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Richard Mulcaster (ca. 1531, Carlisle, Cumberland – 15 April 1611, Essex) is known best for his headmasterships of Merchant Taylors' School and St Paul's School, both then in London, and for his pedagogic writings.
William Bullokar was a 16th-century printer who devised a 40-letter phonetic alphabet for the English language. [1] Its characters were presented in the black-letter or "gothic" writing style commonly used at the time and also in Roman type.
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Richard Hill's Commonplace Book is a paper manuscript of 514 numbered pages measuring 31.3 centimetres (12.3 in) vertically and 11.3 centimetres (4.4 in) horizontally, [1] a format typical of a tradesman's account book, and it has an old wrapper of limp vellum. [3]
Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModE [1] or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
The book also contains Twyne's reminiscences of Nicholas Wotton, John Dygon, the last prior of St. Augustine's John Foche, [4] Richard Foxe, Vives, and other scholars. He also collected " Communia Loca ", bequeathed to Corpus Christi College, Oxford by his grandson, Brian Twyne .
It was the first English-to-Latin dictionary. [1] It occupies about 300 printed book pages. [2] Its authorship is attributed to Geoffrey the Grammarian, a friar who lived in Lynn, Norfolk, England. [3] After the invention of the printing press, the Promptorium was published repeatedly in the early 16th century by printer Wynkyn de Worde. [3]
Nicholas Udall (or Uvedale [1] Udal, Woodall, or other variations [2]) (1504 – 23 December 1556) was an English playwright, cleric, schoolmaster, the author of Ralph Roister Doister, generally regarded as the first comedy written in the English language. [3] [unreliable source] [4]