1921 IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 429 Two sons, Daniel and John, were born to him there. Dr. John Caius (1510-73) visited Germany during the years 1541-3, and made the acquaintance of Melanchthon. 1 Further details of his journey are unknown to me. After an interval of several years during which no Englishman can be traced at Wittenberg, one
- Gutbertus Angonius Anglus ' registered on 7 December 1557. 2
On 17 May 1560 ' Daniel Schnaus Londinen. Anglus ' and 1 Robert us Belus Londinensis Anglus ' matriculated. 3 Of the former nothing is known ; the latter may be identified, though doubtfully, with Sir Robert Bell, later chief baron of the exchequer, who died in 1577. Neither have I been able to learn anything of ' Ioannes Wrotus Anglus ', who wrote his name on the record on 30 May 1577. 4 It has long been known that Fynes Moryson visited Wittenberg in 1591. In his Itinerary, 5 published in 1617, he wrote that at this town 'they show a house wherein Dr.Faustus, a famous conjurer, dwelt ', and he also saw ' an aspersion of ink cast by the Divell when he tempted Luther, upon the wall of St. Augustine's college '. This is interesting as being much the earliest form of the story about Luther, the inkstand, and the devil. Peter the Great saw the same spot here at Wittenberg ; others saw it at Coburg, and now it is shown to every visitor at the Wart burg. 6 The usual legend is, of course, that Luther threw the ink at the devil, not the other way, as Moryson appears to have it. On 12 June 1591 * Fynes Morison Lincolniensis, Antonius Everstildus Sussexien.' and * Martin Turnerus Ebora- cen.' 7 inscribed their names on the Wittenberg register. Some- thing is known of Moryson, but nothing of Everstild of Sussex, or of Turner of York. ' Henricus Robert us Londiniensis Anglus ', 8 who matriculated on 16 December 1591, may possibly be the Henry Roberts who in 1585 was Elizabeth's envoy to the emperor of Morocco, and who was still alive in 1606. Nothing, however, is known to me of the three names completing the present record : Thomas Locke, 7 July 1592 ; ' Philippus Nowellus Anglus ex comitatu Salopiae ', who registered gratuitously 1 Diet, of Nat. Biog. 2 Album, i. 339. 3 Ibid. ii. 4.
- Ibid., p. 268. Three brothers, Richard, Thomas, and Edward Wroth, matriculated
as English nobles at Heidelberg on 4 May 1560. Against the name of Edward was added : ' minorennis, fidem tantum dedit ' (G. Toepke, Die Matrikel der Universitdt Heidelberg, ii. 20). Has it ever been noticed that the great English Puritans Thomas Cartwright and Richard Smith matriculated at Heidelberg on 25 January 1574 {ibid., p. 69)? 6 Itinerary, 1907, i. 14 ff. ; iv. 348. Neither the biography in the introduction nor that in the Diet, of Nat. Biog. speaks of his matriculation. 6 On the ink-spot see Kostlin-Kawerau, Martin Luther, 5th ed., 1903, i. 440 note. The earliest record of seeing this spot here mentioned is that of Peter the Great in 1712. 7 Album, ii. 383. 8 Ibid,, p. 387, and Diet, of Nat. Biog.
