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english language	2
spanish language	1
french language	1

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People and organisations	Count
Stevens, John	1
Kirkby, John (1705-1754)	1
Lily, William	1

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Archive Collection:
BC MS Lg

Language Manuscripts (Brotherton Collection)

1651-1745

Manuscripts on the English, French and Spanish languages, including works on English grammar.

Archive Item:
BC MS Lg 1

The practice of speaking and writing English, by John Kirkby.

c.1745

Also known as:A new English grammar, by John Kirkby. Contains an English grammar divided into 15 chapters, which deal, in order, with letters, syllables, sounds, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunc...

Archive Item:
BC MS Lg q 1

A most short instruction teaching or reason etc., of the knowledge of the art of grammer..., by William Lily.

c.1560-1600

Also known as:Brevissima Institutio - English Contains an apparently unpublished English translation of William Lily's 'Brevissima Institutio', which forms the second part of his 'A short introductio...

Archive Item:
BC MS Lg 2

Whether the French or Spanish tongue bee the ancienter?

c.1651-1700

Contains an anonymous short English treatise on the relative antiquity of the French and Spanish languages, probably written in the latter half of the seventeenth century.