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1514] 557. 291. From JoHN BECAR oF BORSSELEN. Deventer MS. 91. fo, 154. Middelburg. LB. App. 6. 19 April 1514. [The date is confirmed by Sixtin’s journey to the Netherlands; cf. Ep. 273. 13. John Becar of Borsselen was evidently a kinsman of the Lady of Veere (p. 208), and perhaps made Erasmus’ acquaintance during the latter’s residence at Tournehem. He was an eager student, and family patronage enabled him to gratify his desire for learning ; but a large part of his life was spent in teaching, for which he had not much taste. After receiving a Canonry at Middelburg in 1513, he became tutor to Cornelius Erdorf, a nephew of the Busleidens at Luxemburg, in 1515, and accompanied him to Louvain in 1516. There he enjoyed the society of Erasmus in the Collège du Lis, and was recommended by him to the patronage of the Bp. of Utrecht. He was proposed as the first Professor of Latin in the new Collegium Trilingue, but declined on being appointed Dean of the College of Sandenburch, at Veere (van Heussen, ii. Middelburg, 27). Shortly afterwards he became tutor to Maximilian of Burgundy, with whom he went once more to Louvain in 1522. Besides his existing preferment he was elected Dean of Middelburg in 1527, but through court opposition was unable to secure the post ; but he received from Adolphus of Burgundy the living of Brouwershaven near Zierikzee, vacant through the death of Nicholas of Burgundy (Ep. 144) in 1522 (cf. van Heussen, ii. Middelburg, 70). He was still at Louvain in 1528. Two of Geldenhauer’s Satyrae, Louvain, Th. Martens, 13 June 1515, are addressed to him ; there is a letter to him in the second edition of Hadr. Barland’s De Hollandiae brincipibus, Antwerp, M. Hillen, Jan, 1520; and he is mentioned in the Epithalamium Petri Aegidii (LB. i. 749 4) as one of the lights of Louvain. See Nève, Renaissance des Lettres en Belgique, pp. 197-9; and in the Annuaire de Vuniv. cath. de Louvain (1874), pp. 397-412; EE; and BWN.] IO. BORSALVS DOMINO ERASMO RO. S. P. D. Accrrr estate proxima ternas a te litteras, postremas autem abhine sex menses per dominum Ioannem Sixtinum, cui comes erat Augustinus Aggeus; qui praeter ea quae tu scripsisti, multa mihi de tuis studiis omnique rerum tuarum statu narrabant. Cenabamus enim vna, et postridie erant pransuri mecum, nisi 5 prius hinc soluissent in Phrysiam nauigaturi, Eos aliquanto post operiebar hac ad te redituros (id enim ita futurum promiserant), eramque iis daturus ad te litteras. At vbi aliquot mensibus frustra expectassem eos neque aliam inuestigassem scribendi ad te oportunitatem, seuiente post compluribus mensibus hyeme 1o vehementissima, factum est vt nihil adhuc tibi rescripserim. Quare nunc vel tandem nactus quendam qui ad Decanum Sancti Pauli Londinensis proficiscebatur, quanquam nesciebam quo te loco meae litterae conuenire possint, sperabam tamen opera et cura Decani eas facile tibi redditum iri. Nolui itaque omittere 1 or 6. Physiam MS. 1g. Londinen. MS.: Londinensem LB. 3. Aggeus] A native of the Hague, Oculi, printed in Paris by Wolffgang and perhaps a kinsman of Sixtin. He Hopyl, 25 June 1510, for the London became B.A. at Paris in 1506, being merchant, Wm. Bretton. In 1516 or 7 described as belonging to the diocese he was again resident in Paris, having of Utrecht; but does not seem to have meanwhile become a physician (LB. proceeded M.A. He contributed a App.45); seealsoLond. xiii.r7, LB. 465. preface, dated London, gr Jan. 1510, 7. redituros] Sixtin had returned to to an edition of John de Burgo’s Pupilla England by Nov. 1513. Ep. 280. 20.
