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PRIVATE    DIARY 


DR.  JOHN  DEE. 


THE 


PRIVATE    DIARY 


OF 


DR.   JOHN   DEE, 


AND 

THE  CATALOGUE  OF  HIS  LIBRARY  OF  MANUSCRIPTS, 

FROM    THE    ORIGINAL    MANUSCRIPTS 

IN  THE  ASHMOLEAN  MUSEUM  AT  OXFORD,  AND  TRINITY 
COLLEGE  LIBRARY,  CAMBRIDGE. 

EDITED  BY 

JAMES  ORCHARD  HALLIWELL,  ESQ.  F.R.S., 

HON.  M.R.I.A.,  &c.  &c.  &c. 


LONDON: 
PRINTED  FOR  THE  CAMDEN  SOCIETY, 

BY  JOHN  BOWYER  NICHOLS  AND  SON,  PARLIAMENT  STREET 


M.DCCC.XLII. 


(NO.  xix.) 


COUNCIL 

OF 

THE  CAMDEN  SOCIETY, 

FOR    THE    YEAR   1841-2. 


President) 
THE  RIGHT  HON.  LORD  FRANCIS  EGERTON,  M.P. 

THOMAS  AMYOT,  ESQ.  F.R.S.  Treas.  S.A.  Director. 

THE  RIGHT  HON.  LORD  BRAYBROOKE,  F.S.A. 

JOHN  BRUCE,  ESQ.  F.S.A.  Treasurer. 

JOHN  PAYNE  COLLIER,  ESQ.  F.S.A. 

C.  PURTON  COOPER,  ESQ.  Q.C.,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

T.  CROFTON  CROKER,  ESQ.  F.S.A.,  M.R.I.A. 

SIR  HENRY  ELLIS,  K.H.,  F.R.S.,  Sec.  S.A. 

JAMES  ORCHARD  HALLIWELL,  ESQ.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

THE  REV.  JOSEPH  HUNTER,  F.S.A. 

SIR  FREDERICK  MADDEN,  K.H.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

JOHN  GAGE  ROKEWODE,  ESQ.  F.R.S.,  Dir.  S.A. 

THOMAS  STAPLETON,  ESQ.  F.S.A. 

WILLIAM  J.  THOMS,  ESQ.  F.S.A.  Secretary. 

ALBERT  WAY,  ESQ.  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

THOMAS  WRIGHT,  ESQ.  M.A..  F.S.A. 


PREFACE, 


THE  present  volume  contains  two  curious  documents 
concerning  Dr.  Dee,  the  eminent  philosopher  of  Mortlake, 
now  for  the  first  time  published  from  the  original  manu- 
scripts. I.  His  Private  Diary,  written  in  a  very  small 
illegible  hand  on  the  margins  of  old  Almanacs,  discovered 
a  few  years  ago  by  Mr.  W.  H.  Black,  in  the  library  of  the 
Ashmolean  Museum  at  Oxford.  II.  A  Catalogue  of  his 
Library  of  Manuscripts,  made  by  himself  before  his  house 
was  plundered  by  the  populace,  and  now  preserved  in  the 
library  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge. 

The  publication  of  this  Diary  will  tend  perhaps  to  set 
Dee's  character  in  its  true  light,  more  than  any  thing 
that  has  yet  been  printed.  We  have,  indeed,  his  "  Com- 
pendious Rehearsall,"  which  is  in  some  respects  more 
comprehensive,  but  this  was  written  for  an  especial  pur- 
pose, for  the  perusal  of  royal  commissioners,  and  he  has 
of  course  carefully  avoided  every  allusion  which  could  be 
construed  in  an  unfavourable  light.  In  the  other,  how- 
ever, he  tells  us  his  dreams,  talks  of  mysterious  noises  in 


Vlll  PREFACE. 

his  chamber,  evil  spirits,  and  alludes  to  various  secrets  of 
occult  philosophy  in  the  spirit  of  a  true  believer.  Mr. 
D'Israeli  has  given  a  correct  and  able  view  of  his  cha- 
racter in  his  "  Amenities  of  Literature/'  which  is  re- 
markably confirmed  in  almost  every  point  by  the  narrative 
now  published.  "  The  imagination  of  Dee/'  observes 
that  elegant  writer,  "  often  predominated  over  his  science ; 
while  both  were  mingling  in  his  intellectual  habits,  each 
seemed  to  him  to  confirm  the  other.  Prone  to  the 
mystical  lore  of  what  was  termed  the  occult  sciences, 
which  in  reality  are  no  sciences  at  all,  since  whatever 
remains  occult  ceases  to  be  science,  Dee  lost  his  better 
genius."  I  shall  refer  the  reader  to  this  popular  work 
instead  of  attempting  an  original  paper  on  the  subject, 
which  would  necessarily  be  greatly  inferior  to  that  drawn 
by  the  masterly  hand  of  the  author  of  the  "  Curiosities  of 
Literature." 

The  Catalogue  of  Dee's  Library  of  Manuscripts,  although 
long  since  dispersed,  is  valuable  for  the  notices  which  it 
preserves  of  several  middle-age  treatises  not  now  extant. 
He  is  said  to  have  expended  on  this  collection  the  sum 
of  three  thousand  pounds,  a  very  large  sum  in  those  days 
for  a  person  of  limited  income. 

J.  O.  H. 

35,  Alfred  Place, 
March  15th  1842. 


DR.    DEE'S    DIARY. 


1554.  Aug.  25th,   Barthilmew  Hikman   born   at   Shugborowh 
in  Warwikshyre  toward  evening.     My  conjecture,  uppon  his  own 
reporte  of  circumstances.     Oct.  25th,  D.  Daniel  Vander  Meulen 
Antwerpiee,  mane  hora  quarta.* 

1555.  April  22nd,  Jane  Fromonds  borne  at  Cheyham  at  none. 
Aug.  1st,  Ed.  Kelly  natus  hora  quarta  a  meridief  ut  annotatum 
reliquit  pater  ejus.     Oct.   1 2th,  the  Lord  Willughby  born  hora 
septima  mane,  ante  meridiem,  Lat.  51°  30',  at  Wesell  in  Gel- 
derland. 

1557.  July  30th,  Mr.  Arundell  of  Cornwayle  natus  circa  [horam] 
quartam  a  meridie. 

1558.  Dec.   14th,  Mary  Nevelle,  alias  Mary  Lewknor,  borne 
inter  11  et  meridiem  mane,  by  Chichester. 

1560.  July  8th,   Margaret  Russell,  Cowntess  of  Cumberland, 
hora  2  min.  9  Exoniae  mane. 

1561.  Aug.  14th,  Mr.   Hey  don,  of   Bacon  sthorp  in  Norfolk, 
liora  noctis  11£  natus  in  comitatu  Surrey. 

1563.  March  23rd,  Mr.  William  Fennar  a  meridie  inter  horam 
undecimam  et  duodecimam  nocte.     June  23nd,  Jane  Cooper,  now 

*  It  is  almost  unnecessary  to  observe  that  this  and  the  following  are  notes  of 
nativities.  They  are  not  for  the  most  part  contemporary  notices,  but  apparently 
inserted  at  various  times  by  Dee  when  professionally  consulted  as  an  astrologer. 

•f  "  Anno  1555,  Aug.  1,  hora  quarta  a  meridie  Wigornise  natus  Dominus  Edouardus 
Kelaeus,"  MS.  Ashm.  1788,  fol.  140,  where  there  is  a  horoscope  of  this  nativity  in 
the  handwriting  of  Dr.  Dee.  Ashmole,  in  his  MS.  1790,  fol.  58,  says  "  Mr.  Lilly 
told  me  that  John  Evans  informed  him  that  he  was  acquainted  with  Kelly's  sister  in 
Worcester,  that  she  shewed  him  some  of  the  gold  her  brother  had  transmuted,  and  that 
Kelly  was  first  an  apothecary  in  Worcester." 

CAMD.   SOC. DEE.  B 


DR.    DEE  S    DIARY. 


[1563. 


Mystris  Kelly,  toward  evening.  Sept.  28th,  Mr.  John  Ask 
ante  meridiem,  by  York  six  myle  on  this  syde ;  Elizabeth 
Mownson,  circa  horam  9  mane,  soror  magistri  Thornae  Mownson 
et  uxor  magistri  Brown. 

1564.  Mrs.  Brigit  Cooke  borne  about  seven  of  the  clok  on 
Saynt  David's  Day,  which  is  the  first  day  of  March,  being  Wens- 
day  ;  but  I  cannot  yet  lerne  whether  it  was  before  none  or  after. 
But   she  thinketh  herself  to  be  but  27  yeres   old,  anno  1593, 
Martii  primo,  but  it  cannot  be  so.     June  20th,  Mr.  Hudson,  hora 
septima  ante  meridiem.     Aug.  21st,  Wenefride  Goose,  inter  9  et 
10  a  meridie  by  Kingstone. 

1565.  Sept.  12th,  John  Pontoys,  inter  9  et  10  ante  meridiem 
prope  Stony- S tratf ord ;  puto  potius  hora  8  min.  43.     Oct.  17th, 
Thomas  Kelley*  hora  quarta  a  meridie  at  Wurceter.     Dec.  21st, 
Mr.  Thomas  Mownson  at  1 1  of  the  clok  in  the  morning. 

1568.  July  14th,  William  Emery  born  at  Danbery  in  Essex 
paulo  post  undecimam  horam  noctis.  Sept.  24th,  Margaret  Ander- 
son mane  inter  7  et  8. 

1571.  Samuel  Swallow  borne  at  Thaxstede  in  Essex  Feb.  15 
ante  meridiem,  inter  horam  undecimam  et  duodecimam,  forte  hora 
media  post  undecimam. 

1575.  July  31st,  Simeon  Stuard  natus  ante  diluculum  per  horam 
11£  at  Shinfelde;  his  grandfather  by  the  mother  was  Dr.  Huyck 
the  Quene's  physicien. 

1577.  Jan.  16th,  the  Erie  of  Lecester,  Mr.  Phillip  Sydney,  Mr. 
Dyer,  &c.,  came  to  my  howse.f  Jan.  22nd,  The  Erie  of  Bedford 

*  The  brother  of  the  celebrated  astrologer  before  mentioned. 

•f-  "  Dr.  Dee  dwelt  in  a  house  neere  the  water  side,  a  little  westward  from  the  church 
[at  Mortlake] .  The  buildings  which  Sir  Fr.  Crane  erected  for  working  of  tapestry 
hangings,  and  are  still  (1673)  employed  to  that  use,  were  built  upon  the  ground  whereon 
Dr.  Dee's  laboratory  and  other  roomes  for  that  use  stood.  Upon  the  west  is  a  square 
court,  and  the  next  is  the  house  wherein  Dr.  Dee  dwelt,  now  inhabited  by  one  Mr. 
Selbury,  and  further  west  his  garden." — MS.  Ashm.  1788,  fol.  149.  The  same 
account  says  that  "  Dr.  Dee  was  wel  beloved  and  respected  of  all  persons  of  quality 
thereabouts,  who  very  often  invited  him  to  their  houses  or  came  to  his." 


15770  DR 

cam  to  my  howse.  Feb.  19th,  great  wynde  S.W ,  close,  clowdy. 
March  llth,  my  fall  uppon  my  right  nuckul  bone,  hora  9  fere 
mane;  wyth  oyle  of  Hypericon  in  24  howres  eased  above  all  hope: 
God  be  thanked  for  such  his  goodness  of  his  creatures !  March 
24th,  Alexander  Simon  the  Ninivite  came  to  me,  and  promised 
me  his  servise  into  Persia.  May  1st,  I  received  from  M.  William 
Harbert  of  St.  Gillian  his  notes  uppon  my  Monas.*  May  2nd,  I 
understode  of  one  Vincent  Murfyn  his  abhominable  misusing  me 
behinde  my  back ;  Mr.  Thomas  Besbich  told  me  his  father  is  one 
of  the  cokes  of  the  Court.  May  20th,  I  hyred  the  barber  of 
Cheswik,  Walter  Hooper,  to  kepe  my  hedges  and  knots  in  as  good 
order  as  he  sed  them  than,  and  that  to  be  done  with  twise  cutting 
in  the  yere  at  the  least  and  he  to  have  yerely  five  shillings,  [and] 
meat  and  drink.  June  10th,  circa  10,  a  shower  of  hayle  and  rayne. 
June  18th,  borrowed  £40  of  John  Hilton  of  Fulham.  June  19th, 
I  understode  of  more  of  Vincent  Murfyn  his  knavery ;  borrowed 
£20  of  Bartylmew  Newsam.  June  20th,  borow  £27  uppon  the 
chayn  of  golde.  June  26th,  Elen  Lyne  gave  me  a  quarter's  warn- 
ing. June  27th_,  showrs  of  rayne  and  hayle.  Aug.  19th,  the 
Hexameron  Brytanicumf  put  to  printing, 

Nov.  3rd,  William  Rogers  of  Mortlak,  abowt  7  of  the  clok  in 
the  morning,  cut  his  own  throte,  by  the  fende  his  instigation. 
Nov.  6th,  Sir  Umfrey  Gilbert  cam  to  me  to  Mortlak.  Nov.  18th, 
borowed  of  Mr.  Edward  Hynde  of  Mortlak  £30  to  be  repayed 
at  Hallowtyde  next  yere.  Nov.  20th,  two  tydes  in  the  forenone, 

*  This  of  course  is  his  celebrated  Monas  Hieroglyphica,  frequently  printed,  and  the 
nature  of  which  I  attempted  to  explain  in  a  paper  read  before  the  Society  of  Antiqua- 
ries. Mr.  Herbert,  according  to  MS.  Ashm.  1788,  "  dwelt  then  in  Mortlack  and  was 
an  intimate  friend  of  Dr.  Dee's." 

+  This  was  his  work  printed  in  1577  under  the  title  of  General  and  Rare  Memorials 
pertayning  to  the  perfect  Art  of  Navigation,  in  folio,  now  a  book  of  the  greatest  rarity. 
The  original  manuscript  of  it  is  in  MS.  Ashm.  1789,  and  Dee's  own  copy  of  the  pub- 
lished work  with  MS.  notes  and  additions  is  preserved  in  the  British  Museum.  In  his 
Letter  Apologetical,  4to.  Lond.  1603,  he  cites  this  work  under  the  title  ofTheBrytish 
Monarchic,  as  having  been  written  in  the  year  1 576. 


4  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1578. 

the  first  2  or  3  howres  to  sone.  Nov.  22nd,  I  rod  to  Windsor  to 
the  Q.  Majestic.  Nov.  25th,  I  spake  with  the  Quene  hora  quinta. 
Nov.  28th,  I  spake  with  the  Quene  hora  quinta ;  I  spake  with 
Mr.  Secretary  Walsingham.*  I  declared  to  the  Quene  her  title 
to  Greenland,  Estetiland  and  Friseland. 

Dec.  1st,  I  spake  with  Sir  Christofer  Hatton ;  he  was  made 
knight  that  day.  Dec.  1st,  I  went  from  the  cowrte  at  Wyndsore. 
Dec.  30th,  inexplissima  ilia  calumnia  de  R.  Edwardo,  iniquissime 
aliqua  ex  parte  in  me  denunciabatur :  ante  aliquos  elapsos  dies, 
sed sua  sapientia  me  innocentem. 

1578.  Feb.  5th,  sponsalia  cum  Jana  Fromonds  horam  circiter 
primam.  April  28th,  I  caused  Sir  Rowland  Haywood  to  examyn 
Francys  Baily  of  his  sklandering  me,  which  he  denyed  utterly.  June 
13th,  rayn  and  in  the  afternone  a  little  thunder.  June  30th,  I  told 
Mr.  Daniel  Rogers,f  Mr.  Hackluyt  of  the  Middle  Temple  being 
by,  that  Kyng  Arthur  and  King  Maty,  both  of  them,  did  conquier 
Gelindia,  lately  called  Friseland,  which  he  so  noted  presently  in 
his  written  copy  of  Monumethensis,J  for  he  had  no  printed  boke 
therof.  July  14th,  my  sister  Elizabeth  Fromonds  cam  to  me. 
July  27th,  hora  9,  min.  15  a  meridie  Francis  Cowntess  of  Hert- 
ford. 

Aug.  5th,  Mr.  Rayn  olds  of  Bridewell  tok  his  leave  of  me  as  he 
passed  toward  Darthmowth  to  go  with  Sir  Umfry  Gilbert  toward 
Hocheleya.  Aug.  15,  I  went  toward  Norwich  with  my  work  of 
Imperium  Brytanicum.§  Aug.  23rd,  I  cam  to  London  from  Nor- 
wich. Aug.  31st,  I  went  to  my  father-in-law  Mr.  Fromonds  to 
Cheyham. 

*  Ashmole  informs  us  that  Walsingham  continued  for  a  length  of  time  one  of  Dr. 
Dee's  best  patrons. 

t  Rogers  was  a  member  of  the  University  of  Oxford,  and  a  large  commonplace-book 
in  his  handwriting  is  in  Archbishop  Tenison's  library  in  St.  Martin's-in-the-Fields. 

J  That  is,  Galfridus  Monumetensis  de  gestis  regum  Britanniae.  Hackluyt  men- 
tions this  fact  in  his  collection  of  voyages. 

§  This  is  the  book  just  mentioned  under  the  title  of  General  and  Rare  Memorials,  fol. 
Lond.  1577. 


1578.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  5 

Sept.  1st,  I  cam  from  Cheyham.  Sept.  6th,  Elen  Lyne,  my 
may  den,  departed  from  this  life  immediately  after  the  my  d- day 
past,  when  she  had  lyne  sik  a  month  lacking  one  day.  Sept.  12th, 
Jane  Gaele  cam  to  my  servyce,  and  she  must  have  four  nobles  by 
the  yere,  26s.  Sd.  Sept.  25th,  Her  Majestic  cam  to  Richemond 
from  Grenwich.  Sept.  26,  the  first  rayn  that  came  for  many  a  day ; 
all  pasture  abowt  us  was  withered:  rayn  afternone  like  Aprill 
showres.  Oct.  8th,  the  Quene's  Majestic  had  conference  with  me 
at  Richemond  inter  9  et  11.  Oct.  16th,  Dr.  Bayly  conferred  of 
the  Quene  her  disease.  Oct.  22nd,  Jane  Fromonds  went  to  the 
court  at  Richemond.  Oct.  25th,  a  fit  from  9  afternone  to  1  after 
mydnight.  Oct.  28,  the  Erie  of  Lecester  and  Sir  Francys  Wal- 
singham,  secretary,  determined  my  going  over  for  the  Quene's 
Majestic.  Nov.  4th,  I  was  directed  to  my  voyage  by  the  Erie  of 
Lecester  and  Mr.  Secretary  Walsingham  hora  nona.  Nov.  7th, 
I  cam  to  Gravesende.  Nov.  9th,  I  went  from  Lee  to  sea.  Nov. 
14th,  I  cam  to  Hamburgh  hora  tertia.  Dec.  llth,  to  Franckfurt- 
uppon-Oder.  Dec.  15th,  newes  of  TurnifePs  comming  hora 
octava  mane,  by  a  speciall  mesenger. 

1579.  A  moyst  Marche  and  not  wyndy.  June  10th,  I  shewed 
to  Mr.  John  Lewis  and  his  sonne,  the  physition,  the  manner  of 
drawing  aromaticall  oyles.  At  that  tyme  my  cat  got  a  fledge  yong 
sparrow  which  had  onely  a  right  wyng  naturally.  June  15th,  my 
mother  surrendred  Mortlak  howses  and  land,  and  had  state  geven 
in  plena  curia  ad  terminum  vitee,  and  to  me  was  also  the  reversion 
delivered  per  virgam,  and  to  my  wife  Jane  by  me,  and  after  to  my 
heirs  and  assignes  for  ever,  to  understand,  Mr.  Bullok  and  Mr. 
Taylor,  surveyor,  at  Wimbledon,  under  the  tree  by  the  church. 
June  22nd,  Mr.  Richard  Hickman  and  Barthilmew  his  nephew 
cam  to  me  with  Mr.  Flowr,  commended  by  Mr.  Vicechamberlayn 
Sir  Christopher  Hatton. 

July  6th,  Mr.  Hitchcok,  who  had  travayled  in  the  plat  for 
fishing,  made  acquayntance  with  me,  and  offred  me  great  curtesy. 


July  13th,  Arthurus  Dee  natus  *  puer  mane  hor.  4  min.  30  fere, 
vel  potius  min.  25,  in  ipso  ortu  solis,ut  existimo.  After  10  of  the 
clock  this  night  my  wive's  father  Mr.  Fromonds  was  speechles, 
and  died  on  Tuesday  (July  14th)  at  4  of  the  clock  in  the  morning. 
July  16th,  Arthur  was  christened  at  3  of  the  clok  afternone  ; 
Mr.  Dyer  and  Mr.  Doctor  Lewys,  judg  of  the  Admiralty,  were  his 
godfathers ;  and  Mistres  Blanche  Pary  of  the  Privie  Chamber  his 
godmother.  But  Mr.  John  Harbert  of  Estshene  was  deputy  for 
Dr.  Lewys,  and  Mystres  Awbrey  was  deputy  for  my  cosen  Mistres 
Blanche  Pary. 

Aug.  8th,  John  Elmeston,f  student  of  Oxford,  cam  to  me  for 
dialling.  Aug.  9th,  Jane  Dee  churched.  Aug.  16th,  Monsieur 
cam  secretly  to  the  court  from  Calays.  Aug.  20th,  wyndy,  clowdy, 
rayny.  Aug.  26,  Monsieur  went  back  agayn  to  France.  Sept. 
10th,  my  dream  of  being  naked,  and  my  skyn  all  overwrowght 
with  work  like  some  kinde  of  tuft  mockado,  with  crosses  blew 
and  red ;  and  on  my  left  arme,  abowt  the  arme,  in  a  wreath,  this 
word  I  red — sine  me  nihil  potestis  facere :  and  another  the  same 
night  of  Mr.  Secretary  Walsingham,  Mr.  Candish,  and  myself. 

Oct.  3rd,  Sir  Leonel  Ducket  his  unkend  letter  for  mony.  Oct. 
4th,  goodman  Hilton  requested  me  for  his  ij.  sonnes  to  resort  to 
my  howse.  Oct.  5th,  raging  wynde  at  West  and  Southerly,  in  the 
night  chefely.  Oct.  9th,  10th,  llth,  12th,  great  rayne  for  three  or 
four  dayes  and  nights.  Oct.  13th,  this  day  it  broke  up ;  the  fote 
bote  for  the  ferry  at  Kew  was  drowned  and  six  persons,  by  the 
negligens  of  the  ferryman  overwhelming  the  boat  uppon  the  roap 
set  there  to  help,  by  reason  of  the  vehement  and  high  waters. 
Oct.  18th,  Mr.  Adrian  Gilbert  and  John  Davys  reconcyled  them- 
selves to  me,  and  disclosed  some  of  Emery  his  most  unhonest, 

*  His  horoscope  is  in  MS.  Ashm.  1788.  "  Mr.  Arthur  Dee's  birth  was  accompanied 
by  the  unhappy  accident  of  the  death  of  Mr.  Fromonds,  his  mother's  father,  who  died 
that  morning."— MS.  Ashm.  1790,  fol.  63. 

f  This  person  is  not  noticed  by  the  Oxford  biographers. 


1579.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  7 

hypocritical!,  and  devilish  dealings  and  devises  agaynst  me  and 
other,  and  likewise  of  that  errant  strompet  her  abominable  wordes 
and  dedes ;  and  John  Davis  sayd  that  he  might  curse  the  tyme 
that  ever  he  knew  Emery,  and  so  much  followed  his  wicked  cown- 
sayle  and  advyse.  So  just  is  God  !  Oct.  31st,  payed  xxs.  fyne 
for  me  and  Jane  my  wife  to  the  Lord  of  Wimbleton  (the  Queue), 
by  goodman  Burton  of  Putney,  for  the  surrender  taken  of  my 
mother  of  all  she  hath  in  Mortlak  to  Jane  and  me,  and  than  to 
my  heyres  and  assynes,  &c. 

Nov.  25th,  the  Lord  Clinton  cam  to  me  and  offred  Skirbeck  by 
Boston  for  Long  Lednam.  Nov.  29th,  I  receyved  a  letter  from 

Mr.  Thomas  Jones.  Dec.  9th,  Qts  viyr  pi  vvi(j>  Spe/uS  6ar  ove  Kap. 
TO  ep  avb  rovyeb  ep,  trauvy,  "  Miorpes  Aee,  yov  ap  Kovtceiveb  ocj)  xt\5, 
vos  rape  pvffr  (3e  Za^aptas ;  fie  o(j>  yvb  X€P€>  *  <7a^  ^°  VV€^-  as  Ois 
bod  /"  *  Dec.  22nd,  I  payd  Jane  135.  and  4d.  for  her  wagys  tyll 
Michelmas  last,  for  the  half  yere,  so  that  I  owe  her  yet  6s.  8d. 
Dec.  28th,  I  reveled  to  Roger  Cokef  the  gret  secret  of  the  elixir 

of  the  salt  o<j>  cucereXs  ove  VTTTTOV  a  vvbpeb. 

1580.  Jan.  13th,  I  gave  my  wife  mony  for  the  month.  Jan.  16th, 
Arthur  fell  sick,  stuffed  with  cold  fleym,  could  not  slepe,  had  no 
stomach  to  eat  or  drink  as  he  had  done  before.  Feb.  26th,  this 
night  the  fyre  all  in  flame  cam  into  my  maydens  chamber  agayne, 
betwene  an  eleven  and  twelve  of  the  cloke ;  contynued  half  an 
howr  terribly,  so  it  did  a  yere  before  to  the  same  maydens,  Mary 
Cunstable  and  Jane  Gele.  May  17th,  at  the  Moscovy  howse  for 
the  Cathay  voyage.  June  3rd,  Mr.  A.  Gilbert  and  J.  Davys  rod 
homward  into  Devonshire.  June  7th,  Mr.  Skydmor  and  his  wife 

*  Dee  has  occasionally  made  use  of  Greek  letters  for  the  preservation  of  his  notes, 
still  retaining  the  English  language.  The  present  passage  may  as  well  be  given : — 
"  This  night  my  wife  dreamed  that  one  cam  to  her  and  touched  her,  saying,  '  Mistres 
Dee,  you  are  conceived  of  child,  whose  name  must  be  Zacharias  ;  be  of  good  chere,  he 
sal  do  well  as  this  doth ! ' " 

t  In  a  more  appropriate  place  I  shall  give  from  an  Ashmolean  manuscript  a  tradi- 
tionary anecdote  relating  to  this  Roger  Coke,  or  Cooke,  and  the  great  secret  which 
Dee  revealed  to  him. 


8  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1580. 

lay  at  my  howse  and  Mr.  Skydmor's  dowghter,  and  the  Quene's 
dwarf  Mrs.  Tomasin.  June  8th,  my  wife  went  with  Mistres 
Skydmor  to  the  court.  June  12th,  Mr.  Zackinson  and  Mr. 
Cater  lay  at  my  howse,  having  supped  at  my  Lady  Crofts. 
June  14th,  Mr.  Fosku  of  the  Wardrip  lay  at  my  howse,  and  went 
the  next  day  to  London  with  Mr.  Coweller.  July  15th,  the  Lady 
Croft  went  from  Mortlak  to  the  court  at  Otlands.  June  30th, 
payd  Jane  20$.  for  thre  quarters'  wages,  so  that  all  that  is  due  is 
payd,  and  all  other  recknengs  likewise  is  payd  her  6s.  8d. ;  and 
Mary  Constable  was  payd  all  old  reknings  15s.,  and  my  wife  had 
eleven  pounds  to  dischardge  all  for  thirteen  wekes  next,  that  is, 
till  the  5th  of  November :  I  delivered  Mr.  Williams,  the  person 
of  Tendring,  a  lettre  of  atturney  agaynst  one  White  of  Colches- 
ter, for  a  sklaundre. 

Aug.  2?th,  Arthur  was  weaned  this  night  first.  Aug.  28th,  my 
dealing  with  Sir  Humfrey  Gilbert  for  his  graunt  of  discovery. 
Aug.  30th,  Nurse  Darant  was  discharged  and  had  10s.  given  her, 
which  was  the  whole  quarter's  wages  due  at  a  fortnight  after 
Michelmas. 

Sept.  6th,  the  Quene's  Majestic  cam  to  Richemond.  Sept.  10th, 
Sir  Humfry  Gilbert  graunted  me  my  request  to  him,  made  by 
letter,  for  the  royaltyes  of  discovery  all  to  the  North  above  the 
parallel!  of  the  50  degree  of  latitude,  in  the  presence  of  Stoner, 
Sir  John  Gilbert,  his  servant  or  reteiner ;  and  thereuppon  toke 
me  by  the  hand  with  faithfull  promises  in  his  lodging  of  John 
Cooke's  howse  in  Wichcross  strete,  where  wee  dyned  onely  us  three 
together,  being  Satterday.  Sept.  13th,  Mr.  Lock  browght  Ben- 
jamyn  his  sonne  to  me :  his  eldest  sonne  also,  called  Zacharie, 
cam  then  with  him.  Sept.  17th,  the  Quene's  Majestic  cam  from 
Rychemond  in  her  coach,  the  higher  way  of  Mortlak  felde,  and 
whan  she  cam  right  against  the  church  she  turned  down  toward 
my  howse  :  and  when  she  was  against  my  garden  in  the  felde  she 
stode  there  a  good  while,  and  than  cam  ynto  the  street  at  the 
great  gate  of  the  felde,  where  she  espyed  me  at  my  doore  making 


1580.] 

obeysains  to  her  Majestie  ;  she  beckend  her  hand  for  me  ;  I  cam 
to  her  coach  side.,  she  very  speedily  pulled  off  her  glove  and  gave 
me  her  hand  to  kiss  ;  and  to  be  short,  asked  me  to  resort  to  her 
court,  and  to  give  her  to  wete  when  I  cam  ther ;  hor.  6J  a  meridie. 
Sept.  14th,  I  began  against  Vincent  Murphyn.  Sept.  15th,  I 
wrote  to  the  bishop  of  London.  Sept.  22nd,  my  declaration 
against  Vincent  Murphin  put  into  the  court  of  Geldhall. 

Oct.  3rd,  on  Munday,  at  11  of  the  clok  before  none,  I  de- 
livered my  two  rolls  of  the  Quene's  Majesties  title  unto  herself  in 
the  garden  at  Richemond,  who  appointed  after  dynner  to  heare 
furder  of  the  matter.  Therfore  betwene  one  and  two  afternone, 
I  was  sent  for  into  her  highnes  Pryvy  Chamber,  where  the 
Lord  Threasurer  allso  was,  who,  having  the  matter  slightly 
then  in  consultation,  did  seme  to  dowt  much  that  I  had  or 
could  make  the  argument  probable  for  her  highnes'  title  so  as  I 
pretended.  Wheruppon  I  was  to  declare  to  his  honor  more 
playnely,  and  at  his  leyser,  what  I  had  sayd  and  could  say  therin, 
which  I  did  on  Tuesday  and  Wensday  following,  at  his  chamber, 
where  he  used  me  very  honorably  on  his  behalf.  Oct.  7th,  on 
Fryday  I  cam  to  my  Lord  Threasorer,  and  he  being  told  of  my 
being  without,  and  allso  I  standing  before  him  at  his  comming 
furth,  did  not  or  would  not  speak  to  me,  I  dowt  not  of  some  new 
greif  conceyved.  Oct.  10th,  the  Quene's  Majestie,  to  my  great 
cumfort  (hora  quinta),  cam  with  her  trayn  from  the  court  and  at 
my  dore  graciously  calling  me  to  her,  on  horsbak,  exhorted  me 
briefly  to  take  my  mother's  death  patiently,  and  withall  told  me 
that  the  Lord  Threasorer  had  gretly  commended  my  doings  for  her 
title,  which  he  had  to  examyn,  which  title  in  two  rolls  he  had 
browght  home  two  howrs  before ;  she  remembred  allso  how  at  my 
wive's  death  it  was  her  fortune  likewise  to  call  uppon  me.*  At  4 

*  His  first  wife  died  on  the  16th  of  March  1575,  when  «'  the  Queen's  Majestie,  with 

her  most  honourable  Privy  Council,  and  other  her  Lords  and  Nobility,  came  purposely 

to  have  visited  my  library :  but  finding  that  my  wife  was  within  four  houres  before 

buried  out  of  the  house,  her  Majestie  refused  to  come  in  ;  but  willed  to  fetch  my  glass 

CAMD.    SOC. DEE.  C 


10  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1581. 

of  the  clok  in  the  morning  my  mother  Jane  Dee  dyed  at  Mortlak ; 
she  made  a  godly  ende :  God  be  praysed  therfore !  She  was  77 
yere  old.  Oct.  20th,  I  had  by  my  jury  at  Geldhall  £100  damages 
awarded  me  against  Vincent  Murphyn  the  cosener.  Oct.  2 2nd, 
with  much  ado  I  had  judgment  against  Murfin  at  Geldhall.  My 
mervaylous  horsnes  and  in  manner  spechelesnes  toke  me,  being 
nothing  at  all  otherwise  sick.  Oct.  25th,  Morrice  Kyffin  departed 
from  me  with  my  leave.  Nov.  2nd,  the  Lord  Threasorer  sent  me 
a  haunche  of  venison.  Thomas  Suttley  had  the  bishop  of  Can- 
terbury his  letter  for  Sir  Richard.  Nov.  3rd,  I  writt  to  my  Lord 
Threasurer.  Nov.  6th,  Helen  cam  to  my  servyse.  Nov.  12th, 
somwhat  better  in  my  voyce.  Nov.  22nd,  the  biasing  star*  I 
cold  see  no  more,  though  it  were  a  cler  night.  Dec.  1st,  newes 
cam  by  Dr.  Deny  from  Ireland  of  the  Italiens  overthrow  whom 
the  Pope  had  sent,  the  Quene  lying  at  Richemond.  Dec.  6th, 
the  Quene  removed  from  Richmond.  Dec.  8th,  recepi  literas 
Roma,  scriptas  per  fratrem  Laudervicea. 

1581.f  Feb.  9th,  I  agreed  with  Mr.  Gentle  Godolphin  for  to 
release  the  coosener  Vincent  Murphin.  Feb.  llth,  Harry  Prise,  of 
Lewsam,  cam  to  me  at  Mortlak,  and  told  of  his  dreames  often  re- 
peated, and  uppon  my  prayer  to  God  this  night,  his  dreame  was 
confirmed,  and  better  instruction  given.  Feb.  12th,  Sir  William 
Harbert  cam  to  Mortlak.  Feb.  23rd,  I  made  acquayntance  with 
Joannes  Bodinus,  in  the  Chambre  of  Presence  at  Westminster, 
the  embassador  being  by  from  Monsieur.  Feb.  26th,  a  very  fayr 
calm  warm  day. 

so  famous,  and  to  show  unto  her  some  of  the  properties  of  it,  which  I  did  ;  her  Ma- 
jestie  being  taken  down  from  her  horse  by  the  Earle  of  Leicester,  Master  of  the  Horse, 
at  the  church  wall  of  Mortlake,  did  see  some  of  the  properties  of  that  glass,  to  her 
Majestie's  great  contentment  and  delight." — Compendious  Memorial,  p.  516.  This 
glass  is  spoken  of  again. 

*  Dee  has  made  a  rough  sketch  of  the  appearance  of  this  comet,  with  its  long  tail, 
on  the  margin  of  the  MS. 

f  An  original  diary  of  the  chemical  experiments  made  by  Dr.  Dee  in  this  year  is 
preserved  in  the  Bodleian  Library. — MS.  Rawl.  Miscel.  241. 


1581.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  11 

March  8th,  it  was  the  8  day,  being  Wensday,  hora  noctis  10, 
11,  the  strange  noysein  my  chamber  of  knocking ;  and  the  voyce, 
ten  tymes  repeted,  somewhat  like  the  shrich  of  an  owle,  but  more 
longly  drawn,  and  more  softly,  as  it  were  in  my  chamber.  March 
12th,  all  reckenings  payd  to  Mr.  Hudson,  £11.  I'Js.  March  13th, 
Elizabeth  Kyrton  cam  to  my  servys.  March  23rd,  at  Mortlak 
cam  to  me  Hugh  Smyth,  who  had  returned  from  Magellan 
straights  and  Vaygatz ;  after  that,  raynie,  stormie  wynde,  S.  W. 
March  25th,  Helen  was  hyred  at  our  Lady  day  for  the  yere  for 
fowr  nobles  wagis ;  she  had  her  covenant  peny,  and  allso  vjs.  viijd. 
for  her  payns  taken  synce  she  came.  April  3rd,  I  ryd  toward  Sned- 
greene,  to  John  Browne,  to  here  and  see  the  manner  of  the 
doings.  April  14th,  I  cam  home  from  Snedgreene.  May  25th, 
I  had  sight  in  XpvoTaXXw  offerd  me,  and  I  saw.  June  7th,  hora  7i 
mane  nata  est  Katharina  Dee.  June  10th,  baptisata  a  meridie 
hor.  5£  Katharina.  Mr.  Packington  of  the  court,  my  Lady  Ka- 
tarin  Crofts,  wife  to  Sir  James  Crofts,  Mr.  Controller  of  the 
Quene's  household,  Mystres  Mary  Skydmor  of  the  Privie  Cham- 
ber, and  cosen  to  the  Quene,  by  theyr  deputies  christened  Katha- 
rin  Dee.  June  17th,  yong  Mr.  Hawkins,  who  had  byn  with  Sir 
Francis  Drake,  cam  to  me  to  Mortlake.  June  30th,  Mr.  John 
Leonard  Haller,  of  Hallerstein,  by  Worms  in  Germany,  receyved 
his  instructions  manifold  for  his  jornay  to  Quinsay,  which  jornay 
I  moved  him  unto,  and  instructed  him  plentifully  for  the  variation 
of  the  compas,  observing  in  all  places  as  he  passed. 

July  6th,  my  wife  churched.  July  7th,  in  the  morning  at  If 
after  mydnight,  Mr.  Hinde  his  sonne  born.  July  10th,  my  right 
sholder  and  elbow-joynt  were  so  extremely  in  payn  that  I  was 
not  able  in  14  dayes  to  lift  my  arme  owtward  not  an  ynche ;  the 
payn  was  extreme ;  I  used  Mr.  Larder,  Mr.  Alles,  and  Alise  Da- 
vyes,  and  abowt  the  25  day  I  mended.  July  12th,  abowt  10  of 

the  clock    5-   before    noone  poyep  Is  tv/cpe£t/3Xe  ^oyyeSres   av6  tvypare- 
<f>v\ves  ayaivs  pe  TO  p.i  0afce,  aX/zosr  pe&t  TO  Xai  vioXevT  av&s  ov  pe,  payep 

K  KO.V  TrapreXt  reX.     At  the  same  day  the  Erie  of  Lecester  fell 


12  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1581. 

fowly  owt  with  the  Erie  of  Sussex,  Lord  Chamberlayn,  calling 
each  other  traytor,  whereuppon  both  were  commanded  to  kepe 
theyr  chambers  at  Greenwich,  wher  the  court  was.  July  19th, 
Mr.  Henrick  went  to  London  to  visit  his  wife  and  children.  July 
26th,  Mr.  Haylok  cam,  and  goodman  King  with  him.  July  28th, 
Mr.  Collens  did  ride  into  Lincolneshire. 

Aug.  3rd,  all  the  night  very  strange  knocking  and  rapping  in 
my  chamber.  Aug.  4th,  and  this  night  likewise.  Katharin  was  sent 
home  from  nurse  Maspely,  of  Barnes,  for  fear  of  her  mayd's  sick- 
nes,  and  goodwife  Benet  gave  her  suck.  Aug.  llth,  Katharine 
Dee  was  shifted  to  nurse  Garret  at  Petersham  on  Fryday,  the 
next  day  after  St.  Lawrence  day,  being  the  llth  day  of  the  month; 
my  wife  went  on  foot  with  her,  and  Ellen  Cole,  my  mayd, 
George  and  Benjamin,  in  very  great  showres  of  rayn.  Aug.  12th, 
recepi  literas  a  D.  Doctore  Andrea  Hess  occultse  philosophies 
studioso,  per  Richardi  Hesketh  amici  mei,  Antwerpiee  agentis,  dili- 
gentiam  in  negociis  meis,  et  recepi,  una  cum  literis,  Mercurii  Men- 
si  tarn  seu  Sigillam  Planetarum.  Aug.  26th,  abowt  8f  (at  night)  a 
strange  meteore  in  forme  of  a  white  clowde  crossing  galaxiam, 
whan  it  lay  north  and  sowth  over  our  zenith ;  this  clowd  was  at 
length  from  the  S.  E.  to  the  S.  W.  sharp  at  both  endes,  and  in 
the  west  ende  it  was  forked  for  a  while;  it  was  abowt  sixty 
degrees  high,  it  lasteth  an  howr,  all  the  skye  clere  abowt,  and  fayr 
starshyne. 

Sept.  *  5th,  Roger  Cook,  who  had  byn  with  me  from  his  14 
yeres  of  age  till  28,  of  a  melancholik  nature,  pycking  and  devising 
occasions  of  just  cause  to  depart  on  the  suddayn.  abowt  4  of  the 
clok  in  the  afternone  requested  of  me  ly cense  to  depart,  wher- 
uppon  rose  whott  words  between  us  ;  and  he,  imagining  with  his- 
self  that  he  had  the  12  of  July  deserved  my  great  displeasure  and 
finding  himself  barred  from  vew  of  my  philosophicall  dealing 

*  Dr.  Dee,  in  the  Rawlinson  MS.  just  quoted,  observes,  in  his  notes  on  this  month, 
"  Mr.  Harry  Waters  went  away  the  2nd  day,  malcontent.  John  Dee,  Jesus  bless 
me!" 


