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Las) ag) lae] mv w Do lac) xxiil ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA Vori about Erasmus’ birthplace, in an abstract of a letter from Franc. Contarini, Venetian ambassador with the Emperor, to the Signory : ‘29 July 1540. Proceeded from Dort to Rotterdam, the birthplace of Erasmus; and but few were the courtiers who abstained from inspecting not only his house, but the chamber in which he was born.’ Collected Papers, 1889, pp. 350-3: from the churchwardens’ accounts of Trinity Church, Cambridge, 1504-30. The church had an endowment for the maintenance of a light before St. Erasmus’ altar. Out of 64 entries of payments for the upkeep of this light the name occurs spelt in 36 different ways. Bradshaw also draws attention to the ‘great devotion to St. Erasmus developed towards the end of the fifteenth century ’, and gives indications. malus poeta et perhumanus, vt testantur canonici Grauesandenses, apud quos honeste vixit et sepultus est.’ Jb. f. Kunst u. Allert. zu Emden, xviii (1913) pp. 123-8. James Canter was a parish priest at Emden in 1508, and perhaps earlier, and seems to have died c. 1529. See also G. Bauch, Mainzer Humanismus, in Arch. f. hess. Gesch. N.F. v (1907) pp. 38,9. Pacis, c. 30 March 1518; see Ep. 604. ton. epistolis appear in Despauterius’ Ars epistolica, Paris, J. Badius, 24 June 1513. see J. Reygersberch, Cronijcke van Zeelandt, 1551, f°. 39°, and J. Ermerins, Zeeuwsche Oudheden, iii (1786), pp. 122, 129. rg ro HD 1. 3. For eldest read second. l. z- For in read 28. See Ermerins, op. cit., pp. 127, 132. line by the same hand. This may mean that they were a later addition ; in which case the necessary correction in the date would most easily be made at this point, and More’s birth be determined at 6 Feb. 1478. University to Linacre, 1523: Bodleian MS. 282, no. 116. 1515, is printed by Goldast, Phil. epist. cent., 1610, no. 32. Collog. 1, p. 62).
