the schoolmaster Richard Mulcaster’s 1582 Elementarie (or, more properly, The First Part of the Elementarie Vvhich Entreateth Chefelie of the Right Writing of Our English Tung, Set Furth by Richard Mulcaster) ended with a list of around 8,000 words that every learned student should know; Edmund Coote’s 1596 The English Schoole-Maister contained a list of about 1,680 words.*2