1581.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  13 

with  Mr.  Henrik,  thowght  that  he  was  utterly  recest  from  intended 
goodnes  toward  him.  Notwithstanding  Roger  Cook  his  un- 
seamely  dealing,  I  promised  him,  yf  he  used  himself  toward  me 
now  in  his  absens,  one  hundred  pounds  *  as  sone  as  of  my  own 
clene  hability  I  myght  spare  so  much ;  and  moreover,  if  he  used 
himself  well  in  lif  toward  God  and  the  world,  I  promised  him 
some  pretty  alchimicall  experiments,  whereuppon  he  might  ho- 
nestly live.  Sept.  7th,  Roger  Cook  went  for  altogether  from  me. 
Sept.  29th,  Robert  Gardner,  of  Shrewsbury,  cam  to  my  servyce. 

Oct.  8th,  I  had  newes  of  the  chests  of  bokes  fownd  by  Owndle 
in  Northampton  shy  re  5  Mr.  Barnabas  Sawle  told  me  of  them,  but 
I  fownd  no  tru,th  in  it.  Oct.  9th,  Barnabas.  Saul,  lying  in  the 

hall  was  strangely  trubled  by  a  spirituall  creature 

abowt  mydnight.  Oct.  13th,  I  rod  to  Sowth  Myms.  Oct.  14th, 
to  St.  Nedes.  Oct.  16th,  at  Mr.  Hikman's.  Oct.  20th,  at  Tos- 
seter.  Oct.  21st,  Oxford,  Dr.  Cradocke.  Oct.  23rd,  from  Oxford 
to  Wyckam.  Oct.  24th,  I  cam  home.  Robert  Hilton  cam  to  my 
service.  Nov.  16th,  the  Quene  removed  to  White  Hall,  and  Mon- 
sieur with  her.  Nov.  27th,  I  rod  to  Green sede.  Nov.  28th,  to 
goodman  Wykham,  2  myles  beyond  Chayly  by  Lewys.  Nov.  29th, 
I  made  acquayntance  with  Mr.  George  Kylmer  for  Sir  George  his 
bokes.  Nov.  30th,  I  cam  home.  Dec.  1st,  Katharyn  Dee  her 
nurse  was  payd  6s.  so  nothing  is  owing  to  her.  Dec.  5th,  Elen 
my  mayden  fell  sick.  Dec.  7th,  George  my  man  had  the  great 
fall  of  the  ladder,  hora  10  fere  mane.  Dec.  8th,  I  sent  a  letter  to 
Mr.  Kylmer.  Dec.  22nd,  my  Lord  Chanceler's  sonne,  Mr.  Brom- 
ley, and  Sir  William  Herbert  cam  to  me.  Helen  Cole  was  payd 
her  wages  and  reckening  tyll  this  Christmas,  and  so  discharged  my 
servyce,  being  newly  recovered  of  her  ague.  Her  desyre  was  to 
go  to  her  frendes. 

1582.  Jan.  1 1th,  Robert  Gardener  desired  my  leave  to  go  dwell 

*  This  probably  gave  rise  to  the  anecdote  which  is  related  in  MS.  Ashm.  1788,  fol. 
147,  viz.  that  "  he  revealed  to  one  Roger  Cooke  the  great  secret  of  the  elixar,  as  he 
called  it,  of  the  salt  of  metalls,  the  projection  whereof  was  one  upon  an  hundred.'' 


14  DB.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1582. 

with  Sir  William  Herbert,  hora  12.  Jan.  16th,  Mistris  Harbert 
cam  to  Essexe.  Jan.  17th,  Randal  Hatton  cam  home  from 
SamuePs  father  at  Stratton  Audley.  Jan.  22nd,  Arthur  Dee  and 
Mary  Herbert,  they  being  but  3  yere  old  the  eldest,  did  make  as 
it  wer  a  shew  of  childish  marriage,  of  calling  ech  other  husband 
and  wife.  Jan.  22,  23rd.  The  first  day  Mary  Herbert  cam  to  her 
father's  hous  at  Mortlak,  and  the  second  day  she  cam  to  her 
father's  howse  at  Estshene.  Jan.  23rd,  my  wife  went  to  nurse 
Garret  and  payd  her  for  this  month  ending  the  26  day.  Jan.  27th, 
Barnabas  Sawl  his  brother  cam.  Feb.  12th,  abowt  9  of  the  clok, 
Barnabas  Saul  and  his  brother  Edward  went  homward  from 
Mortlak  :  Saul  his  inditement  being  by  law  fownd  insufficient  at 
Westminster  Hall :  Mr.  Serjeant  Walmesley,  Mr.  Owen  and  Mr. 
Hyde,  his  lawyers  at  the  bar  for  the  matter,  and  Mr.  Ive,  the 
clerk  of  the  Crown  Office,  favouring  the  other.  Feb.  20th,  Mr. 
Bigs  of  Stentley  by  Huntingdon  and  John  Littlechild  cam  to  me. 
I  receyved  a  letter  from  Barnabas  Saul.  Feb.  21st,  Mr.  Skull- 
thorp  rod  toward  Barnabas.  Feb.  25th,  Mr.  Skulthorp  cam 
home.  Payd  nurse  Garret  for  Katharin  tyll  Fryday  the  23  day, 
vjs.  then  somethyng  due  to  nurse  for  iij.  pownd  of  candell  and  4 
pownd  of  sope. 

March  1st,  Mr.  Clerkson  browght  Magnus  to  me  at  Mortlak, 
and  so  went  that  day  agayn.  March  6th,  Barnabas  Saul  cam  this 
day  agayn  abowt  one  of  the  clok  and  went  to  London  the  same 
afternone.  He  confessed  that  he  neyther  hard  or  saw  any  spiri- 
tuall  creature  any  more.  March  8th,  Mr.  Clerkson  and  his  frende 
cam  to  my  howse.  Barnabas  went  home  agayn  abowt  3  or  2 
clok,  he  lay  not  at  my  howse  now ;  he  went,  I  say,  on  Thursday, 
with  Mr.  Clerkson.  March  8th,  coelum  ardere  et  instar  san- 
guinis  in  diversis  partibus  rubere  visum  est  circa  horam  nonam 
noctis,  maxime  versus  septentrionalem  et  occidentalem  partem : 
sed  ultra  capita  nostra  versus  austrum  frequenter  miles  quasi  san- 
gnineus.  March  9th,  Fryday  at  dynner  tyme  Mr.  Clerkson  and 


1582.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  15 

Mr.  Talbot  *  declared  a  great  deale  of  Barnabas  nowghty  dealing 
toward  me,  as  in  telling  Mr.  Clerkson  ill  things  of  me  that  I 
should  mak  his  frend,  as  that  he  was  wery  of  me,  that  I  wold  so 
flatter  his  frende  the  lerned  man  that  I  wold  borow  him  of  him. 
But  his  frend  told  me,  before  my  wife  and  Mr.  Clerkson,  that  a 
spirituall  creature  told  him  that  Barnabas  had  censured  both  Mr. 
Clerkson  and  me,  The  injuries  which  this  Barnabas  had  done 
me  diverse  wayes  were  very  great.  March  22nd,  Mr.  Talbot 
went  to  London,  to  take  his  jornay. 

April  16th,  Nurse  Garet  had  her  6s.  for  her  month  ending  on 
the  20th  day.  April  22nd,  a  goodly  showr  of  rayn  this  morning 
early.  May  4th,  Mr.  Talbot  went.  May  13th,  Jane  rod  to 
Cheyham.  May  15th,  nocte  circa  nonam  cometa  apparuit  in  sep- 
tentrione  versus  occidentem  aliquantulum ;  cauda  versus  astrum 
tendente  valde  magna,  et  stella  ipsa  vix  sex  gradus  super  horizon- 
tern.  May  20th,  Robertus  Gardinerus  Salopiensis  laetum  mihi 
attulit  nuncium  de  materia  lapidis,  divinitus  sibi  revelatus  de 

qua May  23rd,  Robert    Gardener  declared  unto   me 

hora  4£  a  certeyn  great  philosophicall  secret,  as  he  had  termed  it, 
of  a  spirituall  creatuer,  and  was  this  day  willed  to  come  to  me 
and  declare  it,  which  was  solemnly  done,  and  with  common 
prayer.  May  28th,  Mr.  Eton  of  London  cam  with  his  son-in- 
law  Mr.  Edward  Bragden,  as  concerning  Upton  parsonage,  to 
have  me  to  resign  or  let  it  unto  his  said  son-in-law,  whom  1  pro- 
mised to  let  understand  whenever  myself  wold  consent  to  forego 
it.  June  9th,  I  writ  to  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  a  letter  in 
Latin :  Mr.  Doctor  Awbrey  did  carry  it.  June  14th,  Morryce 
Kyffin  did  viset  me.  June  22nd,  Nurse  Garret  had  6s.  for  a 
month  ending  the  18  day  of  May;  she  is  to  have  for  a  month 

*  Just  above  this  relation  some  one  has  written,  "  you  that  rede  this  underwritten 
assure  yourselfe  that  yt  is  a  shamfull  lye,  for  Talbot  neither  studied  for  any  such  thinge 
nor  shewed  himselfe  dishonest  in  any  thinge."  Dr.  Dee  has  thus  commented  upon 
it : — "  This  is  Mr.  Talbot  or  that  lerned  man,  his  own  writing  in  my  boke,  very  un- 
duely  as  he  cam  by  it."  There  are  several  other  notices  of  Talbot  erased,  but 
whether  by  him  or  by  the  Doctor  it  is  impossible  to  say,  but  most  probably  the  former. 


16'  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1582. 

wages  ending  the  1 5  day  of  this  June.  My  wife  went  this  Friday 
thither  with  Benjamyn.  June  27th,  Mystris  Stafford  arrested 
me  hora  11:1  payd  all. 

July  3rd,,  hor.  12%,  Arthur  Dee  fell  from  the  top  of  the  Water- 
gate Stayres  down  to  the  fote  from  the  top,  and  cut  his  forhed  on 
the  right  eyebrow.     Sir  Richard  browght  the  rent.     July  6th,  in 
feare  of  resting  by  proctor  Lewys  :  tyll  9|  at  night  from  1  afternone 
at  the  Docter's  comming.   July  12th,  Proctor  Lewys  agred  withall. 
July  1 3th,  Mr.  Talbot  cam  abowt  3  of  the  clok  afternone,  with 
whom  I  had  some  wordes  of  unkendnes  :  we  parted  frendely  :  he 
sayd  that  the  Lord  Morley  had  the  Lord  Mountegle  his  bokes. 
He  promised  me  some  of  Doctor  Myniver's  bokes.    July  16th, 
Mr.  William  Pole,  whome  Phillip  Simons,  somtymes  barber  to 
the  old  Erie  of  Tavistok,  doth  knowe,  cam  to  me,  and  made  ac- 
quayntance  with  me:  promised  to  com  agayn  within  xiiij.  dayes. 
Jane  my  wife  went  to  Nurse  Garret's  to  pay  her  12s.  for  her 
wages  due  tyll  Friday  last,  which  was  Saint  Margaret's  day,  and 
brought  her  xijd.  for  candles  :  she  went  by  water ;  Mistres  Lee 
went  with  her,  and  Robyn  Jackesbite.     Jane  this  night  was  sore 
trubbled  with  a  collick  and  cramp  in  her  belly ;  she  vomyted  this 
Monday  more,  and  every  night  grew  stiff  in  the  sole  likewise. 
A  meridie  hor.  3J  cam  Sir  George  Peckham  to  me  to  know  the 
tytle  for  Norombega  in  respect  of  Spayn  and  Portugall  parting  the 
whole  world's  distilleryes.     He  promysed  me  of  his  gift  and  of 

his  patient of  the  new  conquest,  and  thought  to  get  so 

moche  of  Mr.  Gerardes  gift  to  be  sent  me  with  scale  within  a  few 
days.  July  18th,  Barthilmew  Knaresburgh  his  sone  borne  at 
break  of  day  abowt  3  of  the  clok.  June  19th,  Barnabas  Saul 
came  to  see  me  at  Mortlak :  I  chyd  hym  for  his  manifold  un- 
true reports.  July  23d,  Mistris  Franklin's  sone  borne  at  noone. 
July  24th,  Robert  Gardiner  cam,  and  went  on  the  26th. 

Aug.  8th,  Kate  was  sickly.  Aug.  llth,  Mr.  Bacon  and  Mr. 
Phillips  of  the  court  cam.  Aug.  20th,  Katarine  still  seemed  to  be 
diseasid,  Aug.  25th,  Katharin  was  taken  home  from  nurse  Garret 


1582.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  17 

of  Petersham,  and  weaned  at  home.  Aug.  31st,  Benjamin  Lock 
told  me  of  his  father's  mynde  to  send  him  to  Spayn  within  three 
or  four  days.  Sept.  1st,  I  did  for  Sir  John  Killegrew  devise  the 
way  of  protestation  to  save  him  harmless  for  compounding  with 
Spaniard  who  was  robbed :  he  promised  me  fish  against  Lent. 
Sept.  10th,  Mr.  John  Leonard  Haller,  of  Hallersteyn,  by  Worms 
in  Germany,  cam  agayn  to  me,  to  declare  his  readines  to  go  to- 
ward Quinsay ;  and  how  he  wold  go  and  ly  at  Venys  all  this 
winter,  and  from  thens  to  Constantinople.  I  requested  Mr. 
Charles  Sted  to  help  him  to  make  his  mony  over  to  Paris  and 
Nuremberg,  and  to  help  him  with  the  sercher  of  Rye  to  pass  his 
horse,  and  to  help  him  with  Mr.  Osborn  the  alderman  with  his 
letters  to  Constantinople.  Sept.  llth,  on  Tuesday  they  went  to 
London  together,  and  my  wife  allso  abowt  her  affayres.  Sept. 
13th,  I  writt  to  Dugenes  de  Dionigiis  to  Venys  by  Mr.  John  Leo- 
nard Haller.  Sept.  1 7th,  I  writ  to  the  Erie  of  Osmond.  Sept. 
29th,  Anne  cam  to  my  servyse  from  Mr.  Harbert.  I  payd  Mr. 
Lewys  £20,  so  rest  is  which  I  challendg  as  for  my  cost  and  payns 
for  37  yeres  for  John  his  son. 

Oct.  12th,  I  rod  to  Tundridge.  Oct.  1 3th,  I  rod  from  Tun- 
dridge  to  Mr.  Coverts  at  Slawgham.  Oct.  15th,  I  cam  home  from 
Slawgham,  and  dyned  at  Mr.  Holtens,  person  of  Oxstede  by  Tun- 
dridge, a  phisitien.  Oct.  21st,  Jane  my  wife  sowned  in  the 
church.  Nov.  1  st,  Mr.  Plat,  my  brother  Yong  his  sonne-in-law, 
cam  to  me  with  a  stranger  of  Trushen,  born  at  Regius  Mons :  his 
name  is  Martinus  Faber.  The  same  day  cam  Mr.  Clement  the 
seamaster  and  Mr.  Ingram  from  Sir  George  Peckham.  Nov.  8th, 
hayle  afternone  horam  circiter  primam  :  tonitrus  circa  quartam 
et  sextam.  Nov.  9th,  Mr.  Newbury,  who  had  byn  at  Cambaya  in 
Inde,  cam  to  me.  Nov.  22nd,  E.  K.  went  to  London,  and  so  the 
next  day  conveied  by  rode  toward  Blakley,  and  within  ten  dayes 
to  returne.  Nov.  24th,  Saterday  night  I  dremed  that  I  was  deade, 
and  afterward  my  bowels  wer  taken  out  I  walked  and  talked  with 
diverse,  and  among  other  with  the  Lord  Thresorer  who  was  com 

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18  DR.   DEE5S    DIARY.  [1582. 

to  my  howse  to  burn  my  bokes  when  I  was  dead,  and  thought  he 
loked  sourely  on  me.  Dec.  1st,  George  my  man,  who  had  lyne 
oute  all  night,  this  morning  used  me  very  dishonestly,  and  sayd 
he  owed  me  no  servyce.  Mr.  Bettgran  the  justice  was  not  at 
home.  Dec.  13th,  thunder  in  the  afternone  and  at  sonne-set. 
Dec.  15th,  the  15th  day  being  cownted  the  25,  50,  10  dayes  ar 
imagined  spent,  which  have  crept  in  betwene  the  day  of  Crist  his 
birth  regarding  the  place  of  the  sonne,  and  the  sonnes  place  not 
the  25th  day  of  this  month,  whiche  a  civile  ^equation,  but  mathe- 
matically and  religiusly  to  be  substantiated  to  be  for  the  true  term 
of  the  periods  of  annuall  revolutions  of  the  sonne  sinse  the  day  of 
Christ  his  birth. 

1583.  Jan.  13th,  on  Sondaythe  stage  at  Paris  Garden  fell  down 
all  at  ones,  being  full  of  people,  beholding  the  bearbayting.  Many 
being  killed  thereby,  more  hart,  and  all  amased.  The  godly  ex- 
po wnd  it  as  a  due  plage  of  God  for  the  wickednes  ther  usid,  and 
the  Sabath  day  so  profanely  spent.  Jan.  19th,  Mr.  John  Leo- 
nard Haller  went  to  London  and  so  to  go  toward  Scotland.  Jan. 
23rd,  the  Ryght  Honorable  Mr.  Secretary  Walsingham  cam  to  my 
howse,  where  by  good  lok  he  found  Mr.  Awdrian  Gilbert,  and  so 
talk  was  begonne  of  North-west  Straights  discovery.  The  Bishop 
of  St.  Davyd's  (Mr.  Middelton)  cam  to  visit  me  with  Mr.  Thomas 
Herbert.  The  Lord  Grey  cam  to  Mr.  Secretary,  and  so  they  went 
unto  Greenwich (?).  Jan.  24th,  I,  Mr.  Awdrian  Gilbert,  and  John 
Davis  went  by  appointment  to  Mr.  Secretary  to  Mr.  Beale  his 
howse,  where  onely  we  four  were  secret,  and  we  made  Mr.  Secre- 
tarie  privie  of  the  N.  W.  passage,  and  all  charts  and  rutters  were 
agreed  uppon  in  generall. 

Feb.  2nd,  Rolandus  Dee  baptizatus.  Feb.  3rd,  Mr.  Savile,  Mr. 
Powil  the  yonger,  travaylors,  Mr.  Ottomeen  his  sonne,  cam  to  be 
acquaynted  with  me.  Feb.  4th,  Mr.  Edmunds  of  the  Privie  Cham- 
ber, Mr.  Lee  who  had  byn  in  Moschovia,  cam  to  be  acquaynted 
with  me.  Feb.  llth,  the  Quene  lying  at  Richemond  went  to  Mr. 
Secretary  Walsingham  to  dynner;  she  coming  by  my  dore  gra- 


1583.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  19 

tiously  called  me  to  her,  and  so  I  went  by  her  horse  side  as  far  as 

where  Mr.  Hudson  dwelt.  Ep  /icueorc  afeb  fte  ofiocrKvpeXi  0(j)  povfffievpis 
ware :  £>t£,i  fitoOavaros  eptr.  Roland  went  with  his  nurse  to  her  howse 
to  Estshene.  Feb.  18th,  the  Lady  Walsingham  cam  suddenly 
into  my  howse  very  freely,  and  shortly  after  that  she  was  gone 
cam  Syr  Francys  himself  and  Mr.  Dyer.  Feb.  24th,  Jane  churched. 
Feb.  26th,  I  delivered  my  boke  to  the  Lord  Threasorer  for  the 
correction  of  the  Calender.* 

March  6th,  I,  and  Mr.  Adrian  Gilbert  and  John  Davis,  did 
mete  with  Mr.  Alderman  Barnes,  Mr.  Townson  and  Mr.  Yong 
and  Mr.  Hudson,  abowt  the  N.W.  voyage.  March  17th,  Mr.  John 
Davys  went  to  Chelsey  with  Mr.  Adrian  Gilbert  to  Mr.  Radforths, 
and  so  the  18th  day  from  thence  toward  Devonshyre.  March 
18th,  Mr.  North  from  Poland,  after  he  had  bynwith  the  Quene  he 
cam  to  me.  I  receyved  salutation  from  Alaski,  Palatine  in  Poland; 
salutation  by  Mr.  North  who  cam  before  to  the  Quene,  and  next 
to  me  was  his  message,  hor.  12.  Nurse  Lydgatt  at  Estshene 

*  This  work,  although  never  entirely  printed,  created  much  sensation  at  the  time, 
and  was  the  cause  of  considerable  controversy  among  the  politicians  as  well  as  literati. 
The  Memorial  on  this  subject  which  Dee  presented  to  the  Privy  Council  has  been 
printed  by  Hearne  and  others,  but  it  is  not  generally  known  that  the  original  manu- 
script of  the  actual  treatise  on  the  correction  of  the  Calendar  is  still  preserved  in  Ash- 
mole's  library,  No.  1789,  and  is  the  very  book  which  Dee  alludes  to  above.  It  is 
inscribed  "  to  the  Right  Honorable  and  my  singular  good  Lorde,  the  Lorde  Burghley, 
Lorde  Threasorer  of  Englande,"  with  the  following  verses  : — 
"  To  on  and  TO  Stort, 

I  shew  the  thing  and  reason  why ; 

At  large,  in  breif,  in  middle  wise, 

I  humbly  give  a  playne  advise  ; 

For  want  of  tyme,  the  tyme  untrew 

Yf  I  have  myst,  commaund  anew 

Your  honor  may.     So  shall  you  see 

That  love  of  truth  doth  govern  me." 

The  work  itself  is  entitled,  "  A  playne  Discourse  and  humble  Advise  for  our  Gratious 
Queene  Elizabeth,  her  most  Excellent  Majestic  to  peruse  and  consider,  as  concerning 
the  needful  Reformation  of  the  Vulgar  Kalender  for  the  civile  yeres  and  daies  accompt- 
ing,  or  verifyeng,  according  to  the  tyme  truely  spent." 


20  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1583. 

was  payd  for  5  pound  candell,  6  pound  sope,  and  the  wagis  due 
from  Rowland  his  birth.  April  18th,  the  Quene  went  from  Riche- 
mond  toward  Grenwich,  and  at  her  going  on  horsbak,  being  new 
up,  she  called  for  me  by  Mr.  Rawly  his  putting  her  in  mynde, 
and  she  sayd  "  quod  defertur  non  aufertur,"  and  gave  me  her  right 
hand  to  kisse.  April  24th,  nurse  was  payd  for  Rowland  all  her 
wagis  tyll  Monday  the  22  of  this  month,  16  pence  a  weke:  she 
had  all  her  candell  and  sope  before. 

May  1st,  Albertus  Laski,  Polonus,  Palatinus  Scradensis,  venit 
Londinum.*     May  4th,  Mr.  Adrian  Gilbert  and  Mr.  Pepler  went 
by  water  to  Braynford,  and  so  to  ride  into  Devonshire.    May  7th, 
E.  K.  went  toward  London,  and  so  to  go  homeward  for  10  or  12 
dayes.     Dies  Quadragesimus  a  die  Veneris  ante  Pascham.     May 
13th,  I  becam  acquaynted  with  Albertus  Laski  at  7£  at  night,  in 
the  Erie  of  Lecester  his  chamber  in  the  court   at  Greenwich. 
This  day  was  my  lease  of  Devonshyre  mynes  sealed  at  Sir  Leonell 
Ducket's  hows.     May  18th,  the  Prince  Albertus  Laski  cam  to  me 
at  Mortlake,  with  onely  two  men.     He  cam  at  afternone   and 
tarryed  supper,  and  after  sone  set.     Nurse  Rowland  was  payd  all 
tyll  the  20th  of  this  month.     June  15th,  abowt  5  of  the  clok  cam 
the  Polonian  Prince  Lord  Albert  Lasky   down  from  Bissham, 
where  he  had  lodged  the  night  before,  being  returned  from  Oxford 
whither  he  had  gon  of  purpose  to  see  the  universityes,  wher  he 
was  very  honorably  used  and  enterteyned.     He  had  in  his  com- 
pany Lord  Russell,  Sir  Philip  Sydney,  and  other  gentlemen :  he 
was  rowed  by  the  Quene's  men,  he  had  the  barge  covered  with 
the  Quene's  cloth,  the  Quene's  trumpeters,  &c.  He  cam  of  purpose 
to  do  me  honor,  for  which  God  be  praysed !   June  1.9th,  the  Lord 
Albert  Laski  cam  to  me  and  lay  at  my  hows  all  nyght.     Nurse 
Rowland  payd  her  wagis  ending  the  17th  day  of  this  month. 
July  1st,  Master  Mills  his  answer  of  no  hopes  in  my  sute  at 

*  "  The  year  of  our  Lorde  God  1583,  the  laste  daye  of  Aprill,  the  Duke  or  Prince 
of  Vascos  in  Polonia,  came  to  London  and  was  lodged  at  Winchester  Howse." — MS. 
Douce,  363,  fol.  125.  This  account  differs  from  Dee's  by  a  single  day. 


1583.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  21 

Grenewich.  July  7th,  George  was  dismissed  my  servys  and  payd 
all  reconings  in  the  presens  of  goodman  Hilton  and  Mistres 
Kelly  in  my  study.  July  10th,  Thomas  Hoke  of  Cranford  cam 
to  my  service,  but  he  went  away  agayn  the  23  clay  of  this  month. 
July  30th,  the  Gluene  removed  on  Tuesday  from  Greenwich  to 

Sion  by  water ;  coming  by  my  dore July  3 1  st,  the 

Quene's  gift  of  40  angells  *  sent  by  the  Erie  of  Lecester  his 
secretarie  Mr.  Lloyd,  throwgh  the  Erie  his  speche  to  the  Quene. 
Mr.  Rawlegh  his  letter  unto  me  of  hir  Majesties  good  dis- 
position unto  me.  Aug.  1st,  John  Halton  minister  dwelling  in 

London    with bowed   in  and   looked,  and   the 

a  Wurcetershire  man,  a  wicked  spy  cam  to  my 

howse,  whom  I  used  as  an  honest  man,  and  found  nothing  wrong 
as  I  thought.  I  was  sent  to  E.  K.  Aug.  7th,  Mr.  William  Bur- 
row passed  by  me.  Aug.  14th,  payd  nurse  Lydgatt  for  Rowland 
for  two  monthes  ending  the  12th  day.  Aug.  18th,  a  great  tempest 
of  wynde  at  mydnyght.  Maxima  era  E.  K.  cum  uxore  ejus. 
Sept.  21st,  we  went  from  Mortlake,  and  so  the  Lord  Albert  Lasky, 
I,  Mr.  E.  Kelly,  our  wives,  my  children  and  familie,  we  went 
toward  our  two  ships  attending  for  us,  seven  or  eight  myle  below 
Gravessende. 

1586.  July  10th,  Mr.  William  Maynard  natus  hora  12  noctis, 
vel  paulo  post,  Londini.  Sept.  14th,  Trebonam  venimus.  Oct. 
18th,  E.  K.  recessit  a  Trebona  versus  Pragam  curru  delatus; 
mansit  hie  per  tres  hebdomadas.  Nov.  8th,  illustrissimus  prin- 
ceps  versus  Pragam ;  iter  institit  hora  tertia  a  meridie.  Nov.  14th, 
rescripsi  ad  Victorem  Reinholdum.  Nov.  19th,  to  the  glas  hows. 
Nov.  21st,  Michael  was  begone  to  be  weaned.  Nov.  22nd,  recepi 

*  "  Her  Majestie  being  informed  by  the  Right  Honourable  Earle  of  Leicester,  that 
whereas  the  same  day  in  the  morning  he  had  told  me  that  his  Honour  and  Lord  Laskey 
would  dine  with  me  within  two  dayes  after,  I  confessed  sincerely  unto  him  that  I  was 
not  able  to  prepare  them  a  convenient  dinner,  unless  I  should  presently  sell  some  of  my 
plate  or  some  of  my  pewter  for  it.  Whereupon  her  Majestie  sent  unto  me  very  royally 
within  one  hour  after  forty  angels  of  gold  from  Sion,  whether  her  Majestie  was  now 
come  by  water  from  Greenwich." — Dr.  Dee's  Compendious  Memoriall,  p.  511. 


22  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1586. 

literas  Jacob!  Memschiti.  Dec.  8th,  Monday  abowt  none  Mr. 
Edward  Garland  cam  to  Trebona  to  mee  from  the  Emperor  of 
Moschovia,  according  to  the  articles  before  sent  unto  me  by 
Thomas  Hankinson.  Dec.  llth,  St.  Poloniensis  obiit:  natus 
anno  1530  die  13  Januarii,  hora  quarta  mane  min.  26,  in  Transyl- 
vania. Obiit,  hora  secunda  post  mediam  noctem,  ut  intellexi  ex 
literis  Dni  Lasky,  receptis  die  29  per  Alexandrum.  Dec.  19th, 
19die  (novi  kalendarii)  ad  gratificandum  Domino  Edouardo  Gar- 
lando,  et  Francisco  suo  fratri,  qui  Edouardus  nuncius  mihi  mis- 
sus erat  ab  Imperatore  Moschoviee  ut  ad  ilium  venirem,  E.  K.  fecit 

proleolem  lapidis  in  proportione  unius gravi  arenae  super 

quod  vulgaris  oz.  et  £  et  producta  est  optimi  auri  oz.  fere  :  quod 
aurum  post  distribuimus  a  crucibolo  una  dedimus  Edouardo. 
Dec.  30th,  E.  K.  versus  Pragam. 

1587.  Jan.  8th,  cam  Nicolas  du  Haut,  Frenchman  of  Lorrayn, 
who  had  byn  lackay  to  my  frende  Otho  Henrick  Duke  of  Bruns- 
wik  and  Lienburgh,  to  seke  a  servyse,  being  dismissed  by  pass- 
port from  his  Lord  after  his  long  sikenes.  Jan.  14th,  Doctor  Rein- 
holdt  of  Salfeldt  cam  to  Trebona  with  Abraham.  His  sute  of  the 
salt.  Doctor  Reinholdt  revisit  versus  Pragam  20  die.  Jan.  18th, 
rediit  E.  K.  a  Praga.  E.  K.  browght  with  him  from  the  Lord  Ro- 
senberg to  my  wyfe  a  chayne  and  juell  estemed  at  300  duckettes; 
200  the  juell  stones,  and  100  the  gold.  Jan.  21st,  E.  K.  again  to 
Prage  and  so  to  Poland  ward.  Feb.  5th,  I  tok  a  jornay  of  myself 
from  Trebon  to  Newhowse,  two  myles  of,  to  mete  my  Lord  to 
comen  with  him.  I  toke  two  horsemen  of  the  cyty  with  me. 
Feb.  9th,  Illustriss.*  venit  a  Vienna  ad  Trebonam.  Feb.  12th, 
ivit  Illustriss.  versus  Crocoviam.  Feb.  19th,  E.  K.f  cam  from 
Poland  abowt  none  to  Trebone :  I  sent  word  to  my  Lord  straight. 
Feb.  21st,  my  Lord  sending  no  word  yet,  I  sent  another  message. 
March  3rd,  a  Cremona  ad  Trebonam.  March  7th,  E.  K.  dedit 

*  He  frequently  speaks  of  Prince  Albert  Leski  under  the  title  of  Illustrissimus. 
t  It  is  almost  unnecessary  to  observe  that  these  initials  refer  to  Edward  Kelly. 


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nobis  300  ducata.  Recepimus  a  Domino  Illustrissimo  3300. 
March  9th,  iter  regium.  March  Hth,  venimus  Reich  stein. 
March  17th,  reditus  a  Reichstein.  March  21st,  E.  K.  gave  me 
170  more,  and  of  the  200  for  changing  60  remayne.  Contumelie 
et  contemptus  a  Cholek  et  a  Schonberg.  March  23rd,  venimus 
Trebonam.  March  26th,  the  Lord  Biberstein,  comming  from 
Cranbaw  from  the  Lord  Rosenberg,  passing  by  Trebona,  sent  for 
me  to  his  ynn  to  make  acquayntance  with  me.  E.  K.  equitavit 
Crotoviam.  April  4th,  actio  tertia  incepit.  April  18th,  actioriis 
tertise  finis.  May  1st,  vidi  (doctore  meo  premonstrante)  Michaelium 
Nuncium  non  Mersaelem.  Laus  sit  Deo  et  doctori  meo  E.  K.  ! 
June  14th,  nuptise  Domini  Thomse  Kelei.  June  17th,  atyrep  dis  <j>v\ 
pove  iave  ab  Oep  vor*  June  22nd,  Mr.  Francis  Garland  went 
toward  England  from  Trebona. 

July  5th,  Sonday,  I  set  the  two  erthes  with  theyr  water  agayn 
uppon  them.  July  9th,  Mr.  Francis  Pucci  cam  and  browght 
Chrisan  Franken  with  him,  who,  he  sayd,  had  now  recanted  his 
wycked  boke  against  Christ,  wherof  I  was  glad.  Illustrissimus 
cum  Domina  venerat  Trebona.  July  llth,  colloquium  inter  Illus- 
trissimum  Dominum,  Dominum  E.  K.  et  me,  a  meridie,  inter  nos 
tres.  July  13th,  Francys  Pacci  recessit.  July  19th,  a  certayn 
kinde  of  recommendation  between  our  wives.  Next  day  saw 
relenting  of  E.  K.  also  by  my  Lord's  entrety.  July  20th,  Illus- 
trissimus abiit  cum  principissa  sua  versus  Cremoniam.  Aug. 
13th,  amice  cum  Domino  Edouardo  Keleo  de  tribus  illis  votis. 

Aug.  17th,  E.  K.  cum  fratre  et  Ludovico 

Aug.  18th,  we  understode  how  E.  K.  went  to  Badwiseto  bed,  and 
went  but  this  day  at  none  from  thence.  Aug.  20th,  John  Basset 
cam  to  Trebona.  Aug.  23rd,  Mr.  E.  K.  cam  from  Lyntz  fayre. 
Sept.  1st,  Tuesday  morning,  covenanted  with  John  Basset  to 
teach  the  children  the  Latyn  tong,  and  I  do  give  him  seven 
duckats  by  the  quarter,  and  the  term  to  begyne  this  day ;  and  so 
I  gave  him  presently  seven  duckatts  Hungary,  in  gold,  before  my 
wife.  God  spede  his  work  !  Sept.  3rd,  4th,  continua  quasi  pluvia 


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per  biduum  istud.  Sept.  4th,  Basset  his  hurlyburly  with  Mr.  T. 
Kelly.  Sept.  16th,  the  Lord  Biberstein  cam  to  Trebon,  and 
Cracht  with  him.  Sept.  22nd,  my  Lord  cum  from  Crummow  to 
Trebon  with  my  Lady.  Sept.  26th,  my  Lord  went  toward  Prage. 
Sept.  28th,  I  delivered  to  Mr.  Ed.  Kelley  (ernestly  requiring  it  as 
his  part)  the  half  of  all  the  animall  which  was  made.  It  is  to 
weigh  20  ownces  ;  he  wayed  it  himself  in  my  chamber :  he  bowght 
his  waights  purposely  for  it.  My  Lord  had  spoken  to  me  before 
for  some,  but  Mr.  Kelly  had  not  spoken.  Sept.  30th,  T.  K.  and 
J.  C.*  went  toward  Prage. 

Oct.  12th,  Mr.  E.   K.  toward  Prage  on  horsbak.     Oct.  13th, 
mane  paulo  ante  ortum  solis  observavi  radio  astronomico  inter 

et gradus  2   minuta   prima  22,  et  erat 

sub  Tauro  in  eadem  linea  perpendiculari  ante  oculum  demissa  super 
horizonta  altitude  erat  vix  quatuor  graduum.  Oct.  15th,  hyred 
Nicolas.  Oct.  20th,  I  toke  up  the  furniture  for  the  action.  Oct. 
26th,  Mr.  Edward  Kelly  cam  to  Trebona  from  Prage.  Oct.  28th 
and  29th,  John  Carp  did  begyn  to  make  furnaces  over  the  gate, 
and  he  used  of  my  rownd  bricks,  and  for  the  yern  pot  was  con- 
tented now  to  use  the  lesser  bricks,  60  to  make  a  furnace.  Oct. 
3 1st,  Ed.  Hilton  cam  to  Trebona  in  the  morning.  Nov.  8th,  E.  K. 
terribilis  expostulatio,  accusatio,  &c.  hora  tertia  a  meridie.  Nov. 
17th,  John  Basset  had  seven  ducketts  beforehand  for  his  second 
quarter's  wages,  begynning  the  1st.  Nov.  21st,  Saterday  at  night 
Mr.  Francis  Garland  cam  from  England  to  Trebona  and  browght 
me  a  letter  from  Mr.  Dyer  and  my  brother  Mr.  Richard.  Nov. 
24th,  at  the  marriag  super  Critzin  the  Grand  Captayn  disdayned 
to  com  thither  to  supper  in  the  Rad  howse  of  Trebona  becawse 

E.  K.  and  I  were  there ;  and  sayd  farder  that  we  wer 

Dec.  1st  to  llth,  my  Lord  lay  at  Trebon  and  my  Lady 

all  this  tyme.  Dec.  10th,  Mr.  John  Carpio  went  toward  Prage  to 
marry  the  mayden  he  had  trubbled ;  for  the  Emperor's  Majestic, 
by  my  Lord  Rosenberg's  means,  had  so  ordred  the  matter.  Dec. 

*  That  is,  Thomas  Kelley  and  John  Carp. 


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12th,  afternone  somwhat,  Mr.  Ed.  Keley  his  lamp  overthrow,  the 
spirit  of  wyne  long  spent  to  nere,  and  the  glas  being  not  stayed 
with  buks  abowt  it,  as  it  was  wont  to  be ;  and  the  same  glas  so 
flitting  on  one  side,  the  spirit  was  spilled  out,  and  burnt  all  that 
was  on  the  table  where  it  stode,  lynnen  and  written  bokes, — as 
the  bok  of  Zacharius  with  the  Alkanor  that  I  translated  out  of 
French  for  som  by  spirituall  could  not ;  Rowlaschy  his  thrid  boke 
of  waters  philosophicall ;  the  boke  called  Angelicum  Opus,  all  in 
pictures  of  the  work  from  the  beginning  to  the  end ;  the  copy  of 
the  man  of  Badwise  Conclusions  for  the  Transmution  of  metalls  ; 
and  40  leaves  in  4°,  intitled,  Extractiones  Dunstani,  which  he  him- 
self extracted  and  noted  out  of  Dunstan  his  boke,  and  the  very 
boke  of  Dunstan  was  but  cast  on  the  bed  hard  by  from  the  table. 
1588.  Jan.  1st,  abowt  nine  of  the  clok  afternone,  Michel, 
going  chilyshly  with  a  sharp  stik  of  eight  ynches  long  and  a  little 
wax  candell  light  on  the  top  of  it,  did  fall  uppon  the  playn  bords 
in  Marie's  chamber,  and  the  sharp  point  of  the  stik  entred  throwgh 
the  lid  of  his  left  ey  toward  the  corner  next  the  nose,  and  so 
persed  throwgh,  insomuch  that  great  abundance  of  blud  cam  out 
under  the  lid,  in  the  very  corner  of  the  sayd  eye;  the  hole  on  the 
owtside  is  not  bygger  then  a  pyn's  hed  ;  it  was  anoynted  with  St. 
John's  oyle.  The  boy  slept  well.  God  spede  the  rest  of  the 
cure !  The  next  day  after  it  apperid  that  the  first  towch  of 
the  stikes  point  was  at  the  very  myddle  of  the  apple  of  the  ey, 
and  so  (by  God's  mercy  and  favor)  glanced  to  the  place  where  it 
entred ;  with  the  strength  of  his  hed  and  the  fire  of  his  fulness, 
I  may  make  some  shew  of  it  to  the  prayse  of  God  for  his  mercies 
and  protection.  Jan.  llth,  Nicolas  was  sore  hart  circa  8£  hora 
nocte.  Jan.  13th,  at  dynner  tyme  Mr.  Edward  Kelly  sent  his  bro- 
ther, Mr.  Th.  K.  to  me  with  these  words,  "  My  brother  sayth  that 
you  study  so  much,  and  therfor,  seeing  it  is  to  late  to  go  to  day  to 
Cromlaw,  he  wisheth  you  to  come  to  pass  the  tyme  with  him  at 
play."  I  went  after  dynner  and  playd,  he  and  I  against  Mr.  F. 
Gore  and  Mr.  Rob  tyll  supper  tyme,  in  his  dynyng  rome  :  and 

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26  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1588. 

after  supper  he  cam  and  the  others,  and  we  playd  there  two  or 
three  howres,  and  frendely  departed.  This  was  then  after  the 
great  and  wonderful  unkindnes  used  toward  me  in  taking  my 
man.  Jan.  14th,  Mr.  Edward  Kelly  rid  to  Crumlow,  being  sent 
for  by  my  Lord.  I  receyved  a  letter  from  the  Lord  Chamberlain. 
Jan.  1 8th,  Mistres  Lidda  K.  had  an  abortion  of  a  girle  of  5  or  6 
monthes  ;  she  was  mery  and  well  till  the  night  before ;  I  helped 
to  finde  the  dead  birthe  within  one  howr  after  I  had  caused  her  to 
have  myrh  given  unto  her  in  wyne  warmed,  the  quarter  of  a  ounce ; 
better  after  she  was  discharged  of  the  secondyne,  and  all  at  ones. 
The  woman  was  sufficiently  strong  after.  Jan.  19th,  Mr.  E.  K. 
cam  from  Crumlow.  Feb.  4th,  Mr.  Francys  Garland  and  his 
brother  Robert  went  from  Trebona  to  go  toward  England :  I  wrote 
to  Mr.  Dyer  and  Mr.  Yonge.  Feb.  8th,  Mr.  E.  K.  at  nine  of  the 
clok  afternone  sent  for  me  to  his  laboratory  over  the  gate  to  se  how 
he  distilled  sericon,  according  as  in  tyme  past  and  of  late  he  hard 
of  me  out  of  Riplay.  God  lend  his  hart  to  all  charity  and  virtue  ! 
Feb.  16th,  John  Carpe  cam  to  Trebon  after  his  marriage.  Feb. 

