English Translations of Erasmus' Encomium Moriæ

In answer to "JARLZBERG," I beg to inform him of the following translation of Erasmus' *Praise of Folly*:— "Moriæ Encomium, or the Praise of Folly, made English from the Latin of Erasmus by W. Kennet, of S. Edm. Hall, Oxon, now Lord Bishop of Peterborough. Adorn'd with 46 copper plates, and the effigies of Erasmus and Sir Thos. More, all neatly engraved from the designs of the celebrated Hans Holbeine. 4th edition. 1724." Kennett, however, in his preface, dated 1683, alludes to two other translations, and to Sir Thomas Challoner's as the *first*. He does not mention the name of the second tran…