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INTRODUCTION 1. Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS.C 155, Fo.327, Thomas Baker to John Lewis. 2. for the Full Titles and Publication Notes INTRODUCTION 1. Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS.C 155, fo.327, Thomas Baker to John Lewis. 2. For the full titles and publication details of lives of Fisher, see Con- ventions, pp. x–xv, above. 3. The exception to this pattern is Rouschausse, who devotes more space than other writers to Fisher’s career. 4. Early Life, I pp. 165, 166, Informations B. ‘Informations’ indicates that the source is one of the questionnaires sent out by the biographer. 5. Early Life, II p. 215. 6. Early Life, II p. 213. 7. ‘Observations on the Circumstances which occasioned the Death of Fisher, Bishop of Rochester’, Archaeologia, 25 (1834) 61–99. 8. Foxe, V, p. 99. For Foxe’s allegations of cruelty against Fisher, see Chapter 5, below. 9. Cf. Bradshaw, in Bradshaw and Duffy, pp. 1, 17. 10. God Have Mercy, The Life of John Fisher of Rochester, Ottawa, 1969, especially pp. 22–3. 11. Surts, Works and Days of John Fisher, Cambridge, Mass. 1967; Rex, The Theology of John Fisher, Cambridge, 1991. 12. Initially, Fisher was buried in the graveyard of All-Hallows-By-The- Tower. The Greyfriars Chronicle states that he was disinterred after More’s execution and buried with him in the Tower. Unsubstantiated tradition has it that Margaret Roper obtained custody of both corpses and reburied them in More’s tomb in Chelsea old church. 13. Life of Fisher, p. 254. 14. The oft-quoted story of Fisher’s retreating from his festive household at Christmas in order to pray comes, not from the authentic Early Life, but from Bayly’s embellished version. 15. Early Life, I p. 171, Informations D; I p. 167, Informations B; I p. 268. 1 CAMBRIDGE 1. A.B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Cambridge to 1500, Cambridge, 1963, pp. 229–30; Damian Riehl Leader, A History of the University of Cambridge, Volume 1, The University to 1546, Cam- bridge, 1988, pp. 229–30. 2. Early Life, I p. 162, Informations A. 3. PRO, SP1/239, fos 223–24 (L & P, Add. App. I i, no. 1024), John Bouge to Katherine Mann, 1535. 4. Translated in Bridgett, Life of Fisher, p. 12. 177 178 Notes 5. William Melton, Sermo exhortatorius, London, c.1510. 6. Testamenta Eboracensia, vol. 5, Surtees Society, London and Edinburgh, 1884, pp. 251–2. 7. A.E. Stamp, Michaelhouse, London, 1924, pp. 50, 35–7. There are similar foundations by Robert Doket and Dame Joan Rokeby of Beverley. 8. Early Life, I p. 208. 9. Early Life, II p. 129. 10. Michael K. Jones and Malcolm Underwood. The King’s Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, Cambridge, 1992, p. 214. 11. W.G. Searle, History of the Queens’ College, 2 vols, Cambridge, 1867– 71, I pp. 133–4; Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother, p. 214. The fellows’ letter to Wilkinson is printed in Lewis, Life of Dr Fisher, II p. 260. 12. John Twigg, A History of the Queens’ College, 1448–1986, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 18–19; Fisher’s itinerary, in Bradshaw and Duffy, pp. 236–7. 13. For examples, BL, Harleian MS 7048, fos 9v–10, 10v–11. 14. CUL, QC Bk I, ‘Journale’ of Queens’ College, Book I fo.286v. 15. Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother, p. 215. 16. Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS. C 155, fo.316v. For other correspon- dence relating to Fisher’s resignation and his succession by Robert Bekensaw, ibid. fos 316, 317; also in BL, Harleian MS. 7048, fos 11v–13. 17. Grace Book B, Part I, 1488–1511, ed. Mary Bateson, Cambridge Anti- quarian Society, Cambridge, 1903, p. 168. 18. Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother, pp. 257 and 249, this last quoting Fisher’s work against Oecolampadius of 1527. 19. SJC, D91.20, fo.179. 20. The Eagle, XVI no. 93 (Dec.1890), 6, Hornby to Fisher; Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother, p. 249; Reynolds, Life of Fisher, pp. 145–6; BL, Additional MS. 12,060, fos 20v–21. 21. Erasmi Epistolae, no. 3036. 22. Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother, pp. 205, 167–70. 23. SJC, D91.20, fos 37, 46, 147 (account of Margaret’s cofferer); Leader, Cambridge, pp. 276–7; Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother, pp. 206–9. 24. Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother, pp. 210–11; Leader, Cam- bridge, p. 281. 25. The King’s Mother, pp. 223, 224 and n., 227. 26. CUL, MM2, fos 47v–8. 27. CUL, MM2, fo.36. 28. The Eagle, XVI no. 93 (Dec. 1890), 8–9. 29. CUL, MM24, fos 36v, 48v–9. 