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Quare mandatum sua aliquot uiris eruditis, & in hac literaria palestra utcunq; exercitatis, delegandum cemui% qui facilem quandam & plan4 compendiaria grammatices institutionera ex optimis quibusq; huius generis scriptoribus eollectam, uelut in unurn corpus concinnarent, quam & hat lege mulgandam sanciuit, ut non aliam q hanc unam intra ditionis suae pomeria discipulis uestris praelegeretis. Quod tamen optimi & aequissimi principis edictum non its. intelligi debet, quasi iubeat quicquid hic scriptum reperictis eodem edam, quo scribitur ordine, & sine interuallo, tenellis adhue ac fastidientibus puerorum stomachis continuo & citra omnem delectum esse obtrudendum: cgterum hoe cuilibet uestrum integrum relinquitur, ut pro captu auditorum suorum, quicquid sibi commodum uidebitur, uel omittat pro arbitrio suo, uel gregi suo proponat ediscendu, modo non aliam q hanc grammaticam publice aut priuatim profiteatur aut doceat.
The title-page also orders that "non alia q haec una per totam AngIiam pueris praelegeretur."
The Latin preface to schoolmasters of 154o has been rephrased in English to the reader for An Introduction of 154x. This English preface is preceded by an admonition from King Henry "to all schoolemaisters and teachers of grammar within this his realm" that
as ye intend to auoyde our displeasure, and haue our fauour, to teache and learne your scholars this englysshe introduction here ensuing, and the latyne grammer annexed to the same, and none other.
These prefaces were later rewritten in English to precede the finally authorized form.
Thus the address to the reader by which Bale is going, applies originally to the Institatio Compendiaria and by transference to An Introduction. For Bale attributes the whole Latin grammar as well as the Greek grammar to Talley, and gives as his authority the books themselves, "Ex officina Ger brandi bibliopole." He has read Talley's address to Prince Edward in the Greek grammar, and from that and the address to the reader in ~4n Introduction he has drawn the conclusion that Talley revised the whole authorized Latin grammar "ex multis." The evidence on which Bale is basing will not bear this construction. He had not mentioned Talley in the first edition of his Scriptores, but when he came to print the edition of 1557, he was somewhat less positive in his statement of the case, "Dicitur edidisse quoque Grammaticam regis, ex omnibus alijs. Claruit anno Domini 1550."4 Incidentally, the final sentence indicates that Bale had his information concerning Talley about 1550.
Talley himself, however, claims only that he prepared the first part of the authorized grammar for Prince Edward, and that when he wrote in 1546 this had recently been published. The earliest known copy of this revision is one in the British Museum, with date of 1542, bound up with a copy of the second part of the authorized grammar dated 1540. This particular copy has a history which needs to be sketched. For this is the edition of "1542" which Ward used in his, the best and most complete account of the formation of the authorized grammar.' Ward refers to this as "a beautiful copy, printed upon vellum, and illuminated, anno r542, in quarto," and
4 Bale, Scriptornm Mustri8 maioril Brytannig ... Catalogus (IS 59), p. 719Ã
5 Ward, ,john, Preface to his revision of the grammar. I quote from my edition of 1743, which is a further revision later than r74o.
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