19th,  Mr.  E.  K.  did   Sur/cXoo-e  0-o/z,  aKKOvvreb  fj.i  Qpevbes,  bvv  vvrpv  6et 

wep.  Feb.  28th,  mane  paulo  ante  ortum  solis  natus  est  Theodorus 
Trebonianus  Dee,  ascendente  Sirio  in  horoscope,  die  dominica. 
March  1st,  baptisatus  erat  Theodorus  Dee  Trebonee  ante  meri- 
diem. March  6th,  I  went  to  Newhous  and  dyned  at  the  castell. 
March  12th,  my  Lord  cam  to  Trebona  and  my  Lady.  March  24th, 
Mr.  K.  put  the  glas  in  dung.  March  26th,  my  Lord  sent  one  of 
his  secretaries  with  answer  to  my  letter,  and  with  offer  and  pro- 
mys  of  all  where  he  can  pleasure  me,  circa  5  post  meridiem. 
March  29th,  my  Lord  and  Lady  from  Trebon  toward  Crumlow. 
The  midwife's  husbond's  name  of  Newhowse  is  David  Peregri- 
nus,  perhaps  of  the  familie  of  Petrus  Peregrinus,  otherwise  called 
Peter  of  Maharncourt,  of  Picardy. 

April  3rd,  Mr.  Pucci  disquietted  Mr.  E.  K.  abowt  requesting  an 
action,  to  which  he  had  one  of  our  six  monthes  actions,  being 
now  the  term  begynning  the  fourth  day  of  this  month.  The 
ende  of  our  talke  was  a  strange  spech  of  Mr.  Kelly  to  Fr. 


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Puccy.  After  15  wekes  write  to  me,  and  I  will  answer  you. 
April  6th,  Edmond  Hilton  went  from  Trebona  toward  Prage  with 
Mr.  John  Carpe,  and  so  toward  England.  April  10th,  I  writ  to 
Mr.  Edward  Kelly  and  to  Mistres  Kelly  ij.  charitable  letters, 
requiring  at  theyr  hands  mutual  charity.  I  went  to  Mr.  Captain 
Chritzin,  to  know  if  he  were  offended  to  me,  who  in  outward 
shew  used  me  reasonably  curteously.  April  12th,  my  wife 
churched,  and  we  receyved  the  communion.  John  Carpe  browght 
his  wife  from  Prage  to  Trebona.  April  J?th,  Doctor  Reinholt 
cam  to  Trebona.  April  22nd,  nocte  hora  9  terribilis  et  falsa  accu- 
satio  vel  suspicio,  quod  Puccia  annunciavit  contra  D.  K.  et  ipsum 
principia(?).  May  1st,  Mr.  Carpio  rid  to  my  Lord  to  the  holy  well 
at  the  glass  hows,  four  myles  from  Trebona,  with  my  letters  of  pur- 
gation for  Puccies  his  attempts  or  intents  in  his  letters  to  my 
bond  and  Mr.  Kelly,  unknown  to  me.  May  4th,  Mr.  Carpio 
browght  me  word  of  my  Lord's  displeasure,  conveyed  and  con- 
firmed by  cozen  Pully  his  letters.  Deus  ille  sit  propitius  !  May 
7th,  post  afflictionem  magnam  meam,  mei  misertus  est  Deus ! 
Puccia,  die  eodem  venerunt  literee  Principis  ad  Dominum  E.  K., 
quse  dies  declarabat  amici  sui  infamum  meum  ne  dignitatem  :  sed 
non  reddebatur  nisi  valde  prsefex,  valde  erat  ingratae  ille  literee  ipsi 
Domino  E.  K.  Misericordia  Dei  magna  !  Omne  quod  vivit  lau- 
det  Deum !  Hsec  est  dies  quam  fecit  Dominus  !  May  10th,  E.  K. 
did  open  the  great  secret  to  me,  God  be  thanked  !  May  19th,  hora 
10  cum  circumstantiis  necessariis.  May  22nd,  Mistris  Kelly 
received  the  sacrament,  and  to  me  and  my  wife  gave  her  hand  in 
charity ;  and  we  rushed  not  from  her.  May  30th,  Michael  was  sik 
of  an  ague,  and  Mr.  Kelly  likewise.  June  4th,  the  howses  burnt 
at  Trebon  in  the  morning  early  on  Whitsonday.  June  8th,  Illus- 
trissimus  venit  Trebonam.  June  llth,  Illustrissimus  recessit  in 
Dominica  a  Trebona  versus  Pragam.  My  Lord  sent  Critzin  with 
his  compliments  unto  me,  and  to  offer  me  help,  hora  prima  a 
meridie.  A  letter  cam  from  T.  G.  of  Mr.  Dyer,  his  being  three 
myle  from  Trebona,  but  it  was  not  so.  Mr.  Dier  sent  word  by 


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Francis  Garland  wher.  June  13th,  cam  Francis  Garland  and  Mr. 
Edmond  Cooper,  brother  to  Mistris  Kelly,  to  Trebona.  June 
16th,  Francis  Garland  went  to  fynde  and  bring  Mr.  Dieru  June 
19th,  I  had  a  grudging  of  the  ague.  June  22nd,  I  did  evydently 
receive  the  ague,  and  layd  down. 

July  7th,  Mr.  Thomas  Sowthwell  cam  to  Trebona  to  visit  us. 
July  17th,  Mr.  Thomas  Sowthwell  of  his  own  courteous  nature 
did  labor  with  Mr.  Edmond  Cowper  and  indirectly  with  Mistres 
Kelly  for  to  furder  charity  and  frendship  among  us.  July  20th, 
Mr.  Dier  cam  to  Trebona.  July  22nd,  a  meridie  circa  10  Mr. 
Edward  biep  bib  tvtvpie  pe  wKivbeXe.  July  23rd,  reconciliatio  bona 
cum  Magistro  biep  wtd  vvvpbs  0a*ro  /xeStavre  E.  K.  Aug.  1st,  Mr. 
Harry  Maynard  natus  nocte  circa  horam  11  Mortlak.  Aug.  4th, 
Illustrissimus  cam  from  Crachovia  to  Trebon,  and  there  on  Friday 
before  dynner  cam  up  Mr.  Dyer,  who  lay  in  my  chamber,  and 
entertayned  him  honorably.  Aug.  5th,  after  dynner  the  little  boy, 
sonne  to  the  Captayn  of  Rhaudnitz,  hurt  Arthur's  nose  with  a 
raser,  not  in  anger  but  by  chance  wantonly.  Aug.  6th,  my  Lord 
and  Lady  went  toward  Prage.  Aug.  7th,  this  day  I  covenanted 
and  hyred  John  Hammond,  jentleman,  to  serve  me  in  his  honest 
servyces  for  one  yere,  and  to  have  30  dolers  for  his  full  and  all 
manner  of  wages.  Aug.  9th,  Tuesday,  Mr.  Dyer  went  from  Trebon, 
having  in  company  Mr.  Edmond  Cowper,  Francys  Garland,  and 
his  man  Rowley.  Aug.  13th,  Mr.  Thomas  Sowthwell  ryd  to  Prag 
ward  from  Trebon.  He  told  us  of  the  philosopher  (his  schole- 
master  to  write)  whose  name  was  Mr.  Swyft,  who  gave  him  a 
lump  of  the  philosopher's  stone  so  big  as  his  fist :  a  Jesuit  named 
Mr.  Stale  had  it  of  him.  Aug.  14th,  Mr.  Sowthwell  cam  againe. 
Aug.  24th,  vidi  divinam  aquam  demonstratione  magnifici  domini 
et  amici  mei  incomparabilis  D.  Ed.  Kelei  ante  meridiem  tertia 
hora.  Aug.  27th,  John  Basset  (so  namyng  himself)  otherwise 
truely  named  Edward  Whitlok,  under  pretence  of  going  to  Bud- 
weiss  to  buy  cullors  and  so  to  return  agayn,  did  convey  himselfe 
from  my  servyce  of  teaching  Arthur  grammer.  Sept.  3rd,  my 


1588.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  29 

lord  and  lady  cam  to  Trebon.  Sept.  1  2th,  spes  confirmata.  Sept. 
15th,  the  Lord  Chamberlain  cam  to  Trebona,  and  went  away  on 
the  17th.  The  rancor  and  dissimulation  now  evident  to  me,  God 
deliver  me  !  I  was  not  sent  for. 

Oct.  1  7th,  Mystres  Kelly  and  the  rest  rode  toward  Punchartz 
in  the  morning.  Oct.  1  8th,  my  Lord  and  my  Lady  ryd  toward 
Ctumnate.  Oct.  25th,  Mr.  Ed.  Kelley  and  John  Carpio  rode 
toward  Prage  t  this  night  to  Wesely,  two  myles.  Nov.  5th,  I 
dreamed  that  the  toth  next  my  top  toth  skarse  cold  hang  in  my 
hed,  the  toth  on  the  right  side  above.  Nov.  6'th,  Mr.  Kelly  cam 
home  from  Prage  and  Mr.  Francys  Garland,  and  Edward  Rolls 
with  him  from  Eglis.  Nov.  15th,  in  the  fornone,  snow  and  close 
clowdy.  Nov.  16'th,  the  Lord  and  Lady  Rosenberg  cam  from 
Crummedo  to  Trebon  in  the  evening.  Nov.  20th,  this  Sonday 
before  dynner  the  Lord  and  Lady  Rosenberg  went  from  Trebon 
toward  Prage.  Nov.  23rd,  Mr.  Francis  Garland  and  Edward 
Rowly,  Mr.  Dyer  his  servant,  went  from  Trebon  toward  England. 
I  writ  to  the  Quene's  Majestic,  Mr.  Dyer,  Mr.  Yong,  and  Edward 
Hilton.  Dec.  4th,  I  gave  to  Mr.  Ed.  Kelley  my  Glass,  so  highly 
and  long  estemed  of  our  Q,uene,  and  the  Emperor  Randolph  the 
second,  de  quo  in  prsefatione  Euclidis  fit  mentio.*  The  letter  of 
500,000  ducats  required.  Dec.  7th,  ypear  typevbKnr  TTjOopo-tS  ^op 
avb  TWO  OVVKCS  o<f)  Oe  Qivy.  Dec.  13th,  Mr.  Edward  Kelley 


*  This  refers  to  the  earliest  English  translation  of  Euclid  by  Billingsley,  which  was 
published  in  1570,  with  a  long  preface  by  Dr.  Dee.  Professor  De  Morgan  is  of 
opinion  that  the  translation  also  was  by  Dee,  or  that  Billingsley  may  have  been  only  a 
pupil  who  worked  immediately  under  his  directions.  The  passage  to  which  Dee 
alludes  is  as  follows  :  —  "a  man  to  be  curstly  affrayed  of  his  owne  shadow;  yea,  so 
much  to  feare,  that  if  you,  being  alone  nere  a  certaine  glasse,  and  proffer,  with  dagger 
or  sword,  to  foyne  at  the  glasse,  you  shall  suddenly  be  moved  to  give  backe  (in  maner) 
by  reason  of  an  image  appearing  in  the  ayre  betwene  you  and  the  glasse  with  like 
hand,  sword,  or  dagger,  and  with  like  quicknes,  foyning  at  your  very  eye,  likewise  as 
you  do  at  the  glasse.  Straunge  this  is  to  heare  of,  but  more  mervailous  to  behold 
then  these  ray  wordes  cam  signifie  ;  and  neverthelesse  by  demonstration  opticall  the 
order  and  cause  therof  is  certified  ;  even  so,  as  the  effect  is  consequent."  I  refer  the 
reader  also  to  Mr.  Barlow's  History  of  Optics  in  the  Encyclopedia  Metropolitana. 


30  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1588. 

gave  me  the  water,  erth  and  all.  Dec.  14th,  Edmond  Hilton 
cam  again  to  Trebon  from  England.  Dec.  18th,  I  did  understand 
by  Mr.  Kelley  that  my  glass  which  he  had  given  to  my  Lord 
Rosenberg,  the  Lord  Rosenberg  had  given  it  to  the  Emperor. 
Dec.  23rd,  I  went  to  the  new  made  citie  Kaiser  Radnef  Stadt,  by 
Budneis,  to  ovirsee  what  Joachim  Reimer  had  done  abowt  my 
coaches  making.  Radulphus  Sagiensis  Gallus  Normannus,  venit 
Trebonam,  chimiae  et  naturalis  magise  studiosus. 

1589.  Jan.  3rd,  Rudolphus  Sagiensis  Normannus  recessit  versus 
Pragam.  Jan.  l?th,  the  humming  in  my  eares  began.  Jan.  19th, 
circa  undecimam  noctis  abortiebatur  Domina  Lydda  uxor  D. 
Thomse  Kelly  ex  duobus  masculis  vix  sex  mensium,  et  anno  pre- 
cedente  hoc  ejusdem  uxor  abortiebatur  puella.  Jan.  20th,  Mr. 
Kelly  showed  me  the  Lord  Rosenberg  his  letter ;  when  he  wrot 
that  of  me  he  hard  no  more  of  my  going  hens,  and  if  Menschik 
hath  not  performed  as  he  willed  him,  that  if  I  send  him  word  he 
will  so  dispatch  me  that  therby  I  shall  not  nede  to  stay  here,  as 
he  had  confidently  heretofore  warned  Mr.  Kelley,  so  now  he  did 
request  him  to  take  leve  of  me  at  my  departure.  And  then  Mr. 
Kelly  did  loke  and  truly  confess  that  my  ....  Jan.  25th,  Mr. 
Mains  cam  to  visit  us;  the  Erie  of  Schwiczenbagh  thre  sones. 
Jan.  31st,  Tuesday,  I  sent  Edmond  Hilton  to  Prage,  and  Zacha- 
rias  Mathias  of  Buelweiss,  to  buy  10  or  12  coach  horses  and  sad- 
dell  horses  for  300  dollers.  Feb.  4th,  I  delivered  to  Mr.  Kelley 
the  powder,  the  bokes,  the  glas  and  the  bone,  for  the  Lord  Ro- 
senberg ;  and  he  thereuppon  gave  me  dischardg  in  writing  of  his 
own  hand  subscribed  and  sealed.  Feb.  12th,  Edmond  Hilton 
cam  from  Prage  with  nine  Hungarian  horses  bowght  toward  our 
jornay.  Feb.  16th,  Mr.  Edward  Kelley  rode  toward  Prage  after 
none,  John  Carpio,  Edmond  Hilton,  Henry  Garlande,  Thomas 
Simkinson,  Lodovik.  March  llth,  from  Trebon  in  Bohemia. 
March  18th,  to  Nuremberg.  March  20th,  from  Nuremberg. 
March  26th,  to  Frankfurt  on  the  Mane. 

April  19th,  to  Breme.     May  1st,   Katharin  by  a  blow  on  the 


1589.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  31 

eare  given  by  her  mother  did  bled  at  the  nose  very  much,  which 
did  stay  for  an  howre  and  more ;  afterward  she  did  walk  into  the 
town  with  nurse ;  upon  her  coming  home  she  bled  agayn. 
May  llth,  John  of  Gloles  cam  to  Breme.  May  13th,  I  cam  to 
lie  at  my  hyred  hows.  May  l?th,  the  three  saddle  horse  put  to 
grass  to  the  town  meddowes  for  nine  ducets  tyll  Mychelmas. 
May  21st,  the  Landgrave  of  Hesse  his  letters  to  me  and  the  city 
of  Breme.  May  25th,  I  sent  the  Lantgrave  my  twelve  Hunga- 
rish  horses.  June  2rd  and  13th,  Mr.  Duerend  and  Mr.  Hart 
went  toward  Stade.  They  had  scaped  from  the  Spanish  servise 
in  Flanders  with  Syr  William  Stanley.  June  6th,  Dr.  Kenrich 
Khanradt  of  Hamburgh  visitted  me.  Mr.  Thomas  Kelly  his 
wife,  Francis  Garland,  Rolls,  from  Standen  toward  England. 
June  16th,  Edmund  Hilton  toward  Prage.  June  19th,  Hans  of 
Glotz  went  toward  Standen,  and  so  toward  England.  June  23rd, 
Mr.  Daniel  van  der  Multon  cam  to  me.  Ultima  die  mensis  istius 
circa  meridiem  maximi  imbres,  tonitrua,  grandines. 

July  6th,  Thursday  the  26th  of  June  (by  the  old  accownt  and  the 
6th  of  July  by  new  accownt)  Mr.  Hart,  the  minister  of  the  English 

company,  and  Mr the  governor's  deputy  of  the  English 

company  at  Stade,  did  visit  me  at  my  howse  in  Breme.  July  1 8th, 
Mr.  Yong  and  Mr.  Secretary  his  letter.  July  30th,  Edmond  Hil- 
ton cam  from  Prage  to  Breme  by  Stade.  Aug.  2nd,  veteri  stilo, 
the  nyght  following,  my  terrible  dream  that  Mr.  Kelly  wold  by 
force  bereave  me  of  my  bokes,  toward  daybreak.  Aug.  5th,  novo 
stylo,  Edmond  Hilton  went  toward  Stade,  to  go  toward  England, 
with  my  letters  to  disclose  the  treason  of  Perkins.  Ther  went  in 
this  company  two  English  people,  Mr.  Rolous  Tattin  and  George 
Losin.  Aug.  7th,  the  first  of  the  seven  half  fasts.  Aug.  14th, 
Theodor  wened.  Aug.  2lst,  John  Hammond  to  Stade.  Aug.  22nd, 
natus  William  Hazilwood  mane  hora  sexta  fere,  forte  hora  5  min. 
45,  by  Maydston  in  Kent.  Sept.  9th,  Roger  his  serviceable  let- 
ters of  the  Lord  Rosenberg.  Sept.  12th,  the  wynde  cam  East 
after  five  wekes  most  part  West.  Sept.  1 6th,  ante  meridiem  hora 


32  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1589. 

9  in  delinquiciis  A.  C.  incidi  ex  ingratitudine  concepta  ex  verbis 
uxoris,  et  Anallae  Mariee.  Sept.  22nd,  stilo  veteri,  I  delivered  to 
Mr.  Jacob  for  England  by  Embden  my  letters. 

Oct.  3rd,  D.  Witischindi  his  hard  dealings  with  me :  he  bad 
Mr.  Harper  the  Secretary  to  give  me  warning  of  my  howse. 
Oct.  9th,  warned  out  of  my  howse  hora  prima  a  meridie.  Oct. 
14th,  John  Hanward  gave  me  warning  that  he  desyred  to  go  tra- 
vayle  toward  Italy ;  but  first  to  Master  Kelly  of  whome  he  hoped 
to  have  good  help.  Oct.  l?th,  Mr.  Sowthwell  and  Mr.  Gawyne 
Smyth  cam  to  me  to  Bream.  Oct.  23rd,  Mr.  Sowthwell  and  Mr. 
Smyth  went  from  Bream.  Oct.  29th,  Wenefrida  Goose  inter  9 
et  10  a  meridie.  Oct  31st,  letters  sent  to  Stade  for  Gerwein  Gre- 
ven  for  her  Majestic,  Mr.  Yong,  and  Mr.  Dyer.  Nov.  1st,  newes 
of  Mr.  Dyer  sent  ambassador  to  Denmarke.  Nov.  3rd,  stilo  ve- 
teri,  I  resolved  to  go  into  England,  hoping  to  mete  Mr.  Edward 
Kelly  at  Stade,  going  also  into  England ;  and  that  I  suspected  uppon 
Mr.  Secretary  Walsingham  his  letters.  Nov.  13th,  Edmond  Hil- 
ton and  his  brother  from  England,  and  John  a  Glotz.  Nov.  1 7th, 
die  lunse,  I  met  Mr.  Dyer  comming  to  Stade,  even  in  the  myddle  of 
the  town.  Nov.  18th,  Edmond  to  Stade  ward.  Nov.  19th,  toke 
ship  by  the  Vineyard.  Dec.  2nd,  we  cam  into  the  Terns  to  Graves- 
ende.  Dec.  3rd,  from  the  ship  to  Stratford  to  Mr.  Yong's  howse. 
Dec.  19th,  at  Richemond  with  the  Queene's  Majestic.*  Dec.  20th, 
agreed  for  my  howse  with  Nicolas  Fromonds  to  occupy  as  a  tenant 
with  better  order.  Dec.  25th,  I  lay  this  night  first  at  my  howse. 
Dec.  29th,  Mr.  Adrian  Gilbert  cam  to  me  to  Mortlak,  and  offred 
me  as  much  as  I  could  require  at  his  hands,  both  for  my  goods  car- 
ryed  away,  and  for  the  mynes. 

1590.  Jan.  15th,  a  terrible  tempest  of  wind,  South  by  West. 
Jan.  23rd,  Mr.  Thomas  Kelly  cam  from  Brainford ;  put  me  in 
good  hope  of  Sir  Edward  Kelly  his  returning :  offered  me  the 
loane  of  ten  pownds  in  gold,  and  afterward  sent  it  me  in  Hun- 

*  Where,  according  to  Aubrey,  who  received  his  information  from  Lilly,  he  was 
very  favourably  received  by  her  Majesty. 


1590.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  33 

gary  new  ducketes  by  John  Croker,  the  same  evening.     Jan.  26th, 
I  writt  to  Mr.  Adrian  Gilbert  two  letters.    I  resolved  of  the  order 
to  be  offred  for  agreement  with  Nicholas  Fromonds  for  my  howse 
and  goodes.     The  5th  of  March  (by  old  accownt)  was  Madinia 
Newton,    my   daughter,   christened   at   Mortlak ;    godfather,    Sir 
George  Gary ;  godmothers,  the  Lady  Cobham  and  the  Lady  Wal- 
singham.     March   12th,  Mrs.  Anne  Deny  born  betweene  8  and  9 
afternoone.    March  14th,  Mr.  Dyer  cam  home  from  Stade;  March 
17th,  Sir  Edward  Kelly  his  letter  by  Francis  Garland.     March 
21st,  Sir  George  Gary  cam  to  Mortlak.     March  27th,  Jane  appre- 
hended hora  quinta  a  meridie.*     My  children  at  this  Lady  Day  in 
Lent,  began  to  go  to  schole  at  Mortlak  with  the  scholemaster  Mr. 
Lee :  I  gave  him  his  howse-rent  and  forty  shillings  yerely  for  my 
three  sons  and  my  doughter.     The  howse-rent  was  allmost  4s. 
yerely  of  Mr.   Fisher  his  new  howse.     April  7th,  John  Spenser 
cam  to  me,  from  Venys  new  returned,  and  told  me  of  the  Venetian 
philosopher  and  the  goodnes  of  his  gold.     April  16th,  good  Sir 
Francis  Walsingham  died  at  night  hora  undecima.     April  19th,  I 
delivered  my  letters  to  Mr.  Thomas  Kelley  for  his  brother  Sir  Ed- 
ward Kelley,  knight,  at  the  Emperor's  court  at  Prage.     Francys 
Garland  was  by,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Kelley  his  wife.   God  send  them 
well  thither  and  hither  agayn !     Mr.  Emery  had  disbursed  to  me 
frankly  betwene  the  tyme   from   Shrovetyde  tyll  this  May  £25. 
May  5th,  Mr.  Thomas  Jack  restored  unto  me  part  of  my  magnes 
stone.     May  8th,  I  receyved  20  mark  from  Sir  Richard  Lagney,  of 
Longlernay.     May  16th,  I  gave  Mr.  Lee  the  scholemaster  5s.  in 
part  of  wages.     May   1 8th,  the  two  gentlemen,  the  unckle  Mr. 
Richard  Candish,  and  his  nephew  the  most  famous  Mr.  Thomas 

*  There  are  a  great  many  brief  notices  in  this  diary  relative  to  Jane  Dee,  most  of 
which  are  expressed  in  astrological  symbols  ;  and  as  they  are  exceedingly  difficult  to 
decipher  satisfactorily,  and  are  certainly  of  very  little,  if  any  importance,  I  have 
thought  it  expedient  to  omit  them.  The  entry  of  "  lave  a8  dep  "  is  also  of  frequent 
occurrence,  though  what  "  ffep. "  can  refer  to  I  have  not  been  able  to  discover. 
CAMD.  SOC. DEE,  F 


DIARY.  [1590. 

Candish,*  who  had  sayled  rowrid  abowt  the  world,  did  viset  me 
at  Mortlake.  May  20th,  after  dynner,  I  with  my  brother,  Mr. 
Justice  Yong,  went  to  the  Archebishop  of  Canterbury  to  Lambeth, 
abowt  the  personagis  who  used  me  well.  May  2 1st,  I  showed  my 
indignation  against  Bacchus  feast  at  Braynferd  intended ;  gave  the 
Bishop  of  London  warning,  who  toke  it  in  very  good  part.  Ka- 
tharyne,  my  dowghter,  was  put  to  Mistres  Brayce  at  Braynferd,  hir 
mother  and  Arthur  went  with  her  after  dynner.  May  23rd,  I 
lent  to  goodman  Dalton,  the  carpenter,  xxs.  for  a  month.  May 
29th,  30th,  bona  nova  de  industria  Domini  Richardi  Candishii, 
cum  Regina  et  Archiepiscopo  et  Domino  Georgio  Carey,  de  pro- 
positione  Etonensis  Collegii  obtinendilegem.  He  sent  me  a  hogs- 
hed  of  claret  wyne  as  a  gyft.  The  Lady  Cobham  sent  my  wyfe 
suger  and  pepper,  &c.  June  2nd,  I  writ  to  Syr  Edward  Kelly  by 
Mr.  William  Fowler,  merchant,  dwelling  by  Ledenhall.  June  3rd, 
I  was  very  sik  uppon  two  or  thre  sage  leaves  eten  in  the  morning; 
better  suddenly  at  night ;  when  I  cast  them  up,  I  was  well.  The 
pump  taken  out  and  the  well  skoured.  June  5th,  Thomas  Han- 
kinson  and  Antony  my  man  cam  from  beyond  the  seas  to  Mort- 
lak,  June  5th,  terrible  yll  newes  of  Edward  Kelly  against  me. 
June  24th,  £20  of  Mr.  Candish  by  Edward  Hilton.  June  28th, 
I  payd  Mr.  Hudson  for  all  his  corn,  and  also  for  the  wood  tyll 
May,  receyved  synce  I  cam  home. 

July  6th,  Mr.  Stockden  was  all  payd  for  his  wood  40s.  I  gave 
the  scholemaster  Mr.  Lee  5s.  in  part  of  wagis  :  he  browght  me 
my  hammer  from  Mr.  Jak,  so  he  hath  a  quarter's  wagis  10s.  July 
8th,  I  receyved  Sir  Edward  Kelly  his  letters,  dated  at  Prage  the  24th 
of  May  stylo  novo.  No  mention  is  made  of  his  brother  Mr.  Thomas 
Kelly  coming  over.  July  10th,  the  executor  of  the  Lady  Ducket 
requered  the  det.  July  llth,  I  payd  nurse  Barwik  12*.  for  ii. 
monthis  wagis  for  Madinia :  so  she  is  payd  for  five  monthes. 

0 

*  Dee  has  preserved  several  interesting  notices  of  his  intimacies  with  the  principal 
navigators  of  his  time.  A  general  reference  to  Hackluyt  will  be  sufficient. 


1590.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  35 

July  13th,  I  went  to  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury:  talked  with 
him  boldly  of  my  right  to  the  personages,  and  to  the  treatise  of 
Sir  Edward  Kelley  his  Alchimy.  July  14th,  Mr.  Gawayn  Smyth 
spake  frendely  for  me  to  the  Quene,  and  she  disclosed  her  favor 
toward  me.  July  16th,  my  mynde  was  somewhat  bent  to  deale 
with  my  alchimicall  exercises.  July  25th,  I  writ  a  letter  of  thanks 
to  the  Lord  Threasorer  by  Edmond  Hilton.  I  sent  the  Lord 
Chancellor  his  letters  from  Brunswyk,  of  Conrad  Nettlebronner 
his  ill  behaviour.  July  3 1  st,  I  gave  Mr.  Richard  Candish  the 
copy  of  Paracelsus  twelve  lettres,  written  in  French  with  my  own 
hand  ;  and  he  promised  me,  before  my  wife,  never  to  disclose  to 
any  that  he  hath  it ;  and  that  yf  he  dye  before  me  he  will  restore  it 
agayn  to  me ;  but  if  I  dy  befor  him,  that  he  shall  deliver  it  to  one 
of  my  sonnes,  most  fit  among  them  to  have  it.  Theoddor  had  a 
sore  fall  on  his  mowth  at  mid-day.  Aug.  2nd,  Mrs.  Stoner's 
sonne  born  circa  horam  tertiam  a  meridie.  Nurs  her  great  afflic- 
tion of  mynde.  Aug.  5th,  Rowland  fell  into  the  Terns  over  hed 
and  eares  abowt  noone  or  somewhat  after.  Aug.  8th,  I  gave  Nurse 
Barwick  six  shillings,  so  she  is  payd  for  the  half  yere  due  on 
Weynsday  next.  Aug.  9th,  I  payd  to  Mr.  Lee  the  scholemaster  5s. 
Aug.  22nd,  Ann  my  nurse  had  long  byn  tempted  by  a  wycked 
spirit :  but  this  day  it  was  evident  how  she  was  possessed  of  him. 
God  is,  hath  byn,  and  shall  be  her  protector  and  deliverer !  Amen. 
Aug.  25th,  Anne  Frank  was  sorowfol,  well  comforted  and  stayed 
in  God's  mercyes  acknowledging.  Aug.  26th,  at  night  I  anoynted 
(in  the  name  of  Jesus)  Ann  Frank  her  brest  with  the  holy  oyle. 
Aug.  30th,  in  the  morning  she  required  to  be  anoynted,  and  I  did 
very  devowtly  prepare  myself,  and  pray  for  vertue  and  powr  and 
Christ  his  blessing  of  the  oyle  to  the  expulsion  of  the  wycked; 
and  then  twyse  anoynted,  the  wycked  one  did  resest  a  while. 
Sept.  1st,  I  receyved  letters  from  Sir  Edward  Kelley  by  Francis 
Garland.  Sept.  8th,  Nurse  Anne  Frank  wold  have  drowned  hir- 
self  in  my  well,  but  by  divine  Providence  I  cam  to  take  her  up 
befor  she  was  overcome  of  the  water.  Sept.  23rd,  Sonday,  T  gave 


36  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1590. 

Nurse  Barwyk  six  shillings  for  a  monthis  wages  to  ende  on 
Wensday  comme  a  fortnight ;  Mrs.  Stackden  was  by.  Sept.  29th, 
Nurse  Anne  Frank  most  miserably  did  cut  her  owne  throte,  after- 
none  abowt  four  of  the  clok,  pretending  to  be  in  prayer  before 
ner  keeper,,  and  suddenly  and  very  quickly  rising  from  prayer,,  and 
going  toward  her  chamber,  as  the  mayden  her  keper  thowght,  but 
indede  straight  way  down  the  stayrs  into  the  hall  of  the  other 
howse,  behinde  the  doore,  did  that  horrible  act ;  and  the  mayden 
who  wayted  on  her  at  the  stayr-fote  followed  her,  and  missed  to 
fynde  her  in  three  or  fowr  places,  tyll  at  length  she  hard  her 
rattle  in  her  owne  blud. 

Oct.  llth,  Mr.  Cumber  cam  to  me.  Oct.  14th,  payd  Nurse 
Barwik  six  shillings  for  one  month  ending  on  the  seventh,  being 
Wensday.  Oct.  15th,  this  afternoone  and  all  the  night  following 
a  great  storme  of  wynde  at  North-West.  One  Prychard  that  had 
marryed  Proctor  Lewes  his  widdow,  demaunded  £24  of  me  uppon 
an  obligation  of  £64  :  whereof  by  the  very  note  on  the  bak  of  the 
same  £48  is  payd,  so  that  £16  only  remayne  and  not  £24,  as  he 
unduely  demanded :  which  £16  I  challenged  for  the  costes  of  his 
sonne  John,  three  yeres  and  longer  being  with  me  in  Mortlak, 
and  having  also  his  lerning  free.  Notwithstanding  my  wife  afraid 
payd  a  pownd  or  two  to  Mr.  Lewys  of  that  £16,  and  yet  Prichard 
will  go  to  law.  Nov.  12th,  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  gave 
me  £5  in  ryalls  and  angels  circa  horam  decimam  matutina. 
Nov.  20th,  Her  Majestic  cam  to  Richemond.  Nov.  27th,  the 
Quene's  Majestic,  being  at  Richemont,  graciously  sent  for  me. 
I  cam  to  her  at  three  quarters  of  the  clok  afternone,  and  she  sayd 
she  wold  send  me  something  to  kepe  Christmas  with.  Nov.  28th, 
Mr.  Candish  on  Saterday  gave  my  wife  forty  shillings,  and  on 
Tuesday  after  sent  £10  in  ryalls  and  angels,  and  before  he  sent 
me  £20,  £32  in  all.  My  cousin  Mr.  Thomas  Junes  cam  in  the 
ende  of  the  terme  about  St.  Andrew's  even.  Dec.  1st,  Her  Ma- 
jestie  commaunded  Mr.  John  Herbert,  Master  of  Requests,  to 
write  to  the  Commissioners  in  my  behalf.  Dec.  2nd,  order  taken 


1590.J  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  37 

by  the  Commissioners  for  my  howse  and  goods.  Her  Majesty 
told  Mr.  Candish  that  she  wold  send  me  an  hundred  angels  to 
kepe  my  Christmas  withall.  Dec.  3rd,  goodwife  Tyndale  payd 
for  Antony  his  lodging  for  eleven  wekes  dew  at  his  going  away 
5s.  6d.}  and  before  she  had  for  seven  wekes.  Dec.  4th,  the 
Quene's  Majestic  called  for  me  at  my  dore  circa  3£  a  meridie  as 
she  passed  by,  and  I  met  her  at  Estshene  gate,  where  she  gra- 
ciously, putting  down  her  mask,  did  say  with  niery  chere,  "  I 
thank  thee,  Dee ;  there  was  never  promisse  made  but  it  was 
broken  or  kept."  I  understode  her  Majesty  to  mean  of  the  hun- 
dred angels  she  promised  to  have  sent  me  this  day,  as  she  yester- 
night told  Mr.  Richard  Candish.  Dec.  6th,  Mr.  Thomas  Griffith 
my  cosen  from  Llanbeder  cam  to  see  me,  and  lay  all  night  with 
me,  and  allso  Mr.  Thomas  Jones,  and  in  the  Monday  morning 
went  by  water  to  London,  and  so  the  same  day  homeward.  A 
meridie  circa  3»  recepi  a  Regina  Domina  £50.  Dec.  8th,  at  Chel- 
sey  disputing  with  Doctor  Mather,  bishop  of  Bristow ;  in  danger 
of  water  hora  5£  I  stayed  at  Chelsey.  Dec.  14th,  the  Q,uene's  Ma- 
jestie  called  for  me  at  my  dore  as  she  rod  by  to  take  ayre,  and  I 
met  her  at  Estshene  gate.  Dec.  16th,  Mr.  Candish  receyved  from 
the  Quene's  Majestic  warrant  by  word  of  mowth  to  assure  me  to 
do  what  I  wold  in  philosophic  and  alchimie,  and  none  shold  chek, 
controll,  or  molest  me ;  and  she  sayd  that  she  wold  ere  long  send 
me  £50  more  to  make  up  the  hundred  pound.  I  gave  Mr. 
Candish  the  Bishop  of  Scotland  his  conclusion  with  marchaunts. 
Mr.  Candish  went  from  Mortlak  at  four  of  clok  at  nyght  toward 
London  and  so  into  Suffolk.  Dec.  18th,  Mr.  Robert  Maynard 
natus  circa  horam  decimam  ante  meridiem  Londini. 

1591.  Jan.  21st,  utterly  put  owt  of  hope  for  recovering  the  two 
parsonages  *  by  the  Lord  Archbishop  and  the  Lord  Threasorer. 
Feb.  1 3th,  Bartilmew  cam  up.  March  2th,  borrowed  £20  uppon 

*  See  the  "  Compendious  Rehearsall,"  published  by  Hearne  from  a  Manuscript  in 
the  Cottonian  collection,  now  partially  destroyed  by  fire,  for  a  more  extended  account 
of  this. 


38  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1591. 

plate  and  payd  this  day  £19  in  Mortlak.  March  21st,  remember 
that  on  Passion  Sunday,  being  the  21st  of  March  by  our  accownt, 
all  things  was  payd  for  to  Mr.  Thomas  Hudson  for  wood  and 
corne,  abowt  £14,  at  his  howse  when  he  was  syk  of  the  strangury. 
Allso  to  godman  Bedell  was  payd  £4  for  billet,  haven,  and  lose 
fagot  the  same  day.  Payd  likewise  to  gudwife  Wesder  eight  shil- 
lings for  one  monthes  nursing  of  Madinia,  and  4s.  more  before- 
hande.  March  26th,  Mr.  Beale  sent  me  home  the  first  my  own 
hand  copy  of  the  volume  of  Famous  and  Rich  Discoveries  *  which 
I  had  given  anno  1583  to  Andrew  Strange. 

May  12th,  I  payd  goodwife  Welder  xijs.  for  vij.  wekes  ending 
then  next  from  the  Wensday  before  Ester-day  last.  May  25th, 
of  the  old  Kalander,  Sir  Thomas  Jones  Knight  (unaxed)  offred 
me  his  castell  of  Emlyn  in  Wales  to  dwell  in  so  long  as  he  had 
any  interest  in  it,  whose  lease  dureth  yet  twelve  yeres,  freely, 
with  commodityes  adjoining  unto  it ;  and  allso  to  have  as  much 
mow  land  for  rent,  as  myght  pleasure  me  sufficiently.  The  27th 
day  he  confirmed  the  same  his  offer  agayn  before  Mr.  John  Har- 
bert,  Master  of  the  Requestes,  in  his  hall  in  Mortlak ;  which  his 
offers  I  did  accept  of,  and  he  was  glad  thereof.  May  31st,  Bar- 
tilmew  [Hickman]  cam  up  and  browght  Jane  his  dowghter  with 
him.  Mr.  R.  Ed.  his  boke  and  letter.  June  8th,  William  Asp- 
land  of  Essex  and  Th.  Collen.  June  12th,  lent  Chronica  Hol- 
landiae  Magna  to  Mr.  Beale  on  Saterday  manuscript,  which  Mr. 
Webb  lent  me.  June  14th,  Jane  Hikman  to  goodwife  TyndalPs 
to  lern.  June  27th,  Arthur  wownded  on  his  hed  by  his  own  wan- 
ton throwing  of  a  brik-bat  upright,  and  not  well  avoyding  the  fall 
of  it  agayn,  at  Mr.  Harberts  abowt  sonn-setting.  The  half-brik 
weighed  2^1b.  June  30,  Madinia  was  taken  home  from  goodwife 

Welder. 

July  28th,  Mr.  Dyer  sent  me  xx.  angels  by  Mr.  Thomas  Webbes. 

July  30th,  reconciliation  betweene  Mr.  Dyer  and  me  solemnized 

*  Now  in  the  Cottonian  collection.     Ashmole  has  preserved  a  copy  of  it  in  MS. 
Ashm.  1790. 


1591.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  39 

the  afternone  on  Friday,  and  on  Saterday  (the  31st)  all  day  tyll 
my  going  by  boat  at  Mr.  Webb^s  lodging  at  Rochester  Howse. 
July  3 1  st,  by  old  Kalender,  abowt  an  eleven  of  the  clok  Jane  was 
at  London  very  faynt  syke,  redy  to  swownd,  and  in  a  faynt  swete. 
It  was  thowght  that  then  she  quickened.  The  last  of  Julie, 
Saterday  by  the  old  accownt,  Barthelmew  cam  up ;  he  went  down 
on  Tuesday,  the  3rd  day  of  August,  from  Mortlak.  Aug.  2nd, 
Monday,  Mr.  William  Diggs  his  philosophicall  curtesy  all  day. 
Sept.  22nd,  Madinia  fell  from  the  bed  and  hurt  her  forhed  abowt 
one  of  the  clok  afternone.  Oct.  15th,  after  midnight  very  wyndy 
northerly.  Oct.  23rd,  a  storm  of  wynde  S.W.  afternone.  Dec. 
3rd,  wyndie  S.W.  Dec.  14th,  I  had  a  very  jentle  answer  at  the 
Lord  Thresorer's  hand  hora  decima  ante  meridiem  at  the  court  of 
Whitehall.  Dec.  20th,  a  jentle  answer  of  the  Lord  Threasorer 
that  the  Quene  wold  have  me  have  something  at  this  promotion 
of  bishops  at  hand. 

