There too might probably have been seen Thomas More, who, young as he was, was already famous through his lectures at St.Lawrence on "The City of God." But the scholar-world found more than supper or fun at the Primate's board.

His purse was ever open to relieve their poverty.

"Had I found such a patron in my youth," Erasmus wrote long after, "I too might have been counted among the fortunate ones." It was with Grocyn that Erasmus on a second visit to England rowed up the river to Warham's board at Lambeth, and in spite of an unpromising beginning the acquaintance turned out wonderfully well.

The Primate loved him, Erasmus wrote home, as if he were his father or his brother, and his generosity surpassed that of all his friends.

He offered him a sinecure, and when he declined it he bestowed on him a pension of a hundred crowns a year.