[460] From the letters referred to by Brewer, i. p. 963, Nos. 5731 (Eras. Epist. clxv.), 5732, 5733, and 5734, it would seem that he had undertaken the education of a boy to whom he had been ‘more than a father.’ This does not prove that he was in the habit at Cambridge of taking private pupils, as possibly this boy was placed under his care somewhat in the same way as More had been placed with Cardinal Morton.
[461] See Eras. Epist. cl. Brewer, i. 4528.
[462] Eras. Epist. cxix. Brewer, i. 4427.
[463] Brewer, i. 4428.
[464] Eras. Epist. cxxxi. Brewer, i. 2001, under the date 1511. The allusion to the King of Scots, as well as the passage quoted, fix the date 1513. See also Eras. Epist. cxxix. Brewer, i. 4576.
[465] Eras. Epist. cxxxi. Brewer, i. 2001.
[466] 5 Henry VIII. c. i.
[467] Brewer, i. 4819. Notes of a speech in this parliament.
[468] Eras. Epist. cxliv.
[469] Compare More’s Epigrams, headed: ‘Populus consentiens Regnum dat et aufert,’ and ‘Bonum Principem esse patrem non dominum.’