WODROEPHE, JOHN [SSNE 8456]
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John Wodroephe was a soldier in the Scots-Dutch Brigade around the time of the Twelve Years' Truce (1609-1621), likely in the company of Sir Thomas Edmond [SSNE 8006]. Wodroephe composed a 523-page manual on learning French for English speakers entitled The Spare Houres of a Soldier in His Travels or The True Marrowe of the French Tongue (Dordrecht, 1623) during the Truce. Besides guiding the reader in the French language, Wodroephe including a number of 'Godly Sonets' dedicated to his friends and comrades including Sir William (and Thomas) Edmond [SSNE 8019], Sir William Brog [SSNE 7842], Sir Robert Henderson [SSNE 4975], William Drummond [SSNE 8010], John Monteith [SSNE 8108], and Maria Brog. A second edition of The Spare Houres (though abridged and with a shorter title) was published in London in 1625.
Sources:
Anna EC Simoni, 'John Wodroephe's Spared Houres,' in GAM Janssens and FGAM Aarts (eds.), Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, History and Bibliography (Amsterdam, 1984), pp. 211-233.
John Wodroephe, The Spare Houres of a Soldier in His Travels or The True Marrowe of the French Tongue (Dordrecht, 1623).
John Wodroephe, The True Marrow of the French Tongue (2nd ed., London, 1625).
This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.
Service record
- DUTCH REPUBLIC, THE SCOTS BRIGADE
- Arrived 1609-01-01
- Departed 1625-12-31
- Capacity SOLDIER, POET, WRITER, purpose MILITARY, LITERARY