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[231] Brandt, The History of the Reformation, etc. i. 49; cf. Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, p. 185.
[232] A collection of their chansons d’amour, jeux-partis, pastourelles, and fabliaux will be found in Scheler’s Trouvères Belges (Bruxelles, 1876).
[233] Correspondance de Philippe II. sur les affaires des Pays-Bas, i. 321, 327, 379; Correspondance de Guillaume le Taciturne, ii. 161, 168.
[234] Van der Meersch, Recherches sur la vie et les travaux des imprimeurs belges et hollandaís, pp. 142-144; cf. Walther, Die deutsche Bibelüberseztungen des Mittelalters, p. 652.
[235] Aleander, writing to the Cardinal de’ Medici (Sept. 8th, 1520), attributes the spread of Lutheranism in the Netherlands to the teaching of Erasmus and of the Prior of the Augustinians at Antwerp.—Brieger, Aleander und Luther, 1521; Die vervollständigten Aleander-Depeschen (Gotha, 1884), p. 249.
[236] Kalkoff, Die Depeschen des nuntius Aleander (Halle a S. 1897), p. 20.
[237] Brieger, Aleander und Luther; Die vervollständigten Aleander-Depeschen, pp. 249, 252, 262.
[238] Graphæus’ appeal to the Chancellor of the Court of Brabant is printed in full in Brandt’s History of the Reformation ... in the Low Countries (London. 1720), i. 42.