1592.  Jan.  1st,  my  dowghter  Francys  borne  on  New  Yeres  day 
at  the  sun-rising  exactly.  Jan.  2nd,  Barthilmew  and  his  brother 
Ambrose  cam  this  Sonday  to  Mortlak.  Jan.  9th,  Francys 
christened  afternone.  Francys  went  with  her  nurse  to  Barne 
Elms.  Mr.  Edward  Maynard  borne  in  the  morning  betwene  2 
and  3  after  mydnight.  Arthur  fell  into  a  quotidian  jentle  ague  at 
9  of  the  clok  in  the  morning  as  he  was  at  the  servyce  in  the  hall. 
Jan.  24th,  Mr.  Thomas  Oliver  becam  acquaynted  with  me  at 
Mortlak.  March  6th.,  the  Quene  granted  my  sute  to  Dr.  Awbrey. 
March  9th,  the  pryvy  scale  at  night.  March  16th,  the  great  scale. 
March  18th,  Arthur  and  Katharine  were  let  blud  at  London  by 
Doctor  Dodding's  cownsayle.  March  24th,  £25  Mr.  Tho.  Mown- 
son.  March  25th,  I  payd  £10  to  Nicholas  Fromonds  paulo  ante 
solis  occasum,  when  he  most  abhominably  revyled  me.  March 
30th,  on  Thursday  Mr.  Saunders  of  Ewell  sent  home  my  great 
sea  cumpas,  but  without  a  nedle ;  it  cam  in  the  night  by  water. 

April  5th,  the  Lady  Russell  robbed  a  little  after  mydnight  of 
perles,  diamands,  &c.  One  John  Smyth  is  suspected,  a  yong  man 


.  40  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1592. 

of  thirty  yeres  old,  very  ingenious  in  many  handyworkes,  melan- 
cholek.  April  8th,  Richard  cam  to  my  servyce,  40s.  yerely  and  a 
livery.  April  9th,  10th,  agreed  with  my  brother  Nicholas  Fromonds 
with  Mr.  Webbs,  at  8  of  the  clok  on  Wensday  night,  and  8  on 
Tuesday  night.  April  1 4th,  Winifrede  Goose,  wife  of  goodman 
Goose  of  Tuddington,  dowghter  of  Harry  Wyse,  eviley  tempted, 
cam  to  me  with  her  sister.  April  16th,  £e  devavpo  a  /3o*c.  April 
27th,  filius  Mariae  Nevell  hora  3f  a  meridie  et  aliquantus  tardus 
by  Chichester.  May  3rd,  Wensday,  at  10  of  the  clok  Arthur  was 
put  to  Westmynster  Schole  under  Mr.  Grant  and  Mr.  Camden. 
May  llth,  I  borowed  ten  pound  of  Master  Thomas  Smith  to  be 
paid  at  Christmas  next.  May  12th,  great  wynde  at  north.  May 
15th,  Marian  cam  again  a  meridie  hora  septima.  May  16th,  1  rode 
to  Harfelde  to  the  Lord  Anderson,  Lord  Justice  of  the  Common 
Pleas,  12  myles  off.  May  25th,  hora  sexta  a  meridie  mowght 
have  byn  a  quarell  betwene  Mr.  Web  and  Mr.  Morgan  with  one 
eye  for  £4.  left  unpayd  uppon  a  bill.  June  16th,  Sir  John  Perrot 
judged  to  be  drawn,  hanged,  and  quartered. 

July  23rd,  at  Grenwich  abowt  mydnight  following  this  day 
began  the  first  evydent  shew  of  my  grief  of  kidneys ;  whereuppon 
Doctor  Giffard  caused  me  to  have  a  glyster,  and  so  the  next  day 
I  was  easid  of  my  grief.  July  29th,  Robert  Theneth  of  Rushmer 
by  Ypswych  made  acquaintance  with  me :  he  told  me  of  Mr. 
Carter  a  man  of  80  yeres  old  in  Yorkshyre.  Aug.  6th,  I  went  to 
Nonsuch  to  the  court,  wyder  the  Countess  of  Warwik  sent  me 
word  by  Mr.  Ferdinando  of  the  Quene's  gratious  speches  at  St. 
Crosses,  and  the  Lord  Archbishop  told  me  the  like.  Aug.  8th, 
after  the  midnight  of  Monday,  being  the  7th  day,  the  second  fytt 
of  the  stone  in  my  kydnes  did  molest  me  for  6  or  7  howres.  Aug. 
9th,  the  Lord  Threasorer  invited  me  to  dynner  at  Mr.  Maynards 
at  Mortlak,  where  Sir  Robert  Cecill  and  Sir  Thomas  Cisell  and 
his  lady  wer  allso.  The  Lord  Threasorer  allso  sent  me  some 
venison  to  supper.  He  invited  me  to  dynner  allso  the  tenth  day, 
where  the  Lord  Cobham  cam  also  to  dynner,  and  after  dynner  he 


1592.]  DR,  DEE'S  DIARY.  41 

requested  the  Lord  Threasorer  to  help  me  to  St.  Crosses,  which 
he  promised  to  do  his  best  in.  Aug.  llth,  Mr.  Kemp  of  Micheam, 
my  old  acquayntance,  abowt  an  eleven  of  clok  (allmost)  before 
none,,  told  me  of  the  rare  appearing,  Aug.  17th,  I  went  to  Micheam 
to  Mr.  Kemp.  Aug.  2 1  st,  I  went  to  the  Lord  Cobham  and  the 
Lady  Cobham  to  London.  Aug.  23rd,  Mr.  Cholmely  and  his 
mayde  ante  meridiem  hor.  11£.  The  humor  so  suddenly  falling 
into  the  calf  of  my  left  leg  as  if  a  stone  had  hit  me.  Aug.  26th, 
Mr.  Heriot  40s.*  Auditor  Hill,  £4 .  Remember  all  thing  is  payd 
to  our  nurse  at  Barnes  for  the  girle  Francys  Dee  from  hir  birth 
untyll  the  ende  of  her  eight  month,  lacking  12s.,  and  on  Sunday, 
the  2/th  of  this  August,  we  so  concluded,  when  we  gave  the  nurse 
ten  shillings.  The  eight  month  ended  (from  Newyere's  day 
morning  last)  the  12th  of  this  month.  Sept.  4th,  5th,  6th,  very 
tempestuous,  windy  at  West,  Sowtherly.  Sept.  5th,  the  Terns 
very  shallow  at  London.  Sept.  6th,  goodman  Warryn  of  Market- 
harborogh.  Robert  Web  cam  from  Mr.  Ponsoys  to  write,  and 
is  to  com  agayn  within  thre  wekes.  Sept.  7th,  Robert  Charles  of 
Northamptonchyre  and  goodman  Warren  of  Marketharborow  in 
my  howse  at  Mortlak  promised  me  to  help  Barthilmew  Hikman 
with  £12  to  pay  on  Michelmas  Day  next  to  discharge  the  bond 
for  his  brother-in-law.  This  they  promised  uppon  condition  I 
wold  be  bownd  to  them  to  see  them  repayd  agayn.  I  sent  a  letter 
to  Sir  Robert  Thaneth  to  Rushmer  by  Ypswych  by  the  wagon- 
man  who  is  at  ynn  at  the  George  in  Lombard  Streete.  He  sayd 
that  Robert  Thaneth  was  at  home  and  well.  Sept.  19th,  I  had 
on  the  Sunday  abowt  7  of  the  clok  afternone  the  cramp  most  ex- 
tremely in  the  very  centre  of  the  calves  of  both  my  legs,  and  in 
the  place  where  I  had  the  suddeyn  grief  on  Bartilmew-even  last  I 
had  payn  so  intolerable  as  yf  the  vaynes  or  artheries  wold  have 
broken  by  extreme  stretching,  or  how  els  I  cannot  tell.  The  payn 

*  This  entry  is  not  very  clear.  It  either  refers  perhaps  to  Harriot,  the  celebrated 
mathematician,  or  to  the  London  goldsmith  whom  the  Abbotsford  novelist  has  im- 
mortalized. 

CAMD.   SOC. DEE.  G 


42  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1592. 

lasted  abowt  half  a  quarter  of  an  howr.  I  toke  my  purgation  of 
six  grayns.  I  began  in  the  morning  to  drink  the  drink  for  the 
stone  in  the  kydney.  Sept.  28th,  Mr.  Laiesley  promised  me  ten 
shepe  and  four  quarters  of  wheat.  Sept.  30th,  Elizabeth  Denby 
went  from  me  to  Mistres  Herberts'  to  servyce. 

Oct.  13th,  I  exhibited  to  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  two 
bokes  of  blasphemie  against  Christ  and  the  Holy  Ghoste,  desyring 
him  to  cause  them  to  be  confuted :  one  was  Christian  Franken, 
printed  anno  1585  in  Poland ;  the  other  was  of  one  Sombius 
against  one  Carolius,  printed  at  Ingolstad  anno  1582  in  octavo. 
Oct.  14th,  15th,  a  mighty  wynde  at  sowth-west.  Oct.  30th,  31st, 
one  of  these  two  dayes  I  hurt  my  left  shyn  against  the  sharp  small 
end  of  a  wooden  rammar  abowt  four  of  the  clok  afternone.  Nov. 
1st,  Mr.  Ashly,  his  wife,  and  their  familie,  did  com  to  my  howse 
and  remayned  ther.  They  had  my  mother's  chamber,  the  mayde's 
chamber,  and  all  the  other  howse.  Nov.  9th,  Her  Majestie's 
grant  of  my  supplication  for  commissioners  to  comme  to  me.  The 
Lady  Warwik  obteyned  it.  Nov.  22nd,  the  commissioners  from 
Her  Majestic,  Mr.  Secretary  Wolly  and  Sir  Thomas  George,  cam 
to  Mortlak  to  my  howse.  Nov.  28th,  to  Richard  Walkdyne  of  his 
wagis  20^.  Dec.  1st,  a  little  after  none  the  very  vertuous  Cowntess 
of  Warwik  sent  me  word  very  speedily  by  hir  gentleman  Mr. 
Jones  from  the  cowrt  at  Hampton  Cowrt  that  this  day  Her  Majestic 
had  granted  to  send  me  spedily  an  hundred  marks,  and  that  Sir 
Thomas  George  had  very  honorably  dealt  for  me  in  the  cause. 
Dec.  2nd,  Sir  Thomas  George  browght  me  a  hundred  marks  from 
her  Majestic.  Dec.  24th  to  31st,  at  Mr.  Lurensey  of  Tooting  all 
these  days,  and  Newyere's  Day  allso,  and  so  cam  home  by  coach 
(as  we  went)  by  Tuesday  none,  I,  my  wyfe,  Arthur,  Kate,  &c. 
Dec.  31st,  at  Tooting  at  Mr.  R.  Luresey  his  howse;  abowt  thre  of 
the  clok  after  dynner  dyd  the  Bishop  of  Laigham  serve  process 
uppon  me  for  the  nangle,  but  most  unduely. 

1593.  January,  the  Lord  Threasorer  lay  dangerously  syk  in  the 
begynning  of  this  month.  Jan.  2nd,  I  cam  home  from  Tooting. 


1593.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  43 

Jan.  7th,  I  receyved  letters  from  the  Lord  Lasky  from  his  capi- 
taynate  in  Livonia,  and  I  wrote  answer  agayn.  Jan.  10th,  this 
day  death  seased  on  him.  This  day  at  none  dyed  Edward  May- 
nard  just  on  yere  old.  Jan.  llth,  buried  this  day  at  ten  of  the 
clok.  Jan.  15th,  Mr.  Ashley,  the  clerk  of  the  cownsayle,  his  wife 
and  whole  family  removed  from  my  howse  in  Mortlak  to  theyr 
howse  in  London  in  Holborn,  with  all  his  whole  family.  He  and 
she  had  used  me,  my  wife  and  childern,  wurshipfully  and  bownti- 
fully  for  our  frendeship  shewed  unto  them  for  the  lone  of  our 
howse  and  lodgings  from  Allhallow-tyde  last.  Master  Maynard 
allso  his  howsehold  removed  the  15th  and  16th  day  to  London, 
and  my  stable  free  delivered.  Jan.  20th,  I  sent  my  letters  for  the 
Lord  Lasky  to  be  carryed  in  a  shyp  of  Dansk  called  the  John  of 
Dansk.  Jan.  21st,  Sonday,  about  none  Wenefryde  Goose  her  sone 
born  and  died,  and  she  did  [there] uppon  for  old  melancholik  pangs 
destroy  herself.  Memorandum,  my  nurse  at  Barnes  had  xvjs. 
more  besides  the  last  40s.  in  the  begynning  of  this  month.  Feb. 
14th,  Francys  Dee,  she  cam  from  the  nurse  at  Barnes  ;  the  woman 
very  unquiet  and  unthankfull.  Feb.  15th,  Her  Majestic  gratiously 
accepted  of  my  few  lynes  of  thankfulnes  delivered  unto  her  by  the 
Cowntess  of  Warwik  hora  secunda  a  meridie  at  Hampton  Court, 
two  or  three  dayes  before  the  remove  to  Somerset  Howse.  Feb. 
21st,  I  borrowed  £10  of  Mr.  Thomas  Digges*  for  one  hole 
yere.  Feb.  22nd,  a  sharp  anger  betwene  me  and  the  Bishop  of 
Leightyn  in  the  towr,  for  that  he  wold  not  shew  his  farder  interest 
to  Nangle :  he  sayd  that  after  I  had  seen  his  brode  seal  of  commen- 
dation, that  I  had  institution  and  induction  to  the  Nangle.  Then  I 
sayd  his  lordship  did  fable.  He  there  uppon  that  so  moved  that 
he  called  me  spitefully  "coniver."  I  told  him  that  he  did  lye  in 
so  saying,  and  that  I  wold  try  on  the  fleysh  of  him,  or  by  a  bas- 
taned  gown  of  him,  if  he  wer  not  prisoner  in  the  Towr.  Inter 

*  This  notice  is  particularly  interesting,  showing  the  intimate  connexion  which 
existed  between  the  first  English  mathematician  of  the  day  and  the  philosopher  of 
Mortlake. 


44  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1593. 

12a  et  2a  a  meridie  my  sharp  anger  with  the  Bishop  of  Leightyn 
in  the  lieftenante's  dyning  parlor  before  the  Lieutenant  Sir  Michael 
Blunt.  Mr.  Liewtenat  Nant  and  Mr.  Blunt  are  wittnesses.  March 
12th  and  1 3th,  these  two  nights  I  dremed  much  of  Mr.  Kelly,  as 
if  he  wer  in  my  howse  familiar  with  his  wife  and  brother.  March 
17th,  Francis  Garland  cam  home  and  browght  me  a  letter  from 
Mr.  Thomas  Kelly.  I  made  acquayntance  with  Syr  Thomas  Cha- 
loner,  Knight,  who  married  sergeant  Fletewood's  dowghter ;  Mr. 
Thomas  Webbes  was  the  meanes.  At  six  after  none  receyved 
from  Mr.  Francis  Nicholls  £15,  part  of  one  hundred  pounds,  the 
rest  whereof  £85  is  to  be  receyved  from  Mr.  Nicolls  within  a  fort- 
night after  the  Annunciation  of  Our  Lady  next ;  and  after  that  in 
the  beginning  of  June  £100,  and  in  Julie  the  third  hundred 
powndes  :  and  I  am  to  teach  him  the  conclusion  of  fixing  and 
teyning  the  moon,  &c. 

April  3rd,  Bartilmew  Hikman  and  Robert  Charles  cam  up. 
Letice  cam  with  Barthilmew,  and  went  away  agayn.  April  8th, 
Letice  cam  agayn  from  Barnet  to  my  servyse.  I  receyved  £50 
of  Mr.  Nichols.  April  9th,  I  gave  Barthilmew  Hikman  £12  in 
new  angels  to  give  and  pay  to  Robert  Charles,  which  he  had  payd 
for  him  at  Michelmas  last.  I  gave  him  allso  a  double  pistolet  for 
his  courtesy.  Little  Adolph  Webbes  cam  to  me.  April  10th, 
Barthilmew  and  Robert  Charles  went  homward.  May  7th, 
Thomas  Richardson  of  Bissham  cam  to  Mortlak  to  me.  May  9th, 
he  and  Mr.  Laward  of  the  Chandry  cam.  Our  court  day  at 
Wymbledon.  May  llth,  mane  hora  octava  William  Emery  of 
Danbery  in  Essex  became  my  retayner  at  Mortlak,  commended 
by  Mr.  Thanet  of  Rushmer  by  Ypswich,  borne  1568,  Julii  4.  I 
gave  Robert  Web  10s.  Richard  10s.  and  Elizabeth  3s.  in  the 
begynning  of  this  month.  May  21st,  be  it  remembered  that  on 
this  xxj.  day  of  May  I  bargayned  with  and  bowght  of  Mr.  Mark 
Perpoint,  of  Mortlak,  that  next  mansion  howse  with  the  plat,  and 
all  the  appertenances  abowt  it  for  £32,  as  the  sayd  Mr.  Perpoint 
of  late  had  at  the  last  court-day  bowght  it,  and  had  surrender  of  it 


1593.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  45 

unto  him  made  of  Thomas  Knaresborowgh  for  £25  to  mydsom- 
mer  next.  Abowt  two  of  the  clok  after  none,  before  Jane  my 
wife  in  the  strete,  I  gave  him  a  saffron  noble  in  ernest  for  a  drink 
peny.  Mr.  Hawkins,  of  London,  at  that  instant  cam  to  have 
bowght  it.  May  27th,  Mr.  Francys  Blunt,  brother  to  the  late 
Lord  Mountjoy,  unkle  to  the  Lord  Mowntjoy  living,  and  to  Sir 
Charles  of  the  court,  cam  to  be  acquayrited  to  me,  he  having  byn 
a  travayle  at  Constantinople.  June  4th,  Barthilmew  Hikman 
cam  to  Mortlak  in  the  morning.  June  22nd,  I  had  my  copy  of 
Mr.  Roger  Dale  our  stuard,  and  had  £5  the  fine  released  of  the 
Lord  his  bowntifullnes.  I  told  the  stuard  that  I  had  bowght  the 
howse  of  Mr.  Mark  Perpoynt,  and  he  desyred  to  see  the  note  of 
his  copy,  and  so  I  did.  I  told  Mr.  Perpoint  that  I  had  byn  at 
London  to  prepare  his  mony,  and  I  told  him  that  I  had  seen  the 
court-roll  for  his  copy.  I  went  to  London  to  fetch  the  £32  for 
Mr.  Perpoint,  and  so  I  sent  him  word.  This  evening  I  browght 
the  mony,  but  he  was  gon  to  bed.  This  morning  I  tendered  the 
mony,  and  told  it  at  goodman  Welder's  before  Mr.  Stokden,  and 
goodman  Welder,  but  Mr.  Perpoint  refused  to  perform  the  bar- 
gayn.  Deus  bene  vertat ! 

July  13th,  I  gave  to  Robert  5s.  upon  his  wagis  this  day.  July 
1 4th,  I  gave  4s.  to  Letise,  part  of  her  noble  for  her  quarter  wagis, 
ending  the  9th  day  of  this  month.  July  18th,  I  bowght  goodman 
Welder  his  hovel,  which  is  in  the  yard  of  the  howse  next  me,  which 
I  bowght  of  Mr.  Mark  Perpoint.  I  gave  him  a  new  angel  and 
five  new  shillings,  and  he  is  to  have  more  5s.,  that  is  20s.  in  all ; 
and  if  I  cannot  compact  to  enter  the  howse,  then  hee  is  to  tak  his 
hovel,  and  to  restore  it  to  me.  July  2 1st,  I  gave  to  Richard  5s. 
uppon  his  wagis  this  day.  July  22nd,  I  payd  Mr.  Childe 
£7.  13s.  4d.  for  all  his  wood,  xx.  lode  and  vj.  July  24th,  the  offer 
for  the  bargayn  agayn  of  Mr.  Perpoynt's  behalf :  this  is  Mr.  Stok- 
den's  doing.  July  2  7th,  remember  that  this  Friday  I  payd  Mr. 
Tomson  £4  for  his  master  Mr.  Herbert,  which  I  borrowed  12th 
of  December  1592 :  and  Mr.  Herbert  sent  it  agayn  to  my  furder 


46  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1593. 

use  by  Mistres  Lee.  Aug.  fth,  Mystres  Twyne  and  Mystres 
Banister  cam  to  viset  me.  Mr.  Bele  and  Mrs.  Bele,  Mistres  Plan, 
Mrs.  Parpoint,  &c.  dyned  with  me.  I  gave  Robert  Web  5s. ;  he 
sent  it  to  Mr.  Homes.  Aug.  9th,  I  dyned  with  the  Lord  Keper  at 
Kew.  Aug.  17th,  I  and  my  wife  and  Katharin  our  dowghter 
dyned  with  the  Lord  Keper  at  Kew.  Aug.  28th,  I  was  all  day 
with  the  Lord  Keper.  Mr.  Web  and  the  philosopher  cam.  Aug. 
29th,  Mr.  Web  and  the  philosopher  cam  again.  Aug.  30th,  Mis- 
tres Redhed,  mother  to  Mr.  John  Ponsoys  by  her  first  husbond, 
Mr.  Gubbens,  bokebynder,  and  his  wife,  and  the  same  day  Mr. 
Redhed  himself,  one  of  her  Majestie's  jentlemen  hushers,  cam  to 
me.  Sept.  llth,  Jana,  post  triduunam  segrotationem  abortiebatur, 
mane  horadecima.  Sept.  13th,  the  howse  surrendered  for  me  by 
Mr.  Mark  Perpoint,  Mr.  William  Walker  of  Wimbledon,  Miles 
Holland,  Mr.  John  Stockden,  the  thre  customarie  tenants,  with 
promys  to  bring  in  his  wife  at  the  next  court  day  to  surrender. 
Sept.  18th,  Elizabeth  Kyrtonhad  2s.  6d.  Sept.  20th,  Barthilmew 
Hikman  cam  to  Mortlak,  and  Robert  Charles.  I  gave  Robert 
Web  5s.  by  Arthur.  Sept.  26th,  Mr.  Herbert  went  toward  the 
court,  and  so  toward  Waty.  Sept.  28th,  tempestuous,  windy, 
clowdy,  hayl  and  rayn,  after  three  of  the  clok  after  none.  Re- 
member that  the  last  day  of  this  month  Elizabeth  Kyrton,  who 
had  served  me  twelve  yeres,  five  yeres  uppon  prentiship  and 
seven  for  wagis,  five  yeres  therof  for  four  nobles  a  yere, 
and  the  two  last  for  five  nobles  the  yere,  was  payd  her  full 
payment  now  remayning  due :  whereuppon  she  receyved  £4.  4s. 
for  her  due  of  wagis  remayning ;  and  I  gave  her  moreover  an  half 
angel  new  in  gold,  and  my  wife  another ;  Arthur  half-a-crown  for 
him  and  his  brother ;  Katharyn  half-a-crown  for  her  and  her  sister. 
And  so  she  wente  from  my  servyce  uppon  no  due  cause  known 
to  me. 

Oct.  4th,  Sir  Edward  Keley  set  at  liberty  by  the  Emperor. 
Oct.  12th,  Mr.  Cornelio  Camaiere  cam  from  the  Lord  Lasky  from 
Livonia.  Oct.  15th,  Margerie  Thornton  cam  to  my  servyce. 
Oct.  18th,  before  Mr.  Perpoint,  Miles  Holland,  Robert  Wellder, 


1593.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  4? 

William  Beck  surrendred  my  cottage  agayn  unto  me,  and  I  payd 
him  £5,  the  full  £12  as  it  cost  him.  To  Letice  two  shillings. 
Oct.  20th,  Mr.  Cornelio  went  toward  the  flete  of  Stade  to  returne. 
Oct.  24th,  Ostende  besieged  by  report.  Not  true.  Oct.  25th, 
Mr.  Gray,  the  Lady  Cumberland's  preacher,  his  wrangling  and 
denying  and  despising  alchimicall  philosophers.  Nov.  5th.  Mr. 
Francys  Nicolls,  Mr.  Prise,  Mr.  Nores.  Nov.  18th,  Jane  most 
desperately  angry  in  respect  of  her  maydes.  Nov.  20th,  Margery 
went  and  Dorothe  Legg  cam  for  30s.  yerely.  Margery  Thornton 
was  dismissed  from  my  servyce  to  Mrs.  Child,  and  Dorothe  Leg 
cam  by  Mrs  Mary  Revel's  sending  the  same  day  and  howr,  hora 
tertia  after  none.  Nov.  26th,  John,  sometymes  Mr.  Colman's 
servant,  cam  to  me  from  the  Lady  Cowntess  of  Cumberland. 
Dec.  3rd,  the  Lord  Willowghby  his  bowntifull  promys  to  me. 
The  Cowntess  of  Kent,  his  syster,  and  the  Cowntess  of  Cumber- 
land visited  me  in  the  afternone.  The  Lord  Willowghby  dyned 
with  me.  Dec.  4th,  £20  Lord  Willughby.  Dec.  5th,  the  newes 
of  Sir  Edward  Kelly  his  libertie.  Dec.  llth,  I  gave  Robert  20s. 
at  his  going  to  London  with  my  wife.  Dec.  22nd,  I  gave  Robert 
two  shillings.  Dec.  24th,  Mr.  Webbes  committed  to  the  Marshal- 
sea.  Dec.  25th,  this  night  Mr.  Webbes  got  out,  and  taken  this 
day  (the  26th). 

1594.  Jan.  3rd,  the  Lord  Keper  sent  my  wife  20  angels  in  a 
new  red  velvet  purse,  cira  occasum  solis  paulo  ante.  Jan.  4th, 
D.  Michael  Peiserus,  Doctor  Medicus  Marchionis  Brandeburgen- 
sis,  me  humanissime  invisit.  Jan.  5th,  a  very  tempestuous  wyndy 
night.  Jan.  9th,  Robert  Thickpeny  from  Sir  Richard  Martyn, 
and  Miles  Holland,  baylif  for  the  Lord  of  the  Manor,  sealed  up 
Mr.  Webb's  chest,  and  case  of  boxes.  Jan.  19th,  the  cobler  with 
the  mad  woman.  Jan.  25th,  I  sent  my  letters  to  Mr.  Lording  for 
Mr.  Pontoys  to  Dantsiz.  Jan.  26th,  I  cam  to  Mr.  Web  to  the 
Marshalsea.  Jan.  27th,  Thomas  Richardson  cam  while  I  was  at 
London,  and  so  I  fownd  him  at  home  \  and  agayn  he  promised 
me  his  working  of  forty  dayes.  Jan.  28th,  Mr.  Vander  Laen 


48  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1594. 

promised  on  26  day  to  begyn  his  work  of  fixing  lunam.  Madinia 
somwhat  sickly.  Robert  Wood,  visitted  with  spiritual!  creatures, 
had  comfort  by  conference.  Jan.  31st,  Mr.  Vander  Laen  began 
his  work  of  luna,  five  myle  sowth  from  Glocester.  Mr.  Morgan 
Treherne  told  me  of  Mr.  Lawrence  of  eighty  yeres  old.  Mr. 
Thomas  Sharp,  chief  stuard  to  the  Lady  Russell  at  Bisham,  is 
master  and  good  frende  to  Thomas  Richardson,  as  he  himselfe 
told  me.  Theodore  Dee  from  the  myddle  of  this  month  had  his 
left  ey  blud-shotten  from  the  side  next  his  temple,  very  sore 
bludshotten,  above  thre  wekes  contynuing.  Feb.  1st,  Mr.  John 
Ask  sent  me  two  little  dubble  gilt  bowles  waying  thirteen  ownces 
and  a  half.  Feb.  7th,  Sir  Thomas  Wilks  offer  philosophicall  cam 
to  my  hands  by  Mr.  Morice  Kiffyn.  This  day  the  Archbishop 
of  Canterbury  inclined  sometyme  to  the  request  of  dispensation. 
Feb.  20th,  21st,  Theodor  fell  sick  in  the  Shrovtyde  weke,  and  so 
into  a  tertian  ague.  March  10th,  uppon  a  flight  of  feare  by  cause 
of  Mr.  Webbes  his  sending  for  me  to  come  to  him  to  the  Mar- 
shalsea,  now  when  he  looked  to  be  condemned  on  the  Monday  or 
Tuesday  next.  March  16th,  Barthilmew  Hikman  cam  up.  March 
1 8th,  Mr.  Heriot  cam  to  me.  March  20th,  I  did  before  Barthil- 
mew Hikman  pay  Letice  her  full  yere's  wagis  ending  the  7th  day 
of  Aprill  next ;  her  wagis  being  four  nobles,  an  apron,  a  payr  of 
hose  and  shoes.  March  23rd,  I  gave  Barthilmew  Hikman  the 
nag  which  the  Lord  Keper  had  given  me.  Barthilmew  Hikman 
and  William  his  brother  went  homward.  Magus  disclosed  by 

frendeship  of  Mr.  Richard  Aired.  A  o-vSSev  iravy  ocj>  avyep  fiervveve 
M.  Nt/coXs  av5  pe.  March  28th,  Mr.  Francis  Garland  browght  me 
Sir  Edward  Kelley  and  his  brother's  letters.  March  31st,  a  great 
fit  of  the  stone  in  my  left  kydney :  all  day  I  could  do  but  three  or 
four  drops  of  water,  but  I  drunk  a  draught  of  white  wyne  and 
salet  oyle,  and  after  that,  crabs'  eys  in  powder  with  the  bone  in 
the  carp's  head,  and  abowt  four  of  the  clok  I  did  eat  tested  cake 
buttered,  and  with  suger  and  nutmeg  on  it,  and  drunk  two  great 
draughts  of  ale  with  it 5  and  I  voyded  within  an  howr  much  water, 


1594.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  49 

and  a  stone  as  big  as  an  Alexander  seed.     God  be  thanked  !  Five 
shillings  to  Robert  Webb,  part  of  his  wagis. 

April  1st,  Capitayn  Hendor  made  acquayntance  with  me,  and 
shewed  me  a  part  of  his  pollicy  against  the  Spanishe  King  his  in- 
tended mischief  agaynst  her  Majestic  and  this  realme.  April  4th, 
John  Stokden  cam  to  study  with  our  children.  Mr.  Thomas  Wye 
cam  with  a  token  from  Mistres  Ashley.  Remove  to  Mr.  Harding 
and  Mr.  Abbot  at  Oxford  abowt  my  Arabik  boke.  April  5th,  my 
right  ey  very  sore  and  bludshotten.  April  7th,  Mr.  Nicols  cam 
agayn  out  of  Northampton.  Mr.  Barret  and  Mistres  Barret  cam 
to  visit  me.  May  3rd,  betwene  6  and  7  after  none  the  Quene 
sent  for  me  to  her  in  the  privy  garden  at  Grenwich,  when  I  deli- 
vered in  writing  the  hevenly  admonition,  and  Her  Majestic  tok  it 
thankfully.  Onely  the  Lady  Warwyk  and  Sir  Robert  Cecill  his 
Lady  wer  in  the  garden  with  Her  Majestic.  May  1 8th,  Her  Ma- 
jestic sent  me  agayn  the  copy  of  the  letter  of  G.  K.  with  thanks 
by  the  Lady  Warwick.  May  21st,  Sir  John  Wolley  moved  my 
sute  to  Her  Majesty.  She  graunted  after  a  sort,  but  referred  all 
to  the  Lord  of  Canterbury.  May  25th,  Dr.  Awbrey  moved  my  sute 
to  Her  Majesty,  and  answere  as  before.  May  29th,  with  the  Arch- 
bishop before  the  Quene  cam  to  her  house.  June  3rd,  I,  my  wife, 
and  seven  children,  before  the  Quene  at  Thisellworth.  My  wife 
kissed  her  hand.  I  exhibited  my  request  for  the  Archbishop  to 
com  to  my  cottage.  June  6th,  supped  with  the  Lord  Archbishop. 
Invited  him  to  my  cottage.  June  1 1  th,  given  to  Robert  Webb  at 
London  seven  shillings  in  the  begynning  of  this  month.  June 
15th,  £40  of  Mr.  Thomas  Harward.  I  shuld  have  £6*0  more.  A 
great  fytt  of  the  stone  in  my  kydneys.  June  20th,  Mistres  Mag- 
dalen Perpoynt  was  sole  examined  of  our  Stuard  at  the  Temple. 
June  22nd,  morgaged  my  late  purchas  to  Mr.  Richard  White  for 
£30,  to  be  received  within  a  few  dayes.  June  23rd,  I  discharged 
Robert  Web  of  my  service,  and  gave  him  40  shillings  for  a  full 
satisfaction  of  all  things.  Thomas  Richardson  cam  and  offered  me 
his  work  and  labor,  and  had,  as  he  requested,  my  letter  to  Mr. 

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50  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1594. 

Thomas  Sharpe.  June  24th,  on  Midsommer  Day  Antony  Ryve 
Taylor  cam  to  my  service,  for  wagis  by  the  yere  three  pounds  and 
a  livery.  Barthilmew  Hikman  cam.  June  26th,  I  discharged 
Jane  Hikman  to  go  with  her  father  Barthilmew  home  into  North- 
amptonshire, and  gave  her  ten  shillings,  and  promised  her  at  Hal- 
lowtyd  ten  shillings  more.  Barthilmew  Hikman  and  Goodman 
Ball  with  Jane  Hikman  went  homward.  June  29th,  after  I  had 
hard  the  Archbishop  his  answers  and  discourses,  and  that  after  he 
had  byn  the  last  Sonday  at  Tybald's  with  the  Quene  and  Lord 
Threasorer,  I  take  myself  confounded  for  all  suing  or  hoping  for 
anything  that  was.  And  so  adiew  to  the  court  and  courting  tyll 
God  direct  me  otherwise  !  The  Archbishop  gave  me  a  payre  of 
sufferings  to  drinke.  God  be  my  help  as  he  is  my  refuge  !  Amen. 

July  1st,  I  gave  Robert  yet  more  a  French  crown  for  a  farwell. 
July  2nd,  given  to  Richard  ten  shillings  uppon  his  wagis.  July 
6th,  Michael  becam  distempered  in  his  hed  and  bak.  July  9th, 
in  the  morning  began  my  hed  to  ake  and  be  hevy  more  then  of 
late,  and  had  some  wambling  in  my  stomach.  I  had  broken  my 
fast  with  sugar  sopps,  &c.  I  gave  Letice  my  servant  5s.  part  of 
her  wagis  :  with  part  whereof  she  was  to  buy  a  smok  and  necker- 
cher.  July  13th,  in  ortu  solis  Michael  Dee  did  give  up  the  ghost 
after  he  sayd,  "  O  Lord,  have  mercy  uppon  me  ! "  July  1 9th, 
goodmaii  Richardson  began  his  work.  Aug.  19th,  Elizabeth 
Felde  cam  to  my  servyce :  she  is  to  have  five  nobles  the  yere  and 
a  smok.  Aug.  26th,  Mr.  Gherardt,  the  chirurgion  and  herbalist, 
[cam  to  me] .  Aug.  30th,  Monsieur  Walter  Mallet  toke  his  leave 
of  me  to  go  home  to  Tholose.  He  had  the  fix  oyle  of  saltpetre. 
Sept.  18th,  I  sent  letters  to  Sir  Ed.  K.  and  T.  Kelly,  between  10 
and  2  after  none  taken  from  the  dore. 

Oct.  3rd,  I  payd  Mrs.  Stockden  £4  I  borrowed  of  her ;  I  payd 
her  26s.  8d.  for  four  loade  of  wood.  I  remayn  debter  for  a  load 
of  hay,  and  for  400  of  billet  in  forks.  Oct.  4th,  payd  Mr.  Childe 
£3.  10s.  for  ten  lode  of  lose  faggot.  Oct.  14th,  Mr.  Robert 
Thomas  cam  to  my  howse  to  dwell.  Oct.  28th,  hora  6J  a  me- 


1594.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  51 

ridie,  I  writ  and  sent  a  letter  to  the  Lady  Skydmor,  in  my  wife's 
name,  to  move  her  Majestic  that  eyther  I  might  declare  my  case 
to  the  body  of  the  cownsayle,  or  else  under  the  great  scale  to 
have  lycens  to  go  freely  any  whither.  Oct.  31st,  lightening  with- 
out thunder  in  the  afternone  and  in  the  night  following. 

Nov.  24th,  receyved  a  letter  from  Sir  Edward  Kelley  by  Row- 
ley. Dec.  2nd,  Francys  Garland  cam  to  England  from  Prage. 
Just  five  yeres  past  I  cam  to  England  from  Breame  as  Francis 
Garland  cam  now :  but  the  Stade  flete  stayed  at  Harwich.  The 
2nd  of  our  cold  December,  Barthilmew  was  preferred  by  me  to  the 
Lord  Willoughby  his  servyce  at  Barbican,  in  the  presence  of  the 
Cowntess  of  Kent :  and  the  Lord  Willoughby  did  presently  write 
his  warrant  to  Mr.  Jonson  in  Fletestreet,  taylor,  to  deliver  to 
Barthilmew  his  cloth  and  couishins,  and  so  it  was  to  Barthilmew 
delivered  immediately.  Dec.  7th,  Jane  my  wife  delivered  her 
supplication  to  the  Gluene's  Majestic,  as  she  passed  out  of  the 
privy  garden  at  Somerset  Howse  to  go  to  diner  to  the  Savoy  to 
Syr  Thomas  Henedge.  The  Lord  Admirall  toke  it  of  the  Quene. 
Her  Majestic  toke  the  bill  agayn  and  kept  [it]  uppon  her  cushen ; 
and  on  the  8th  day,  by  the  chief  motion  of  the  Lord  Admirall,  and 
somwhat  of  the  Lord  Buckhurst,  the  Quene's  wish  was  to  the 
Lord  Archbishop  presently  that  I  shuld  have  Dr.  Day  his  place 
in  Powles.  Dec.  22nd,  payd  seven  shillings  to  Elizabeth  Felde, 
part  of  her  wagis.  Given  to  Lettyce  5s.,  part  of  her  wagis.  Payd 
to  Richard  Ss.,  part  of  his  wagis  ;  and  all  other  reckenings  payd. 

1595.  Jan.  8rd,  the  Wardenship  of  Manchester  spoken  of  by 
the  Lord  Archbishop  of  Canterbury.  Feb.  5th,  my  bill  of  Man- 
chester offered  to  the  Quene  afore  dynner  by  Sir  John  Wolly  to 
signe,  but  she  deferred  it.  Feb.  10th,  at  two  after  none  I  toke  a 
cutpurse  taking  my  purse  out  of  my  pocket  in  the  Temple.  Feb. 
18th,  Mr.  Laward  his  sonne  Thomas  born  at  noone  or  a  little 
after,  J  vel  \.  Consultatio  et  deliberatio  prima  cum  Marmione 
Haselwood  in  fine  istius  mensis.  March  18th,  Mr.  Francis  Gar- 
land cam  this  morning  to  viset  me,  and  had  much  talk  with  me 


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of  Sir  E.  K.  March  20th,  Mr.  Marmion  Haselwood,  Mr.  Dym- 
mock,  and  Mr.  Hipwell,  cam  to  me  to  Mortlak.  March  2 1  st,  Bar- 
thilmew  Hikman  cam  to  Mortlak.  March  26th,  Barthilmew 
homeward.  March  29th,  Mr.  Laward  and  Mr.  Aired  cam  to  me. 

April  18th,  my  bill  for  Manchester  Wardenship  signed  by  the 
Quene,  Mr.  Herbert  offring  it  her.  May  4th,  payd  Richard  20s. 
part  of  his  wagis,  and  more  I  gave  him  10s.  for  full  payment  of 
all  od  reckenings  of  late.  May  5th,  Mr.  Cave  dyed.  May  8th, 
the  Master  of  the  Rolls  his  curtesy,  thowgh  I  had  never  spoken 
unto  him.  May  9th,  my  coosen  John  Awbry  cam  to  me,  to  re- 
create himselfe  for  a  while.  May  21st,  I  discharged  Letice  of  my 
servyce,  and  payd  all  duetyes  untyll  this  day,  her  yere  ending  on 
the  8th  of  Aprill.  I  gave  her  for  a  month  over  2s.  6d.  and  for 
to  spend  by  the  way  I  gave  her  2s.  6d.,  Robert  Charles  and  my 
wife  being  by  in  my  study.  May  25th,  26th,  27th,  the  Signet,  the 
Privy  Scale,  and  the  Great  Scale  of  the  Wardenship;  £3.  12s.  bor- 
rowed of  my  brother  Arnold.  June  1st,  my  yong  coosen,  John 
Awbrey,  was  sent  for  to  his  father  to  London.  Mr.  Partrich,  his 
brother,  in  London ;  Richard  Ward,  and  other  cam  for  him.  June 
9th,  Barthilmew  Hikman  went  homeward.  June  llth,  I  wrote  to 
the  Erie  of  Derby,  his  secretary,  abowt  Manchester.  June  1 8th, 
Anne  Powell  cam  to  my  service ;  she  is  to  have  four  nobles  by 
the  yere,  a  payr  of  hose  and  shoes.  June  21st,  the  Erie  of  Derby 
his  letter  to  Mr.  Warren  for  the  colledge.  June  25th,  Dr.  Aw- 
brey died  at  midnight.  My  cosen,  Mr.  George  Broke,  gave  me 
£50  in  gold,  hora  tertia  a  meridie.  June  29th,  Mr.  John  Blayney, 
of  Over  Kingesham  in  Radnorshyre,  and  Mr.  Richard  Baldwyn, 
of  Duddlebury  in  Shropshyre,  visited  me  at  Mortlak.  The  great- 
grandfather of  the  sayd  John,  and  my  great-grandmother  by  the 
father  side,  were  brother  and  sister. 

