

On the general subject of diet in olden time consult “Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, with an Introduction by Sir Alex. Croke, Oxford, 1830.” H. B. Wheatley. On manners, consult _Liber Metricus Faceti Morosi_. J. E. Hodgkin.

-> Ten fresh pieces relating more or less to the subjects of this volume having come under my notice since the Index was printed and the volume supposed to be finished, I have taken the opportunity of the delay in its issue--caused by want of funds--to add nine of the new pieces as a Postscript, and the tenth at p. 264*. An 11th piece, _Caxton’s Book of Curtesye_, in three versions, too important to be poked into a postscript, will form No. 3 of the Early English Text Society’s Extra Series, the first Text for 1868.

POSTSCRIPT, 1894.

[18 Oct. 1894. Much has been done for the history of Education since I put the foregoing notes together: see Arthur Leach’s articles in the _Contemp. Review_, Sept. 1892, Nov. 1894; _Fortnightly Review_, Nov. 1892; _Westminster Gazette_, 26 July, 1894; and _National Observer_, Sept. 1, 1894. Also Herbert Quick’s books, J. Bass Mullinger’s, Maria Hackett’s (1814, 1816, &c.), and Foster Watson’s forthcoming _Writers on Education in England_, 1500--1660.[1] See too Foss’s _Lives of the Judges_; Jn. Smith’s _Lives of the Berkeleys_; the _Life of William of Wykeham_; Lupton’s _Life of Colet_; articles in Thomassin’s _Ecclesiastica Disciplina, Vetus et Nova_; Dr. P. Alford’s _Abbots of Tavistock_, p. 119-120; R. N. Worth’s Calendar of the _Tavistock Parish Records_ (1588-9), p. 37, 39, &c.; _Dugdale_, i. 82, ii. 142, iii. 10, iv. 404-5; Leland, _Collectanea_, vol. i, pt. 2, p. 302; Ellis, _Orig. Let._, 3rd Series, i. 333, ii. 243; Marston’s _Scourge of Villanie_ (1599), Works, ed. 1856, iii. 306; Cavendish’s _Life of Wolsey_, Kelmscott Press, 1893, p. 24; John of Salisbury, Epist. XIX, ed. Giles; _Churchwardens’ Accounts_, Somerset Record Soc. (1890), p. xix; _Glastonbury Abbey Accounts_, p. 249; _Engl. Hist. Rev._, Jan. 1891, p. 24; _Songs & Carols_, Warton Club, 1855, p. 10; Dr. Woodford’s Report on National Education in Scotland, 1868; _Macmillan’s Mag._, July 1870 (Scotch at Oxford); Essays on Grammar Schools, by members of the Free Kirk in Scotland; Stevenson’s _Nottingham Boro’ Records_, iv. 272, 299, 302; Dr. Buelbring’s Introduction to Defoe’s _Compleat English Gentleman_; Bradshaw on the _A B C_ as a School-book, Cambr. Antiq. Soc., vol. iii.; &c., &c.

Much of my Forewords above, appeard in two numbers of the _Quarterly Journal of Education_, no. 2, Aug. 1867, vol. i, p. 48-56, and no. 3, Nov. 1867, p. 97-100.--F. J. F.]

The friend to whom this book was dedicated, C. H. Pearson, died, alas, this year (1894) after his return from Melbourne, where he had organised free education thro’ the whole State, and done much other good work.

[Footnote 1: Department of Education, Washington, U.S.A.]

Errata (noted by transcriber):

Collations:
_The Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Boke_ ... (Wynkyn de Worde ...)
[_final parenthesis missing_]
l. 59, _for_ first ne _read_ ner [first]

Corrigenda:
p. 36, l. 536. [l. 356]

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To aid in text searching, the Headnotes from the Boke of Nurture are interlaced with the table of contents. Each note will also appear in the text at approximately its original location.

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The

BOKE OF NURTURE

Folowyng Englondis gise

by me

JOHN RUSSELL,

Sum Tyme Seruande With Duke Vmfrey Of Glowcetur,
A Prynce Fulle Royalle, With Whom Vschere In
Chambur Was Y, And Mershalle Also
In Halle.

_Edited from the Harleian MS. 4011 in the British Museum_

by

FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL,

M.A., Trin. Hall. Camb.; Member of Council of the Philological
and Early English Text Societies; Lover of Old Books.

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