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procured his release/' ' a deed worthy of a Humarmt and friend of Erasmus !

In 1534 we get a glimpse of Cox's occupations and ambitions in a letter of his dated from Reading, 13 May [ i 534], and addressed

to " the ( ioodeinan Toy, at the Si-ne of Saint Nicholas Letter to Toy

the Printer '" uwlt " ( boichysjrde. It is to be found among the Letters and Papers of the K ill

in the Record Office, Vol. VII. N... 659:

"Goode man Toy : I hartely commend me tojou and to your good- wife and here I have sent you the paraphrase of Krasmus wit/i the epu/le of saint Poule to Titus, and my preface made, as you can here me rccordc, but sodaynly. Wherfor it canifutt be but easy. Ncucrtheles 1 wyll dev you to show it vnto the right wurshipfull Master ' Cromwell, and in any to know his pleasure whether it shall abrode or not. If his mastershipp think it meate to be prentid, 4 I shall, if it so pleas him, either translate the work that Krasm//.r made of the maner of pray tr or his paraphrase vppo/i the first and seconde epistle to Timothe or els such works as shall pleas his mastershipp, and dedicate also any suche labours to him. But if this that I have done shall nott pleas his mastershipp, my trust is that he wyll take no displeasure w/tA me, seing I did it for a goode entent as the preface to the redar declareth ; and agayne I wold not have it abrode w/t// out his pleasure afore knowen. I am also a translating of a boke 'which Erasm;/; made of the bringing upp of children, which I entend to dedicate to the saide Master Cromwell, and that shortly after Whitsontide. 5 Moreover it is shewid me that his mastershipp is recorder of bristow [Bristol], wherfor if I may know by your lettm that he is con- tent w/t// my doings, I entend to write to him to besech htm to be my goode master for the obteynyng of the fre schole there ; for though I

'Cf. Wood's Athen.Oxott. ed. Bliss I, 74; Cooper. Alkem. Camlaf*. I. 47; Foxe, Actes, etc.; Dict.Natl. Biog.; etc,

A synopsis is given in Gairdner, iMItrt and Pafiert of tkt Keif* 0f Htnry

I'll! (London, 1883), Vol. VII, No. 659.

31. e., written before Cromwell had been created a baron in 1536.

Not printed apparently until 1549, long after Cromwell's death. See. p. 21.

5 If this translation were ever completed it was never printed. The subject is one with which the age was greatly occupied. See Elyot's ** The Governor." See also " A Lytell Booke of good Maners for Chyldren by Erasmus Roterodam. with Interpretacion of the same into the vulgare Englvsshe Tonge. by Robert \Vh%: ton, Laureate Poete " (London, W. de Worde. 1522).

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