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989] FROM NICHOLAS BERALDUS 619 Decanum, euocarem. Is enim in hac, vt sic dixerim, palaestra ro prouocari abs te mauult quam te prouocare : vir alioqui in quouis scribendi genere non mediocriter antehac versatus, bonarumque omnium sed diuinarum praesertim literarum adeo studiosus, vt quem huic praeferamus habeamus profecto neminem. Eius nomine interim tibi salutem adscribo. Rogo insuper ne hominis integerrimi 15 simul et humanissimi familiaritatem asperneris, qui cum multis nominibus tum hoc praecipue dignus est amicitia tua, quod eam tantopere tamque, prope dixerim, ambitiose expetit; quantouis precio empturus, nisi Erasmus cunctis obuius gratisque expositus esset. Salutat te Deloinus, Ruzaeus, omnes. Budaeus, cum haec 20 scriberem, ruri cum vxore ac liberis agebat; propediem in vrbem rediturus, simulatque, vt puto, vxor parturiens pepererit Budaeique familiam auxerit. Vale. Luteciae, xt. Calendas Iulias. [m.D. xvi. ] 990. To JOHN CLAYMOND. Louvain. 27 June 1519. Farrago p. 64. F, p. 231: HN: Lond. iv. 11: LB. 438. _ [Between the foundation of Corpus and the publication of the Farrago (E) 1519 is the only year in which Erasmus was at Louvain at this time. John Claymond or Claimond (¢. 1457 — 19 Nov. 1537) of Frampton in Lincolnshire, spent most of his life in Oxford. He was a Demy of Magdalen in 1483, Fellow 1488, and President 1504: B.D. 1508, D.D. 1510. About 1487 he became known to Foxe, who gave him the Mastership of St. Cross Hospital near Winchester 1505-24, and in 1517 persuaded him to leave Magdalen and preside over the new foundation, Corpus Christi. This office he held until his death ; and during his life he also held benefices in the counties of Somerset, Hants, Durham, and Worcester. He was a man of exceptional public spirit and of great sincerity of character, Erasmus, who had perhaps met him in Oxford in 1499, speaks of him always as a theologian; but his only known work is some collections for notes on Pliny N. H., which exist in ms. in the College library and also in duplicate in the Library at Basle: the former mostly autograph, the latter partially so. He is also credited with notes on Plautus and Gellius. Vives found him a friend and patron (Vi. E. ff. 14 v°, 25, 44). In Feb. 1526 Erasmus dedicated to him translations of Chrysostom’s De fato and De prowidentia Dei. In the summer of 1531 Simon Grynaeus received assistance from him on a visit to Oxford in search of MSS. to be printed at Basle: see the preface to Plato and Proclus, Basle, J. Valder, March 1534, and Claymond’s letter of rg May (1532) in Grynaeus’ Epistolae, Basle, J. Oporinus, Oct. 1556, f. 161. Among the Corpus MSS. (318. 23, ed. H. O. Coxe) is an autograph letter written by Linacre from London to Claymond when President of Magdalen, sending him a pupil and urging him to learn Greek. Ir. alioquin F. Sed of. Erasmi Ep. ad Hueum. 24. M.D.xvimt add. H. etiam hortarevtietarcanascoelestesque the request made here by writing to literas, id est veram philosophiam, ita vt facit amare pergat, et Erasmum nostrumafictisistis Scauris Areopagitisque quibusdam defendere. On 15 Feb. 151% he was made Dean of Paris (GC. vii. 216). Erasmus complied with Hué, 9 Aug. 1519. 989. 22. parturiens] The child born at this time probably was Budaeus’ second daughter (BE‘. 134). For the growth of his family see BE*. 6, 19, 103, and cf. Ep. 915. 6.
