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200,309-311Latimer, William, on the ‘Novum Instrumentum,’398Lee, Edward,470,504Leo X., a friend of Erasmus, and inclined to peace,268.His intellectual sensualism,321.Patronises the ‘Novum Instrumentum,’336.His Indulgences, &c.,418et seq.Censure of Erasmus on,433Lilly, William, in companionship with More,146,149,152,181.His grammar,148.Master of St. Paul’s School,215,250,466.Had travelled in the East,150,250.Had a large family,464,n.Linacreat Florence,14.At Oxford,id.Erasmus admires him,116.Translation of Proclus’ ‘De Spherâ,’85.His Latin Grammar,216.Letter of Erasmus to,185Lollardsattend Colet’s sermons,222.Many abjure,id.Some burned,223Lorenzo de’ Medici,9,11,14,17,18,20,n.,59Louis XII.of France,259.At war with Henry VIII.; loses Tournay, &c.,272.Alliance with England.Dies,308Lupset, disciple of Colet’s,504Lutherreads the ‘Novum Instrumentum,’402,407.His early history and rigid Augustinian standpoint,404,472.Erasmus’s opinion of,478,479.Finds out he is a Hussite,484,485.The Reform of, contrasted with that of the Oxford Reformers,492,497Lystrius, Gerard,303.Adds notes to the ‘Praise of Folly,’312,313,420Machiavelli, his School of Politics.‘The Prince’ and its maxims,323,324,368,369Mahometanism.SeeTurksMacrobius, quoted by Colet,57.Mentioned,10,58,59Martins, Thierry, printer at Antwerp,167,n.At Louvain,366,379,389,419,n.,455,458,481Maximilian,259,482Melanchthon, Ode on Erasmus,401,402.Erasmus’s appreciation of,476-478More, Thomas, his early history,23.Fascinating character,25.Comes to Oxford,25.His father’s strictness,26.Erasmus meets him in London,113.Erasmus falls in love with him,114,116.Visits royal nursery with Erasmus and Arnold,134.His legal studies,27,142.Oxford friends join him in London,id.Lectures on St. Augustine’s ‘De Civitate Dei,’143.Reader at Furnival’s Inn—enters Parliament,143,144.Procures the rejection of part of a subsidy,145.Offends Henry VII.,145,146.Seeks retirement,id.In lodgings near the Charterhouse,147.Colet’s influence on him,148.He studies Pico’s Life and Works,151-158.Erasmus visits him,181.His satire upon monks and confession,id.Unrelenting hatred of the King’s avarice and tyranny—his epigrams,182.Leaves the Charterhouse—marries,159,160.His home in Bucklersbury and three daughters,193.Connection with Henry VIII.,190-192.His practice at the bar, and appointment as undersheriff,id.Erasmus visits him and writes the ‘Praise of Folly’ at his house,193.More on Colet’s school,251.Epigrams against French criticisms on the war,260.Public duties,256,338.Writes History of Richard III.,id.His first wife dies,id.His practice at the bar—second marriage,337.Sent on an embassy,343.Second book of ‘Utopia,’346-365.Introductory book to,378-390.Attempt of Henry VIII. to make him a courtier,380.Visit to Coventry—strange frenzy there,414-418.Second embassy,427.Enters Henry VIII.’s service,429.At the court of Henry VIII.,458.Letter to the University of Oxford,459.A monk attempts his conversion—More’s reply,470-475.His character and domestic life,497-502.Opinion of character of Colet,504.Date of More’s birth, note on,Appendix C.Works of,App. FMorton, Cardinal, zeal for reform, and against heretics,8.More’s connection with,24,256,386Moses, Colet’s views on; his account of the Creation,46et seq.Colet urges Erasmus to lecture on Moses or Isaiah,128,131Mountjoy, Lord,94,115,134,165,170,205,295,469,471Neo-platonists,9-13,39,41,61,77,158,159Origen, the works of, Colet studies, and prefers to those of Augustine,16.Erasmus studies,169.His method of allegorical interpretation,174,445Original sin, allusion to,403,492Oxford Reformers of 1498.