[32] Reg. Warham, in Knight’s Erasmus, p. 22 note.
[33] Encyclop. Brit. sub nomine.
[34] Ibid.
[35] Ugo Balzani, Un’ ambasciata inglese a Roma, Società Romana di storia patria, iii. p. 175 seqq. Of this an epitome is given in Bacon’s Henry VII., p. 95. Count Ugo Balzani says: “Il prior di Canterbury sembra essere veramente stato l’anima dell’ ambasciata.” Burchardus, Rerum Urbanarum Commentarii (ed. Thuasne), i. p. 257, gives a full account of the reception of this embassy in Rome and by the Pope.
[36] Harl. MS. 6237, and Add. MS. 15,673.
[37] In the same beautifully written volume is a printed tract addressed to the Venetian Senate in 1471 against princes taking church property. The tract had been sent to the Prior of Christchurch by Christopher Urswick, with a letter, in which, to induce him to read it, he says it is approved by Hermolaus Barbarus and Guarini. Christopher Urswick was almoner to Henry VII., and to him Erasmus dedicated three of his works.
[38] Leland, De Scriptoribus Britannicis, 482.
[39] This information I owe to the kindness of Dr. Montague James.
[40] Canterbury Letters (Camden Soc.), p. xxvii.
[41] Ibid., p. 36, a letter in which Dr. Langton asks Prior Selling to “attend to the drawing of it.” The draft sermon is in Cleop. A. iii.