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XXV. ROGER ASCHAM. 465134. Roger Charaloe. ' Sir R. Cholmeley became Chief Baron of theExchequer nth Nov. 1545, Chief Justice of the King's Bench 21stMarch, 1552. See Foss, Judges of England, v, 293. "The date ofhis admission [at Lincoln's Inn] cannot be found; but the fact of hisbeing re-admitted in 1509 gives some substance to the story that theembryo Chief Justice entered at first i-ather freely into the frolics ofyouth." For a letter of his see Calendar of State Papers (Mary), 88.'Mayor.I cannot mention the name of Sir Roger Cholmeley without gratitude,having spent three years at the Highgate Grammar School, which hefounded in the year 1565. It is perhaps necessary to add that thearticle upon him and the school which appeared in the Gentleman'sMagazine for April, 1834, turns out to be in many respects inaccurate,and the writer is wrong in questioning the date and in his description ofthe arms. My school prizes bear the right date and the right arms,viz. 1565, and Gules, a sword in fess between a helmet in chief anda wolf's (not an eagle's) head erased in base. The latter perhaps refersto the fact of Sir Roger's descent from Hugh Lupus, first Earl ofChester and nephew of William the Conqueror, ancestor of the presentCheshire Egertons. His father, Sir Richard Cholmeley, Knight, wasLieutenant of the Tower, and his father's brother, also named Sir Roger,was knight of the body to Henry VIII. Sir Roger himself left no maleheir, but had two daughters, Elizabeth and Frances. A pamphlet waspublished in 1822 entitled 'Some Accoimt of the Free Grammar Schoolat Highgate and of its founder. Sir Roger Cholmeley, Knight,' by J.N.[John Green] ; which was followed by An Epistle to ' J. G. the authorof a pamphlet entitled Some Account, &c. ;' by A. Z. 1823. 8vo.155. He here clearly refers to his 'Toxophilus,' or treatise on Archery.174. Queene Elisabeth.'See below, p. 105 [i.e. p. 105 of Mr. Mayor'sedition, a passage near the beginning of Book ii. of the Scholemaster]and the Preface. [Also Ascham's] Epist. 5 1 (for her knowledge of Greek,Latin, Italian, and French) ; Epist. 53 (she was reading with Ascham Demosthenesand yEschines " of the crown," and shewed great intelligence,14th Sept. 1555); Epist. 56, 57 (she in one day answered three ambassadorsin Italian, French, and Latin respectively); Epist. 61 (20thOct. 1562, she daily read with Ascham Greek or Latin) ;Whitaker'sRichmondshire, i. 287 (Ascham to Leicester, 14th April, 1566): 'IfI dye, all my thinges dye with me, and yett the poore service that Ihave done to Queene Elizabeth shall live still, and never dye soe longas her noble hand and excellent learneing in the Greeke and Latinetonge shalbe knowne to the world.'—Mayor.206. One example.'Strype (Stow, ed. 1720, bk. ii. p. 149) conjecturesHh