(See‘Colet,’ ‘Erasmus,’ and ‘More.’)Difference between their standpoint and that of Luther and all Augustinian Reformers,492-497.Nature of the Reform urged by,506.Result of its rejection,507-509Parliamentof 1503-4.Subsidy opposed by More in,145.Of 1514,279.Of 1515, complaints of results of Henry VIII.’s extravagance and the wars,338.Levy taxes on labourers,268; and interfere with wages,340-341.Statute on pasture-farming,341.Rigid punishment of crimes,id.Eight years without a Parliament,346Pico della Mirandola, influenced by Savonarola,19.Death of,18-20.His ‘Heptaplus,’19,n.,59.More translates his life and works,152-158.His faith in Christianity, and in the laws of nature,154.On prayer,154.On the Scriptures,155.Study of Eastern languages,156.His verses,157.On the love of Christ,152-157Platonic Academy,9,13,17,19Plotinus,10,14,16,41Pole, De la,133Politian,14,18Pomponatius, sceptical tendencies of,323Popes, satire of Erasmus on,201,426.Colet on,74,75Proclus,10Pyghards, of Bohemia.SeeHussitesRadulphus(who?), Colet’s letters to,41-57Reuchlin, mention of,301.Erasmus supports,307.His ‘Pythagorica,’ &c. Colet’s opinion of,411,413Rhenanus, Beatus,303,304,311,312,392,432,457Sacrifice, Colet’s views on,39,206.Of Cain and Abel, conversation on,97et seq.Sadolet, secretary to Leo X.,321Sapidus, John, escorts Erasmus to Basle,302Savonarola, influence of,17-22.Do. on Colet (?)id.and37,n.Whether any connection between his views and Colet’s,id.Indirect connection with the Oxford Reformers through More’s translation of Pico’s life and works,158,159Saxony, Frederic, Elector of, protects Luther,477-483.His noble conduct on election of Charles V.,id.Schlechta’s, Johannes, of Bohemia, correspondence with Erasmus,485-491Scriptures, position of study of, at Oxford,2.Do. plenary inspiration,29.Interpretation textarian,id.Theory of ‘manifold senses,’31,121-124.Aquinas on do.,30,122.Tyndale’s account of,30,31.Scriptures practically ignored,14.Colet’s mode of interpretation (seeColet).The theory of accommodation,52-57.‘Manifold senses,’ Colet on inspiration,124.Valla’s ‘Annotations,’ preface of Erasmus,177.Pico on the Scriptures,155.Colet translates portions of,155.Dorpius maintains verbal inspiration of Vulgate version,315.Eck also,435.Erasmus rejects it,317,331,436,443.Advocates translation of, into all languages,327.Method of study of,329,445.Difference between the Oxford and the Wittemberg Reformers on the inspiration of,492-497Servatius, prior of Stein monastery, Holland, correspondence with Erasmus,295,299Sherborn, Robert, Bishop of St. David’s,138Spalatin, George, writes to Erasmus,402St. Andrews, Archbishop of, under Erasmus’s tuition,184.Killed in battle of Flodden,272St. Bertin, Abbot of,165.Letters of Erasmus to,280.Erasmus visits,299St. Paul’s School, founded by Colet,209.Salaries of masters,209.Cost of, to Colet,210.Completion of,250.Jealousy against,251.Statutes of,463-466Sweating sickness,458,461Taxation, of clergy, for Henry VIII.’s wars,247.Amount of a ‘tenth,’id.n.Of labourers,340.War taxes,339.Erasmus on,374-376.Amount of a ‘fifteenth,’145Tunstal, More on an embassy with,343.Erasmus writes to,503Turks, five times as numerous as Christians,6,n.Threaten to overwhelm Christianity,6.Defeat of the Moors in Spain,7Tyndale, describes position of Scripture study at Oxford,3,n.Estimate of number of Mahometans and Christians,6,n.On the scholastic modes of Scripture interpretation and the theory of ‘manifold senses,’31.At Oxford before Colet leaves,136.Studies Scriptures there,id.Translates the ‘Enchiridion,’174United brethren, of Bohemia.SeeHussitesUtopia, contents of second book of,347-365.Introductory book of,378-390Valla, Laurentius, Erasmus studies the works of, and writes the preface to his Annotations of,177Vere, Marchioness de, aids Erasmus,164-167Volzius, abbot of monastery at Schelestadt, Erasmus’s letter to,439Walsingham, pilgrimage to,269-272.Erasmus visits,273-275Warham, Erasmus visits,184,205.Gives Erasmus a pension,205.Defends Erasmus against Fitzjames,254Wars, Colet’s sermons against Henry VIII.’s,261,264,468.Erasmus against,203,280,311.More’s ‘Utopian’ opinions on,351Winchcombe, Kidderminster, Abbot of, Colet’s letter to,45Wolsey, begins continental wars,223.His rapid promotion,229.Archbishop of York,306.Installed Cardinal,343.Lord Chancellor,346Ximenes, zeal for reform, and against dissent,7Zisca, John,486


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