July  1st,  the  two  brethren,  Master  Willemots,  of  Oxfordshire, 
cam  to  talk  of  my  howse  hyring.  Master  Baynton  cam  with  Mis- 
tres  Katharyn  Hazelwood,  wife  to  Mr.  Fuller.  July  7th,  Mr. 
Morgan  Jones,  my  cosen,  cam  to  me  at  Mistres  Walls  twise. 


1595.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  53 

July  12th,  Mr.  Goodier,  of  Manchester,  cam  to  me.  Dies  nata- 
lis.  July  15th,  I  gave  Mr.  Morgan  Traharn  his  bill  to  Mr.  Har- 
bert.  July  25th,  Mrs.  Mary  Nevell  cam.  July  28th,  a  letter  from 
Mr.  Oliver  Carter,  Fellow  of  Manchester  College.  I  writt  agayn 
to  him  the  same  day.  July  29th,  Mistres  Mary  Nevel  went  to 
London,  and  so  into  Kent.  July  31st,  the  Cowntess  of  Warwik 
did  this  evening  thank  her  Majestic  in  my  name,  and  for  me,  for 
her  gift  of  the  Wardenship  of  Manchester.  She  toke  it  grati- 
ously ;  and  was  sorry  that  it  was  so  far  from  hens,  but  that  some 
better  thing  neer  hand  shall  be  fovvnd  for  me ;  and,  if  opportunitie 
of  tyme  wold  serve,  her  Majestic  wold  speak  with  me  herself.  I 
had  a  bill  made  by  Mr.  Wood,  one  of  the  clerks  of  the  signet,  for 
the  first  frutes  given  me  by  her  Majestic.  Aug.  2nd,  at  Mr.  Cosener 
his  table  at  Grenewich :  I  spak  that  wich  greatly  liked  Mr.  Ser- 
geant Oliver  Lloyd ;  wold  have  disputed  agayn.  Aug.  5th,  very 
rayny  all  day,  and  had  the  wynde  north  E.  and  W.  Aug.  12th, 
I  receyved  Sir  Edward  Kellyes  letters  of  the  Emperor's,  inviting 
me  to  his  servyce  again.  Aug.  14th,  peperit  Jana  (nutu  Dei)  circa 
horam  quartam  a  meridie.  Aug.  27th,  Margarite  Dee  baptized 
hora  4£  a  meridie.  Godfather,  the  Lord  Keper ;  his  deputy,  Mr. 
Crowne.  Godmothers,  the  Cowntess  of  Cumberland,  her  deputy 
Mistres  Davis ;  and  the  Cowntess  of  Essex,  her  deputy  Mistres 
Bele.  Barthilmew  Hikman  cam  to  Mortlak  on  his  own  busines. 
Sept.  2nd,  the  spider  at  ten  of  the  clok  at  night  suddenly  on  my 
desk,  and  suddenly  gon ;  a  most  rare  one  in  bygnes  and  length  of 
feet.  I  was  in  a  great  study  at  my  desk.  Sept.  6th  I  gave  Richard 
2s.  6d.  part  of  his  wagis,  when  he  went  to  his  grandfather.  Sept. 
13th,  I  dyned  with  the  Erie  of  Derby  at  Russell  Howse, 
Mr.  Thymothew  and  Mr.  John  Statfeldt,  German,  being  there. 
Sept.  14th,  to  Elizabeth  Feeld  2s.  for  the  taylor.  Sept.  22nd, 
Elizabeth  Feeld  went  from  my  servyce.  I  dined  with  the  Erie 
of  Darby.  Sept.  26th,  £6  borrowed  of  my  cosen  William  He- 
therley  for  fourteen  days  to  pay  for  Barthilmew  Hikman.  Sept. 
29th,  Margery  Stubble  of  Hownslow,  our  dry  nurse,  entred  into 


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the  yere  of  her  servyce  begynning  on  Michaelmas  Day,  and  is  to 
have  £3  her  yeres  wagis  and  a  gown  cloth  of  russet.  Edward 
Edwards  began  his  yere  of  serving  me  allso  on  Michelmas  Day, 
and  he  must  have  40s.  for  his  yere's  wagis,  and  a  lyvery. 

Oct.  7th,  my  anger  (hor.  5  a  mer.)  with  Edward  my  coke,  by- 
cause  of  his  disorder.  Oct.  8th,  Mr.  Richard  Western  lent  me 
£10  for  a  yere.  Oct.  9th,  1  dyned  with  Syr  Walter  Rawlegh  at 
Durham  Howse.  Oct.  llth,  to  Edward  2s.,  part  of  wagis.  Mr. 
Banks  lent  me  uppon  lone  tyll  after  Christmas  £5.  Mr 
Emery  sent  me  £3  by  my  servant  Richard  Walkedine.  Oct.  14th, 
to  Anne  2s.  part  of  wagis ;  to  Elizabeth  Felde  payd  the  rest  of 
her  yeres  wagis,  and  moreover  2s.  6d.  given  for  the  overplus  tyme. 
Oct.  19th,  the  old  reckoning  betwene  me  and  Edmond  Hilton 
made  clere.  Of  his  eleven  pownds  demanded,  I  shewd  him  of 
my  old  note  that  he  had  receyved  £6.  15s.,  and  after  that  Sted  his 
25s.,  and  Mr.  Emery  his  £3  lent  him ;  as  I  did  shew  him  Sted 
his  letter,  and  Mr.  Emery  his  letter  of  the  last  month.  All  these 
sommes  make  just  an  eleven  pownd.  Payd  to  nurse  Stubble,  in 
part  of  payment  of  her  wagis,  5s.  Oct.  20th,  to  Anne  I2d. 
Richard  rode  toward  Oxford  for  my  Arabik  boke.  Oct.  25th, 
Sted  was  a  suter  to  me  for  help  in  law  against  his  father.  Nov. 
8th,  my  goods  sent  me  by  Peravall  toward  Manchester.  Nov. 
19th,  my  Arabik  boke  restored  by  God's  favor.  Nov.  21st,  good- 
wife  Lidgatt  payd  her  rent  two  quarters  ending  at  the  feast  of  the 
Annunciation  of  our  Lady  next,  13s.  4d.  Goodman  Agar  was 
by  in  my  hall  at  Mortlak.  Nov.  25th,  the  newes  that  Sir  Edward 
Kelley  was  slayne.  Nov.  26th,  Mr.  Nicolas  Bagwell  of  Manches- 
ter browght  me  a  letter  from  my  brother  Arnold.  Lent  to  Mis- 
ter Laurence  Dutton  twelve  shillings.  My  wife  and  children  all 
by  water  toward  Coventry.  Dec.  10th,  Mr.  Lokhis  Arabik  bokes 
and  letter  to  me  by  Mr.  Berran  his  sonne.  Dec.  23rd,  I  payd  to 
John  Norton,  stationer,  ten  pownds  in  hand,  and  was  bownd  in  a 
recognisance  before  Doctor  Hone  for  the  payment  of  the  rest, 
£10  yerely,  at  Christmas  and  Midsommer  £5,  tyll  £53  more 


1596.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  55 

14s.  8d.  were  payd.  Receyved  £30  in  part  of  payment  of  one 
hundred  for  my  howse  at  Manchester  of  Mr.  Paget.  Dec.  26th, 
nata  filia  Comitis  Derby  mane  circa  quartam  horam  Londini. 

1596.  Feb.  15th,  I  cam  to  Manchester  a  meridie  hora  quinta. 
Feb.  20th,  enstalled  in  Manchester  wardenship  inter  nonam  et 
undecimam  horam  ante  meridiem.  March  14th,  warning  given 
publikely  against  Thomas  Goodyer.  March  21st,  warning  given 
publikly  of  licence  given  to  Thomas  Goodyer. 

April  2nd,  Sir  John  Byron,  knight,  and   Mr.  John  Byron,  es- 
quier,  dyned  with  me  in  the  colledg.     I  moved  the  matter  of  Xyd 
an  aker  of  hay  grownd  of  his  tenants.     He  promised  well.     April 
6th,  I  went  to  Mr.  Ashton  of  Lester  and  to  Mr.   Sherington. 
April  8th,  Margaret  Dee  begonne  to  be  weaned.     May  7th,  pos- 
session taking  in  Salford.     May  llth,  my  brother  Aubrey  and 
Richard  toward  London.     June  3rd,   I  gave  Antony  Cowly  20s. 
and  discharged  him.     June  4th,  Antony  Cowley  went  yerely  from 
my  howse,  I  know  not  whither.     June  14th,  Mr.   Harry  Savill, 
the  antiquary,  cam  to  me.     June  15th,  I  wrote  by  Mr.  Harry 
Savill  of  the  book  dwelling"  at  Hallyfax  to  Christopher  Saxton  at 
Denningley.     I  sent  my  letter  to  Sir  Robert  CecilFs  howse  by 
William  DebdelL     June  18th,  the  commission  for  the  colledge 
sent  to  London  to  be  engrossed  in  the  Duchy  office.     I  sent  by 
Nicholas  Baguely  of  Newton  to  Mr.   Brogreton  and  to  William 
Nicolson  to  follow  it  this  terme.     June  21st,  Mr.  Christopher  Sax- 
ton  cam  to  me.    June  22nd,  entred  upon  great  Brereridings  in  Sal- 
ford.    June  24th,  Barthilmew  cam.    June  25th,  order  taken  by  the 
sherif  betwene  me  and  Raf  Holden.     June  26th,  the  Erie  of  Derby 
with   the   Lady    Gerard,   Sir  ....   Molyneux    and    his   Lady, 
dawghter  to  the  Lady  Gerard,  Master  Hawghton  and  others,  cam 
suddenly  uppon   [me]   after  three  of  the  clok.     I  made  them  a 
skoler's  collation,  and  it  was  taken  in  good  part.     I  browght  his 
honor  and  the  ladyes  to  Ardwyk  Grene  toward  Lyme,  at  Mr. 
Legh  his  howse,  twelve  myles  of.     June  29th,  wyndy  and  rayny. 


56  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1596. 

July  5th,  Mr.  Savill  and  Mr.  Saxton  cam.  July  Gth,  I,  Mr. 
Saxton  and  Arthur  Rouland,  John  and  Richard,  to  Howgh  Hall. 
July  9th,  I  sent  Roger  Kay  of  Manchester  with  my  letters  into 
Wales.  July  10th,  Manchester  town  described  and  measured  by 
Mr.  Christopher  Saxton.  Given  to  nurse .  Stubley  10s.,  part  of 
wagis.  July  10th  to  14th,  occupyed  with  low  controversies,  as 
with  Holden  of  Salford  and  the  tenants  of  Sir  John  Byron  of 

Faylsworth  in  the  right  of  the  colledge,  sending  to to  the 

cownty,  and  sending  for  Mr.  Tyldesley  or  Chester  for  cownsaylers. 
July  12th,  given  more  to  nurse,  when  her  sonne  John  Stubley 
went  from  me  toward  London  to  be  reconcyled  to  his  master.  I 
gave  him  5s.  The  yong  man,  Leon  the  hatter,  went  with  him. 
July  14th,  Mr.  Saxton  rode  away.  The  sessions  day  at  Man- 
chester. July  19th,  Ales  cam  by  Mrs.  Beston's  help  to  my  ser- 
vyce.  Thomas,  my  coke,  went  from  me.  July  21st,  Isabell 
Bardman  from  the  chamber  to  the  kitchin.  July  25th,  thunder  in 
the  morning ;  rayne  in  the  night.  July  2  7th,  the  Erie  of  Darby 
went  by  London  ward;  dyned  at  Curtes'  howse.  Aug.  10th,  Mr. 
Thomas  Jones  of  Tregarron  cam  to  me  to  Manchester  and  rode 
toward  Wales  bak  agayn  the  13th  day  to  mete  the  catall  coming. 
Aug.  13th,  I  rid  toward  York.  Halifax  and  Mr.  Thomas  Jones 
rode  toward  Wales.  Aug.  20th,  I  cam  to  Manchester  from  York. 
Aug.  20th  to  2Jth,  much  disquietnes  and  controversy  abowt  the 
tythe  corne  of  Hulme.  Aug.  30th,  Cromsall  corne-tyth  obteyned 
by  consent,  but  afterwards  dowted  and  half  denyed ;  then  utterly 
denyed.  Sept.  1st,  Mary  Goodwyn  cam  to  my  servyce  to  govern 
and  teach  Madinia  and  Margaret,  my  yong  dowghters.  Sept.  3rd, 
being  Fry  day,  I  rode  to  Syr  John  Byron's,  to  Roy  ton,  to  talk  with 
him  abowt  the  controversy  betwene  the  colledg  and  his  tenants. 
He  pretented  that  we  have  part  of  Faylesworth  Common  within 
our  Newton  Heath,  which  cannot  be  proved  I  am  sure.  We  wer 
agreed  that  James  Traves  (being  his  bayly)  and  Francis  Nutthall, 
his  servant  for  him,  shold  with  me  understand  all  circumstances, 


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and  so  duely  to  precede.  Sept.  5th,  seventeen  hed  of  cattell  from 
my  kinsfolk  in  Wales  by  the  curteous  Griffith  David,,  nephew  to 
Mr.  Thomas  Griffith,  browght. 

Oct.  26th,  Mr.  Francis  Nicols  and  Barthilmew  cam  to  Man- 
chester. Oct.  29th,,  they  rode  homeward.  Nov.  22nd,  £4.  6s. 
given  to  my  wife  by  Mr.  Francys  Wodcote.  Dec.  3rd,  Mr.  Palmer 
cam  to  be  curate. 

1597.  Jan.  19th,   I  sent  £4  to  Barthilmew  Hikman  by  Brad- 
shaw  the  carryer.     Jan.   22nd,  Olyver   Carter's  thret  to  sue  me 
with  proces  from  London  was  this  Satterday  in  the  church  declared 
to  the  clerk.    Feb.  5th,  Rich.  Key  of  Weram  cwrate  cam  to  me  by 
Mr.  Heton' s  information,  and  I  to  try  him  three  monthes  for  50s. 
wagis.     Feb.  7th,  John  Morryce  came  to  Manchester.    Feb.  llth, 
£5  borowed  of  Mr.  Mat.  Heton.     Feb.  14th,  this  Monday  John 
Morrise  went  with  my  letters  to  Mr.  John  Gwyn,  and  twelve  more 
in  Montgomeryshyre,  esquyers.     Feb.  17th,  delivered  to  Charles 
Legh  the  elder  my  silver  tankard  with  the  cover,  all  dubble  gilt, 
of  the  Cowntess  of  Herford's  gift  to  Francis  her  goddoughter, 
waying  22  oz.  great  waight,  to  lay  in  pawn  in  his  owne  name  to 
Robert  Welsham  the  goldsmith  for  £4  tyll  within  two  dayes  after 
May-day  next.     My  dowghter  Katharin  and  John  Crocker  and  I 
myself  (John  Dee)  were  at  the  delivery  of  it  and  waying  of  it  in 
my  chamber  :  it  was  wrapped  in  a  new  handkercher  cloth.     Feb. 
25th,  Mr.  Heton  borrowed  the   Concordantiae  Majores    Roberti 
Stephani.      He  hath  allso  my  boke  De  Coena  of  Doctor  Pezelia. 
March  7th,  Mr.  Heton  lent  me  £5  more,  and  thereuppon  I  gave 
him  a  bill  of  my  hand  for  the  whole  ten  pownd,  to  be  payd  at 
Michelmas  next.     The  other  £5  was  receyved  the   llth  of  Fe- 
bruary last.    March  17th,  Barthilmew  Hikman  cam.    March  19th, 
I  lent  Mr.  Hopwood  Wierus  de  prcestigiis  Dcemonum. 

April  10th,  a  supplication  exhibited  by  the  parishioners.  April 
llth,  12th,  trubblesom  days  abowt  Mr.  Palmer  the  curate.  April 
15th,  I  had  my  Wierus  de  praestigiis  Damonum  from  Mr.  Hopwood, 
and  lent  him  Flagellum  Daemonum  and  Fustio  Dcemonum  in  8vo, 

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58  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1597. 

for  tyme  till  Midsomer.  April  21st, 1  sent  Barthilmew  Hikman  40s. 
I  sent  by  Bradshaw  many  letters  to  London.  I  sent  by  goodman 
Thurp  of  Salford  my  great  letter  to  the  byshop  of  Lincolne,  and 
one  to  Mr.  Shallcross.  April  22nd,  after  none  Sir  Urien  Legh 
knight,  and  his  brother,  and  Mr.  Brown,  and  Mr.  George  Booth, 
sherif  of  Chesshire,  did  viset  me.  Mr.  Booth  sayd  that  he  wold 
yeld  that  to  me  that  he  wold  not  yeld  to  the  bisshop  nor  any 
other.  Mr.  Wortley  of  Wortley  cam  allso  the  same  day  hora 
quarta  a  meridie.  May  2nd,  Mr.  Hulme  and  Mr.  Williamson  cam 
to  me  in  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Lincoln's  case  for  Hulme.  May  4th, 
I,  with  Sir  Robert  Barber,  curat,  and  Robert,  Talsley,  clerk  of 
Manchester  parish  church,  with  diverse  of  the  town  of  divers  ages, 
went  in  perambulation  to  the  bownds  of  Manchester  parish :  be- 
gan at  the.  Leeless  Bench  against  Prestwich  parish,  and  so  had 
a  vew  of  the  thre  corne  staks,  and  then  down  tyll  Mr.  Standysh 
new  enclosure  on  the  Low,  wher  we  stayed  and  vewed  the  stak  yet 
standing  in  the  bank  of  the  dich,  being  from  the  corne  a  eleven 
measures  of  Mr.  Standley's  stak  then  in  his  hand,  and  two  fote 
more,  which  still  I  did  measure  afterward,  and  it  did  conteyn  in 
Kentish  feete  6  ynches  and  thre  quarters.  The  survey  geometri- 
call  of  the  very  circuits  of  Manchester  parish  was  ended  in  this, 
being  the  sixth  day  of  my  work.  May  llth,  the  way  to  Stopford 
surveyed  by  John  Cholmeley  and  John  Crocker.  May  17th,  to 
Richard  Walkeden  20s.  of  his  wagis  payd.  May  20th,  the  Lady 
Booth  made  acquayntance  here  May  23rd,  to  Isabell  Boordman 
8s.  8d.  to  make  up  whole  yere's  wagis  due  at  the  Annunciation  of 
our  Lady  last  past.  I  allowed  to  Mr.  Williamson  ten  dayes  res- 
pite more  for  his  kinsman  to  bring  in  his  evidence  for  the  pro- 
cess of  the  proceedings.  Payd  to  nurse  3s.  to  make  up  her  full 
payment  of  her  yere's  wagis  ended  at  Michaelmas  last.  May  27th, 
open  enmitie  with  Palmer  before  Sir  Edward  Fitton.  Sir  Edward 
Fitton  told  Matthew  Palmer  to  his  face  that  he  had  known  him 

to  be  a  mutinous  man  and  a June  9th,  Thomas  Sankinson 

told  me  of  John  Basset  his  coming  to  London.  June  14th,  the  un- 


1597«]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  59 

lawfull  assembly  and  rowte  of  William  Cutcheth,  Captayn  Brad- 
ley, John  Taylor,  Rafe  Taylor,  at  Newton,  against  my  men,  de- 
scribing the  rumour  of  Newton.  June  27th,  newes  from  Hull  of 
23  barrells  of  Dansk  rye  sent  me  from  John  Pontoys. 

July  1  st,  I  sent  Roger  Kay  to  Vanydles  for  catall.  July  4th, 
the  carriers  to  Wakefeld  for  the  corn.  July  5th,  toward  evening 
lightning  and  little  thunder.  July  6th,  thunder  in  the  morning. 
July  7th,  five  horse  lode  of  Dansk  ry  cam  home.  July  19th,  the 
strang  pang  of  my  back  opening  mane  hora  6J.  In  the  church 
uppon  Mr.  Palmer's  disorder  against  Mr.  Lawrence.  July  20th, 
the  last  of  my  Dansk  rye,  in  all  21  horse  load.  Aug.  6th,  this 
night  I  had  the  vision  and  shew  of  many  bokes  in  my  dreame, 
and  among  the  rest  was  one  great  volume  thik  in  large  quarto, 
new  printed,  on  the  first  page  whereof  as  a  title  in  great  letters 
was  printed  "  Notus  in  Judaea  Deus."  Many  other  bokes  me- 
thowght  I  saw  new  printed,  of  very  strange  arguments.  I 
lent  Mr.  Edward  Hopwood  of  Hopwood  my  Malleus  Malefica- 
rum  to  use  tyll  new  yere's  tyde  next,  a  short  thik  old  boke  with 
two  clasps,  printed  anno  1517-  Aug.  19th,  the  Erie  and  Cowntess 
of  Derby  cam  to  Alport  lodg.  Aug.  21st,  the  Erie  and  Cowntess 
of  Derby  had  a  banket  at  my  lodging  at  the  colledge  hora  4£. 
Aug.  27th,  John  Addenstall  from  Mr.  Emery.  I  wrote.  Sept.  3rd, 
Mr.  Werall  of  Lobester  within  two  miles  of  Donkaster  cam  to  me 
to  be  acquaynted  with  me.  Sept.  9th,  very  wyndy  at  Sowth  and 
rayny.  Sept.  12th,  hayle  this  morning  on  Monday.  Sept.  15th, 
lent  by  Mr.  Werall  40.9.  John  Cholmley  went  with  him  to  give 
him  and  other  physik ;  and  I  answered  John  Cholmeley  the  40s. 
again.  Sept  24th,  Barthilmew  cam.  Sept.  25th,  Mr.  Olyver 
Carter  his  impudent  and  evident  disolutenes  in  the  church.  Sept. 
26th,  he  repented  and  some  pacification  was  made.  Sept.  27th, 
I  granted  a  lease  of  thre  lives  to  Mr.  Ratclyf  for  two  howses  in 
Dene  Square  of  7*.  rent  both ;  fine,  twenty  nobles.  Sept.  28th, 
cam  Mr.  Yardely  of  Calcot  in  Chesshyre,  abowt  six  myles  wide  of 
Chester,  toward  the  Holt.  Nova  de  philosopho  D.  Waldero. 


60  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [159?. 

Sept.  30th,  John  Crockar  (my  good  servant)  had  leave  to  go  to  see 
his  parents.  He  went  with  Barthilmew  Hikman  and  Robert 
Charles  toward  Branbroke,  with  Arthur  Golding,  to  cure  of  his 
fistula.  John  Crocker  intendeth  to  returne  abowt  Easter  or  at 
Whitsuntyde  next.  God  be  his  spede  !  Mr.  Humphry  Damport 
made  our  stuard. 

Oct.  1 2th,  Rafe  Holden  preferred  a  bill  against  Richard  Walke- 
son  for  Brereriding's  chase  entyring,  which  I  and  Antony  Ryve 

fals.  The  bill  was  not  fownd.  Oct.  22nd,  John  Fletcher 

of  Manchester  went  with  my  letters  to  Vanylos  this  Sunday  morn- 
ing. Nov.  3rd,  Mr.  John  Cholmeley  toward  London  by  Market- 
Harborow.  Nov.  7th,  the  fellows  and  the  receyver  agreed  not 
with  me  in  accounts.  Paulo  post  nonam  mane  Arthur's  left  eye 
hurt  at  playing  at  fence  with  rapier  and  dagger  of  sticks,  by  a 
foyne  of  Edmond  Arnold.  Nov.  10th,  Mr.  Burch  his  letter  from 
Mathew  Palmer.  Nov.  14th,  the  fellows  wold  not  graunt  me  the 
£5.  for  my  howse-rent,  as  the  Archbishops  had  graunted:  and 
our  foundation  commaundeth  an  howse.  Nov.  1/th,  I  sent  Ed. 
Arnold  to  London  on  fote  with  my  letters  to  D.  Julio.  Dec.  3rd, 
to  Richard  Walkeden  10s.  in  part  of  wagis.  To  nurse  105.  Dec. 
9th,  I  visited  the  grammar  schole.  Dec.  13th,  I  wrote  by  the 
carryer  Barret  to  D.  Csesar.  Dec.  14th,  Mr.  George  Broke,  sonne 

to  Mr Broke  of  .  .  .  .  ,  cam  to  be  acquaynted  with  me,  whome 

I  used  most  frendely.  Mr.  Ratclif  of  Manchester  cam  with  him, 
but  Mr.  Heton  allso  cam  on  Tuesday  after  none  when  I  had  no 
leyser.  Dec.  17>  I  lent  to  Mr.  Barlow  for  his  sonne  a  Spanish 
grammer  in  8vo.  printed  at  Lovayn  in  anno  1555  by  Bartholo- 
maeus  Gravay  in  Spanish,  French,  and  Latin.  To  R.  Dickonson 
I  payd  £7.  2s.  for  the  plate  and  a  new  bell  made  till  1599, 
January  1st,  £66. 

1598.  Jan.  4th,  I  wrote  to  Barthilmew  and  Charles  by  Brad- 
shaw.  Jan.  l?th,  my  brother  Arnold  to  Chester  and  Vaunlos. 
Jan.  18th,  Ed.  Arnold  with  my  letter  to  London.  Jan.  19th, 
hora  secunda  a  meridie  I  cam  before  the  justices  against  James 


1598.]  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  61 

Shallcross  and  John  Lawrence  for  misusing  my  name  to  deceyve 
Mr.  Harrughby.  Jan.  20th,  Walter  Fletcher,  chirurgien,  from 
Barthilmew  Hikman  cam.  Jan.  22nd,  after  midnight  the  college 
gate  toward  Hunt's  Hall  did  fall,  and  som  parte  of  the  wall 
going  down  the  lane.  I  receyved  letters  from  Mr.  John  Pontoys. 
Jan.  24th,  Walter  Fletcher  went  with  my  letters  to  Barthilmew 
Hikman  and  Robert  Charles.  Amaritudo  mea  circa  mediam  noc- 
tem.  Jan.  28th,  the  cloose  was  hyerd  of  Ed.  Brydock  for  thre 
pownd  payd  beforehand  by  me  John  Dee  to  the  said  Ed.  Brydock, 
being  £4  from  Candlemas  next  tyll  Candlemas  come  a  twelve- 
month. Feb.  9th,  George  Birch  sute  was  stayd  at  Chester  uppon 
his  promise  to  compownd  with  me  for  all  tyth,  haye,  and  other 
matter.  Thomas  Goodyer  his  sute  and  excommunication  I  stayed, 
salvo  interim  jure  suo.  Baxter's  likewise  I  stayd  at  Chester 
court.  Feb.  12th,  newes  from  Mr.  Smyth,  of  Upton  personage, 
cam  this  Sunday.  Feb.  1 3th,  Edmond  Arnold  to  London ;  there- 
uppon  I  sent  spedily.  Feb.  20th,  I  wrote  by  Oliver  Ellet,  the 
taylor,  to  Mr.  Nicolls  to  Faxton.  Feb.  22nd,  Mr.  Nicolls  cam 
and  wished  to  mete  Ellet.  Feb.  25th,  the  eclips.  A  clowdy  day, 
but  great  darknes  abowt  9|  mane,  Feb.  26th,  circa  mediam  noc- 
tem  amaritudo  mea.  Feb.  27th,  Mr.  Nicolls  rode  homeward,  and 
met  the  messager  a  little  beyond  Stopford.  I  lent  Mr.  Nicolls 
home  with  him  Roger  Edward's  boke  to  be  browght  to  me  by 
Barthilmew  Hikman.  March  1st,  I  receyved  Mr.  Thynne  his 
letter  for  Sted's  det,  and  Ed.  Arnold  his  letter  of  the  sute  from 
Upton,  and  of  the  Lord  Archebisshop  his  hard  dealing.  March 
2nd,  I  sent  the  statute  staple  to  London  to  Mr.  George  Brok  for 
Sted.  I  wrote  letters  by  John  Hardy,  and  sent  them  in  a  box, 
March  5th.  newes  of  Mistres  Mary  Nevell's  death  by  William 
Nicholson,  that  she  dyed  the  Fryday  after  Candelmas  Day. 
March  llth,  borrowed  40s.  of  Mr.  George  Kenion,  of  Kersall,  to 
repay  againe  as  sone  as  I  can  conveniently.  Receyved  by  Richard 
Walkeden. 


62  DR.  DEE'S  DIARY.  [1600. 

1600.  June  10th,  set  out  from  London.  Jun.  18th,  I,  my  wife, 
Arthur  Rowland,  Mistres  Marie  Nicols,  and  Mr.  Richard  Arnold 
cam  to  Manchester. 

July  3rd,  the  Commission  set  uppon  in  the  Chapter  Howse. 
July  7th,  this  morning,  as  I  lay  in  my  bed,  it  cam  into  my  fantasy 
to  write  a  boke,  "  De  differentiis  quibusdam  corporum  et  spiri- 
tuum."  July  8th,  I  writ  to  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Chester  by  Mr. 
Withenstalls.  July  10th,  Mr.  Nicols  and  Barthilmew  Hickman 
cam.  July  14th,  Francys  Nicols  and  Barthilmew  Hikman  went 
homeward.  July  17th,  I  willed  the  fellows  to  com  to  me  by 
nine  the  next  day.  July  18th,  it  is  to  be  noted  of  the  great 
pacifications  unexpected  of  man  which  happened  this  Friday ;  for 
in  the  forenone  (betwene  nine  and  ten)  where  the  fellows  were 
greatly  in  doubt  of  my  heavy  displeasure,  by  reason  of  their  ma- 
nifold misusing  of  themselves  against  me,  I  did  with  all  lenity 
interteyn  them,  and  shewed  the  most  part  of  the  things  that  I 
had  browght  to  pass  at  London  for  the  college  good,  and  told 
Mr.  Carter  (going  away)  that  I  must  speak  with  him  alone.  Ro- 
bert Leigh  and  Charles  Legh  were  by.  Secondly,  the  great  sute 
betwene  Redishmer  and  me  was  stayed  and  by  Mr.  Richard  Hol- 
land his  wisdom.  Thirdly,  the  organs  uppon  condition  was  ad- 
mitted. And  fourthly,  Mr.  Williamson's  resignation  granted  for 
a  preacher  to  be  gotten  from  Cambridge.  July  19th,  I  lent  Ran- 
dall Kemp  my  second  part  of  Hollinshed's  Great  Chronicle  for  ij. 
or  iij.  wekes.  To  Newton  he  restored  it.  July  31st,  we  held  our 
audit,  I  and  the  fellows  for  the  two  yeres  last  past  in  my  absence, 
Olyver  Carter,  Thomas  Williamson,  and  Robert  Birch,  Charles 
Legh  the  elder  being  receyver.  I  red  and  gave  unto  Mistres  Mary 
Nicolls  her  prayer. 

Aug.  5th,  I  visited  the  grammar  schole,  and  fownd  great  imper- 
fection in  all  and  every  of  the  scholers  to  my  great  grief.  Aug. 
6th,  I  had  a  dream  after  midnight  of  my  working  of  the  philoso- 
pher's stone  with  other.  My  dreame  was  after  midnight  toward 


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day.  Aug.  10th,  Eucharistam  suscepimus,  ego,  uxor,  filia  Ka- 
tharina,  et  Maria  Nicolls.  Aug.  30th,  a  great  tempest  of  mighty 
wynde  S.W.  from  2  tyll  6,  with  rayne. 

Sept.  llth,  Mr.  Holland  of  Denby,  Mr.  Gerard  of  Stop- 
ford,  Mr.  Langley,  commissioners  from  the  bishop  of  Chester, 
authorized  by  the  bishop  of  Chester,  did  call  me  before  them 
in  the  church  abowt  thre  of  the  clok  after  none,  and  did  deliver 
to  me  certayn  petitions  put  up  by  the  fellows  against  me  to 
answer  before  the  18th  of  this  month.  I  answered  them  all 
eodem  tempore,  and  yet  they  gave  me  leave  to  write  at  leiser. 
Sept.  16th,  Mr.  Harmer  and  Mr.  Davis,  gentlemen  of  Flyntshire, 
within  four  or  five  myle  of  Hurden  Castell,  did  viset  me.  Sept. 
29th,  I  burned  before  Mr.  Nicols,  his  brother,  and  Mr.  Wortley, 
all  Bartholomew  Hikman  his  untrue  actions.*  Sept.  30th,  after 
the  departing  of  Mr.  Francis  Nicolls,  his  dowghter  Mistres  Mary, 
his  brother  Mr.  William,  Mr.  Wortley,  at  my  returne  from  Deans- 
gate,  to  the  ende  whereof  I  browght  them  on  fote,  Mr.  Roger 
Kooke  offred  and  promised  his  faithfull  and  diligent  care  and 
help,  to  the  best  of  his  skill  and  powre,  in  the  processes  chymi- 
call,  and  that  he  will  rather  do  so  then  to  be  with  any  in  Eng- 
land ;  which  his  promise  the  Lord  blesse  and  confirm !  He  told 
me  that  Mr.  Anthony  considered  him  very  liberally  and  frendely, 
but  he  told  him  that  he  had  promised  me.  Then  he  liked  in  him 
the  fidelity  of  regarding  such  his  promise. 

Oct.  13th,  be  it  remembered  that  Sir  Georg  Both  cam  to  Man- 
chester to  viset  Mr.  Humfrey  Damport,  cownsaylor  of  Gray's 
Inne,  and  so  cam  to  the  colledg  to  me ;  and  after  a  few  words  of 
discowrse,  we  agreed  as  concerning  two  or  three  tenements  in 
Durham  Massy  in  his  occupying.  That  he  and  I  with  the  fellows 
wold  stand  to  the  arbitrement  of  the  sayd  Mr.  Damport,  after  his 
next  return  hither  from  London.  John  Radclyf,  Mr.  Damport's 

*  In  a  note  by  Dee  in  MS.  Ashm.  488,  he  says,  "  All  Barthilmew's  reports  of  sight 
and  hering  spirituall  wer  burnt ;  a  copy  of  the  first  part,  which  was  afterward  fownd, 
was  burnt  before  me  and  my  wife." 


64 

man,  was  with  him  here,  and  Mr.  Dumbell,  but  they  hard  not  our 
agrement ;  we  were  in  my  dyning-room.  Oct.  22nd,  receyved  a 
kinde  letter  from  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Chester  in  the  behalfe  of 
Thomas  Billings  for  a  curatship.  Nov.  1st,  Mr.  Roger  Coke  did 
begyn  to  destill.  Nov.  4th,  the  commission  and  jury  did  finde 
the  titles  of  Nuthurst  due  to  Manchester  against  Mr.  James 

Ash  ton  of  Chaterdon.      Nov.  7th,  Oliver  Carter  his 

before  Mr.  Birch,  Richard  Legh  and  Charles  Legh,  in  the  colledg 
howse.  Dec.  2nd,  colledg  awdit.  Allowed  my  due  of  £J  yerely 
for  my  howse-rent  tyll  Michelmas  last.  Arthur  Dee  a  graunt  of 
the  chapter  clerkship  from  Owen  Hodges,  to  be  had  yf  £6  wer 
payd  to  him  for  his  patent.  Dec.  20th,  borowed  of  Mr.  Edmund 
Chetam  the  scholemaster  £10  for  one  yere  uppon  plate,  two 
bowles,  two  cupps  with  handles,  all  silver,  waying  all  32  oz.  Item, 
two  potts  with  cover  and  handells,  double  gilt  within  and  without, 
waying  16  oz. 

1601.  Jan.  19th,  borrowed  of  Adam  Holland  of  Newton  £5  till 
Hilary  day,  uppon  a  silver  salt  dubble  gilt  with  a  cover,  waying 
14  oz.  Feb.  2nd,  Roger  Cook  his  supposed  plat  laying  to  my 
discredit  was  by  Arthur  my  sone  fownd  by  chaunce  in  a  box  of 
his  papers  in  his  own  handwriting  circa  meridiem,  and  after  none 
abowt  l£  browght  to  my  knowledg  face  to  face.  O  Deus,  libera 
nos  a  malo  !  All  was  mistaken,  and  we  reconcyled  godly.  Feb. 
10th  to  15th,  reconciliation  betwene  us,  and  I  did  declare  to  my 
wife,  Katharine  my  dowghter,  Arthur  and  Rowland,  how  things 
wer  thus  taken.  Feb.  18th,  Jane  cam  to  my  servyce  from  Clethe- 
raw.  Feb.  25th,  R.  K[oke]  pactum  sacrum  hora  octava  mane. 
March  2nd,  Mr.  Roger  Coke  went  toward  London.  March  19th, 
I  receyved  the  long  letters  from  Bartholomew  Hickman  hora 
secunda  a  meridie  by  a  carryer  of  Oldham.  April  6th,  Mr. 
Holcroft  of  Vale  Royall  his  first  acquaintance  at  Manchester  by 
reason  of  William  Herbert  his  frend.  He  used  me  and  reported 
of  me  very  freely  and  wurshiply. 


CATALOGUS 

LIBRORUM  BIBLIOTHECLE  EXTERN^ 

MORTLACENSIS 
D.  JOB.  DEE,  A°  1583,  6  SEPT. 


LIBRI  MANUSCRIPTI. 

[From  MS.  Trin.  Coll.  Cantab.  O.  iv.  20,  transcribed  by  Ashmole 
in  MS.  Ashm.  1142.  Another  autograph  copy  is  preserved  in 
MS.  Harl.  1879,  which  scarcely  differs  from  that  in  the  library 
of  Trinity  College.  The  numbers  prefixed  to  the  several  volumes 
are  added,  for  the  sake  of  reference,  by  the  Editor. ~\ 

1 .  Milei  sphsericorum  tractatus  tres.  4°  pergameno. 

2.  Theoricse  planetarum.  —  Jordan!  de  triangulis,  ubi  de    qua- 
dratura  circuli. — Ejusdem  de  perspectiva. — Ejusdem  de  specu- 
lis,  crepusculis,  ponderibus,  speculis  comburentibus,  lib.  ii. 

4°,  script!  pergameno. 

3.  Compendium    de    vitis  philosophorum  anonymi.  —  Ursonis 
de  commixtionibus  elementorum. — Ejusdem  aphorism!. 

4°  pergameno. 

4.  Avicenna  de  anima  mundi,  cum  aliis,  videlicet,  Liber  cujus 
initium  est,  "  Inspector  praecedentis  libri  Avicennae." — Expo- 
sitorius  Roger!  Bachonis." — Liber  de  ponderibus. — Morienus 
ad  regem  Calid. — Rasis  libri  quinque  de  deceno  (?) — Hermetis 

CAMD.  SOC. DEE.  K 


66  CATALOGUE    OF    DR.    DEE*S 

libri  septem.  —  Rosinus  ad  Euthesiam. — Dicta  sapientis.  — 
Turba  philosophorum.  —  Distinctionum  sapientium  liber.  — 
Epistola  Alexandri  regis  Persarum.—  Aristoteles  de  30  verbis. 
— Socratis  liber. — Effrey  Effinensis  liber. — Liber  Calid. — Li- 
ber commentatus. — Opus  philosophorum. —  Geber  de  perfecto 
magisterio.  4°  pergameno. 

5.  Joh.  Duns  Scoti  qusestiones  in  Porphyrii  quinque  voces. — 
Antonii    cujusdam  expositio  in   categorias  sex,    &c. — Rogerii 
Bachonis  de  multiplicatione   specierum. — Ejusdem  perspec- 
tiva.  4°  pergameno. 

6.  Thomee  Aquinatis  queestionum  disputatarum  volumen. 

4°  pergameno. 

7.  Scintillarium  poetarum.—  Summa  chiromantiee. — Ovidii  me- 
tamorphoseos  expositio. — Tractatus  de  veneno. — Valerius  ad 
Ruffinum    de   non    ducenda   uxore,   cum   expositione. — Joh. 
Wyclyf  determinatio. — Literee  fratris  Wilhelmi  Fleth. — Ful- 
gentii  mythologies  cum  Expositione. — Tractatus  de  difficilibus 
dictionibus  Biblise.  —  Rob.  Lincolniensis  in  oculo  morali. — 
Rob.  Lincolniensis  de  ratione  veneni. — Joh.  Walensis  brevi- 
loquium  philosophorum,  descriptum    per    Stoctonem   Canta- 
brigiee,  1375. — Casus  abstracti  injure,  per  Fratrem  Herman- 
num  de  provincia  Saxonise. — Casus  episcopo   reservati. — Ex- 
positio salutationis  angelicse.*  4°  pergameno. 

8.  De  ponderibus  et  mensuris  medicinalis  operationis. — Viaticus 
Constaritini  Africani  libri  J. — De  modo  medendi  experimenta. 
— De  origine  morborum,  et  eorum  cognitione  per  urinam. — 
De  electuariis,  &c.  4°  pergameno. 

9.  Ethici  Histri  cosmographia,  ex  versione  Latina  D.  Hieronymi.f 

4°  pergameno. 

One  I  had  with  me,  and  one  I  left  here,  which  is  noted 
after. 

*  Now  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin.     Bern.  148,  (H.  12.) 

t  Now  MS.  Cotton.  Vespas.  B.  x.  thus  inscribed   by  Dr.  Dee's  hand,  "  Johannes 
Dee,  1565,  Februarii  21,  Wigornise,  ex  dono  decani  ecclesise,  Magistri  Beddar." 


