[709]. ‘Quo tuæ me insinuari benevolentiæ posse sperarem. A puero non alius mihi vehementior ad studia stimulus fuerit quam ut sic proficerem,’ &c. Erasmi Epp. lib. xx. Ep. 80.
[710]. ‘Meditare quibus rationibus laudem absque invidia tibi pares.’—Ibid. Ep. 81.
[711]. Letter of the Duchess of Parma, written from Brussels, in the Correspondance de Philippe II., from the archives of Simancas, published by M. Gachard, archivist-general of the kingdom, vol. i. p. 318.
[712]. The informations laid against Viglius are to be found in the Correspondance de Philippe II., vol i. p. 319.
[713]. Moreri, art. Viglius.
[714]. ‘Urbes supra trecentas et quinquaginta censenter.’—Strada, De Bello, i. p. 32.
[715]. Histoire de la Cause de la Désunion des Pays-Bas, by Messer Renom de France, chevalier, vol. i. chap. 5.
[716]. For fuller details on the forerunners of the Reformation in the Netherlands, see Hist. of the Reform. First series, vol. i. book i. ch. 6 and 8.
[717]. ‘Est Antverpiæ Prior, qui te unice deamat.’—Erasmus to Luther, Epp. 427, in Gerdesius, Ann. iii. p. 18.
[718]. ‘Is omnium pæne solus Christum prædicat.’—Ibid.