Note 235 — Chapter V
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Aleander, writing to the Cardinal de’ Medici (Sept. 8th, 1520), attributes the spread of Lutheranism in the Netherlands to the teaching of Erasmus and of the Prior of the Augustinians at Antwerp.—Brieger, Aleander und Luther, 1521; Die vervollständigten Aleander-Depeschen (Gotha, 1884), p. 249.