ABSTRACT
The internal wars, within the ranks of the grammarians who were attempting to dispose authoritatively of the vexed questions of grammar, impressed the imagination of those engaged in the toilsome war to be fought between the grammar-teachers and the teachers of Latin authors. In a Grammar of the Latin Tongue, written by Solomon Lowe in 1726, there are enumerated no less than 186 writers of Latin Grammars which either were or had been in use in England. So that Lily’s Grammar, promulgated by the King’s authority and supported by the ecclesiastical sanction of bishops, was really unable to maintain its monopgly in face of grammatical and pedagogical developments. In a book of Rhetorical Exercises drawn up by Johannes Tresmarus, in 1657, an example is given as a model, for the method of dealing with a theme, with Grammar as the subject.
