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for searching only. Normal;Style 1;Style 24;Style 13;Style 4;Style 10;Style 16;Style 11;Style 18;Style 19;Style 14;Style 15;Style 20;Style 21;Style 22;Style 23;Style 17;Style 12;which under date of October 21, 155o, Bucer was sending from Cambridge to Cheke in London. One copy on vellum had been bound, but since the fresh ink had blotted in the binding, the other had been sent unbound.' Sturm was moving, "haste, haste, posthaste." So Sturm on November 18, I 55o, again wrote Ascham, including a copy of his earlier letter in case it had gone astray, and saying that he had sent a copy of his De Periodis to Elizabeth and hears she was much pleased, but King Edward felt that he had not received quite his share of the limelight, since there was a dedicatory preface to Elizabeth. Sturm intended, therefore, to make amends by mentioning Edward in his Aristotelian Dialogues.'" Sturm also proposed to publish Ascham's original letter and his own answer to it before long. Then Ascham under date of December 14, 1550 suggested that if Sturm had not already sent their letters to print, he would like to see them on some spare page of the Aristotelian Dialogues." He also furnished further material upon Edward and Elizabeth, and added Lady Jane Grey and her faithful Ph.aedo, which has accompanied her ever since, though apparently Ascham was too late to get her written down for a learned woman in this particular examination, but later made amends in his Scholemaster. Mildred Cecil also received a push toward fame, but missed the tide. For apparently the letters had already gone to print, since they appeared as Rogeri - 4schami et Joannis Sturmij Epistolae duae, de Nabilitate Anglicana,12 attached to De Educatione Principum, in a volume which is dated 1551. After Ascham had thought the matter over still further, he wrote to Sturm on January 24, 1551, asking that if the letters were not already in print Sturm would insert a section giving Ascham's pupil Grindal the credit for having laid the foundations in both languages for Elizabeth's attainments.'} By laying claim to Grindal Ascham consolidated his own claim to having educated Elizabeth. So by 1551 Elizabeth was "in print" for your best scholar, and there was nothing for her to do but act her part-and Elizabeth is one of the best actresses England has produced.
Camden,14 as became a court historian, in his flnnales para.-
Giles, Ascham, Vol. I, p. 2i5. The blotted vellum volume is now in the British Museum, C. 24. e. 5.
L0 Giles, Ascham, Vol. I, pp. 222-'223. U Giles, Ascham, Vol. I, pp. 224 if.
" Mayor, John E. B., The Scholemaster, by Roger "Pechora, p. 2r4. The copy in the British Museum (827. c. 1) lists these on the title-page; but they are not included.
" Giles, .Ascham, Vol. I, PP. 27273.
'4 Christopher Ocland in his Elizabetha (i582) presents a glowing but indefinite picture of
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