C.
Footnote 241: Every Man in his Humour, Act IV. Sc. v.
Footnote 242: Touchant les Duels, ed. 1722, p. 79.
Footnote 243: "If in the Court they spie one in a sute of the last yeres
making, they scoffingly say, 'Nous le cognoissons bien, il ne nous
mordra pas, c'est un fruit suranne.' We know him well enough, he will
not hurt us, hee's an Apple of the last yeere" (The View of France,
fol. T 4).
Footnote 244: Instructions for Forreine Travell, 1642.
Footnote 245: Op. cit., pp. 65-70.
Footnote 246: Ibid., pp. 181, 188.
Footnote 247: Op. cit., pp. 193-5.
Footnote 248: Ibid., p. 51.
Footnote 249: "The Great Horse" is the term used of animals for war or
tournaments, in contradistinction to Palfreys, Coursers, Nags, and other
common horses. These animals of "prodigious weight" had to be taught to
perform manoeuvres, and their riders, the art of managing them according
to certain rules and principles. See A New Method ... to Dress Horses,
by William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, London, 1667.
Footnote 250: Histoire et Recherches des Antiquites de la Ville de
Paris, par H. Sauval, Paris, 1724, tome ii. 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. Contemporary satire said that M. de Souvray "n'avoit
de Chiron que le train de derriere."
Footnote 267: Henri Sauval, op. cit., p. 498.
Footnote 268: A Dialogue concerning Education, in Tracts, London,
1727, p. 297. We must allow for the fact that English university men did
not approve of the French ambition to elevate the vernacular, or of
their translation of the classics, or of any displacement of Latin from
the highest place in the ambitions of anyone with pretentions to
learning. See also Evelyn, State of France, p. 99.
Footnote 269: Oxford Historical Society, vol. v. p. 325.
Footnote 270: Written to John Aubrey, between 1685-93. Quoted in Oxford
Historical Society, vol. v. p. 295.
Footnote 271: Ravaisson, Archives de la Bastille, Paris, 1866, tome i.
p. 263; cited in Sports et Jeux d'Exercice, p. 377.
Footnote 272: Thomas Carte, Life of James, Duke of Ormond, vol. iii.
p. 635.
Footnote 273: Addit. MS. 19253 (British Museum).
Footnote 274: Memoires du Comte de Grammont, Strawberry Hill, 1772.
Footnote 275: In The Compleat Gentleman, 1622.
Footnote 276: Nicolaus Clenardus Latomo Suo S.D., Epistole, Antverpiae,
1566, pp. 20-4, passim. See p. 234 for the historic incident of the
drinking cup, broken by Vasaeus, and so impossible to replace, after a
search through the whole Spanish village, that the rest of the party
were obliged to drink out of their hands. As to expenses, Clenardus
scoffs at the poets who sing of "Auriferum Tagum." "Aurum auferendum"
would better express it, he found.
Footnote 277: Ellis, Original Letters, 2nd Series, vol. ii. p. 38.
Footnote 278: Ibid.
Footnote 279: James Howell, A Discours or Dialog, containing a
Perambulation of Spain and Portugall which may serve for a direction how
to travell through both Countreys, London, 1662.
Footnote 280: Relation du Voyage d'Espagne, a la Haye, 1691
(translated in 1692 under the title of "The Ingenious and Diverting
Letters of the Lady - - Travels into Spain").
Footnote 281: Comtesse d'Aunoy, op. cit., p. 99.
Footnote 282: Reprinted in The Life of Sir Tobie Matthew, by A.H.
Mathew, p. 115.
Footnote 283: By James Howell, 1662.
Footnote 284: Howell's Letters, ed. Jacobs, p. 168.
Footnote 285: Winwood Memorials, vol. iii. p. 264.
Footnote 286: Tracts: (A Dialogue concerning Education), 1727, p.
340.
Footnote 287: The Perambulation of Spain, p. 29.
Footnote 288: See Les Delices de la Hollande, Amsterdam, 1700, pp. 9,
25; Sir William Brereton, Bart., Travels in Holland, the United
Provinces, England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1634-1635, ed. Hawkins, for
the Chatham Society, 1844; William Carr, Gentleman, The Traveller's
Guide and Historian's Faithful Companion, London, 1690.
Footnote 289: William Seward, Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons,
London, 1796, vol. ii. p. 168.
Footnote 290: Lord King, The Life and Letters of John Locke, with
Extracts from his Journals and Common-place Books, London, 1858, vol.
ii. pp. 5, 50, 71.
Footnote 291: The Harleian Miscellany, vol. ii. p. 592.
Footnote 292: Observations upon the United Provinces of the
Netherlands, London, 1693, p. 188.
Footnote 293: Coriat Junior, Another Traveller, London, 1767, p. 152.
Footnote 294: John Evelyn, Diary and Correspondence, ed. Bray, London,
1906, p. 38.
Footnote 295: Ibid., p. 29. Also John Raymond, Il Mercurio Italico,
London, 1648, p. 95.
Footnote 296: Coriat Junior, op. cit., p. 152.
Footnote 297: R. Poole, Doctor of Physick, A Journey from London to
France and Holland; or, the Traveller's Useful Vade Mecum, London,
1746.
