I shall not here pretend to give a Catalogue of all Erasmus’s genuine Pieces, which they shew at Basil:  As to his Colloquies and Moria Encomium, they have seen more Editions than any other of his Works; and Moreri says, that a Bookseller at Paris, who thoroughly understood his Trade, sold twenty four thousand of them at one Impression, by getting it whisper’d to his Customers, that the Book was prohibited, and would suddenly be call’d in.

He was buried at Basil, in the Cathedral Church, on the left Side near the Choir, in a Marble Tomb; on the fore Side of which was this Inscription: 

    CHRISTO SERVATORIS. 
    DESID.  ERASMO ROTERODAMO.

    Viro omnibus modis maximo;

    Cujus incomparabilem in omni disciplinarum genere eruditionem,
    pari conjunctam prudentia,

    Posteri et admirabuntur et praedicabunt

    BONIFACIUS AMERBACHIUS, HIERONYMUS FROBENIUS,
    NICHOLAS EPISCOPIUS Haeredes,

    Et nuncupati supremae suae voluntatis vindices

    Patrono optimo,

non Memoriae, quam immortalem sibi Editis Lucubrationibus comparavit, iis, tantisper dum orbis Terrarum stabit, superfuturo, ac eruditis ubique gentium colloquuturo:  sed Corporis Mortalis, quo reconditum sit ergo, hoc saxum posuere.

    Mortuus est IV.  Eidus Julias jam septuagenarius, Anno a
    Christo nato, M.D.  XXXVI.

Upon the upper Part of the Tomb is a quadrangular Base, upon which stands the Effigies of the Deity of Terminus, which Erasmus chose for the Impress of his Seal, and on the Front of that Base is this Inscription.

    DES.  ERASMUM ROTERODAMUM Amici sub hoc saxo condebant,

    IV, eid.  Julias M.D.  XXXVI.

In the Year 1549, a wooden Statue, in Honour of so great a Man, was erected in the Market-place at Roterdam; and in the Year 1557, a Stone one was erected in the Stead of it; but this having been defaced by the Spaniards in the Year 1572, as soon as the Country had recovered its Liberty it was restored again.  But in the Year 1622, instead of it, a very compleat one of Brass eight Foot high with the Pedestal, was erected, which is now standing on the Bridge at Roterdam, and likely long to remain there, on the Foot of which is the following Inscription.

     DESIDERIO ERASMO MAGNO,

Scientiarum atque Literature politioris vindici et instauratori:  Viro saeculi sui Primario, civi omnium praestantissimo, ac nominis immortalitatem scriptis aeviternis jure consecuto, S.P.Q.  ROTERODAMUS.

     Ne quod tantis apud se suosque posteros virtutibus
     praemium deesset, Statuam hanc ex sere publico erigendam
     curaverunt.

On the right Side are these Verses of Nicholas Heinsius.