The other children, born in 1506, 1507, and 1509, were less distinguished. The name of Aloysia is usually given as Elizabeth. Erasmus perhaps made a confusion with the name of More's second wife.
218. SEVERITUDINE] ante- and post-classical for severitate.
222. REM] 'household business.'
233. PATER IAM ALTERAM] This passage implies that Sir John More was already married to his third wife; and in the edition of 1521 Erasmus speaks of a 'tertia noverca'. Only three wives are mentioned in the Dict. of National Biography. Erasmus is perhaps in error.
240. ADVOCATIONIBUS] 'his practice as a barrister.'
250. DIE IOVIS] Thursday; Fr. Jeudi.
255. DRACHMAS] shillings.
261. LEGATIONEM] On one of these, in 1515, he wrote the Utopia (l. 312).
276, 7. FELICES RES PUBLICAS] An exclamatory accusative.
294. EXPROBRAT] sc. beneficium; i.e. casts up against a man a benefit conferred.