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10.  Anticlaudianus,  carmine. — Hugonis  de  Pushac,  Dunelmensis 
Episcopi,  Brutus,  carmine.*     Longiuscula  forma,     pergameno. 

11.  Tractatus  compendiosus  de  animalibus.  4°  pergameno. 

12.  Wilhelmi  Parisiensis  fragment,  de  universis.        4°  pergameno. 

13.  Euclidis  Elementa  Geometrica,  Optica  et  Catoptrica,  ex  Ara- 
bico   translata   per  Adellardum. — Theodosii  Sphsericorum  li- 
bri. — Liber  de   occultis. — Ptolomsei  planisphaerium. — Jordani 
planispheerium. — Archimedis  tractatus  de  quadratura  circuli. 
— Gerardi  de  Brussel  liber  de  motu. — Jordanus  de  ponderi- 
bus.  —  Libri    quatuor  geometries   practicse.  —  Alfarabius     de 
scientiis. — Wilhelmi  de  Conchis  philosophia. —  Rasis  liber  de 
phisiognomia.  —  Anatomia  hominis. — De   proprietatibus   ele- 
mentorum. —  cum  aliis.  4°  pergameno. 

14.  Augustinus  de  anitna  et  .spiritu. — Theoremata  de  spiritu  et 
anima  demonstrata. — Algorithmus  demonstratus  Joh.  de  Sa- 
crobosco. — Joh.    de    Rupella  summa  de  anima. — Rob.   Lin- 
colniensis  tractatus  de  sphsera. — Joh.  de  Sacrobosco  tractatus 
de  sphsera. — Tractatus  de  proportione  et  proportionalitate,  &c. 
Rogeri  Bachonis — cum  aliis.  pergameno,  4°. 

15.  Maximi  Monachi,    Dionisii  Areopagitse,   Sophronii  Solitarii, 
et  aliorum  Greecorum  fragmenta  nonnulla.          pergameno,  4°. 

1 6.  Ramundi  Lullii  liber  de  quinta  essentia.  papyro,  f°. 

Non  est  Ramundi  Lullii,  sed  collectanea  diversa  ex 
Paracelso. 

I?.  Rogerii  Bachonis  de  anima,  et  ejus  operibus. — Ejusdem  liber 
de  intellectu  et  intelligibili.  f .  pergameno. 

18.  Apologia  de  versutiis  atque  perversitatibus  pseudo-theolo- 
gorum  et  religiosorum. — Joachim  Abbatis  prophetia  contra 
religiones  tenentes  ordinem  mendicantium. — Arnoldi  de  Villa 
Nova  opus  de  generibus  abusionum  veritatis,  et  de  pseud  o- 
ministris  Antichristi  cognoscendis,  et  de  pastorali  officio  circa 
gregem  exercendo.  —  Ejusdem  prophetia  catholica,  tradens 

*  This  MS.  is  now  in  the  Cottonian  library,  Vespas.  A.  x.      "  Joannes  Dee,  1574, 
Maij  7,  bowght  uppon  a  stall  in  London." 


68  CATALOGUE    OF    DR.    DEE'S 

artem  annihilandi  versutias  Antichrist!  et  omnium  membrorum 
ejus,  ad  sacrum  collegium  Romanorum.  pergameno,  f°. 

19.  Rogeri  Bachonis    de  retardatione  senectutis   et   senii,  &c. — 
Ejusdem  de  graduatione  medicinarum  compositarum,  &c. 

pergameno,  f°. 

20.  Ejusdem  Bachonis  metaphisica. — Ejusdem  oeconomica. 

pergameno,  4°. 

21.  Ejusdem*  de  animalibus  fragmentum.  pergameno,  f°. 

22.  Ejusdem   Bachonis  fragmenta  queedam ;  videlicet,  de  multi- 
plicatione  et  corruptione  specierum. — Item  communia  natu- 
ralia. — Epistola  ad  Clementem  per  R.  de  utilitate  scientiarum 
artis  experimentalis,  &c.  pergameno,  f°. 

23.  Rogeri  Bachonis  pars  sexta  Operis  Majoris,  quaa  est  Scientia 
Experimentalis,  ad  Clementem  Pontif:  Romanorum. — Ejusdem 
Operis  Majoris  pars  septima,  quse  est,  Philosophia  Moralis. — 
Ejusdem  Alchimiee  tractatus  expositorius,  ad  Clementem  P.  M . 
R. — Ejusdem   compendium  alchimise.  —  Avicennse   clavis   sa- 
pientiae,  seu  porta  minor,  seu  tractatus  de  anima. — Breviloqui- 
um  Holcot. — Rogerii  Bachonis   speculum   alchimise. — Quses- 
tiones    super  librum  Jordani   de   ponderibus. — Compendium 
artis,  Raymundi  Lullii. — Excerpta  ex  theorica  Ramundi  Lul- 
lii. — Rogeri  Bachonis  tractatus  de  speciebus.  papyro,  f». 

24.  Alberti  Magni  de  mineralibus  libri  quinque. — Hermetis  qua- 
dripartitum    operis. — Rhithmomachia. — De   lapide   bezaar. — 
Ars  fusoria  ac  tinctoria  lapidum  ac  gemmarum.  —  Ptolomei 
liber  de  lapidibus  et  sigillis  eorundem. — Techel  de  sculpturis 
lapidum. — Galenus  (.  .  .  .portis)  de  spermate. — Avicennee  phi- 
siognomia. — Commentariolus  in  Aristotelis  phisiognomiam. — 
Cheiromantise  fragmentum.  —  Arithmeticee  fragmentum,  car- 
mine.— Practica  algorismi. — Anima  artis  transmutatoriae  Ra- 
mundi.— Phisica,  seu  medicina  Ramundi  Lullij. — De  herbis. — 
De  potentiis  duodecim  signorum  et  septem  planetarum. — Epis- 

*  Dee  has  added  in  the  margin  the  word  "  dubito,"  meaning,  I  suppose,  that  there 
was  not  any  sufficient  evidence  for  attributing  this  treatise  to  Roger  Bacon. 


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tola  accurtationis  lapidis  philosophorum  ad  Regem  Robertum. 
— Summa  cheiromantiee. — Albertus  Magnus  de  mineralibus. — 
Phisiognomia  ex  Loxio,  Aristotele,  et  Palemone. — Albertus  de 
plantationibus  arborum  et  de  conservatione  vini. — Virtutes 
septem  herbarum  Aristotelis.  —  Liber  Kirimandarum.  —  Phi- 
lonis  fragmentum  de  aquseductibus.  —  Quaestiones  qusedam 
naturales. — Constantinus  Medicus  de  coitu. — Practica  puero- 
rum. — De  natura  puerorum.  —  Introductiones  astronomicse. 
—  Hyppocrates  de  pharmacis. — Hyppocrates  de  secretis. — 
Hippocratis  lex.  —  Hippocrates  de  humana  natura. — Hippo- 
crates de  aere,  aqua,  et  regionibus.  pergameno,  4°. 

25.  Eulogium  temporis,  a  condito  orbe  in  annum  Christi  1367? 
monachi  cujusdem  Niniani.*  pergameno,  f\ 

26.  Rogerii  Bachonis  summa,  seu  opus  tertium,  ad  Clementem  P. 
M. — Ejusdem  Bachonis  majoris  operis  pars  quarta,   in  qua 
ostenditur    potestas   mathematicse    in    scientiis   atque   rebus 
mundi   hujus.  —  Ejusdem   compendium   studii   theologici. — 
Liber  preeceptorum   secundum  Albertum.  —Liber  de  sigillis 
solis  in   signis,  secundum  Hermetem.  —  Albertus  de  sigillo  et 
annulo  leonis,  et  ejus  virtutibus. — Arnoldus   de  Villa  Nova 
de  sigillis  duodecim  signorum.  papyro,  fo. 

27.  Rogerii  Bachonis  communium  naturalium  libri  duo,  quatuor 
sectionibus  distincti.  pergameno,  fo. 

In  boards,  with  clasps. 

28.  Alpetraugii  de  verificatione  motuum  coelestium  liber. — The- 
bith  de  his  quse  indigent  expositione,  antequam  legatur  Alma- 
gestum  Ptolomsei.  —  Liber  florum  Albumasar. — Liber  expe- 
rimentorum  Albumasar.  —  Liber  practicorum  geometriae. — Ja- 
cobi  Alkindi  liber  de  aspectibus. — Petri  de  Dacia  commen- 
tum  super  tractatum  algorismi.  —  Joh.  de  Sacrobosco  super 
tractatum  de  sphsera.  —  Ejusdem  computus  ecclesiasticus. — - 
Wilhelmus   de  Aragonia  in  Ptolomsei  centiloquium. — Ars  al- 

*  Now  MS.  Cotton.  Galba,  E.  vin.,  partially  burnt  by  the  fire.     Another  copy  of 
this  work  is  in  the  library  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  K.  vii.  2. 


70  CATALOGUE  OF  DR.    DEE^S 

gorismi  de  fractionibus.  —  Scripta  utilia  super  computum  ma- 
nualem.  —  Job:  de  Sicilia  in  canones  Arzachelis  de  tabulis 
Toletanis. — Quaestiones  mathematicales.*  pergameno,  f». 

29.  Richardi  Walyngforde  Abbatis  S.  Albani  de  sinubus  demon- 
strandis,  libri  iv.f  pergameno,  f°. 

30.  Johannis  Massoni   Monachi    epistolae. — Epistolee  de  somnio 
Pharaonis,  seu  Pharaonis  et  Joseph!  epistolee. — Alani  enchi- 
ridion de  planctu  seu  conquestu  naturee,  prosa  et  versu. — Ber- 
nardi  Silvestris  Cosmographia.  J  pergameno,  4°. 

31.  Bartholomei  Anglici  breviarium,  seu  de  proprietatibus  rerum. 

pergameno,  f°. 

32.  Jordani  Nemorarii  ^iXorex^,  sive  de  triangulis,  liber  primus, 
sexaginta  quatuor  propositiones  continens.          pergameno,  4°. 

33.  Rabbi  Mosis  liber   de   venenis. — Summa  brevis    Galeni  de 
cura  ethica3  senectutis. — Alberti  de   Colonia  tractatus   de  in- 
cisionibus  arborum  et  plantationibus  earum. — Unguentum  ad 
omnem  scabiem  tollendam,  quod  dicitur   Veni  mecum,  &c. — 
Tractatus  de  ornatu  faciei. — Hermetis  liber  de  septem  planetis, 
&c.  —  Rogerii   Bachonis  nonnulla  secreta. — De  factura  Sax- 
onis  Gallici. — Liber  de  tincturis  pannorum. — Liber  de  colo- 
ribus  illuminatorum  vel  pictorum. — De  diversis   operationibus 
ignium.  —  De   diversis   tincturis. — Hermetis   secreta. — Item, 
multa  alia  notabilia. — Item,  turba  philosophorum. 

pergameno,  4°. 

34.  Experimentorum  diversorum  liber. — De  vernisio  quo  utuntur 
scriptores. — Secreta  philosophorum. — De  usu  virgse  visorise, 
et  hujusmodi  secreta  multa.  papyro,  8V0. 

35.  Arrialdi  de   Villa  Nova   thesaurus    secretus  operationum. — 
Hermetis   liber   de  lapide  philosophorum. — Alfredi  liber  de 

*  Now  MS.  Harl.  1,  "  Johannes  Dee,  1657."  A  portion  of  this  volume  formerly 
belonged  to  John  of  London. 

f  The  only  copies  of  this  work  now  known  are  in  the  Bodleian  Library,  but  I  have 
not  succeeded  in  tracing  this  one. 

J  Otho,  B.  iv.  vid.  Tann.  Bibl.  p.  518.  This  MS.  was  destroyed  in  the  fire  of 
1731. 


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spiritu   occultato. — Rasis  practica,  cum  aliis  viginti   quinque 
libellis  variorum  autorum  consimilis  argumenti.        papyro,  4°. 

36.  Ptolomsei  quadripartitum,   Lat. — Albumazer  introductorium. 
— Isibradi  calendarium. — Profacii   Judsei   almanach.  —  Zaelis 
electiones. — De  significationibus  planetarum,  cum  aliis  tracta- 
tibus.  pergamenOj  4». 

37.  Expositio  theoricarum. — Thebith  de  motu  octavse  sphseroe. — 
Jordanus  de  ponderibus,  cum  qusestionibus  notabilibus  super 
eundem. — Jacobus  Alkindus  de  radijs,  seu  de  causis  redden- 
dis. — An  futura  possunt  per  astra  preesciri. — Nicolai  Oresmi 
liber    divinationum.  —  Thomse   Bravardini   geometria. — Per- 
spectiva  communis   Job.    de  Pecham. — Dominici   de  Hassia 
qusestiones    super    perspectivam  communem.  —  Euclides    de 
speculis. — Jacobus  Alkindus  de  umbris  et  causis  diversitatum 
aspectuum. — Dominici  de  Clavaso  practica  geometriee. — De- 
monstratio  aequalitatis  linese  ad  peripheriam  circuli. — Quad- 
ratura  circuli. — Expositio  tractatus  de  sphsera,  cum  queestioni- 
bus. — Algorismus   in   integris  Job.    de   Sacro-Bosco. — Algo- 
rithmus    in    minutiis  Joh.  de   Lineriis. — Thomse   Bravardini 
tractatus  proportionum. 

38.  Joh.  de   Pecham  canticum  pauperum. — Joh.  Walensis  com- 
muniloquium. — Ejusdem  Walensis  dietarium,  locarium,  itine- 
rarium.  —  Ejusdem  breviloquium.  —  Tractatus,  cujus  initium 
estj  Supra  tribus  sceleribus. — Aristotelis  liber  de  secretis  secre- 
torum.  pergameno,  4°. 

39.  Liber  Physiologi  de  natura  animalium  et  bestiarum. 

pergameno,  8°. 

40.  Gualteri  Burleei  tractatus  de  potentiis  animee.     pergameno,  4°. 

41.  Rogerii  Bachonis  perspectiva.  —  Ejusdem  de  multiplicatione 
specierum.  pergameno,  4°. 

In  paste-bords,  with  strings. 

42.  Tractatuli  tresde  lapide  philosophorum,  quorum  primi  initium 
est,  "  Dicit  philosophus/'  &c. 

43.  Vectii    Valentis     anthologia. — Aristoxeni    musica.  —  Alippii 


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musica — Cleomedes    de  mundo. — Expositio  astrolabii. —  Hip- 
parchus  in  Aratum  et  Eudoxum. — Grtecd  omnes.        papyro,  f°. 

44.  Libellus  antiquissimus  de  speculis   comburentibus,  cujus  ini- 
tium  est,  "  De  sublimiori/'  &c.*  pergameno,  4°. 

45.  Jordanus   de    ponderibus    cum    scholiis,   cujus   initium    est 
"  Omnis  ponderosi."  pergameno,  f°. 

46.  Raymundi  Lullii  liber  de  quinta  essentia.  pergameno,  f°. 

47.  Boetius   de  consolatione    philosophise,  in  Gracam  linguam 
con  versus  a  Maximo  Planude. — Catonis  distica,  cum  scholiis 
Planudis,  &c.  Grazed. — Aphthonij  progymnasmata,  Greece. 

papyro,  P . 
I  gave  this  Booke  to  Cracovia  Library,  A°.  1584,  July  28. 

48.  Porphirii  philosophi  Isagoge  in  Aristotelis  logicam,  Greece. 

papyro,  f°. 

49.  Naupegia  Itali  cujusdam,  cum  figuris.  papyro,  4°. 

50.  Dionysii    Zecharii    opusculum    de     lapide    philosophorum, 
Gallic^.  papyro,  4°. 

5 1 .  Roberti  Gloucestrensis  chronica,  rythmo  Anglico.-\    papyro,  f°. 

52.  Hystoria  Britannicorum  principum  a  Cadowaladro  Rege  ad 
Leolinum,  per  Humfredum  Lluyd  collecta,  Anglice.%  papyro,  f°. 

53.  Varies   compositioiies  aquarum  mercurialium  et  alia   experi- 
menta  chemica,    Anglice,   cujus  initium  est,    "  He  that  will 
make,"  &c.  papyro,  4°. 

54.  Varia    experimenta   chimica,   Anglice,   quorum   initium   est, 
u  For  to  make  white  lead."  pergameno,  f°. 

55.  Alberti  Magni  summa  naturalium,  cujus  initium  est,  "  Philoso- 
phia  dividitur."  papyro,  4°. 


*  Now  in  MS.  Vespas.  A.  u.  art.  12,  "  Joannes  Dee,  1555."  This  is  an  extremely 
curious  and  valuable  tract  in  the  history  of  optical  science,  and  is  similar  to  the 
curious  treatise  by  Gogava  De  specula  ustorio.  The  focus  of  the  parabola  is  here  for  the 
first  time  indicated,  a  circumstance  which  has  escaped  the  notice  of  scientific  historians. 

f  The  only  MS.  of  Robert  of  Gloucester's  poem,  answerable  to  this  description,  is 
in  the  University  Library,  Cambridge. 

t  This  MS.  is  now  in  the  library  of  the  Ashmolean  Museum,  No.  846. 


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56.  Rogerii  Bachonis  annotationes  super  Aristotelis  tractatum  de 
secretis  secretorum.  pergameno,  f°. 

57.  Phillip!  Ulstadii  coelum  philosophorum.  impressum,  f°. 

58.  Inventa  qusedam  geometrica.  papyro,  f°. 

My  owne  hand,  of  Richard  Chancellor    and    Thomas 
Topely. 

59.  Dumbyltoni  summa.  pergameno,  f°. 

60.  Beda  de  gestis  Anglorum.  pergameno,  4°. 

61.  Euclidis  geometrica. — Rogerii  Bachonis   perspectiva. — Aris- 
totilis  problemata. — Campani  theoricse  planetarum. 

pergameno,  4°. 

62.  Volumina  duo  magna,  Hebraice,  de  astrologicis  judiciis. —  Al- 
chimia  Salomonis.  papyro,  f°.  2  vol. 

63.  Roberti  Groshed, Lincolnien sis episcopi, dicta;  quorum initium 
est,  "  Spiritus  Sanctus  per  os  Salomonis/5  £c. — Ejusdem  trac- 
tatus   de  cessatione  legalium.  —  Ejusdem  tractatus  de  oculo 
moralij  una  cum  aliis  variis.  pergameno,  f°. 

64.  Isaac  Judsei  logica^   cum  aliis   variis  consimilis  argument!, 
Hebraice.  papyro,  4°. 

65.  Alhazen  perspectiva,  &c.  pergameno^  4°. 

John  Davis5  spoyle. 

66.  Ramundi  Lullii  testamentum. — Ejusdem  cantilena. — Ejusdem 
codicillus,sivevade  mecum. — Ejusdem  anima  transmutatoria. — 
Annotationes  super  testamentum  Ramundi. — Lapidarius  Ray- 
mundi. — Qusestiones   de    Paulina  Ramundi. — Qusestiones   de 
Olympiade  Ramundi.  —  Declaratio  tabularum  figures  5.  Ra^ 
mundi. — Repertorium  Raymundi. — Tractatus  de  consideratione 
lapidis.  —  Philosophia   cujusdam    Ramundistse.  —  Joh.    Das- 
tini  chimici  somnium,  seu  visiones,  Anglice. — Ramundi  Lullii 
distinctio  tertia. — Anima  artis,  juxta  exemplar  in  Anglia  reper- 
tum. — Apocalypsis    spiritus  secreti. — Ars   conversionis   Mer- 
curii  et  Saturni  in  aurum  et   argentum,   seu  de  aquis  Theu- 
thidis. — Aristotelis  lumen  luminum. — Raimundi   Lullii   quse- 
stionarius  arboris  philosophalis. — QucEstionarius  figurae 

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rangularis. — Qusestionarius  figurse  5. — Tertia  distinctio  juxta 
aliud  exemplar. — Aphorism!. — Accurtatio.  —  Practica  secret! 
occult!. — Opus  magnum,  sive  opus  regale. — Considerationes 
operis  minoris. — Cantilena  Catalonice,  cum  commento. — Ars 
brevis,  &c.  papyro,  F. 

6?.  Ramundi  Lull!  speculum  alchimiee.  —  Ejusdem  liber  de 
quinta  essentia. — Ejusdem  lapidarius,  scilicet  de  gemmis. — 
Joh.  Dastini  liber  de  compositione  lapidis. — Ejusdem  donum 
Dei. — Liber  radicum.  —  Liber  administrationum.  —  Ejusdem 
Dastini  speculum  philosophorum. — Rasis  de  duodecim  aquis, 
&c.  papyro,  f°. 

68.  Aneti  filii  Abraham  practica  medica. — Scarsati  practica  medi- 
cinalis,  una  cum  aliis.  pergameno,  4°. 

69.  Eathelredi  Abbatis  Rievallis  de  vita  Edowardi   regis  Anglo- 
rum  et  Coiifessoris.*  pergameno,  4°. 

70.  Robert!   episcopi  Lincolniensis  tractatus  in  lingua  Romana, 
hoc  est,  veteri  rithmo  Galileo,  de  principio  creationis  mundi, 
de  medio  et  fine,  &c.  pergameno,  4°. 

71.  Wilhelmi  de  Northfeilde  expositio  super  librum  de  differen- 
tia spiritus  et  animae. — Ejusdem  expositio  super  diversa  opus- 
cula  Aristolelis  phisicorum.f  pergameno,  f°. 

72.  Magistri  Franconis  regulae  musicales,  cum  additionibus  alio- 
rum  musicorum,  collectse  a  Roberto  de  Handle. — Rogerii  Ba- 
chonis  perspectiva,  una  cum  aliis  geometricis  et  astrologicis. 

pergameno,  f°. 

73.  Gualtheri  Burlei  notabilia  super  Porphyrii   prsedicabilia,  et 
Aristotelis  prsedicamenta,  una  cum  aliarum  notationum  libellis. 

papyro,  4°. 

74.  Boetii  Musica. — Hermannus  Contractus  de  compositione   as- 
trolabii,  et  de  ejus  utilitatibus.  pergameno,  4° 

75.  Chronica  de  imperatoribus  seu  compendium  historiarum  in 
prima   monarchia  Babiloniorum,   in  annum  Christ!  1266. — 

*  Now  MS.  Harl.  200,  "  Joannes  Dee,  1575." 
t  Now  C.  C.  C.  Oxon.  No.  235. 


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Job.  de  Bononia  summa  pontificum  Romanorum  et  impera- 
torum  in  annum  Christ!  1313.  —  Alexandri  Magni  ortus  et 
res  gestae.  pergameno,  4°. 

76.  Wilhelmi  Wodford,  ordinis  Minorum,  opusculum  quees- 
tionum  quarundam,  contra  dialogum  Job.  Wycklyf  a  Thoma 
Cantuariensi  arcbiepiscopo  condemnatum. — Thomas  Palmere 
tractatus  de  imagiiiibus,  cum  aliis  variis.  papyro,  4°. 

77-  Collectanea  qusedam  chimica  Siberti  Rhodii.  papyro,  f°. 

78.  Roberti  Holcot  qusestiones    super  quatuor  libros   Lombard! 
sententiarum. — Ejusdem  qusestiones  de  astronomia. 

pergameno,  4°. 

79.  Arnaldi  de  Villa  Nova  liber  de  alchimia,  cujus  initium  est, 
ee  Scito,  fili,  quod  in  hoc  libro,"  una  cum  aliis  ejusdem  opus- 
culis.  papyro,  4°. 

80.  Ethic!  philosophi  cosmographia,  per  D.  Hieronymum  Stre- 
donem  Lat.  conversa.  pergameno,  f°. 

8 1 .  Roger!!  Bachonis  epistolae  tres,  sive  scripta  tria  ad  Job.  Pari- 
siensem,  in  quibus  latet  sapientia  mundi. — Kalid  rex  ad  Mo- 
rienum. — Gebri  et  Avicennse  chimica.  papyro,  4°. 

82.  Euclidis  elementorum  geometricorum  libri  decem.  —  Ejusdem 
perspectiva,  &c.  Lat.  papyro.,  4°. 

83.  Alhazeni  perspectiva,  libri  septem,  Lat.  pergameno,  f°. 

84.  De  fabrica  speculi  ustorii  fragmentum. — Urso    de  effectibus 
qualitatum  primarum. — Liber  vaccae. — Albert!  dona. — Thomas 
Aquinas  de  essentiis  rerum.  pergameno,  4°. 

85.  Ricardi  Hampole  liber,  qui  dicitur  Incendium  Amoris,  Anglice. 

pergameno,  f°. 

86.  Alhazeni  perspectiva,  Lat. — Item  Alfraganus,  &c.  Lat. 

pergameno,  f°. 

87.  Albumazar  de  judiciis  astrologicis.  pergameno,  f°. 

88.  Jacob!  Fabri  Stapulensis  conclusiones  phisicae,  &c.  ex  Aris- 
totele  excerptee.  papyro,  f°. 

89.  Job.  Eschuidi  summa  Anglicana,  seu  medicinalis. 

pergameno,  f°. 


90.  Bartholomseus  Anglicus  de  proprietatibus  rerum. 

pergameno,  f.  grandiori. 

91.  Jordan!    Nemorarii    arithmetica    cum     commento.  —  Algo- 
rithmus in    integris   Joh.  de   Sacrobosco.  —  Algorithmus    in 
minutiis,  Joh.  de  Lineriis. — Campani  theorica  planetarum. — 
Nicholai  Ores  mi  tractatus  de  proportionibus  proportionum.* 

.'  — Jordani  tractatus  de  commensuratione  ccelestium. — 
Gervasii  algorithmus  proportionum. — Demonstrationes  con- 
clusionum  astrolabii. — Tractatus  de  torqueto  et  ejus  usu.  — 
Tabulae  Alfonsi  regis  Castellee. — Canones  tabularum  Alfonsi 
per  Joh.  de  Saxonia. — Joh.  de  Lineriis  canones  tabularum 
primi  mobilis. — Jacob  Alkindus  de  impressio[n]ibus  aeris. — 
Rogerii  Bachonis  de  utilitate  arithmeticee.  —  Campani  com- 
postus  ecclesiasticus. — Jordani  algorithmus  demonstratus. 

pergameno,  f°. 

92.  Helinandi  Monachi  Cistercien.  chronicorum  mundi  libri  xxx. 
hoc  est,  pars  prima.  pergameno,  f°. 

93.  Francisci  Catanei  Diacetii  paraphrasis  in  Aristotelem  de  ccelo, 
&c.  pergameno,  f°. 

94.  Isidori  Hispalensis  liber  de  natura  rerum,   cum  glosulis. — 
»'    Prisciani  institutio . — Bedee  versus  de  die  judicii. 

pergameno,  4°. 

95.  Tractatus   de    figuris  stellarum  in    octava    sphsera. —  Gebrt 
libri  novem   de  astronomia. — Almagesti   libri  sex  abbreviati. 
— Jordani  libri  de  triangulis. — Plures  conclusiones  Almagisti 
abbreviati. — Archimedis  liber  de  curvis  superficiebus. — Trac- 
tatus   Albeonis. — Tabula   pro     locis    planetarum. — Tractatus 
Zaphei  Arzachelis,  &c.  —  Capitula  libri  Almagesti. — Compen- 
dium musices  ex  Boetio.  —  Euclidis  elementa   geometrica. — 
Gebri  conclusiones  de  astronomia.  —  Theodosii   sphaerica. — 
Milei  de  figuris  spheericis  et  triangulis,  libri  tres.  —  Tabulae 
planetarum  de   radicibus   et   motibus.  —  Machumeti   Bagde- 

*  Extract  from  tins  article  in  MS.  Bernard,  34C7,  where  there  are  other  extracts 
firom  MSS.  in  Dee's  possession. 


LIBRARY    OF    MANUSCRIPTS.  77 

dini  liber  divisionum.  —  Tractatus  de  quinque  corporibus  re- 
gularibus. — Tractatus  de  speculis  comburentibus. — Tabula 
domificandi,  pro  latitudine  Oxoniens. — Tabulae  plurium  latitu- 
dinum,  secundum  Bachecumbe. — Thebith  tractatus  de  motu. — 
Tractatus  de  proportione  circumferentiae  circuli,  &c. — Tabulae 
quatuor  soils.  pergameno,  f°. 

96.  Roger!  Bachonis  tractatus  de  virtu tibus  et  actionibus  stella- 
rum.  papyro,  4°. 

97.  Vitellionis  perspectiva.*  pergameno,  f°. 

98.  Theodosii  sphaerica. — Euclidis  data,  Lat. — Archimides  de  qua- 
dratura  circuli.  pergameno,  4°. 

99.  Haly  de  judiciis  astrorum.  pergameno,  f°. 

100.  Boetius    de    consolatione  philosophies    cum   commento.  — 
Scripta  super  plures  libros  geometries. — Jordanus  de  speculis. 
— Jordanus    de  ponderibus.  —  Archadii  demonstrationes    de 
quadratura    circuli.  —  Tractatus    Hermanni    de   astrolabio. — 
Liber  de   similibus  arcubus. — Archimedes   de  figuris  isoperi- 
metris. — Archimedes  de  curvis  superficiebus.      pergameno,  4°. 

101.  Avicenna  de  prima  philosophia,  i.  e.  de  causa  causarum,  vel 
metaphisica,  Lat.  pergameno,  4°. 

102.  Alhazeni  perspectiva.  pergameno,  4° 

103.  Ricardi    de   Posis   summa  epistolarum    (quasi  ars  quaedam 
notariatus)  secundum  consuetudinem  Romanae  curiae. 

pergameno,  f°. 

104.  Arzachelis  tabulae  astronomicae.  pergameno,  4°. 

105.  Chronicon  Angliae,  Anglice,  manuscriptum.       pergameno,  f°. 

106.  Aristotelis  commentum  in  astrologiam  (fragmentum). 

pergameno,  4° 

107.  Alberti  Magni  minerarium.  pergameno,  4°. 

108.  Haly    de    judiciis    astrorum.  —  Liber    novem   judicum    in 
astrologia. — Jafar  de  imbribus. — Messahala  de  nativitatibus. 

*  Now  MS.  Ashm.  No.  424.  From  a  MS.  note  it  appears  that,  in  1564,  the  Fellows 
of  Peterhouse,  at  Cambridge,  presented  this  book  to  Dr.  Dee,  in  exchange  for  various 
printed  books  which  he  gave  to  thejr  library.  Vid.  MS.  C.C.C.  Oxon.  No.  191. 


78 

— Aristotelis  liber  de  judiciis  universalibus. — Hani  Benhannse 
liber  de  geometria. — Guido  Bonatus  de  astrologio.* 

papyro,  f°.  magno. 

109.  Algorithmus  integrorum  cum  commento. — Algorithmus  frac- 
torum     cum     commento.  —  Summa     utriusque     arithmetics 
Boetii. — Arithmetica  compilata  ex  multis  scientiis. — Liber  de 
figuris    numerorum.  —  Practica     memorandi. — Tractatus      de 
speculo  combustorio  secundum  section  em  Mukesij. — Euclidis 
geometricorum  libri  15.   cum   commento. — Jordanus   de  pon- 
deribus  cum  commento. — Euclides  de  ponderibus  cum  com- 
mento.— Euclidis  datorum  liber  cum  commento. — Archimedes 
de  curvis  superficiebus  cum  commento. — Archimedes  de  qua- 
dratura  circuli,    cum   commento. — Archimede[s]     de   figuris 
ysoperimetrorum. — Theodosii  spheerica. — Rob.  Lincoln  [i]  ensis 
episcopi,    de  luce^  calore,   et  iride.  —  Vitellionis  perspective 
libri  quatuor.  pergameno,  f°. 

110.  Rob.  Lincoln  [i] ensis   episcopi  constitutiones   pro    sua  dio- 
cesi,  videl.  in  decalogum,  &c.  pergameno,  f°' 

111.  Perspectiva  Algazet,  forte  Halazen.  Lat.  pergameno,  4° 

112.  Annales  regulorum  Cambricorum,  a  Cadowaladro  ad  Leolini 
tempora,  lingua  Brytannica  sive  Cambrica.  papyro,  4° 

113.  Perquisita  et  alia  quee  pertinebant    ad  Winchecumbe  Ab- 
batiam.f  pergameno,  4°. 

114.  Boetii  arithmetica.  pergameno,  4°. 

115.  Queestiones   erudite    disputatse    super    librum    meteororum 
Aristotelis.  pergameno,  4°. 

116.  De   Indorum  et   Persarum    annis   astronomicis.  —  Annota- 
tiones  in  Martianum  Capellam.  pergameno,  4°. 

117.  De    potentiis    animee. — Auberti    Remensis    philosophia. — 
Oliveri  philosophia. — Petrus  Hispanus  de  morte  et  vita,  et 
causis  longitudinis  et  brevitatis  vitse. — Albertus  de  divinatione. 

*  Now  MS.  Savil.  Oxon.  No.  15. 

t  It  does  not  appear  from  Tanner's  Notitia  Monastica,    or   from  Sir    Thomas 
Phillipps's  Catalogue,  that  this  MS.  is  now  preserved. 


LIBRARY    OP    MANUSCRIPTS.  79 

De  spiritu  et  inspiratione. — De  signis  aquarum,  ventorura  et 
tempestatum. — Ramundus  Massiliensis  de  cursu  planetarum. 
— Alexander  Aphrodiseus  ad  imperatores  Antoninum  et  Seve- 
rum  de  fato.  —  Quaestiones  de  intellectu.  —  Quaestiones  de 
anima. — Hermannus  Secundus  de  essentiis. — Platonis  Phse- 
don,  sive  de  anima. — Commentum  super  Platonis  Timaeum. — 
Platonis  Menon.  Lat.  pergameno,  P. 

118.  De  administratione  principum  liber.  pergameno,  4°. 

119.  Isidori  Hispalensis  etymologiarum  fragmentum  magnum. 

pergameno,  f". 

120.  Tabulae  astronomicse    ad    annos   decem,  cum   canonibus. — 
Algorithmus    demonstratus    cum    minutiis. — Alfraganus     de 
annis. — Alcabicii  astrologia. — Tabulae  de  numeris  proportion- 
alibus. — Computus  cum  calendario.  pergameno,  4°. 

121.  Polychronica.  pergameno,  f°. 

122.  Polychronicon.  pergameno,  f°  minori. 

123.  Hystoriae  Britannicae  et  Angliae  fragmentum,   Gallice  con- 
scriptum.  pergameno,  4°. 

124.  Guido  Bonatus  de  judiciis  astrorum.  pergameno,  f°. 

125.  Passionale.  pergameno,  f°. 

126.  Astronomici    libelli   cujusdam    fragmentum,    cujus    initium 
est,  fe  A  philosophis  astronomiam  sic  definitam  accepimus." 

pergameno,  4°. 

127.  Expositio  quaedam  super  Cantica  Canticorum. — Ars  fidei  se- 
cundum  Ambionensem. — Macrobius  in  somnium  Scipionis. 

pergameno,  f°. 
The  second  tract  is  cut  out,  and  to  be  answered  for. 

128.  Matricula,  sive  catalogus  bibliothecae  Cantuariensis. 

papyro,  f. 

129.  Author  de  causis  cum  demonstrationibus.         pergameno,  f . 
]  30.  Alchimicus  libellus,  Anglice,  cujus  initium  est,  "  Take  limale." 

papyro,  4°. 

131.  Libellus  chimicus,  Latine. — Varii  tractatus  super  capitulum 
Hermetis  quod  dicitur  "  Clavis  Sapientiae  Majoris/5 

pergameno,  f°. 


80  CATALOGUE    OF    DR.    DEE*S 

132.  Sidrach  philosophi  liber,  Gallice.  pergameno,  4°. 

133.  Kallendarium. — Quaedam  de  computu  ecclesiastico,  Latine  et 
Saxonice. — Alphabetum  somniale. — Praeces  quaedam  piae.* 

pergameno,  8°. 

134.  Lectiones  cujusdam  super  Ecclesiasticen.          pergameno,  f°. 

135.  Commentarius  bonus  in  definitiones  quinti  libri  Euclidis. — 
Euclides  totus  ex  Campani  traditione. — Explicatio  bona  Archi- 
medis  de  quadratura  circuli.  pergameno,  4. 

136.  Cicero  de   natura  deorum. — Catonis  liber  ad  Varronem. — 
Euclidis  liber  cum  commento. — Preceptum  canonum  Ptolomaei. 
— — Tractatus  astrolabii  duplicis  cum  practica. — Tabulae  astro- 
nomicae. — Aristotelis  epistola  de  rectitudine  vitae,  ad  Alexand. 
— Henrici  Britton  philosophia. — Oliveri  Britton  philosophia. 
— Philosophia  Remensis  et  aliorum. — Liber  de  speculis,  liber 
de  visu,  et  quaedam  alia.  pergameno,  4°. 

137.  Boetii   arithmetica. — Ejusdem  de  trinitate  libri. — Ejusdem 
de  duobus  in  Christo  naturis. — Ejusdem  de  hebdomadibus. 
— Rob.    Grostesti,   Lincolniensis  episcopi,   de    arte  algorismi 
communi. — Ejusdem  alius  tractatus  magis  in  speciali. — Thebith 
super  Almagistum  Ptolomaei. — Theodosius  de  locis  habitabili- 
bus. — Theoria  planetarum  cum  tabulis  necessariis. — Commen- 
tum   super    Gentiloquium   Ptolomaei. — Ars   cheiromantiae,   in 
Gallico    sermone.  —  De   interpretationibus   somniorum.  —  De 
significatioriibus  tonitruorum. — Physiognomia  secundum  Tho- 
mam  Aquinatem.— De  prognosticationibus  tempestatum. — De 
pluribus    necessariis    ad   casus   inquirendos    secundum  algo- 
rismum. — Cheiromantia,  Lat.f  pergameno,,  4°. 

138.  Astronomica,   astrologica,    et   arithmetica. —  Observationes 
quaedam  planetarum  et  fixarum,  Petri  de  Sancto  Audomaro  et 
et  Job.  de  Lineriis.  pergameno,  4°. 

1 39.  Tabulae  astronomicae  cum  canonibus.  pergameno,  8°. 

*  The  MS.  described  by  Wanley,  p.  222,  as  MS.  Cotton.  Vitell.  A.  xviu,  now  de- 
stroyed, is  probably  the  one  here  mentioned.  The  Cotton.  MS.  Jul.  A.  vj.  also  answers 
the  brief  description  above  given. 

f  Now  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin.     See  Dr.  Bernard's  Catalogue,  No.  46. 


LIBRARY    OF    MANUSCRIPTS.  81 

140.  Libellus  de  natura  locorum.  pergameno,  8°. 

141.  Ivonis  Carnutensis  varii  tractatus  ecclesiastic!,  et  volumen 
epistolarum  diversorum  ad  diversos,  &c.  pergameno,  f°. 

142.  Boetii  musica. — Expositio   Siraonis   de  Bredon  super  duos 
libros  arithmeticse  Boetii.  pergameno,  4°. 

143.  Calcidius  in  Platonis  Timseum.*  pergameno,  4°  long. 

144.  Marii  de  elementis  libri  duo. — Liber  qui  dicitur  Prenonphy- 
sicon. — Alardi  Bathoniensis  quaestiones  naturales. — Physiogno- 
mia  secundum  tres  authores,  videlicet,  Loxum,  Aristotelem, 
et  Palemonem. — Liber  spermatis. — Soranus   de  re  medica. — 
Constantini  liber  de  herbis. — Dioscorides  de  virtutibus  her- 
barum,  Lat. — Oribasius  de  virtutibus  herbarum,  Lat. — Odonis 
Adunensis  versus  de  virtutibus  herbarum. — Isidori  Hyspalensis 
etymologiarum  libri.  —  Constantini  Medici  liber  graduum. — 
Euphonis  experimenta.  —  Adamarii  experimenta. — Joh.   Me- 
lancholici    experimenta. — Experimenta    Abbatis. —  Experi- 
menta Wiscardi.  —  Experimenta  Picoti. — De  urina  mulieris. 
—  Expositio  quintee  incisionis    epidemiarum    Hippocratis. — 
Joh.  Melancholici  liber  de    substantia   urinae. — Palladius    de 
agricultura. — Liber  de  simplici  medicina.  pergameno,  f°. 

145.  Alberti  Magni  magia  naturalis  et  vera. — Idiotae  liber,  authore 
Cusano. — Contra  Jacobellinos  in  Bohemia. — Antonii  Barsizii 
cauteriaria,  comedia,  una  cum  aliis  variis.  papyro,  f°. 

146.  Aristotelis  physicorum  libri  octo. — Ejusdem  de  generatione 
et  corruptione,  lib.  2. — De  ccelo  et  de  mundo,  libri  4. — Me- 
teorum  libri   4.  —  De   vegetabilibus,    &c.  —  De   anima,    libri 
tres.  —  De  memoria  et  reminiscentia.  —  Ethicorum  secundus 
et  tertius.  —  De   morte  et  vita,  et  alia  ejusdem  Aristotelis, 
Latine.  pergameno,  4°. 

147.  Serapionis   de  aptatione  et  repressione,  seu  servitor  Sera- 
pionis.  pergameno,  f°. 

*  Now  MS.  Bib.  Reg.  Mas.  Brit.  12  B.  XXII,  "  Johannes  Dee,  1557,  4  Maij,  Lon- 
dini." 

CAMD.    SOC. DEE.  M 


82 

148.  Thomas  de  Aquino  de  veritate  theologica,  libri  septem. 

pergameno  3  4°. 

