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the character of the handwriting.
3. Cancellarius] Le Sauvage ; Ep. 410.
Montioius] Mountjoy had been
appointed Governor of Tournay on
zo Jan. and arrived there on 5 Feb.
(Brewer ii. 41, 126, 147). It was
perhaps on this occasion that he
showed Erasmus the manuscript of
Suetonius mentioned in Ep. 586.
6. Francisci] Birckman, the Antwerp
bookseller (cf. Ep. 258. r4n.). Erasmus
had evidently brought with him some
of the ‘copy’ of Jerome, for revision
with the manuscripts which he had
used in England ; and also copies of
the new edition of the Adagia (Ep. 269)
for distribution.
15. Brugis] For this embassy see
Brewer ; also Seebohm, pp. 342,3.