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"Thanks him for bit letter*. Is lorry to hear of the ill-health of their friend Justus. 1 His Cofiia has been agan x month* ago. Gives

an account ..f a [deputed) read :lu Gcllius. when, twenty years

ago, he was engage Archbishop of St.

Andrews, brother of the present - .d. Basle. 21 May, 1527."

in addition 1 find in the original letter the following passage, the precise bearing of which perhaps cannot now be explained, but which is interesting as throwing some h^tr n>and

affiliations during his abode in Poland. .m referred

to may possibly be the Justus already mentioned in the lett< while "Cass< evidently refers to the Cass< asehau

already mentioned as the seat of the school whence Cox dates the dedication to his Scholia on tlr of Adrian :

" Ecclest nsis animum satis admirari non possum ; censeo

fortunam amplcctemlam. vel uh id quo pluribus prodesse queas. vel ob hoc ne pessimo cuique sis contcmtui. Ktsi <jui dignitatr preeminent non possunt omnia corrigere, qua* geri conspicium vel a populo. vel a Principibus, tamen non parum malorum possunt cxclm: .os

invisat, reperiet nihil almd, quam pro thcsauro carboncs.'

Cox apparently did not embrace the opportunity suggested, but

soon after returned to England. Whether he made any other

sojourn abroad is doubtful, and it is probably during

Cox's Learn- tnese vears that his reputation as a European scholar, ing : Leland's Encomium testified to by Leland, Bale, and other and later

biographers,' was established. Leland's verses are interesting, and taken in connection with Erasmus' letter, show us among other things the comparatively high regard in which Cox was held in his own day, and evince at least some sort of a connec-

tion with Melanchthon :

��'The Justus here referred to is probably Justus Jonas (1 493- '555 > coadjutor and a friend of Melanchthon and Krasmus. See Letter of Krasmus to Jonas, June i, 1519. in Krasmus' A/IJ/rotttta*tischt Tkeolvgit mm/ /Cirtkt. Leipzig, 1880.

E.g., Knight, Lift of Erasmus, p. 22Q, tells of Cox's travels in France. Germany, Poland, and Hungary, and states that he " Uught there the tongues. and became more eminent Countries than at home."

Browne Willis. I'ifw of tk< Mitrtd Abkys. 1719 (Appendix II of Uland's Collectanea}: "Cox was a man universally celebrated for his Learning and Elo- quence. He is one of Leland's Wort:

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