Burd—Eight Unedited Letters of Joseph Ritson 15 
2. Bellots English Schoolmaster, 1579. 45) 
3. Bullokars Orthographie, 1580. 46) 
4. Mulcasters Elementarie, 1582. 47) 
5. Grammatica Anglicana, 1594. 48) 
6. Spensers Three Letters, 1590. 49) 
7. Blages Wise conceytes, 1569. 50) 
Dear Sir, 
If the books mentioned in the enclosed paper be in your 
own library, as I presume they are, I shal be highly gratifyed 
by the perusal of such of them as you can conveniently spare. 
They shal be treated with care, & returned with expedition. 
Yours respectfully 
J. Ritson 
Monday, 6th Feb. 
1797. ; 
George Chalmers, esq. ' - 
Add. Mss. 22900, fol. 404. 
Dear Sir, 
Understanding that you have purchased Mr. Her¬ 
bert’s 51) transcript of the Stationers-books, I presume upon 
your experienced liberality to solicit the loan, for a few days, of 
The only copy known to exist of Jacques Bellot’s The Englishe Schole- 
maister: Gonteyning many profitable precepts for the naturall home French 
men, and other straungei's that have their French tongue to attayne the true 
pronouncing of the Englishe tongue. London, 1580, is that preserved at the 
Hofbibliothek in Darmstadt. It was edited, with a reproduction of the 
original title page, by Theo. Spira, as Vol. VIII of NeudriicTce fruhneueng- 
lischen Grammatiken, Halle, 1912. 
William Bullokar published, in 1580, Booke at Large for the Amendment 
of Orthographie for English Speech. This was followed by two other books 
dealing with similar subjects. All three were published by Max Plessow in 
Geschichte der Faheldichtung in England his zu John Gay, Berlin, 1906. 
^ Richard Mulcaster, First Part of the Elementarie, which entreateth 
chefelie of the right Writing of our English Tung, London, 1582. No second 
part is known to have appeared ; the first has not been reprinted. 
Grammatica Anglicana, praecipuS quatenus d Latina differt, ad unicam 
P. Rami methodum concinnata, etc., London, 1594, Hrsg. von M. Rfisler 
und R. Brotanek. Announced in 1905 for publication in Neudrilcke friih- 
neuenglischen Grammatiken, but it has not yet appeared. 
Edmund Spenser, Three proper and wittie, familiar letters: lately passed 
between two university men: touching the earthquake in April last, and our 
English reformed versifying, London, 1580. 
“ Thomas Blage, A Schole of Wise Conceytes, set forth in common-places 
by order of the alphabet. Translated out of divers Greeke and Latine wryters, 
London, 1569. 
William Herbert (1718-1795), noted chiefly for his edition of Ames’ Typo~ 
graphical Antiquities, 1785ff. Ritson furnished his own copy of this work 
with ‘a great number of MS. notes and remarks’. 
