English Translations of Erasmus' Encomium Moriæ

Sir Thomas Challoner's translation of Erasmus' *Praise of Folly* was first printed, I believe, in 1540. Subsequent impressions are dated 1549, 1569, 1577. In 1566, William Pickering had a license "for pryntinge of a mery and pleasaunt history, donne in tymes paste by Erasmus Roterdamus," which possibly might be an impression of the *Praise of Folly*. (See Collier's *Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company*, vol. i. p. 125.). This popular work was again translated in the latter part of the following century, by White Kennet. It was printed at Oxford in 1683, under the title of *W…