Note 708 — Chapter VIII · THE POLISH REFORMER IN THE NETHERLANDS AND IN FRIESLAND. (1537-1546).

The first letter of Alasco to Calvin is dated from Windsor, December 14, 1548. Among the works of Alasco there are extant only four letters from the Polish reformer to the Genevese. These are of the years 1548, 1551, 1555 and 1557. But Alasco sent some books to Calvin. In the public library of Geneva are preserved two folio volumes, printed at Louvain in 1555, bearing this title:—

‘Explicatio articulorum venerandæ facultatis sacræ theologiæ Generalis Studii Lovaniensis.’—The author of these volumes is Ruard Tapper of Enkhuizen. Below the title of the first volume are the following words, in an elegant handwriting:—‘Viro sanctissimo, D. Jo. Calvin, Jo. a Lasco mittit.’