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Mitto ad te Apologiam qua Fabro respondeo. Scio dolebis vtrius- 15
que nomine, verum haud aeque atque ego. Non queo satis mirari
quid homini venerit in mentem. Odi fatum hoc meum quod me ad
hoc laboris adegit. Percurres, non leges ; res est tumultuaria.
Budaeus proximis ad me litteris significat sese adhuc incertum an
tu prolixam illam epistolam accepisses; et de regiae conditionis 20
negocio quod tanto molimine susceperat, mirum silentium in illius
epistolis.
Frater Frowycus Roma reuersus ostendit opera quaedam Gregorii
Nasianzeni nuper excusa. Addidit vtrunque Testamentum ex Aldina
officina proditurum, Strabonem Graecum prodisse, ad haec (Vitas) 25
Plutarchi, Pindarum vna cum commentariis, aliaque complura.
O diuitias, si liceat repubescere! Sed tamen si minus mihi, certe
saeculo meo gratulor.
Tres milites de grege istorum qui in excidio Asprensi plusquam
Turcicam immanitatem exercuerant poenas dederunt, omnes in 30
eadem arbore suspensi. Captus quidam, qui illos dum ad sup¬
plicium vehuntur data dextra salutauit, non dissimulans sibi cum
illis esse societatem. Vtinam tota illa Manus ad cineres vsque esset
exusta, quo magis suo cognomini responderet, Nigra dicta !
Cura, vir optime, vt quam rectissime valeas. Nos vt inter 35
assiduas compotationes, mihi sane grauissimas, sat recte valemus.
Lou. prid. Cal. Septem.
644. To RICHARD SPARCHEFORD.
Auctarium p. 184. Louvain.
D. p. 321: F. pp. 159 and 427: HN: Lond. iii. 26: LB. 265. 31 August 1517.
[Printed in E as well as in D, probably through an oversight. Sent with
Ep. 643.
Rich. Sparcheford (+ 16 June 1560) was born in the diocese of Hereford (Brewer
ix. 334). He appears in the Oxford registers 1510-4, being B.A. 1 July 1510,
M.A. 21 April 1513. He was chaplain to Tunstall, and thus became intimate
with Erasmus (cf. Lond. xxi. 54, LB. 885; and EE.? 162, which is an autograph
by Sparcheford, ill-written and ill-spelt). He was executor with Tunstall to
Urswick’s (Ep. 193 introd.) will, and on 28 March 1522 received from Henry
vu Urswick’s living of Hackney (Brewer iii. 2145). In 1528 he was still with
Tunstall (ibid. iv. 4175), but later received prebends at York 1534-7, London
1534 —c. 1537, and Hereford 1539-60 (Le Neve). By 1 Sept. 1535 he was already
Archdeacon of Salop (Brewer ix. 245), and he held that office until his death.
25. Vitas add. LB post Plutarchi.
19. litteris] Ep. 609. 2, 3. of some schoolboys who had taken
20. epistolam] Ep. 583. refuge with their master in the rood¬
21. negocio] See Ep. 522. loft ofa church. See Henne ii. 194,5.
29. Asprensi] Asperen, on the E. The fame of it lasted long; see Lond.
boundary of S. Holland, was sacked by xi. 24, LB. 450.
the Black Band (Ep. 628. 28 n.) in July 36. compotationes] For Erasmus’
1517 (cf. Brewer ii. 3472, 3556). One dislike of such occasions cf. Epp. 83¬
episode of the sack was the massacre 40-2, 157. 5-8, 159. 59 seq., 296. 211.
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