Note 400 — Chapter III · EDUCATION
Reading edition
Some light is thrown on the curious phrase "read, write, and in some measure understand," by William Greenhill's dedication of his Exposition of the first five chapters of Ezekiel to the Princess Mary in 1644-45. After mentioning other instances of feminine precocity he praises her for "writing out the Lord's Prayer in Greek and some texts of Scripture in Hebrew." It was calligraphy rather than language that was here in question.