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Epistolaries, or Collections of model letters (MSS.

Harl. 4971, Harl. 3988, Addit. 17716 Brit. Mus.; Ee 4, 20, Camb. Univ. Libr.; B 14. 39, 40, Trinity Col. Camb.; 182, All Souls, Oxon.; 188, Magdalen Col.).

Cartularies, or Collections of Bills, Indentures, etc.

(Harl. 4971; Ee 4, 20, Camb. Univ. Libr.; Addit.

17716).

Undated Vocabularies and Verb Tables and Fragments on Grammar (Ee 4, 20, Camb. Univ. Libr.; Harl. 4971, Addit. 17716, Brit. Mus.; 188, Magdalen Col., Oxon.).

_c._ 1340 Nominale sive Verbale in Gallicis c.u.m expositione eiusdem in Anglicis (ed. Skeat, "Transactions of the Philological Soc.," 1903-1906).

Richard II. (1377-1399):

Tractatus Orthographiae of Coyfurelly, Doctor in Law of Orleans (ed. Stengel, "Zeitschrift fur neufranzosische Sprache und Literatur," vol. i., 1878).

1396 * Maniere de Language (ed. P. Meyer, "Revue critique,"

1873).

1399 Pet.i.t Livre pour enseigner les enfanz de leur entreparler comun francois (ed. Stengel, _op. cit._).

_c._ 1409 Donait francois pur briefment entroduyr les Anglois et la droit language de Paris et de pais la d'entour fait aus despenses de Johan Barton par pluseurs bons clercs du language avandite (ed. Stengel, _op. cit._).

Conjugation of Verbs, by R. Dove. Le Donait soloum douce franceis de Paris (Sloane MSS. 513).

_c._ 1415 Liber Donati (MSS. Dd 12, 23, Gg 6, 44, Camb. Univ.

Libr.; Addit. 17716 Brit. Mus.).

Femina. Liber iste vocatur Femina, quia sicut Femina docet infantemloqui maternam, sic docet iste liber iuvenes rethorice loqui Gallic.u.m prout infra patebit (ed. W. A. Wright, Roxburghe Club, 1907).

1415 Maniere de Language (ed. P. Meyer, "Romania," x.x.xii., 1903).

John Lydgate, Praeceptiones linguae gallicae, li. 1.

(Bale, "Scriptores Britanniae," fol. 203.)

_c._ 1500? Dialogues in French and English (MS. Ii. 6, 17, Camb.

Univ. Libr.).

_B. Printed Books_

_c._ 1483 Tres bonne doctrine pour aprendre briefment francoys et engloys. Printed by William Caxton. B.L. 4to. (Ed.

H. Bradley, "Early English Text Society," extra series, lxxix., 1900.)

Another edition. Fragment of one leaf in the Bodleian.

_c._ 1492? Here is a good boke to lerne to speke French. B.L.

4to. Colophon: Per me Richardum Pynson.

_c._ 1498? Here beginneth a Lytell treatyse for to lerne Englisshe and Frensshe. B.L. 4to. Colophon: Here endeth a lytyll treatyse for to lerne Englysshe and Frensshe.

Emprinted at Westmynster by my Wynken de Worde.

Another edition. Fragment of one leaf in the British Museum. B.L. 4to.

II

TUDOR AND STUART TIMES

1521 BARCLAY. The introductorie to wryte and to p.r.o.nounce frenche.

? VALENCE. Introductions in frensche....

1528 Fragment of grammar in Lambeth Library.

1530 PALSGRAVE. Lesclarciss.e.m.e.nt de la langue francoyse.

_c._ 1534 DUWES. An introductorie for to lerne ... french trewly.

_c._ 1535 DUWES. An introductorie for to lerne ... french trewly.

_c._ 1547 DUWES. An introductorie for to lerne ... french trewly.

1552 VERON. Dictionariolum puerorum....

1553? DU PLOICH. A Treatise in English and Frenche....

1553? Traicte pour apprendre a parler francoys et angloys.

1557 G. MEURIER. La Grammaire Francoise... .

1557 (BARLEMENT.) A Boke int.i.tuled Italion, Frynsshe, Englysshe Latin.

1559 Ane A.B.C. for Scottes men to read the frenche toung....

1563 MEURIER. Communications familieres.

1565 HOLYBAND. The French Schoolemaister.

1566 HOLYBAND. The French Littleton.

1568 (BARLEMENT.) A Boke int.i.tuled Ffrynshe, Englysshe and d.u.c.h.e.

1571 A Dictionarie french and english.

1572 HIGGINS. Huloets dictionarie ... the French thereunto annexed.

1573 HOLYBAND. The French Schoolemaister.

1574 BARET. An Alvearie ... in Englishe, Latin and French.