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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 Lincoln¬
shire, 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 Win¬
chester 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 nos¬
trumafictisistis 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.