When Erasmus wandered to Paris it was Warham's invitation which recalled him to England.

When the rest of his patrons left him to starve on the sour beer of Cambridge it was Warham who sent him fifty angels.

"I wish there were thirty legions of them," the Primate puns in his good-humoured way.
[Sidenote: Henry the Eighth] Real however as this progress was, the group of scholars who represented the New Learning in England still remained a little one through the reign of Henry the Seventh.

But the king's death in 1509 wholly changed their position.

A "New Order," to use their own enthusiastic phrase, dawned on them in the accession of his son.