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Excerpt from The Reign of Henry VIII, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Accession to the Death of Wolsey, Reviewed and Illustrated From Original Documents
Erasmus, published at the Hague, is certainly faulty. He was followed implicitly by J ortin. To find that, in a collection of letters all distinctly dated as if by the writers themselves, many thus assigned to the year 1511 were certainly written in the year 1513, and that, in fact, not a single date is to be taken on trust without inquiry, is certainly an unpleasant experience to one in search of historical accuracy. Mr. Brewer had, on a smaller scale, the same problem with the letters of Erasmus that he had in reducing to order the State papers of the realm.
But we have not even yet exhausted the comprehensiveness of Mr. Brewer's plan.
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