30. SJC, D94.507, Sharpe to Metcalfe; CUL, MMv 47, fos 29, 35, 35v, payments for Fisher’s anniversary; Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother, p. 227. 31. Early Life, I p. 241, editor’s note. 32. SJC, C7.11, fos 38–40. Printed in Fisher, Funeral Sermon of Lady Margaret, ed. J. Hymers, Cambridge, 1840, pp. 195–203 and in The Eagle, XXXVII no. 138 (Dec. 1905), 8–12. Notes 179 33. Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother, p. 235. 34. The Eagle, XVI no. 9 (Dec. 1890), 3–4. 35. The Eagle, XVI no. 9 (Dec. 1890), 2; Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother, pp. 243–4. 36. The King’s Mother, pp. 241–7. 37. SJC, D106.3, fo.11. 38. SJC, D106.11, fo.43; cf. The Eagle, XXXI no. 152 (June 1910), 328. 39. SJC, D106.11, fos 107, 119, 136v, 144, 16. 40. SJC, C7.11, fo.200; SJC, C7.2, fos 43–5. For Katherine of Aragon, Maria Dowling, Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII, London, 1986, pp. 25, 26. 41. Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother, p. 247. 42. I am grateful to Malcolm Underwood, who is working on the early benefactors of St John’s, for confirmation of this point. 43. The whole quarrel is summarised by Underwood, ‘John Fisher and the Promotion of Learning’, in Bradshaw and Duffy, pp. 38–9; Fisher’s letter to Croke is printed in Hymers, Funeral Sermon, pp. 210–16. 44. Early Statutes of the College of St John the Evangelist, ed. J.E.B. Mayor, Cambridge, 1859, pp. 238–44; trans. Bridgett, Life of Fisher, pp. 32–4. 45. SJC, C7.2, fos 208–219. 46. Early Statutes of Christ’s College, Cambridge, ed. H. Rackham, Lon- don, 1927. 47. Quoted in John Peile, Christ’s College, London, 1900, p. 1. 48. See note 44, above. 49. Early Life, I p. 244. 50. Early Life, II p. 168. The anonymous author may have been a St John’s man. 51. Early Life, I p. 166, Informations B. Edward Plankney and the more famous Richard Morison were scholar-clients of Cromwell. 52. Thomas Baker, History of the College of St John the Evangelist, Cam- bridge, ed. J.E.B. Mayor, 2 vols, Cambridge, 1869, I document 89. 53. Early Life, I p. 165, Informations B. 54. SJC, D106.4, fos 16, 32v, 33v, 40, 45, 51v, 63. 55. Early Life, I p. 165, Informations B. 56. Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS. C 155, fos 328v, 329, Baker-Lewis correspondence. 57. Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother, p. 235 and note. 58. Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother, pp. 246, 247. 59. SJC, C7.2, fos 43–5. 60. Cf. Leader, Cambridge, p. 313. For references to receipt of rent for Linacre’s London house, pensions and rewards to his sisters, and Day’s wages as Linacre reader, SJC, D106.11, passim. 61. Paul Lawrence Rose, ‘Erasmians and Mathematicians at Cambridge in the Early Sixteenth Century’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 8 no. 2 (1977), 47ff.; Leader, Cambridge, pp. 311–12. 62. For example, SJC, D106.11, fos 72v, 78, 117. 63. Mayor, Early Statutes, pp. 104–16, 119, 244, 245, 250, 251, 311–13, 375–6. 64. Erasmi Epistolae, no. 948. For Fox and Corpus Christi, Dowling, Hu- manism, pp. 27–32. 180 Notes 65. SJC, D106.4, fos 1, 2, 1v. 66. SJC, D106.11, fo.141; D57.33, fos 1v, 2v; D106.6, fos 40v, 45, 46, 46v, 49, 52, 54, 55. 67. David McKitterick, ‘Two sixteenth-century catalogues of St John’s College library’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, VII part 2 (1978), 139; Emden, Cambridge to 1500, pp. 229–300. 68. The Eagle, VIII no. 100 (March 1893), 11, 12. 69. Reynolds, Life of Fisher, p. 3. 70. Dowling, Humanism, p. 116. 71. Lawrence V. Ryan, Roger Ascham, Oxford, 1963, p. 29; SJC, C7.2, fos 65–7v, 69, 255. Watson it was who preserved Fisher’s statute book for St John’s from destruction; Early Life, II pp. 134–5. 72. The Eagle, XVI no. 93 (Dec. 1880), 7–8. 73. SJC, D56.9, D56.15, D56.25. 74. Miscellaneous Writings and Letters of Thomas Cranmer, ed. J.E. Cox, Parker Society, Cambridge, 1846, p. 279. 75. The Eagle, XXXII no. 154 (March 1911), 392–3. 76. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, vol. 3 p. 346. 77. Lewis, Life of Dr Fisher, I p. 54. 78. Early Life, II pp. 133–35 for the delegation to the Tower; this account is corrected by the editor’s note. For payments for Fisher, SJC, D106.11, fos 155v–61. 79. Lewis, Life of Dr Fisher, II pp. 147–50. 80. Grace Book B, p. 250 for gifts from the university to Fisher in 1510– 11. Letters concerning the chancellorship in 1514 are in Original Let- ters Illustrative of English History, ed. Sir Henry Ellis, 3rd series, vol. I (London, 1846), pp.
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