149.  Albert!  magni  tractatus  de  lapidibus. — Jacobus  Alkindus  de 
radiis.  papyro,  f°. 

150.  Historia  Anglica  cujusdam  anonymi.  papyro,  4°. 

151.  Euclidis  optica,  catoptrica,  et  geometria,  Lat. 

pergameno,  4°. 

152.  Fragmentum  theologicum  quoddam  in  Ecclesiasticum. 

pergameno,  f°. 

153.  Tractatus    astrolabij. — De   significatione  rei   occultse.  —  De 
aeris  dispositione.  —  Tabula  pro  almanack.  —  Ars   notaria. — 
Aristotelis  epistola  de  conservatione  sanitatis. — Rogeri  Here- 
fordensis  computus.  —  Compositio    astrolabii.  —  Planisphse- 
rium. — Alfraganus. — Geber  in  Ptolomeei  almagestum,  una  cum 
aliis.  pergameno,  4°. 

154.  Apologia  chemicse  artis,  contra  Cornelium  Agrippum  de  vani- 
tate  scientiarum. — De  oleis  variis  medicinalibus,  una  cum  aliis 
multis.  papyro,  4°. 

155.  Alcabicius. — Astronomia  qusedam  judicialis. — Zahelis  intro- 
ductorium,   cum  judiciis   sequentibus.  —  Mathematica  Alex- 
andri  summi  astrologi. — Jacob  Alkindus  de  judiciis  astrolo- 
gicis.  —  Albumazar   de   revolutionibus     annorum    mundi.  — 
Summae  excerptse    ex  libro  Albumazar,  de  revolutione  nati- 
vitatum. — Albohali  de  nativitatibus. — Albumazar  liber  florum. 
— Almanack  perpetuum  Profacii  Judeei. — Thomas  Aquinas  de 
angelis.*  4°  pergameno. 

156.  Lamentationes  Matheeoluli,  carmine.f  pergameno,  4°. 

157.  Hippocratis  aphorismi.  —  Ejusdem  prognostica.  —  Ejusdem 
liber  de  regimine  acutorum. — Ejusdem  liber  epidemiarum. — 
Ejusdem    astronomia  de   infirmitatibus.  —  Johannicii  isogoge 

*  This  MS.  is  now  in  the  Ashmolean  collection,  No.  360. 

f  This  is  probably  the  copy  now  in  MS.  Cotton.  Cleopatra,  C.  IX.     I  know  of  no 
other  which  answers  the  description. 


: 


LIBRARY    OF    MANUSCRIPTS.  83 

in  Galeni  Tecknin. — Hyppocratis  secreta, — Tractatus  de  com- 
positione  astrolabii. — Tractatus  de  practica  astrolabii. — Trac- 
tatus de  compositione  novi  quadratis. — Campani  tractatus  de 
motibus  planetarum  et  de  fabricatione  equatorii  instrumenti 
per  quod  certa  loca  planetarum  inveniuntur. — Petri  Perigrini 
tractatus  de  magnete.* — Jordan!  liber  Planisphserii. — Euclidis 
liber  de  speculis. — Jordani  tractatus  de  ponderibus. — Prac- 
tica geometries.  pergameno,  4«. 

158.  Rogerii  Bachonis   calendarium. — Tabula    ad  sciendum  quis 
planetadominetur  omni  hora  cujus  libet  diei. — Tabula  multi- 
plicationis. — Liber  de  naturis  rerum  abreviatus. — Marbodeus 
de  sculp turis  gemmarum. — Liber  de  lapidibus  filiorum  Israel. 
— Hippocratis  sigria  in  infirmo. — Unguentum  alabastri. — De 
modo  faciendi  olei. — De  aquis  mundificativis  oculorum  faciei, 
et  aliorum  spiritualium  membrorum. — De  pilatoria. — Ut  pili 
nascantur    ubi   volueris. — De   conservation   vini.  —  Gregorii 
dialogorum  liber  primus  et  secundus. — Vita  Sancti  Nicholai. — 
Vita  Sancti  ^Egidij.  pergameno,  4°. 

159.  Computus  ecclesiasticus. — Beda  de  calculatione. — Computus. 

pergameno,  4°. 

160.  Wilhelmi  de  Conchis  philosophia.  f  pergameno,  4°. 

161.  (olueestiones  super  elenchos,  et  alia  logicalia.  papyro,  4°. 

162.  Qusestiones  de  apparentiis,  seu  fallaciis  sophisticis,  manu- 
scriptee.  papyro. 

163.  Alberti  de  Saxonia  tractatus   proportionum,  4o    impressus 
Rothomagi. — Jacobi  Lupi    tractatus    de  productionibus   per- 
sonarum  in  divinis,  secundum  mentem  Job.  Scoti,  4°  impres- 
sum. — Una  cum  aliis  tractatibus  variarum  queestionum, — 

papyro  manuscript.  4<>. 


*  Dee's  own  copy  of  the  printed  edition,  with  his  MS.  notes,  is  in  the  British  Mu- 
seum.    "  Johannes  Dee,  1562." 
t  Now  MS.  Bib.  S.  Joh.  Coll.  Cantab.  G.  3.     "  Johannes  Dee,  1557,  4  Maii." 


84 

164.  Henrici  Beaumundi  regimen  sanitatis,  cum  aliis  variis  ex- 
perimentis,  tarn  Anylice  quam  Latine  scriptis.    pergameno,  4o 

165.  Avicenna  de  naturalibus. — Ejusdem  de  sufficientia. — Thomse 
de  Aquino  tractatus  de  essentia. — Avendauth  de  quinque  uni- 
versalibus. — Alchindi   philosophi    de   quinque    essentiis,   ex 
verbis  Aristotelis  abstractus  liber. — Platonis  Timseus. — Isaac 
de  diffinitionibus,  Lat. — Jacob  de  rationali  in  anima. — Alex- 
andri  Philosophi  de  intellectu  et  intelligibili  liber,  Lat. — Al- 
gacelis  logica. — Alchindus  de  intellectu  et  intellecto. — Ama- 
ometh  liber  introductorius  in  artem  logicam  demonstrationis. 
— Averrhois  de  substantia  orbis. — Alfarabius  de  intellectu  et 
intellecto. — Liber  planetarum  cujusdam  discipuli  Ptolomaei. — 
Mercurius  Trismegistus. —  Secundus  Philosophus  de  diffinitio- 
nibus. — Boetius  de  unitate. — Liber  de  differentia  spiritus  et 
animse. — Liber  metaphisicse  Avicennae,  qui  non  est  completus. 

166.  De  philosophia  Salomonis. — Fulgentius  episcopus  ad  Calci- 
dium  Grammaticum. — Experinienta  qusedam  alchimica. — Cas- 
siodorus  de  anima,  una  cum  aliis  theologicis.       pergameno,  8°. 

16?.  Boetii  arithmetica. — Theorica  planetarum  et  stellarum  se- 
cundum  Alfraganum. — Boetii  musica. — Euclidis  geometrica.-— 
Propositiones  planispheerii  Ptolomeei  cum  additionibus. — Mas- 
lem  Arabis.  *  pergameno,  4°. 

168.  Disputatio  inter  militem  et  clericum.  pergameno,  4°. 

169.  Joh.    Scoti  queestiones  super  secundo  et  tertio  libro  Aris- 
totelis de  anima. — Antonii  Andrese  qusestiones  in  Aristotelis 
meteora.  papyro,  4°. 

170.  Isidori    Hispalensis    liber   differentiarum. — Cic.    academicee 
queestiones. — Ejusdem   natura  deorum. — Ejusdem   de  divina- 
tione. — Ejusdem  de  fato. — Ejusdem  paradoxa. — Ejusdem  Phi- 
lippicee  orationes. — Libellus  de  bestiis,  avibus,  et  arboribus.  — 


*  Now  MS.  Lambeth,  No.  67.     Dee's  autograph  has  been  erased  from  the  fly-leaf, 
but  "  1558,  30  Junii,  Londini,"  remains  in  his  handwriting. 


LIBRARY    OF    MANUSCRIPTS.  85 

Salustius  de  bello  Catilinario  et  Jugurthino. — Vegetius  de  re 

militari,  &c.  pergameno,  4°. 

171.  Computus  Ecclesiasticus.  pergameno,  8°. 

172.  Solinus  de  mirabilibus  mundi.  pergameno,  4°. 

173.  Bon  a  gesta  Mariae. — Maleus,  &c.  pergameno,  16°. 

174.  Sortilegia  nugatoria.  pergameno,  8°. 

175.  Sortilegia  nugatoria.  pergameno,  4°. 
1?6.  Joh.  Sarisberiensis  policraticum,  sive  de  nugis  curialium  et 

vestigiis  philosophorum,  libri  octo.  pergameno,  4°. 

1?7«  Computus  manualis,  cum  aliis  sexaginta  quinque  tractatibus 

variorum  autorum  in  medicinalibus,  physicis,  astronomicis,  et 

aliis.  pergameno,  8°. 

178.  Gebri  summa  alchimiae.  pergameno,  4°. 

179.  Hermetis  cujusdam  libellus  de  rebus  universalibus. 

pergameno,  4°. 

180.  Imago  mundi,  cujus  initium  est,  e{  Operatic  divina/' 

pergameno,  4°. 

181.  Thomse  Bravardini  Anglici  propositiones  geometriee. 

pergameno,  4°. 

182.  Macer  de  virtutibus  herbarum.  pergameno,  4°. 

183.  Libellus  medicinse  et  chirurgiae,  partim  Latine,  partim  An- 
glice,  partim  etiam  Gallice.  pergameno,  16°. 

184.  Ramundi  Lulii  practica  chimica,  Anglice.*  papyro,  4°. 

185.  Alchimica;  videlicet  tres  tractatus  alchimici,  Volvi  lapidem, 
&c. — De  quinta  essentia  Mercurii. — Secretum  secretorum  Fieri 
philosophi.  pergameno,  4°. 

186.  Roberti    Lincolniensis    episcopi,    de    luce,    de  iride,    cum 
multis  aliorum  tractatis  circiter  34.  pergameno,  4°. 

A  thick  booke  with  a  labell. 

187.  Libri  diversi  astrologici,  quorum  primi  initium  est,  "  Postulata 
a  Domino."  pergameno,  4°. 

*  Now  MS.  Sloan.  2128. 


86  CATALOGUE    OF    DR.    DEE?S 

188.  Roger!  Bachonis,  Morieni  Roman!,  Joh.  Viennensis,  Albert! 
Magni,  Hermetis,  Rasis,  Hortulani,  chimica  queedam. 

pergameno,  8°. 

189.  Speculum  secretorum,   cum   aliis  baud  contemnendis    che- 
micis  fragmentis.  pergameno,  4°. 

190.  Joh.  de  Sacrobosco  sphaera. — Johannicii  glossulse,  cum  aliis 
tractatibus. — Roger!  Bachonis  et  Rob.  Lincolniensis  episcopi, 
&c.  pergameno,  4«>. 

191.  Libellus  chimicus,  cujus  initium  est,  "  Materia  lapidis." 

papyro,  8°. 

192.  Jacob!  Alkindi  de  pluviis,  imbribus,  ventis,  et  de  mutatione 
aeris.  papyro,  f°. 

193.  Liber  duodecim  aquarum,  &c.*  pergameno,  4°. 

194.  ^Egidii  de  Wallecers  computus_,  de  cometis,  de  crepusculis. 
— ^Tabuke  domorum  et  ascensionum. — Kallendarii  errores. — 
Jo.  de  Pecham  perspectiva  communis. — 30  Arabes,  qui  dicuntur 
Magistri  probationum. — Tractatus  minutiarum,  una  cum  aliis. 

pergameno,  8°. 

195.  Abraham  Judsei   liber   de    judiciis   nativitatum,  cum    aliis 
variis.  papyro,  4°. 

196.  Albertus  de  mineralibus,  cujus  initium  est,  "De  mixtione  et 
coagulatione,^  &c. — Roger!!  Bachonis  epistola  prima  ad  Joh. 
Parisiensem. — Summa    aurea,    una    cum    multorum  aliorum 
tractatibus.  pergameno,  4°. 

In  a  black  cover  with  clasps. 

197.  Ludus  astronomicus.  papyro,  8°. 

198.  Parisiensis  liber,  cujus  initium  est,  "Augustinus  de  Civitate 
Dei/'  &c.  papyro,  4°. 

199.  Pomum  Am  brae. — Trotulae   de  ornatu  mulierum. — Ascarus 
Philosophus    de    signis    mulierum. — De    secretis    mulierum, 
cum  aliis  experimentis. — Theophilus  Monachus  de  coloribus. 

*  Now  in  Magdalen  College,  Oxford,  No.  277. 


LIBRARY    OF    MANUSCRIPTS.  8? 

— Eraclius  de  coloribus  et  artibus  Roman. — Queedam  experi- 
menta  medica,  cum  aliis  superstitiosis. — Compositio  et  usus 
astrolabii,  una  cum  aliis.  pergameno,  8°. 

[In  that  part  of  the  Catalogue  describing  the  printed  Books,  under 
the  title  of "  Chemici  Libri,  fyc.  Compacti,"  occur  the  following 
Manuscripts. ~\ 

200.  Ramundi  Lulii  ars  generalis,  cum  quaestionibus  ejusdem. — De 
medi[ci]na  et  astronomia  ejusdem. — Speculum  medicinee.    4°. 

201.  Ramundi  Lulii  ars  magna  cum  figuris. — Ejusdem  ars  gene- 
ralis, cum  qusestionibus. — Ejusdem  introductorium  sive  cano- 
nes  artis  generalis. — Ejusdem  de  principiis  et  medicinse  gradi- 
bus. — Ejusdem  de  regiminibus  sanitatis  et  infirmitatis.  f°. 


A  CATALOGUE  OF  SUCH  OF  DR.  DEE'S  MSS.  AS 
ARE  COME  TO  MY  HANDS. 

[By  ELIAS  ASHMOLE.]* 

1.  Mysteriorum  liber  primus,  1581,  et  1582. 

It  begins  22  Dec.  1581,  and  ends  15  March  1582. 

2.  Mysteriorum  liber  secundus. 

The  first  leafe  is  utterly  perished.     It  ends  21  March, 
1582. 

3.  Mysteriorum  liber  tertius. 

It  begins  28  April  1582,  and  ends  4  May,  following. 

4.  Liber  Mysteriorum  quartus. 

It  began  15  Nov.  1582,  but  the  first  leafe  is  lost.   It  ends 
21  Nov.  following. 

5.  Liber  Mysteriorum  quintus,  1583. 

It  begins  23  March  1583,  and  ends  18  April  following. 

6.  Quinti  libri  Mysteriorum  appendix. 

It  begins  20  April  1583,  and  ends  23  May  following. 

*  From  Ashmole's  MSS.  No.  1790,  fol.  52a. 


88 


Note  that  some  other  of  his  bookes  were  set  forth  by  Dr. 
Casaubon  1659,  and  the  first  action  (in  them)  begins  5  daies 
after  the  last  action  of  the  foresaid  appendix,  viz.  28  May  1583* 
which  are  these  that  follow. 

7.  Liber  sexti  Mysteriorum  (et  sancti)  parallelus  novalisque. 

It  begins  28  May  1583,  and  ends  4  July  following. 

8.  Liber  Peregrinationis  Primse  (sexti  Mystici  paradromus). 

It  begins  21  Sept.  1583,  and  ends  13  March  1584. 

9.  Mensis  Mysticus  Sabbaticus,  pars  prima  ejusdem. 

It  begins  10  April  1584,  and  ends  the  30  of  that  moneth. 

10.  Libri  Mystici  Apertorii  Cracoviensis  Sabbatici  1584. 

But  in  Dr.  Dee's  MS.   (from  which  it  was  printed)  it 

hath  this  title, 

Libri  septimi  Apertorii  Cracoviensis,  Mystici  Sabbatici,  pars 
tertia,  A°.  1584. 

And  beside  hath  this  note,  Liber  quartus  decimus. 
The  first  action  in  this  booke  begins  7  May  1584,  and 
ends  22  May  following. 

11.  Libri  Septimi  Apertorij   Cracoviensis  Mystici  Sabbatici  pars 
quarta.  •    ^ 

It  begins  23  May  1584,  and  ends  12  July  following. 

12.  Libri  Cracoviensis  Mysticus  Apertorius. 

In   the   originall   MS.  it  hath  this  marginall   note,     "  Sive 
potius,  pars  quinta  libri  7mi  &c.  Cracoviensis." 

The  first  action  in  this  booke  begins  12  July  1544,  and 
ends  1 5  August  following. 

13.  Mysteriorum  Pragensium  liber  primus  Caesareusque. 

It  begins  15  Aug.  stilo  novo,  1584.     At  the  bottome  of  the 
first  leafe  in  the  MS.  is  written,  Liber  19us. 

The  last  action  in  this  booke  is  the  7th  of  Oct.  1584. 

14.  Mysteriorum  Pragensium  Confirmatio. 

The  first  action  begins   14  Jan.  1585,  and  ends  the  20 
of  March  following. 


LIBRARY    OF    MANUSCRIPTS.  89 

15.  Mysteriorum  Pragensium  Confirmatorum  liber. 

This    booke  begins   20  Mar.  1585,    and  ends    6  June 
following. 

16.  Unica  Actio;  quse  Paccisena  vocatur.     A°.  1585,  Aug.  6. 

17.  Liber  Resurectionis,  to  which  the  MS.  adds,  et  42  Mensium 
Fundamentum. 

It  begins  the  30  of  April  1586. 

Actio  prima  et  secunda  ex  septem :  is  also  added  in  MS. 
The  last  action  in  this  booke  is  21  Jan.  1587. 

18.  Actio  tertia.     Mysteriorum  divinorum  memorabilia,    ab   ac- 
tionis  (ex  septem)  tertise,  descriptee  exordio,  cui  dies  4°  Aprilis, 
A°.  1587,  dicata  fuit. 

It  begins  4  April  1587*  and  ends  23  May  following. 
Thus  far  from  the  Printed  Booke. 


OTHER  MANUSCRIPTS. 

1 9.  48  Claves  Angelicse. 

This  booke  is  writen  in  the  Angelick  language.     Interlined 

with  an  English  translation. 
Cracoviee  ab  Aprilis   13    ad  Julii   13   (diversis  temporibus) 

receptse,  A°.    1584.     At  the  bottome  of   the   title  page. 

Liber  18. 

20.  Liber  Scientiee,  Auxilii  et  Victorise  Terrestris. 

Maij  2,  stilo  novo,  1585  coliectus  ex  prsemissis  in  lib.  10,  et 
aliis. 

21.  De  Heptarchia  Mystica  Collectaneorum,  Lib:  primus. 

22.  Liber  Enoch.     I  suppose  Liber  Logaeth  and  this  are  all  one, 
but  in  the  MS.  I  copied  myne  from   (which  I  borrowed  from 
Sir  John  Cotton)  it  hath  this  Title,  Liber  Mysteriorum  Sex- 
tus  et  Sanctus,  Liber  8. 

23.  A  Booke  of  Supplications  and  Invocations. 

CAMD.    SOC. — DEE.  N 


INDEX   TO   THE    DIARY. 


ABBOT  (Mr.),  49. 

Addenstall  (John),  59. 

Agar  (Mr.),  54. 

Alaski  (Prince  Albert),  28,  43,  46.  Sa- 
lutes Dr.  Dee,  19.  Comes  to  Lon- 
don, 20.  Makes  acquaintance  with 
Dr.  Dee,  id.  Visits  Dr.  Dee  twice, 
ib.  Returns  home,  21.  Goes  to 
Trebona  and  Warsaw,  22.  Gives  mo- 
ney to  Dr.  Dee,  23.  Goes  to  Tre- 
bona and  Cremona,  ib.  Goes  to  Tre- 
bona and  Prague,  27. 

Alles  (Mr.),  11. 

Aired  (Richard),  48,  52. 

Anderson  (Lord),  40. 

Anderson  (Margaret),  birth,  2. 

Anthony  (Mr.),  63. 

Arnold  (Edmund),  60,  61. 

Arnold  (Richard),  62. 

Arundell  (Mr.),  birth,  1. 

Ashley  (Mr.),  visits  Dr.  Dee,  42.  Re- 
turns home,  43. 

Ashley  (Mrs.),  49.  Visits  Dr.  Dee,  42. 
Returns  home,  43. 

Ashmole  (Elias),  38. 

Ashton  (James),  55,  64. 

Ask  (John),  2,  48. 

Aspland  (William),  38. 

Aubrey  (Dr.),  15,  39,  49.     Death,  52. 

Aubrey  (John),  32,  52. 


Aubrey  (Mrs.),  6. 


Bacon  (Mr.),  16. 

Baguely  (Nicholas),  55. 

Bagwell  (Nicholas),  54. 

Baily  (Francis),  4. 

Baldwyn  (Richard),  52. 

Banister  (Mrs.),  46. 

Banks  (Mr.),  54. 

Barber  (Robert),  58. 

Bardman  (Isabelle),  56. 

Barlow  (Mr.),  60. 

Barnes  (Mr.),  conference  with  Dr.  Dee 

respecting  the  North-West  passage, 

19. 

Barret  (Mr.),  49,  60. 
Barret  (Mrs.),  49. 
Barwick  (Nurse)  34,  35,  36. 
Basset  (John),   24,  28,  58.    Tutor  to 

Dr.  Dee's  children,  23.     Quarrel  with 

Thomas  Kelly,  24. 
Baxter  (Mr.),  61. 
Bayly  (Dr.),  5. 
Baynton  (Mr.),  52. 
Beale  (Mr.),  18,  38,  46. 
Beale  (Mrs.),  46,  53. 
Beck  (William),  47. 
Bedell  (Mr.)  38. 
Bedford  (The  Earl  of),  visits  Dr.  Dee,  2. 


92. 


INDEX. 


Bele,  v.  Beale. 
Benet  (Mrs.),  12. 
Berran  (Mr.),  54. 
Besbich  (Thomas),  3. 
Beston  (Mrs.),  56. 
Bettgran  (Mr.),  18. 

Biberstein  (Lord),  makes  acquaintance 
with  Dr.  Dee,  23.  Goes  to  Trebona, 
24. 

Bigs  (Mr.),  14. 
Billings  (Thomas),  64. 
Billingsley  (Henry),  29. 
Birch  (George),  61,64. 
Birch  (Robert),  62. 
Blayney  (John),  52. 
Blunt  (Sir  Charles),  45. 
Blunt  (Francis),  44,  45. 
Blunt  (Sir  Michael),  44. 
Bodin  (John),  10. 
Boordman  (Elizabeth),  58. 
Booth  (Sir  George),  58,  63. 
Booth  (Lady),  58. 
Bradley  (Captain),  59. 
Bradshaw  (Mr.),  57,  58,  60. 
Bragden  (Edward),  15. 
Brandeburgh  (Marquis  of),  47. 
Brayce  (Mrs.),  34. 
Brogreton  (Mr.),  55. 
Broke  (George),  52,  60,  61. 
Bromley  (Mr.),  13. 
Browne  (John),  2,  11,  58. 
Brunswick  (the  Duke  of),  22. 
Brydock  (Ed.),  61. 
Buckhurst  (Lord),  51. 
Bull  (Mr.),  50. 
Bullock  (Mr.),  5. 
Burch  (Mr.),  60. 

Burghley  (Lord),  17,  35,  37,  39,  40,41, 
50.      Consultation  with  Dr.  Dee,  9. 


Sends  Dr.  Dee  some  venison,  10.  Dr. 
Dee  dedicates  his  work  on  the  calen- 
dar to  him,  19.  Illness,  42. 

Burrough  (William),  21. 

Burton  (Mr.),  7. 

Byron  (John),  55. 

Byron  (Sir  John),  55.  Dispute  with 
Manchester  College,  56. 

Csesar  (Dr.),  60. 

Camaiere  (Cornelio),  46,  47. 

Camden  (William),  40. 

Candish  (Richard),  6,  34,  36,  37.  Visits 

Dr.  Dee,  33.     Dr.  Dee  gives  him  a 

copy  of  Paracelsus,  35. 
Candish  (Thomas),  visits  Dr.  Dee,  34 
Canterbury  (Archbishop  of),  15,  34,  35, 

36,  37,  40,  42,  48,49,  50,  51,60,61. 
Carolius,  42. 
Carpe  (John),  29,  30.     Goes  to  Prague, 

24.     Makes  furnaces,  ib.     Comes  to 

Trebona,  26.     Goes  to  Prague,  27. 
Carter  (Oliver),  40,  53,  57,  59,  62,  64. 
Cary  (Sir  George),  33,  34. 
Cater  (Mr.),  visits  Dr.  Dee,  8. 
Cave  (Mr.),  52. 
Cecil  (Sir  Robert),  40,  49,  55. 
Cecil  (Sir  Thomas),  40. 
Chaloner  (Sir  Thomas),  44. 
Charles  (Robert),  41, 44,  46,  52,  60,  61. 
Chester  (Bishop  of),  62. 
Chetham  (Edmund),  64. 
Childe  (Mr.),  45,  50. 
Childe  (Mrs.),  47. 
Cholmeley  (John),  41,  58,  59,  60. 
Chritzin  (Captain),  27. 
Clement  (Mr.),  17. 
Clerkson  (Mr.),  14. 
Clinton  (Lord),  7. 


INDEX. 


93 


Cobham  (Lady),  33,  34,  41. 

Cobham(Lord),40,  41. 

Coke,  v.  Cooke. 

Cole  (Ellen),  12,  13. 

Collens  (Thomas),  12,  38. 

Colman  (Mr.),  47. 

Constable  (Mary),  wages  paid,  8. 

Cooke  (Bridget),  birth,  2. 

Cooke  (John),  Sir  Humphrey  Gilbert 

and  Dr.  Dee  dines  with  him,  8. 
Cooke  (Roger),  63,  64.     The  secret  of 

the  elixir  revealed  to   him  by  Dr. 

Dee,  7.     His  violent  bearing  towards 

Dr.  Dee,  11.      His  quarrel  with  Dr. 

Dee,  12.     His  departure  from  Mort- 

lake,  13. 

Cooper  (Edmund),  28. 
Cooper  (Jane),  birth,  1. 
Cosener  (Mr.),  53. 
Coverts  (Mr.),  17. 
Coweller  (Mr.),  8. 
Cowly  (Anthony),   55.     Unfriendly  to 

Dr.  Dee,  32. 
Cracht,  24. 
Cradocke(Dr-),  13. 
Crane  (Fr.),  2. 

Crocker  (John),  33,  57,  58,  60. 
Crofts  (Sir  James),  11. 
Crofts  (Lady  Catherine),  8,  11. 
Crowne  (Mr.),  53. 
Cumber  (Mr.),  36. 
Cumberland  (Countess  of),  47,  53. 
Cunstable  (Mary),  supernatural  fire,  7. 
Curtes  (Mr.),  56. 
Cutcheth  (William),  59. 

Dale  (Roger),  45. 
Dalton  (Mr.),  34. 
Damport  (Humphrey),  60,  63. 


Darant  (Nurse),  8. 

David  (Griffith),  57. 

Davis  (Mr.),  63. 

Davis  (Mrs.),  53. 

Davyes  (Alise),  11. 

Davys  (John),  Reconciled  to  Dr.  Dee,  6. 
Abuses  Mr.  Emery,  7.  Conference 
with  Dr.  Dee  about  the  North-west 
passage,  18,  19.  Goes  to  Chelsea 
and  Devonshire,  19. 

Day  (Mr.),  51. 

Dee  (Anthony),  37. 

Dee  (Arnold),  52,  54,  60.    «  *-fc 

Dee  (Arthur),  14,  34,  39,  42,  46,  64. 
Born,  4.  Christened,  ib.  Illness,  7. 
Weaned,  8.  His  fall,  16.  Wounded 
with  a  razor,  28.  Accidentally  hurt, 
38.  Sent  to  Westminster  school,  40. 
Accidentally  hurt  at  fencing,  60. 

Dee  (Aubrey),  55. 

Dee  (Catherine),  34,  39,  42,  46,  57,  63, 
64.  Born,  11.  Baptised,  id.  Sent 
home,  12.  Her  nurse  paid,  13.  Ill- 
ness,  16.  Accidentally  hurt,  30. 

Dee  (Frances),  41,43,  57.      Born,  39. 

Dee  (Jane),  passim. 

Dee  (Dr.  John),  passim.  Situation  of 
his  house  at  Mortlake,  2.  His  chemi- 
cal diary,  10.  Dreams  he  is  dead,  17. 
Goes  abroad  with  his  family,  21. 
Returns  to  England,  32.  Installed 
warden  of  Manchester,  55. 

Dee  (Madinia),  33,  34,  38,  39,  48,  56. 

Dee  (Margaret),  56.  Born,  53.  Bap- 
tised,  ib.  Weaned,  55. 

Dee  (Mary),  25. 

Dee  (Michael),  weaned,  21.  Acciden- 
tally wounds  his  eye,  25.  Ill  with  an 
ague,  27.  Illness  and  death,  50. 


94 


INDEX. 


Dee  (Nicholas),  25. 

Dee  (Rowland),  20,  21,  64.     Baptised, 

18.     Goes  to  nurse,  19.     Falls   into 

the  Thames,  35. 
Dee  (Theodore),  born,   26.     Baptised, 

ib.     Weaned,  31.    Accident,  35.  His 

eyes  sore,  48.     Illness,  il. 
Denby  (Elizabeth),  42. 
Deny  (Anne),  born,  33. 
Deny  (Dr.),  10. 
Derby  (Countess  of),  55,  59. 
Derby  (Earl  of),  52,  53,  55,  56,  59. 
Dickenson  (R.)t  60. 
Digges  (Thomas),  Lends  Dr.  Dee  some 

money,  43. 
Diggs  (William),  39. 
Dionysiis  (D.  de),  17. 
Dodding(Dr.),39. 
Drake  (Sir  Francis),  11. 
Ducket  (Lady),  34. 
Ducket  (Sir  Lionel),  6,  20. 
Duerend  (Mr.),  31. 
Dumbell  (Mr.),  64. 
Dunstan,  Book  of,  25. 
Dutton  (Laurence),  54. 
Dyer  (Mr.),  6,  19,  26,  27,  28,  29,  33. 

Visits  Dr.  Dee,  2.     Ambassador  to 

Denmark,  32.     Reconciled    to    Dr. 

Dee,  38. 
Dymmock  (Mr.),  52. 


Edmunds    (Mr.),   Makes  acquaintance 

with  him,  18. 

Edward  (Roger),  4,  38,  61. 
Edwards  (Edward),  54. 
Egerton  (Lord  Francis),  35.     Dr.  Dee 

dines  with  him,  46.       Gives    Mrs. 


Dee  twenty  angels,  47.  Godfather  to 
Margaret  Dee,  53. 

Elizabeth  (Queen),  34.  Interview  with 
Dr.  Dee,  4.  Goes  to  Richmond,  5. 
Interview  with  Dr.  Dee,  ib.  Her 
disease,  ib.  Her  dwarf,  8.  Goes  to 
Richmond,  ib.  Visits  Dr.  Dee  at 
Mortlake,  ib.  Interview  with  Dr. 
Dee,  9.  Removes  from  Richmond,  10. 
Goes  to  Whitehall,  13.  Dines  with 
Walsingham,  18.  Calls  on  Dr.  Dee, 
19.  Goes  from  Richmond  to  Green- 
wich, 20.  Dr.  Dee  kisses  her  hand, 
ib.  Goes  from  Greenwich  to  Sion,  21. 
Makes  Dr.  Dee  a  present  of  forty 
angels,  ib.  Interview  with  Dr.  Dee 
on  his  return  to  England,  32.  Favor- 
ably disposed  towards  Dr.  Dee,  35. 
At  Richmond,  36.  Her  kindness  to 
Dr.  Dee,  ib.  Discourse  with,  and 
liberality  to  Dr.  Dee,  37.  Her  con- 
tinued kindness  to  Dr.  Dee,  39. 
Sends  a  commission  to  Dr.  Dee's 
house  at  Mortlake,  42.  Gives  him  a 
hundred  marks,  ib.  Receives  Dr. 
Dee's  acknowledgements,  43.  Inter- 
views with  Dr.  Dee  and  his  family,  49. 
Receives  a  petition  from  Mrs.  Dee, 
51.  Appoints  Dr.  Dee  warden  of 
Manchester,  52.  Receives  Dr.  Dee's 
Acknowledgements  for  being  appoint- 
ed to  the  wardenship  of  Manchester 
through  the  Countess  of  Warwick,  53. 

Ellet  (Oliver),  61. 

Elmeston  (John),  studies  dialling  under 
Dr.  Dee,  6. 

Embden  (Mr.),  32. 

Emery  (William),  33,  44,  54,  59.  His 
birth,  2.  His  dishonesty,  6. 


INDEX. 


95 


Essex  (the  Countess  of),  53. 
Eton  (Mr.),  15. 
Euclid,  29. 
Evans  (John),  1. 

Faber  (Martin),  17. 
Felde  (Elizabeth),  50,  51,  53,  54. 
Fennar  (William),  birth,  1. 
Ferdinand  (Mr.),  40. 
Fisher  (Mr.),  33. 
Fitton  (Sir  Edward),  58. 
Fletcher  (John),  60. 
Fletcher  (Walter),  61. 
Fletewood  (Sergeant),  44. 
Flower  (Mr.),  visits  Dr.  Dee,  5. 
Fosker  (Mr.),  visits  Dr.  Dee,  8. 
Fowler  (William),  34. 
Frank  (Anne),  possessed  by  a  spirit,  35. 
Anointed  by  Dr.  Dee,  ib.     Attempts 
suicide,  ib.     Commits  suicide,  36. 
Franken  (Christian),  recants  his  work 
against  Christ,  23.     His  work  against 
Christ  exhibited  by  Dr.  Dee  before 
the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  42. 
Franklin  (Mrs.),  16. 
Fromonds  (Elizabeth),  visits  Dr.  Dee,  4. 
Fromonds   (Jane),   birth,    1.      Marries 

Dr.  Dee,  4.     Goes  to  Richmond,  5. 
Fromonds  (Mr.),  visited  by  Dr.  Dee,  4. 

Death,  6. 

Fromonds  (Nicholas),  32,  33,  39,  40. 
Fuller  (Mr.),  52. 


Gaele  (Jane),  5,  8.  Supernatural  fire 
in  her  chamber,  7. 

Gardner  (Robert),  16.  Enters  the  ser- 
vice of  Dr.  Dee,  13.  His  philosophi- 
cal secret,  15. 


Garland  (Edward),  visits  Dr.  Dee  at 
Trebona,  22. 

Garland  (Henry),  30. 

Garland  (Francis),  22,  23,  24,  26,  28, 
29,  31,  33,  35,  44,  48,  51. 

Garland  (Robert),  26. 

Garret  (Nurse),  12,  14,  15,  16. 

Gele,  v.  Gaele. 

Geoffry  of  Monmouth,  4. 

George  (Sir  Thomas),  42. 

Gerard  (John),  the  celebrated  herbalist, 
16,  50. 

Gerard  (Mr.),  63. 

Gerard  (Mr.),  55. 

Giffard  (Dr.),  40. 

Gilbert  (Adrian),  7,  33.  Is  reconciled 
to  Dr.  Dee,  6.  Conference  with  Dr. 
Dee  about  the  North  West  voyage,  18, 
19.  Goes  to  Chelsea,  19.  Goes  to 
Brentford  and  Devonshire,  20.  Trans- 
actions with  Dr.  Dee,  32. 

Gilbert  (Sir  Humphry),  4.  Dr.  Dee's 
dealing  with  him  for  his  grant  of  dis- 
covery, 8.  Grants  Dr.  Dee's  request, 
•ft. 

Gilbert  (Sir  John),  8. 

Glotz  (Hans  of),  31. 

Glotz  (John  of),  31,32. 

Godolphin  (G.),  10. 

Golding  (Arthur),  60. 

Goodyer  (Thomas),  53,  55,  61. 

Goodwyn  (Mary),  56. 

Goose  (Winifred),  32,  43.  Birth,  2. 
"  Evilly  tempted,"  40. 

Gore  (F.),  25. 

Grant  (Mr.),  40. 

Gray  (Mr.),  his  attack  on  professors  of 
alchemy,  47. 

Grey  (Lord),  18. 


96 


INDEX. 


Griffith  (Thomas),  27,  37,  57. 
Gubbens  (Mr.),  46. 
Gwyn  (John),  57. 


Hackluyt  (Mr.),  4,  34. 

Halifax,  56. 

Haller  (John  Leonard),  11.     Visits  Dr. 

Dee,  17  (bis).     Goes  to  Scotland,  18. 
Halton  (John),  21. 
Hammond  (John),  28,  31. 
Hankinson   (Thomas),   22.     Comes    to 

Mortlake,  34. 
Han  ward  (John),  32. 
Harding  (Mr.),  49. 
Hardy  (John),  61. 
Harmer  (Mr.),  63. 
Harper  (Mr.),  32. 
Harriot  (Thomas),  41. 
Harrughby  (Mr.),  61. 
Hart  (Mr.),  English  Minister  at  Stade, 

visits  Dr.  Dee,  31. 
Harward  (Thomas),  49. 
Hatton  (Sir  Christopher),  5.     Audience 

with  Dr.  Dee,  4.     Knighted,  ib. 
Hatton  (Randal),  14. 
Haut  (Nicholas  du),  22. 
Hawghton  (Mr.)  55. 
Hawkins  (Mr.),  11,  45. 
Haylok  (Mr.),  12. 
Hay  wood  (Sir  Rowland),  4. 
Hazelwood  (Catharine),  52. 
Hazelwood  (Marmion),  51,  52. 
Hazelwood  (William),  birth,  31. 
Hearne  (Thomas),  19,  37. 
Hendor  (Captain),  makes  acquaintance 

with  Dr.  Dee,  49. 
Henedge  (Sir  Thomas),  51. 
Henrick  (Mr.),  12,  13. 


Herbert  (John),  6,    17,   18,  36,  38,  45, 

46,  52,  53. 
Herbert  (Mary),  14. 
Herbert  (Mrs.),  14,  42. 
Herbert  (William),  10,  13, 14,  64.     His 
annotations    on    Dr.    Dee's    Monas 
Hierofflyphica,  3. 
Heriot  (Mr.),  41,  48. 
Hertford   (the  Countess  of),   birth,  4. 

Her  gift  to  Frances  Dee,  57. 
Hesketh  (Richard),  12. 
Hess  (Dr.  Andrew),  12. 
Hesse  (the  Landgrave  of),  31, 
Hetherley  (William),  53. 
Heton  (Matthew),  57,  60. 
Heydon  (Mr.),  birth  1. 
Hickman  (Ambrose),  39. 
Hickman  (Bartholomew),  5,  13,  37,  38, 
39,  41,  44,  45,46,  48,  50,  51,  52,  53, 
55,  57,  58,  59,  60,  61,  62,  64.     His 
birth,    1.     His  papers   destroyed  by 
Dr.  Dee,  63. 
Hickman  (Jane),  38,  50. 
Hickman  (Richard),  5. 
Hickman  (William),  48. 
Hill  (Auditor),  41. 
Hilton  (Edmund),  24,  27,  29,  30,  31, 

32,  34,  35,  54. 
Hilton  (John),  3. 
Hilton  (Robert),  6,  13,21. 
Hinde  (Mr.),  11. 
Hip  well  (Mr.),  52. 
Hitchcock  (Mr.),  5. 
Hodges  (Owen),  64. 
Holcroft  (Mr.),  64. 
Holden  (Ralph),  55,  56,  60. 
Holland  (Adam),  63,  64. 
Holland  (Miles),  46,  47. 
Holland  (Richard),  62. 


INDEX. 


Hollinshed  (Ralph),  62. 

Holtens  (Mr.),  17. 

Homes  (Mr.),  46. 

Hone  (Dr.),  54. 

Hook  (Thomas),  21. 

Hooper  (Walter),  3. 

Hopwood  (Edward),  57,  59. 

Hudson  (Thomas),  11,34,38.     Birth,2. 

Conference    about    the  North-West 

passage,  19. 
Hulme(Mr.),  58. 
Huyck  (Dr.),  2. 
Hynde  (Edward),  3,  14. 


Ingram  (Mr.),  17. 
Ive  (Mr.),  14. 


Jack  (Thomas),  32,  33,  34. 

Jackesbite  (Robin),  16. 

Jones  (Morgan),  52. 

Jones  (Thomas),  7,  36,  37,  56. 

Jones  (Sir  Thomas),  38. 

Jonson  (Mr.),  51. 

Julius  (Dr.),  60. 


Kay  (Roger),  56,  59. 

Kelly  (Edward),  32,  33,  48,  50,  51,  52, 
53.  Birth,  1.  His  sister,  ib.  An 
apothecary  in  Worcester,  ib.  Goes 
to  Blakley,  17.  Goes  to  London,  20. 
Goes  abroad,  21.  Dr.  Dee  is  sent  to 
him,ib.  Stops  three  weeks  at  Prague, 
ib.  Makes  gold,  22.  Goes  to  Prague 
and  Trebona,  ib.  Quarrel  and  recon- 
ciliation with  Dr.  Dee,  23.  Goes  to 
Prague,  24.  To  Trebona,  ib.  Dis- 

CAMD.  SOC. DEE. 


pute  with  Dr.  Dee,  ib.  Accident 
with  his  spirit-lamp,  25.  Invites  Dr. 
Dee  to  his  house,  ib.  Goes  to  Crum- 
low,  ib.  Distils  sericon,  26.  Informs 
Dr.  Dee  of  treacherous  friends,  ib. 
Reveals  a  great  secret  to  Dr.  Dee, 27. 
Falls  ill  with  an  ague,  ib.  Goes  to 
Prague,  29.  Returns  thence,  ib.  Dr. 
Dee  gives  his  glass  to  him,  ib.  Gives 
Dr.  Dee's  glass  to  Lord  Rosenberg,  30. 
His  bad  conduct  to  Dr.  Dee,  34.  His 
work  on  alchemy,  35.  Dreamt  of  by 
Dr.  Dee,  44.  Set  at  liberty  by  the 
emperor,  46,  47.  His  death,  54. 

