CHAPTER III

THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGIOUS REFUGEES ON THE TEACHING OF FRENCH IN ENGLAND--OPENINGS FOR THEM AS TEACHERS--DEMAND FOR TEXT-BOOKS--FRENCH SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND 114

Effects of the persecution of the Protestants on the teaching of French in England--Protestant refugees--Registers and returns of aliens--French churches in London--Reception and treatment of foreigners--Incivility of the common people--Courtesy of the gentry--Refugees received into English families--French in polite education--French tutors and text-books--Converse with foreigners--Shakespeare's French--Professional schoolmasters--No opening in the grammar schools--French schools--Du Ploich's school--His Treatise in French and English and method of teaching--His works in manuscript--Claude Holyband--His _French Schoolemaister_ and _French Littleton_--His French school--Holyband as private tutor--His method of teaching--Schools in connection with the French churches--Schools at Canterbury and elsewhere--Saravia's school at Southampton--Joshua Sylvester--Place of French in the public schools of Scotland--In the parish and private schools--No French grammars produced in Scotland.