P. 498.
Footnote 251: Les Antiquitez de la Ville de Paris. Paris 1640, Livre
second, p. 403.
Footnote 252: Probably the son of Sir John Puckering, Lord Keeper in
1592-1596.
Footnote 253: Ellis, Original Letters, 2nd Series, vol. iii. pp.
220-1.
Footnote 254: Archeologia, vol. xxxvi. pp. 343-4.
Footnote 255: Collectania, First Series, ed. for the Oxford Historical
Society (vol. v.) by C.R.L. Fletcher, p. 213.
Footnote 256: See Archeologia, xxi. p. 506. Gilbert's and La Noue's
dreams were of academies like Vittorino da Feltre's - not Pluvinel's.
Footnote 257: Oxford Historical Society, vol. v. p. 276.
Footnote 258: Ibid., pp. 280-2.
Footnote 259: The Interpreter of the Academic for Forrain Languages,
and all Noble Sciences, and Exercises, London, 1648.
Footnote 260: Evelyn's Diary, 9th August 1682.
Footnote 261: Ibid., 18th December 1684.
Footnote 262: Oxford Historical Society, vol. v. pp. 309-13.
Footnote 263: Ibid., p. 319.
Footnote 264: Le Maneige Royal, ou l'on peut remarquer le defaut et la
perfection du chevalier, en tous les exercices de cet art, digne de
Princes, fait et pratique en l'instruction du Roy par Antoine Pluvinel
son Escuyer principal, Conseiller en son Conseil d'Estat, son Chambellan
ordinaire, et Sous-Gouverneur de sa Majeste. Paris, 1624.
Footnote 265: Opening words of An Apologie for Poetrie, ed. 1595.
Footnote 266: Historiettes, vol. i. p. 89 of ed. 1834. Marguerite of
Valois compared M. de Souvray, the governor of Louis XIII., to Chiron
rearing Achilles.
