ABSTRACT
IN his travels abroad the prime aim of the young gentleman was to acquire foreign languages which would be of service to him in his public capacity later on. Later, skill in languages came to be as much a social accomplishment as a vocational necessity and to meet both needs there arose the new class of modern language tutor whose teaching and whose texts played an important part in the cultural life of Renaissance England, more especially in the second half of the sixteenth century and after.
