The great churchmen became its patrons.

Langton, Bishop of Winchester, took delight in examining the young scholars of his episcopal family every evening, and sent all the most promising of them to study across the Alps.

Learning found a yet warmer friend in the Archbishop of Canterbury.
[Sidenote: Warham] Immersed as Archbishop Warham was in the business of the state, he was no mere politician.

The eulogies which Erasmus lavished on him while he lived, his praises of the Primate's learning, of his ability in business, his pleasant humour, his modesty, his fidelity to friends, may pass for what eulogies of living men are commonly worth.

But it is difficult to doubt the sincerity of the glowing picture which he drew of him when death had destroyed all interest in mere adulation.