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To aid on Tully, he had a second collection of epistles with divers commentaries. A little later he will have similar aid on Terence. Along with Terence and Tully, he is studying the colloquies of Vives, as was regular. He was aided by a dictionary in English and by an-other, Calepine, in Latin. The Cato seems out of place, since it should have been mastered immediately after the accidence. Perhaps it was by way of making up a deficiency. Dialogues would be regular in all the early years. The Latin Psalter was, of course, for religious instruction. For the most part, this is regular work for the third form in the Eton system, for the fourth in that at Winchester.
In the course of the next school year, following July 15, 1556, we have other hints of progress.
Item payde for my selfe and others at soundry tymez for my nepveu Fraunces, 40 Mariae . . . for a Terence wyth dyvers comentariez, viijs... .
For a booke called 'Copia Erasmi' xvd.
For Epitome Adagiorum Erasmi xijd.
For a penner and inckehorne vjd.
For the Actes of the Appostelles in meter to synge72 xijd.
For Corderius `De corrupti Sermonis emendacione' ijs. viijd.
For Compendium Eligantiarum Valle, iiijd; and for Terence phrasez, iiijd. viijd."
Francis is now beginning to be polished on elegant oral and written Latin. He is continuing his Terence for another year, as was regularly done in the Eton system in the fourth form. For guidance in composition, he studies Copia; for material, he has an epitome of adages. For correctness of usage, he has Corderius and the compendium of Valla made by Erasmus. Udall's Floures of Terence furnish correct phrases both for speaking and for writing. This is regular work for upper grammar school, being fourth form work in the Eton system with probable exception that Copia came in the fifth in 156o. It is thus interesting to see what were the supplementary texts, and how they were fitted in.
For the next year, 1557-58, we get some significant hints also.
For a booke to teache hym to wrytte the Italian hande by vjd.
For a brusshe for hym and a booke of Sherez fygueres in Englyshe viijd.
To Mr. Horseley for teaching hym arethmetick and to playe on the virginalles, from the xxvijth of Apryll untyll the xvth of Maye, viz., xviijd. [sic] dayes at xvjd. the weeke iijs. iiijd.
Tye, Christopher, 1553.
It Hirt. MSS. Comm., Report on the Manuscripts of Lord Middleton, Preserved at Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire, pp. 412-413. 74 Mid., p. 413.
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