[737] This letter possibly may not have reached England before Colet’s death; but it is most likely that the date is wrong, as so often is the case with these letters—the year not being often added by the writer himself at the time, but by some copyist subsequently.
[738] ‘Epistola clarissimi viri Thomæ Mori, qua refellit rabiosam maledicentiam monachi cujusdam juxta indocti atque arrogantis.’—Epistolæ aliquot Eruditorum Virorum, &c. Basileæ, M.DXX. pp. 92-138. Also Jortin’s Life of Erasmus, Appendix.
[739] ‘Nisi quod Lutherus fertur Augustini doctrinam mordicus tenens antiquatam sententiam rursus instaurare.’—p. 99.
[740] For the above particulars see Ranke’s History of the Reformation, bk. ii. c. iii.
[741] Melanchthonis Epistolæ: Bretschneider, i. p. 63, and p. 66.
[742] March 1519, Bretschneider, i. p. 75.
[743] Erasmus to Œcolampadius, 1518, Epist. cccliv.
[744] Dated January 5, from Wittemberg. Bretschneider, i. p. 59.
[745] Epist. ccccxi.
[746] Luther’s Briefe. De Wette, vol. i. Epist. cxxx. p. 249.