[630]. Friese, Kirchengeschichte Polens, ii. p. 64.
[631]. Luther to the Bishop of Samland, April, 1525.—Epp. ii. p. 449.
[632]. Luther to the Christians of Livonia, April, 1523.—Epp. ii. p. 374.
[633]. Krasinski, Hist. relig. des peuples Slaves, chap. xiv. p. 261.
[634]. The principal authorities for the life of Alasco are—J. a Lasco, Opera, Amsterdam, 1866, passim; Erasmus, Epistolæ; Bertram, Hist. Crit. Joh. a Lasco. Gerdesius, Annales. Krasinski, Hist. relig. des peuples Slaves, ch. vii. Bartels, Joh. a Lasko, &c.
[635]. ‘Lovanii, anno 1523, versatus est, atque cum Alberto Hardenbergio contraxit amicitiam,’—Gerdesius, Ann. iii. p. 146.
[636]. ‘Me per virum illum (Zwinglium) ad sacrarum literarum studia inductum esse.’—Alasco, Opera, i. p. 338.
[637]. ‘Illum primum omnium.’—Ibid.
[638]. ‘Divino beneficio.’—Ibid.
[639]. ‘Ut missa superstitione pontificia ad Evangelium se converteret.’—Gerdesius, Ann. iii. p. 146. It is difficult to fix accurately the times at which Alasco was in the various towns he visited. Gerdesius says that he was at Louvain in 1523. Bartels supposes that he passed to Zurich in the autumn of 1524. Alasco himself states, in his reply to Westphal, Opera, i. p. 338, that he was at Zurich ante annos quatuor et viginta. This work, printed at Basel by Oporin, bears date—Anno salutis 1560, mense Martio. This would fix the removal of Alasco to Zurich in the year 1526. A letter of Erasmus which we shall quote assigns Alasco’s stay at Basel, after Zurich, to 1525. This date seems most worthy to be relied on. Alasco may have been mistaken by a few months.