Note 290 — Chapter III
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Early refugees also came in small numbers from Italy where the Inquisition was established in 1542; and a few others from Spain, where it was set up in 1588. Their arrival in England imparted some slight impetus to the study of their respective languages; cp. F. Watson, The Beginnings of the Teaching of Modern Subjects in England, London, 1909, chapters xii. and xiii.