1805.] 
In this matter ye gett nomore of me, 
Rehearfe I will no more at this tyme. 
This remembrance have great authoritie 
To be preferred of long antiquitie, 
For which, by recorde,, all clarks feyde the 
fame; 
Of herefie Cambridge have never blame.” 
If the two laft lines contain a truth 
with -refpeét to the times previous to the 
appearance of the Loilards, they contain 
fomething very far from a truth with re- 
{pect to the fucceeding times, if by herely 
is meant a differing from the popular and 
effablithed doétrines ; for from that p-- 
riod, fcience aad philor phy have been 
gaining ground, and philofophers love to 
have a creed of their ow... 
ee 
Pallas, quas condidit arces, 
Ipfa colat.”” VirG. 
NO. CLXXXIX.— ARMINIANS, OR FREE- 
WILULERS. 
ERASMUS, OF QUEEN’S-COLLEGE. 
Erafmus, born at Rotterdam, 1467, 
and thence called Roterodamus, was an 
accomplithed fcholar ; acure in detecting 
error, but cautious in propofing truth; a 
liberal and patient enquirer, but a timid 
reformer. He wrote more and better than 
any man at the revival of letters, and was 
entitled to the fir laurels in academic 
groves, thoush neither magnanimous nor 
ambitious enough for a crown of martyr- 
dom. However, his literature effe&ted 
more than fome people’s polemics ; his 
elegant irony, than their feverity ; his mo- 
deration, than their impofing claims, and 
degmatifing aflumption of infallibility. 
It was remarked of Erafinus, that he did 
more ridendo, than Luther fomachando. 
Erafinus, as every body knows, lived 
long before Arminius. He was, how- 
ever, a Free- Willer, and publifhed a book 
again Luther, De Libero Arbitrio; and 
afterwards a Differtation on it, penned 
with more fervour and afperity than vfu- 
ally charaéterife bis writings. The fol- 
lowing account properly belongs to our 
Mifcellany, and is extracted from Era{- 
mus’s Life, by Dr. Jortin, who himfelf 
extracted it from another publication. 
‘* As Eralmus was invited down to 
Cambridge by Fifher Bilhop of Rochef- 
ter, Chancellor of the Unwerfity, and 
Head of Queen’s-College, fo be was ac- 
commodated by him in bis own lodgings 
at hiscoliege, and promoted, by his means, 
to the Lady Margaret’s Protefforthip in 
Divinity, and atterwards to the Gicek 
Proteffor’s chair, which places, though 
they were more honourable than profit- 
Cantebrigiana. 
. Cambridge, 
499 
able, yet were of great fervice to the 
Univerfity.” 
‘© How long Erafmus was Greek Pro- 
feffor [know not. It is made a queftion 
by fome, whether he was ever called fo 
or not, taking him only for’a reader in 
that lang udige, Jsut E tniak it plain, by 
Riehand - Croke’s Gration in praife of 
Greek Paee that he fucceeded Eraf- 
mus in that chair. I fhall only juft ob- 
de that we have no reafon for believ- 
ing thet Erafmus, thouch commonly 
placed in the lit of Univerfiry: ‘orators, 
as predeceflor to Croke, ever filled that 
place. 
*< Erafmus, at the defire of Bithop 
Fifher, an‘{ by order of the Univerfity of 
drew up the epitaph for 
Margaret Countefs of Richmond, which 
is infcvibed on her tomb in Wefminfer 
Abbey, and had for fo doing twenty fhil- 
lings.” 
Again. — T hough Erafmus,”’ fays 
Jortin, as we have obferved, * faid to 
Servatius, that he taught gratis at Cams 
bridge, yet it appears that he made fome 
profit, and that he expected the payment 
of eourey nobles, which detained him there, 
though he wi ified to be gone. But he 
reckoned that fo poor a reward might be 
reckoned a very nothing. He had ex- 
plained the Grammar of Chryfoloras, and 
inrended to read lectures on that of Ga- 
Za. ——Ep. 11g, 123. 
Era{mus’s works, which are very nu- 
merous, being on various topics of theo- 
logy, {cholattic divinity, claffic literature, 
poetry, fometimes ferious and meditative, 
at other times fart, fatirical, and far—- 
cical, are ail in the public library. Tt 
w 
| feems, as if his whole life had been {pent 
in his ftudy and at his writing-defk. 
There is a portrait of him at Queen’s 
College, but it is only a copy; and the 
walk, called from him Erafmus’s Walk, 
is known to every Cantab. He wasa great 
man, with fome’ weakonefles ; 
—— Homo fuit atq: humanus Erafmus, 
NO. CXC. -— ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT 
AND His LIBRARY IN EMANUEL 
CCLLEGE. . 
This- prelate was born at Frefingfield, 
in Suffelk, in 1616. He was eminent as 
a claffical {cholar, fellow of Emanuel 
Coliige, and in 1662 was appointed 
Matter. Mr. Walker, in his s* Attempt 
towards Recovering an Account of the 
Numbers and Sufferings of the Cicrgy 
of the Church of England, Heads of Col- 
leges, &c. fequeftered in the Rebeilioa,” 
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