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608] TO PETER BARBIRIUS 21 mihi centum francos qui restabant numeraret; porro pecuniam pensionis Curtracensis iam esse numeratam significabas. Ab co die quid sit actum audiui nihil, Louanium vna cum omnibus sarcinis commigrauimus. summa cum humanitate me exceperunt ; nondum tamen consedimus. Audio D. Adrianum cardinalem esse designatum. Opinor sydus aliquod theologicum nunc in coelo rupavveóew : adeo regnant vbique magistri nostri; Standicius in Anglia, apud Principem praeter alios Suffraganeus quondam Cameracensis, in Hispania Adrianus. Nune sapit Pontifex, cum non nisi sanctos ac coelestes viros et magistros nostros adoptat in suum collegium. D. Cancellarius mihi sacrae ancorae vice est: quae si me destituat, quod auertant superi, prorsus actum fuerit de Erasmo. Sed exitium commodius tulero, nisi coniunctum esset cum ludibrio. Vbi dabitur commoditas, submonebis hominem mei. Bene vale, charissime Barbiri. Faber Stapulensis in cap. 2. Epistolae ad Hebreos conflictatur mecum, sed non sine nota stomachi; quod ego sane miror, cum ego perpetuo stomachum illum continuerim, etiam si non deesset occasio. Non referam par pari, sed tamen declarabo me non tam stupidum Theologi esse quam ille facit. Louanii 16 Cal. Augusti. 7. centum francos] Cf. Ep. 597. 26 n,; stated elsewhere in florins. 8. numeratam] by de Hondt to Barbirius, for Erasmus ; cf. Ep. 436. 5 n. 12. cardinalem) 1 July 1517. 14. Standicius] Henry Standish (tg July 1535), a Franciscan, and D.D. He was a favourite with Henry, and from 1511 onwards often preached at Court. By 1515 he was Warden of the Franciscans in London, and subsequently Provincial of the Order. In Dec. 1515 he opposed Convocation about the punishment of clerics by lay tribunals, supporting the King’s view ; and as a reward Henry designated him Bp. of St. Asaph, 18 April 1518. He was subsequently ambassador to Hamburg 1524, examiner of heretics 1525; and, following Henry, he renounced the Pope’s jurisdiction, 1 June 1535. See A. G. Little, The Grey Friars in Oxford, OHS. xx, 1891, pp. 271-4; Knight ; and DNB. Erasmus abhorred him from the first, and took every opportunity of reviling him (cf. Ep. 777. 14,5): as preaching against Colet for a ‘poet’, 1512-3 (Lond. xv. 14, LB. 435, 460F) ; as objecting to the new edition of Jerome, a. 1514 (cf. Ep. 337. 678 n.) ; as disputing with another friar, April 1517 (4dag. 1498 ; amplified in 1517, cf. Ep. 620. 3 n.) ; and as protesting vehemently against the second edition (cf. Ep. 384. 46 n.) of the New Testament, 1519-20 (cf. Lond. CUP ED VIT, Rx OL xen ou ln 516, 554, 746, 979: see also Apol. de t In principio erat sermo °, LB. ix. 111, 2, Apol. de loco Omnes quidem resurgemus °, LB. ix. 433,4, and Annot. on 1 Cor. 15. 51, added in 1522). Cf. More, too, in Ep. 481. 41-54. 15. Cameracensis] Briselot ; see Ep. 597- 4 n. 17. Cancellarius] Le Sauvage. sacrae ancorae vice] For Erasmus’ expectations cf. Ep. 694. 14-6; also Ep. 666. 9-10. 22, Faber] Cf. Ep. 597. 32 n. o D o