Kelly  (Lydia),  21,  28.  Birth,  2.  Goes 
abroad,  21.  Gives  birth  to  a  still- 
born child,  26.  Is  written  to  by  Dr. 
Dee  in  a  friendly  manner,  27.  Goes 
to  Punchartz,  29.  Gives  birth  to 
twins  still-born,  30.  Goes  to  Eng- 
land, 31. 

Kelly  (Thomas),  25,  32,  33,  34,  44,  50. 
Birth,  2.  Marriage,  23.  Goes  to 
Prague,  24- 

Kemp  (Randall),  41,  62. 

Kenion  (George),  49,61. 

Kent  (Countess  of),  51.  Visits  Dr. 
Dee,  47. 

Key  (Richard),  57. 

Khanradt  (Dr.  Kenrich),  31. 

Killegrew  (Sir  John),  17. 

King  (Mr.),  12. 

Knaresborough  (Bartholomew),  16. 

Knaresborough  (Thomas),  45. 

Kooke  (Roger),  v.  Cooke. 

Kyffin  (Morrice),  10,  15,  48. 

Kylmer  (George),  makes  acquaintance 
with  Dr.  Dee,  13. 

Kyrton  (Elizabeth),  11,46. 


9S 


INDEX. 


Laen  (Van  der),  47,  48. 

Lagney  (Sir  Richard),  33. 

Laiesley  (Mr.),  42. 

Laigham  (Bishop  of),  42.      His  quarrel 

with  Dr.  Dee,  43. 
Langley  (Mr.),  63. 
Larder  (Mr.),  11. 
Laward  (Mr.)  44,  51. 
Laward  (Thomas),  51,  52. 
Lawrence  (John),  48,  59,  61. 
Lee  (Mr.),  schoolmaster  at  Mortlake, 
!#,  33735.    Makes  acquaintance  with 
Dr.  Dee,  18. 
Lee  (Mrs.),  46^| (, 
Legg  (Dorothy),  47. 
Legh  (Charles),  55,  57,  62,  64. 
Legh  (Richard),  64. 
Legh  (Robert),  62. 
Legh  (Sir  Urien),  58. 
Leicester  (The  Earl  of),  20.   Visits  Dr. 
Dee,  2.     Sends  Dr.  Dee  abroad,   5. 
Intercedes   with  the   Queen  for  Dr. 
Dee,  21. 
Leon  (Mr.),  56. 
Lewknor  (Mary),  birth,  1. 
Lewys  (John),  5,  16,  17. 
Lewys  (Dr.),  6. 
Lewys,  the  proctor,  36. 
Lilly  (John),  32. 
Lincoln  (Bishop  of),  58. 
Littlechild  (John),  14. 
Lloyd  (Oliver),  21,  53. 
Lock  (Benjamin),  8,  17. 
Lock  (Mr.),  8,  54. 
Lock  (Zachariah),  8. 
London  (Bishop  of),  9,  34. 
Lording  (Mr.),  47. 
Losin  (George),  31. 
Lurensey  (Mr.),  42. 


Lydgatt  (Nurse),  19,  21,  54. 
Lyne  (Ellen),  3.     Death,  5. 

Mains  (Mr.),  30. 

Mallett  (Walter),  50. 

Martyn  (Richard),  47. 

Maspely  (Nurse),  12. 

Mather  (Dr.),  Bishop  of  JBristol,  37. 

Mathias  (Zacharias),  30. 

Maynard  (Edward),  39. 

Maynard  (Henry),  birth,  28.  Death,  43. 

Maynard  (Robert),  37,  40,  43. 

Maynard  (William),  birth,  21. 

Memschit  (James),  22. 

Meulen(D.  V.),  birth,  1. 

Middleton  (Mr.),  Bishop  of  St.  David's, 

visits  Dr.  Dee,  18. 
Mills  (Mr.),  20. 
Molyneux  (Lady),  55. 

Molyneux  (Sir ),  55. 

Monteagle  (Lord),  16. 
Morgan  (Mr.),  40. 
Morley  (Lord),  16. 
Morryce  (John),  57. 
Moscovy  (Emperor  of),  22. 
Mountjoy  (Lord),  45. 
Mownson  (Elizabeth),  birth,  2. 
Mownson  (Thomas),  39.     His  sister,  2. 

Birth,  ib. 
Multon    (Daniel    van   der),   visits   Dr. 

Dee,  31. 

Murphyn  (Vincent),  slanders  Dr.  Dee, 
3  (bis).  His  law-suit  against  Dr. 
Dee,  9.  Loses  his  cause,  10.  Judg- 
ment given  against  him,  ib.  Re- 
leased, ib. 
Myniver  (Dr.),  16. 

Nant  (Lieutenant),  44. 


INDEX. 


99 


Nettlebronner  (Conrad),  35. 

Nevell  (Mary),  40,  53,  61.     Birth,  1. 

Newbury(Mr.)  17. 

Newsam  (Bartholomew) ,  lends  money  to 

Dr.  Dee,  3. 
Newton  (Mr.),  62. 
Nichols  (Francis),  44,  47,  49,  57,61, 

62,  63.     Dispute  between  him  and 

Dr.  Dee,  48. 
Nichols  (Mary),  62,  63. 
Nichols  (William),  63. 
Nicholson  (William),  55,  61. 
Nores  (Mr.),  47. 
North  (Mr.),  comes  from  Poland,  19. 

Brings  salutations  to    Dr.   Dee  and 

Queen  Elizabeth,  ib. 
Norton  (John),  54. 
Nutthall  (Francis),  56. 


Oliver   (Thomas),  makes  acquaintance 

with  Dr.  Dee,  39. 
Osborn  (Mr.),  17. 
Osmond  (the  Earl  of),  17. 
Ottomeen   (Mr.),   makes  acquaintance 

with  Dr.  Dee,  18. 
Owen,  (Mr.),  14. 

Packington  (Mr.),  11. 

Paget  (Mr.),  55. 

Palmer  (Matthew),  57,  58,  59,  60.     . 

Parpoynt,  v.  Perpoynt. 

Parry  (Mrs.  Blanche),  6. 

Partrich  (Mr.),  52. 

Peckham  (Sir  George)  17.     Conference 

with  Dr.  Dee,  16. 

Peiser  (Dr.  Michael),  visits  Dr.  Dee,  47. 
Peregrinus  (David),  26. 
Peregrinus  (Peter),  26. 


Perkins  (Mr.),  31. 

Perpoynt  (Magdalen),  46,  49. 

Perpoynt  (Mark),  44,  46.  His  house 
purchased  by  Dr.  Dee,  45. 

Perrot  (Sir  John),  executed,  40. 

Pezelia(Dr.),57. 

Phillips  (Mr.),  16. 

Plan  (Mrs.),  46. 

Plat  (Mr.),  17. 

Pole  (William),  16. 

Ponsoys,  or  Pontoys  (John),  41,  46,  47, 
59,  61.  Birth,  2. 

Powell  (Mr.),  the  younger,  makes  ac- 
quaintance with  Dr.  Dee,  18. 

Powell  (Anne),  52. 

Prise  (Harry),  47.     His  dreams,  10. 

Prychard  (Mr.),  36. 

Pucci  (Francis),  23.  His  dealings  with 
Edward  Kelly,  26,  27. 


Radford  (Mr.),  19. 

Randolph  II.,  29. 

Ratclyf(John),  59,60,  63. 

Raleigh  (Walter),  afterwards  knighted, 

20.     Letter  to  Dr.  Dee,  21.     Dr.  Dee 

dines  with  him,  54. 
Raynolds  (Mr.),  4. 
Redhed  (Mrs.),  46. 
Redishmer,  62. 
Reimer  (Joachim),  30. 
Reinhold  (Dr.  Victor),  21, 22,  27. 
Revel  (Mary),  47. 
Richardson  (Thomas),  44,  47,  48,  49, 

50. 

Ripley  (The  Canon),  26. 
Rogers  (Daniel),  4. 

Rogers  (William),  commits  suicide,  3. 
Rolls  (Edward),  29. 


100 


INDEX. 


Rosenbergh  (Lady),  29. 
Rosenbergh    (Lord),    22,    23,    24,    29. 
Gives  Dr.  Dee's  glass  to  the  emperor, 

30. 

Rowland  (Arthur),  56, 62. 

Rowland  (Nurse),  20  (it*). 

Rowlaschy,  25. 

Rowley  (Edward),  28,  29,  51. 

Russell  (Lady),  48.  Robbed  of  her 
jewels,  39. 

Russell  (Lord)  20. 

Russell  (Margaret),  Countess  of  Cum- 
berland. Birth,  1. 

Ryve  (Antony),  60. 


Sagiensis  (Radolphus),  a  chemist,  30. 
Sankinson  (Thomas),  58. 
Saunders  (Mr.),  39. 

Saville  (Henry),  56.  Makes  acquaint- 
ance with  Dr.  Dee,  18.  Visits  Dr. 
Dee,  55. 

Sawl   (Barnabas),    14,    16.      Troubled 
with  a  spirit,  13.     Speaks  ill  of  Dr. 
.    Dee,  15. 
Sawl  (Edward),  14. 
Saxton    (Christopher),    55.       Surveys 

Manchester,  56. 

Schwiczenbagh  (The  Earl  of),  30. 
Scotland  (The  Bishop  of),  37. 
Selbury  (Mr.),  2. 
Shallcross  (James),  58,  60. 
Sharp  (Thomas),  48,  50. 
Sherington  (Mr.),  55. 
Sidney   (Sir   Philip),   20.       Visits  Dr. 

Dee,  2. 

Simkinson  (Thomas),  30. 
Simon  (Alexander),  visits  Dr.  Dee,  3. 


Simons  (Phillip),  16. 
Skullthorp  (Mr.),  14. 
Skydmor  (Lady),  51. 
Skydmor  (Mary),  11. 
Skydmor  (Mr.),  7. 
Smyth  (Gawayne),  32,  35. 
Smyth  (Hugh),  11. 
Smyth  (John),  39. 
Smyth  (Mr.),  61. 
Smith  (Thomas),  40. 
Sombius,  42. 

Southwell  (Thomas),  32.  Visits  Dr. 
Dee  at  Trebona,  28.  Tries  to  recon- 
cile Dr.  Dee  and  Kelly,  ib,  Possesses 
a  lump  of  the  philosopher's  stone, 
id. 

Spenser  (John),  visits  Dr.  Dee,  33. 
Stafford  (Mrs.),  arrests  Dr.  Dee,  16. 

Stale  (Mr.),  28. 

Standysh  (Mr.),  58. 

Stanley  (Sir  William),  31. 

Statfeldt  (John),  53. 

Statfeldt  (Timothy),  53. 

Sted  (Charles),  17,  54,61. 

Stephen  (Robert),  57. 

Steward  (Simeon),  birth,  2. 

Stockden  (John),  34,  45,  46,  49. 

Stockden  (Mrs.),  36,  50. 

Stoner(Mr.),  8. 

Stoner  (Mr),  birth,  35. 

Strange  (Andrew),  38. 

Stubble  (Margery),  53. 

Stubble  (Nurse),  54,  56. 

Stubley(John),  56. 

Sussex  (The  Earl  of),  his  quarrel  with 
the  Earl  of  Leicester,  12. 

Suttley  (Thomas),  10. 

Swallow  (Samuel),  birth  2. 

Swyft  (Mr.),  28. 


INDEX. 


101 


Talbot  (Mr.),  15,  16. 

Talsley  (Robert),  58. 

Tattin  (Rolous),  31. 

Tavistock  (The  Earl  of),  16. 

Taylor  (Antony  Ryve),  50. 

Taylor  (John),  59. 

Taylor  (Mr.),  5. 

Taylor  (Ralph),  59. 

Thaneth  (Robert),  40,41,  44. 

Theneth,  v.  Thaneth. 

Thickpenny  (Robert),  47. 

Thomas  (Robert),  50. 

Thornton  (Margery),  46,  47. 

Thurp  (Mr.),  58. 

Thynne  (Mr.),  61. 

Tomasin  (Mrs.),  the  Queen's  dwarf,  8. 

Tomson  (Mr.),  45. 

Townson  (Mr.),  conference  with  Dr. 
Dee  concerning  the  North-west  pass- 
age, 19. 

Traherne  (Morgan),  48,  53. 

Traves  (James),  56. 

Treherne,  v.  Traherne. 

Turnifer  (Mr.),  5. 

Twyne  (Mrs.),  46. 
Tyldesley  (Mr.),  56. 
Tyndale  (Mrs.),  37,  38. 


Walder  (Mr.),  59. 

Walkedine  (Richard),  42,  54,  58,  60, 
61. 

Walker  (William),  46. 

Walkson  (Richard),  60. 

Walls  (Mrs.),  52. 

Walmesley  (Mr.  Sergeant),  14. 

Walsingham  (Sir  Francis),  6,  31,  32. 
Conference  with  Dr.  Dee,  4.  Sends 
Dr.  Dee  abroad,  5.  Conference  with 


Dr.  Dee  about  the  North-west  pass- 
age, 18  (bis).     Queen  Elizabeth  dines 
with  him,  18.     Calls  on  Dr.  Dee,  19. 
His  death,  33. 
Walsingham  (Lady),  33.     Calls  on  Dr. 

Dee,  19. 

Ward  (Richard),  52. 
Warren  (Mr.),  41,  52. 
Warwick  (Countess  of),  40,  42,  43,  49, 

53. 

Waters  (Henry),  12. 
Webb  (Robert),  38,  39,  41,  44,  46,  47, 

49,  50. 

Webbes  (Adolphus),  40,  44,  48.     Com- 
mitted to  prison,  47. 
Webber  (Thomas),  44. 
Welder  (Robert),  45,  46. 
Welder  (Mrs.),  38. 
Welsham  (Robert),  57. 
Werall  (Mr.),  59. 
Western  (Richard),  54. 
White  (Richard),  8,  49. 
Whitlock  (Edward),  28. 
Wier  (Mr.),  57. 
Wilks  (Sir  Thomas),  48. 
Willemots  (Master),  52. 
Williams  (Mr.),  8. 
Williamson  (Thomas),  58,  62. 
Willoughby     (Lord),    51.      Birth,    1. 
Dines  with  Dr.  Dee,  47.     Makes  him 
a  present,  ib. 
Withenstalls  (Mr.),  62. 
Witischindi  (D.),  32. 
Wodcote  (Francis),  57. 
Wolly  (Sir  John),  49,  51. 
Wolly  (Mr.),  42. 
Wood  (Robert),  48,  53. 
Wortley  (Mr.),  58,  63. 
Wye  (Thomas),  49. 


102 


INDEX. 


Wykham  (Mr.),  13. 
Wyse  (Harry),  40. 


Xyd,  55. 

Yardely  (Mr.),  59. 


Yong  (Mr.),  17,  26,  29,  31,  32,  34. 
Conference  with  Dr.  Dee  about  the 
North- West  passage,  19. 


Zacharias,  the  Book  of,  25. 
Zackinson  (Mr.),  visits  Dr.  Dee,  8. 


FINIS. 


LONDON:  J.  B.  NICHOLS  AND  SON,  PRINTERS,  25,  PARLIAMENT-STREET. 


CAMDEN    W   mm.  m  SOCIETY. 


FOR  THE   PUBLICATION    OF 

EARLY  HISTORICAL  AND  LITERARY  REMAINS. 


AT  a  General  Meeting  of  the  Camden  Society  held  at  the  Freemasons' 
Tavern,  Great  Queen  Street,  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields,  on  Monday  the 
2nd  May,  1842, 

THOMAS  AMYOT,  ESQ.  F.R.S.,  TBEAS.  S.A.,  DIRECTOR, 

IN    THE    CHAIR. 

THE  Director  having  opened  the  business  of  the  Meeting, 

The  Secretary  read  the  Report  of  the  Council  agreed  upon  at  their 
meeting  of  the  28th  April  last,  whereupon  it  was 

Resolved,  That  the  said  Report  be  received  and  printed,  and  that  the 
Thanks  of  the  Society  be  given  to  the  Council  for  their  services. 

The  Thanks  of  the  Society  were  also  voted  to  the  Editors  of  the 
Society's  publications ;  to  the  Right  Honourable  Thomas  Grenville ;  to 
the  Master  and  Fellows  of  St.  Peter's  College,  Cambridge ;  to  J.  I.  Black- 
burn, Esq.  M.P. ;  to  the  Local  Secretaries ;  and  to  Messrs.  Nichols,  for 
the  assistance  towards  attaining  the  objects  of  the  Society  mentioned  in 
the  Report  as  having  been  given  by  them. 

The  Secretary  then  read  the  Report  of  the  Auditors,  agreed  upon  at 
their  meeting  of  the  30th  of  April  last,  whereupon  it  was 

Resolved,  That  the  said  Report  be  received  and  approved,  and  that 
the  Thanks  of  the  Society  be  given  to  the  Auditors  for  their  trouble. 

Thanks  were  then  voted  to  the  Director,  Treasurer,  and  Secretary  for 
their  services  during  the  past  year ;  and 


2  ANNIVERSARY    MEETING    OF    1842. 

The  Meeting  then  proceeded  to  the  election  of  Officers,  when 

The  Right  Hon.  Lord  FRANCIS  EGERTON,  M.P. 
was  elected  President,  and 

THOMAS  AMYOT,  Esq.  F.R.S.  Treas.  S.A. 
The  Right  Hon.  Lord  BRAYBROOKE. 
JOHN  BRUCE,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
JOHN  PAYNE  COLLIER,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

CHARLES  PURTON  COOPER,  Esq.  Q.C.  D.C.L.  F.R.S.  F.S.A. 
T.  CROFTON  CROKER,  Esq.  F.S.A.  M.R.I.A. 
Sir  HENRY  ELLIS,  K.H.  F.R.S.  Sec.  S.A. 
JAMES  ORCHARD  HALLIWELL,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
The  Rev.  JOSEPH  HUNTER,  F.S.A. 
Sir  FREDERIC  MADDEN,  K.H.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
JOHN  HERMAN  MERIVALE,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
The  Rev.  LANCELOT  SHARPE,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
THOMAS  STAPLETON,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
WILLIAM  JOHN  THOMS,  Esq.  F.S.A.  and 
THOMAS  WRIGHT,  Esq.  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
were  elected  as  the  Council,  and 

JOHN  YONGE  AKERMAN,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

CHARLES  FREDERICK  BARNWELL,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  and 
PETER  CUNNINGHAM,  Esq. 
were  elected  Auditors  of  the  Society  for  the  ensuing  year. 

Thanks  were  then  voted  to  the  Director,  for  his  able  conduct  in  the 
Chair. 


ELECTION  OF  OFFICERS,  1842. 

AT  a  Meeting  of  the  COUNCIL  of  the  Camden  Society  held  at  No.  25, 
Parliament  Street,  Westminster,  on  Thursday  the  5th  May,  1842, 

THOMAS  AMYOT,  Esq.  in  the  Chair; 
The  Council  having  proceeded  to  the  Election  of  Officers, — 

THOMAS  AMYOT,  Esq.  was  elected  Director;  JOHN  BRUCE,  Esq. 
Treasurer;  and  WILLIAM  J.  THOMS,  Esq.  Secretary,  for  the  Year  next 
ensuing. 


REPORT  OF   THE   COUNCIL. 

DATED  1st  MAY,  1842. 

THE  Council  elected  on  the  3rd  May  1841  are  pleased  to  be  able  to 
report  that  the  affairs  of  the  Society  continue  in  a  condition  of  unabated 
prosperity. 

The  number  of  1200  Members,  to  which  the  Society  is  limited,  has 
been  maintained ;  and  there  continues  to  be  a  large  number  of  Candidates 
for  admission  upon  vacancies. 

The  investment  standing  in  the  names  of  the  Trustees  for  the  Society 
has  been  increased,  since  the  last  General  Meeting,  from  the  sum  of 
£408  Os.  4d.,  Three  per  Cent,  consols,  to  £574  13s.  Sd.  This  increase 
has  arisen  from  the  investment  of  sums  received  for  Compositions ;  and 
the  Council  recommend  that  whatever  sum  may  now  be  in  hand  on  that 
account,  should  be  added  to  the  investment. 

The  Council  have  added  the  following  gentlemen  to  the  list  of  Local 
Secretaries : — 

The  Rev.  Joseph  Bosworth,  LL.D.  for  Nottingham. 

Richard  Rees,  Esq.  F.S.A.  for  Cardiff,  in  the  place  of  Captain 

W.  H.  Smyth,  retired. 
James  Heywood  Markland,  Esq.  F.R.S.  F.S.A.  for  Bath,  in  the 

place  of  Rev.  William  L.  Nichols,  who  has  removed. 
The  Publications  for  the  past  year  have  been — 

The  Second  Book  of  the  Travels  of  Nicander  Nucius,  a  Corcyrsean  Gentleman 
who  came  to  England  in  the  suite  of  an  Ambassador  from  the  Netherlands,  sent  by 
the  Emperor  Charles  V.  to  the  Court  of  Henry  VIII. :  translated  from  the  Original 
Greek  MS.  formerly  belonging  to  Archbishop  Laud,  and  now  preserved  in  the 
Bodleian  Library.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  JOHN  ANTONY  CRAMER,  D.D.  Principal  of 
New  Inn  Hall,  and  Public  Orator,  Oxford. 

The  Latin  Poetry  of  Walter  Mapes,  Archdeacon  of  Oxford  at  the  beginning  of 
the  thirteenth  century.  Edited  by  THOMAS  WRIGHT,  Esq.  M.A.,  F.S.A.  and 

Three  inedited  Early  English  Metrical  Romances.  Edited,  from  a  MS.  in  thq 
possession  of  J.  I.  Blackburn,  Esq.  M.P.,  by  JOHN  ROBSON,  Esq. 


4  REPORT    OF   THE    COUNCIL,  1842. 

And— 

The  Private  Diary  of  Dr.  John  Dee,  from  the  MS.  in  the  Ashmolean  Library, 
together  with  a  Catalogue  of  MSS.  in  his  Library.  Edited  by  JAMES  ORCHARD 
HALLIWELL,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

is  completed  at  the  press,  and  will  be  ready  for  delivery  to  the  Members 
by  the  end  of  the  present  month.  The  Council  have  followed  the  pre- 
cedent of  former  years,  in  directing  that  there  should  be  appended  to  the 
last-mentioned  volume  a  list  of  the  Members  of  the  Society  for  the  past 
year ;  and,  if  the  General  Meeting  think  proper,  this  Report  and  that  of 
the  Auditors  may  also  be  added. 

The  Council  have  much  satisfaction  in  being  able  to  state  that  the 
"  Apology  for  the  Lollards/'  a  work  attributed  to  Wickliffe,  which  has 
been  so  long  delayed  by  reason  of  the  many  engagements  of  the  Editor, 
the  Rev.  Jas.  Henthorn  Todd,  D.D.  is  now  on  the  eve  of  completion ;  and 
will  certainly  be  ready  for  delivery  in  the  ensuing  year. 

Considerable  progress  has  also  been  made  with  the  "  Promptorium/' 
a  Latin  and  English  Dictionary  of  words  in  use  during  the  fifteenth  cen- 
tury, editing  by  Albert  Way,  Esq.  F.S.A.  a  work  which  the  Council  be- 
lieve will  be  one  of  great  merit  and  utility  \  and  a  portion  of  it  will  be  one 
of  the  publications  of  the  ensuing  year. 

Besides  the  Apology  for  the  Lollards  and  the  Promptuary,  the  follow- 
ing works  have  been  ordered  to  be  put  to  press  at  the  convenience  of 
their  Editors  and  the  Society,  and  will  be  published  as  soon  as  they  are 
ready. 

A  Collection  of  Original  Letters  and  Papers  of  Literary  Men  of  England  during 
the  Reigns  of  Elizabeth  and  James  I.,  including  some  Unpublished  Papers  of  Camden. 
To  be  edited  by  SIR  HENRY  ELLIS,  K.H.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

Latin  Romance  Narratives  and  Legends  of  the  thirteenth,  fourteenth,  and  fifteenth 
Centuries,  relating  to  King  Arthur  and  other  Heroes  of  the  Welsh  and  Breton  cycle 
of  Fiction.  To  be  edited  by  Sir  FREDERIC  MADDEN,  K.H.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

Letters  and  State  Papers  relating  to  the  Proceedings  of  the  Earl  of  Leicester  in 
the  Low  Countries,  in  the  years  1585  and  1586,  derived  from  a  MS.  placed  at  the 


REPORT   OF   THE    COUNCIL,    1842.  5 

disposal  of  the  Society  by  Frederick  Ouvry,  Esq.  and  other  sources.     To  be  edited 
by  JOHN  BRUCE,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

The  Private  Diary  of  Thomas  Cartwright,  Bishop  of  Chester,  temp.  James  II. 

The  Romance  of  Jean  and  Blonde  of  Oxford,  by  Philippe  de  Reims,  an  Anglo- 
Norman  Poet,  of  the  latter  end  of  the  twelfth  Century.  To  be  edited  from  a  Unique 
MS.  in  the  Royal  Library  at  Paris,  by  M.  LE  Roux  DE  LINCY,  editor  of  the  Ro- 
man de  Brut. 

The  Council  have  added  the  following  works  to  the  list  of  Suggested 
Publications — 

A  Collection  of  Original  Letters  relating  to  the  Dissolution  of  the  Monasteries 
and  some  other  points  connected  with  the  Reformation.  To  be  edited  by  THOMAS 
WRIGHT,  Esq.  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Specimens  of  the  Anglo-Latin  Poets  from  the  seventh  to  the  thirteenth  century, 
selected  from  inedited  MSS.  and  arranged  chronologically,  with  notices  of  the 
Writers  and  popular  Notes.  To  be  edited  by  THOMAS  WRIGHT,  Esq.  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Contemporary  Diary  of  a  resident  in  London,  extending  from  the  Year  1550  to 
1563,  now  the  Cottonian  MS.  Vitellius  F.  v.  To  be  edited  by  JOHN  GOUGH 
NICHOLS,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

The  Council  have  to  direct  the  attention  of  the  Society  to  the  obliga- 
tions conferred  upon  it  by  J.  I.  Blackburne,  Esq.  M.P.  by  giving  the  So- 
ciety the  use  of  the  MS.  of  the  Three  Romances,  edited  by  Mr.  Robson. 

Also  by  the  Right  Hon.  Thomas  Grenville,  in  placing  in  Mr.  Way's 
hands,  upon  the  application  of  the  Director,  his  valuable  early  printed 
editions  of  the  "  Promptorium,"  which  Mr.  Way  wished  to  use  for  his 
edition  of  that  work ;  and  by  the  Master  and  Fellows  of  Saint  Peter's  Col- 
lege, Cambridge,  for  the  readiness  with  which,  upon  a  similar  application, 
they  lent  the  Council,  for  the  use  of  Mr.  Way,  a  valuable  MS.,  entitled 
Campus  Florum. 

The  same  exertions,  in  behalf  of  the  Society,  which  former  Councils 
have  acknowledged,  have  been  continued  to  be  made  by  the  Local  Secretaries, 
and  other  friends  of  the  Society  resident  in  the  country ;  and  the  Council 
trust  that  such  exertions  will  not  be  relaxed.  To  diffuse  a  knowledge  of 


6  REPORT    OF   THE    COUNCIL,  1842. 

the  existence  and  objects  of  the  Society  tends,  not  merely  to  promote  its 
welfare,  but  also  to  carry  out  the  purpose  for  which  it  was  established,  by 
directing  the  attention  of  the  possessors  of  MSS.  to  those  collections  in 
which  there  yet  exist,  unpublished,  inestimable  papers  which  this  Society 
would  be  ready  and  willing  to  make  available. 

Messrs.  Nichols  have  continued  to  the  Council  the  same  attentions, 
and  have  rendered  them  the  same  valuable  and  gratuitous  assistance  in 
the  general  management  of  the  affairs  of  the  Society,  which  they  have 
given  from  its  Institution.  Nothing  can  be  more  honourable  to  Messrs. 
Nichols,  or  more  advantageous  to  the  Society;  and  the  Council  are 
assured,  that  it  is  only  necessary  for  them  to  state  the  fact  to  the  Mem- 
bers, in  order  to  its  being  duly  appreciated. 

The  Council  have  to  regret  the  loss,  by  death,  during  the  last  year,  of 
the  Rt.  Hon.  THOS.  P.  COURTENAY,  who,  in  addition  to  valuable  services  as 
a  Member  of  the  Council,  was  one  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Society,  and  gave 
much  attention  to  its  affairs.  The  Council  have  filled  up  the  vacancy  in 
the  Trusteeship  by  electing  to  that  office  CHARLES  PURTON  COOPER, 
Esq.  LL.D.,  Q.C.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

The  Council  have  also  to  regret  the  death  of  HENRY  BOWER,  Esq. 
F.S.A.  the  very  zealous  and  efficient  Local  Secretary  of  the  Society  at  Don- 
caster  ;  and  also  of  the  following  other  Members : 

THOMAS  BARNES,  Esq. 

GEORGE  FREDERICK  BELTZ,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Lancaster  Herald. 

HENRY  EYTON,  Esq. 

The  Rev.  THOMAS  DUDLEY  FOSBROKE,  F.S.A. 

F.  T.  GRAYLING,  Esq. 

Lieut.-Col.  JOHN  HARVEY. 

JOHN  HOLMES,  Esq.  F.S.A.  East  Retford. 

THEODORE  EDWARD  HOOK,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

HENRY  MITCHISON,  Esq. 

JOHN  MOORE,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

The  Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  MUNSTER,  F.R.S.,  Pr.  As.  S. 


REPORT    OF   THE    COUNCIL,   1842.  7 

The  Rev.  GEORGE  FREDERICK  NOTT,  D.D.,  F.S.A. 

EDWARD  SKEGG,  Esq.  F.R.G.S. 

JOHN  SYDNEY  TAYLOR,  Esq. 

Lieut.-Gen.  WILLIAM  THORNTON. 

HENRY  WOODTHORPE,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

The  Council  report  that  the  Treasurer,  having  found  that  other  en- 
gagements prevented  his  any  longer  devoting  to  the  accounts  and  finan- 
cial correspondence  of  the  Society  the  time  and  attention  which,  after  an 
experience  of  three  years,  he  found  to  be  absolutely  necessary  to  be  given 
to  them,  submitted  to  the  Council  the  propriety  of  their  accepting  his 
resignation,  or  of  making  some  other  arrangement  with  respect  to  the 
accounts.  The  Council,  regarding  the  subject  as  one  vitally  affecting  the 
welfare  of  the  Society,  proceeded  immediately  to  take  it  into  their  consi- 
deration, and  are  happy  to  be  able  to  report  that  they  have  effected 
an  arrangement  by  which  the  accounts  are  now  kept,  and  the  financial 
correspondence  is  attended  to>  by  the  Secretary,  the  Treasurer  still  con- 
tinuing responsible  to  the  Society.  This  arrangement  will  put  the  Society 
to  a  small  annual  expense,  which  can  very  well  be  afforded,  and  which  the 
Council  are  persuaded  the  Members  will  think  well  bestowed,  if  it  has  the 
effect  of  preserving  accuracy  in  the  accounts.  The  recent  arrangements  in 
the  Post  Office  render  it  easy  for  country  Members  to  transmit  their  sub- 
scriptions by  Post  Office  orders,  which  course  the  Council  recommend  to 
be  adopted,  making  the  Post  Office  orders  payable  to  the  Treasurer. 

After  the  lapse  of  four  years  of  continuing  prosperity  the  Council  hope 
that  the  Camden  Society  may  be  regarded  as  having  taken  a  permanent 
station  amongst  established  publishing  associations.  Many  societies  have 
been  founded  upon  similar  principles,  and  one  considerably  out-numbers 
this  Society  in  Members :  but  there  is  no  one  which  can  produce  better 
evidences  of  stability  and  prosperity,  or  which  has  greater  reason  to  be 
satisfied  with  the  estimation  in  which  its  works  are  regarded  by  the 
public.  Amongst  the  Candidates  for  admission  recently  entered  there  are 
many  Public  Libraries  and  other  bodies,  whose  desire  to  participate  in 


8  REPORT    OF    THE    COUNCIL,  1842. 

the  advantages  of  Membership  indicates  the  reputation  of  the  Society,  both 
in  this  and  other  countries ;  and  the  prices  maintained  by  our  books  when 
copies  get  abroad  into  the  market,  afford  encouraging  proof  of  the  demand 
for  them  on  the  part  of  collectors  and  literary  men.  In  four  years  the 
Society  has  issued  eighteen  volumes,  all  of  them  works  excluded  from  the 
ordinary  mode  of  publication,  and  yet  worthy  of  being  published,  of 
eminent  use  to  historical  inquirers,  and  likely  to  retain  a  place  in  the 
permanent  literature  of  the  country. 

The  forthcoming  works  are  fully  calculated  to  maintain,  if  not  to  increase, 
the  reputation  of  the  Society,  and  the  Council  see  no  reason  to  doubt  but 
that  the  Society  may  long  usefully  and  prosperously  retain  its  station, 
and  the  number  of  its  Members. 


REPORT   OF   THE   AUDITORS, 

DATED  30TH  APRIL,  1842. 

WE,  the  Auditors  appointed  to  audit  the  Accounts  of  the  Camden 
Society,  report  to  the  Society,  that  the  Treasurer  has  exhibited  to  us  his 
accounts,  from  the  2?th  day  of  April,  1841,  to  the  30th  day  of  April,  1842, 
and  that  we  have  examined  the  same,  together  with  the  vouchers  relating 
thereto,  and  find  the  same  to  be  correct  and  satisfactory. 

And  we  further  report  that  the  following  is  a  correct  Abstract  of  the 
Receipts  and  Expenditure  of  the  Society  during  the  period  to  which  we 
have  referred. 


REPORT    OF    THE    AUDITORS. 


9 


An  ABSTRACT  of  the  RECEIPTS  and  EXPENDITURE  of  THE  CAMDEN  SOCIETY, 
from  the  27th  April,  1841,  to  the  30th  April,  1842. 


Balance  of  last  year's 

account 393  12     2 

1841,      •) 

April 27th,  (Received    on    account 

to  1842,    f    of    Subscriptions   of 

AprilSOth.  J     members  in  arrear...     68     0     0 

The  like    on    account 

of  Subscriptions  due 

1st  May,  1841 956     0     0 

Two  half-year's  divi- 
dends on  .£574.  13*. 
8d,  3  per  cent,  con- 
sols, standing  in  the 
names  of  the  Trus- 
tees for  the  Society  17  4  8 
Compositions  received 
from  six  members  .  60  0  0 


Total  receipts  for  the  year  £1,494  16  10 


£.     *.  d. 

Paid  for  the  purchase  of  £l  66.13*.  4d. 
3  per  cent,  consols,  invested  for 
the  benefit  of  the  Society 150  0  0 

Paid  for  printing  and  paper  of  1 ,250 

copies  of  "The  Irish  Narratives"     96  12     6 

The  like  of  "  Walter  Mapes  "  ....   277   15     0 

The  like  of  < '  Nicander  Nucius  " . .      9811     9 

The  like  of  "  Metrical  Romances"  109  12     0 

Paid  for  binding  copies  of  the  past 

year's  books,  not  before  charged        360 

The  like  for  binding  1 ,200  copies  of 

"  The  Irish  Narratives " 48     0     0 

The  like  for  bin  ding  1,200  copies  of 
each  of  the  three  books  published 
for  this  year  15312  0 

Paid  for  delivery  and  transmis- 
sion of  1,200  copies  of  the  "  Irish 
Narratives,"  and  of  each  of  the 
three  works  for  the  present  year 
— at  2d.  per  book,  with  paper  for 
wrappers,  expense  of  parcels,  &c.  36  16  6 

Paid  for  lithographic  fac-simile,  and 

printing  paper  for  the  same  ....        5     4     0 

Paid  for  transcripts  and  other  ex- 
penses of  a  like  kind,  connected 
with  works  published  and  in  pro- 
gress    40  10  10 

Paid  for  printing  Reports,  Lists  of 
Members,  Prospectuses,  Circulars 
and  other  miscellaneous  printing  32  5  0 

Paid  expenses  of  last  general  meet- 
ing   2  13  0 

One  quarter  of  a  year's  payment 
for  keeping  the  Accounts  and 
General  Correspondence  of  the 
Society 13  2  6 

Paid  for  stationery,  postage,   and 

various  petty  cash  expenses. ...      15     3     9 

Cash  balance,  viz.  Sums 
remaining  in  hand  for 
Compositions £30  0  0 

—  From  Subscriptions 

and  other  receipts. .   381  12     0 

411  12     0 


£1,494  16  10 


10  REPORT    OF    THE    AUDITORS. 

The  Treasurer  has  also  reported  to  us  that  the  Secretary  and  himself 
have  made  arrangements  by  which  they  hope,  during  the  ensuing  year, 
almost,  if  not  altogether,  to  get  rid  of  all  arrear  of  outstanding  subscrip- 
tions. We  trust  that  the  Members  will  assist  them  in  this  very  desirable 
object ;  and  especially  that  Members  resident  in  the  country  will  transmit 
their  subscriptions  at  once  to  the  Treasurer  by  Post  Office  orders.  The 
adoption  of  this  course  has  been  suggested  by  several  of  the  Local  Secre- 
taries ;  and  it  is  obvious  that  it  will  greatly  lessen  the  troublesome  and 
not  very  agreeable  duties,  which  are  thrown  upon  those  officers  by  the  pre- 
sent practice,  will  lessen  the  number  of  mistakes,  and  will  greatly  promote 
the  prosperity  of  the  Society. 

Dated  the  30th  April,  1842. 

(Signed)         LANCELOT  SHARPE. 

B.  CORNEY. 


LAWS   OF  THE  CAMDEN   SOCIETY, 

ADOPTED  AT  THE  GENERAL  MEETING,  MAY  2,  1842. 

I.  THAT  the  Society  shall  be  entitled  "  THE  CAMDEN  SOCIETY,  for  the 
Publication  of  Early  Historical  and  Literary  Remains." 

II.  That  the  objects  of  the  Society  shall  be,  First,  the  publication  of 
inedited  Manuscripts  ;  Second,  the  reprinting  of  Works  of  sufficient  rarity 
and  importance  to  make  Reprints  desirable ;  and  Third,  the  publication  of 
Translations  of  Historical  Works  not  previously  rendered  into  English. 

III.  That  the   Society  shall    consist  of  One  Thousand  Two  Hundred 
Members,  being  Subscribers  of  One  Pound  annually ;  such  Subscription 
to  be  paid  in  advance,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  May  in  every  year. 

IV.  That  the  management  of  the  affairs  of  the  Society  shall  be  vested  in 
a  President  and  a  Council  consisting  of  fifteen  Members,  which  President 
and  Council  shall  be  elected  annually  by  the  Society  at  large,  at  a  General 
Meeting  to  be  held  on  the  2nd  day  of  May,  being  the  Anniversary  of  Cam- 


LAWS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY.  11 

den's  birth ;  or  on  the  Monday  following,  when  the  2nd  of  May  shall 
happen  to  fall  upon  a  Sunday. 

V.  That  the  President  and  Council  shall,  from  amongst  their  own  body, 
elect  a  Director,  who  shall  act  as  Chairman  of  the  Council,  in  the  absence 
of  the  President,  and  also  a  Treasurer,  and  a  Secretary. 

VI.  That  the  Accompts  of  the  Receipts  and  Expenditure  of  the  Society 
shall  be  audited  annually  by  three  Auditors,  to  be  elected  at  the  General 
Meetings,  and  that  the  Report  of  the  Auditors,  with  an  Abstract  of  the 
Accompts,  shall  be  published. 

VII.  That  the  names  of  Members  proposed  to  be  elected  as  President, 
Council,  and  Auditors,  shall  be  transmitted  by  the  proposers  to  the  Secre- 
tary, one  fortnight  before  the  General  Meeting,  and  that  notice  of  the 
persons  so  proposed  shall  be  forwarded  by  the  Secretary  one  week  before 
the  General  Meeting,  to  all  the  Members  residing  within  the  limits  of  the 
Twopenny  Post,  and  to  all  other  Members  who  shall,  in  writing,  request 
to  receive  the  same. 

VIII.  That   no   Member   shall   be   entitled   to   vote   at  any  General 
Meeting  whose  Subscription  is  in  arrear. 

IX.  That  in  every  year  one-fifth  in  number  of  the  Council  of  the  year 
preceding  shall  be  ineligible  for  re-election  ;  and  that  in  case  any  Member 
of  the  Council  shall  not  attend  more   than  one-third   of  the  number  of 
Meetings  of  the  Council,  such  Member  shall  be  considered  to  be  one  of 
the  retiring  Members. 

X.  That  in  the  absence  of  the  President  and  Director,  the  Council  at 
their  Meetings   shall  elect  a  Chairman,  who  shall  have  a  casting  vote  in 
case  of  equality  of  numbers,   and   shall  also  retain  his  right  to  vote  upon 
all  questions  submitted  to  the  Council. 

XI.  That  the  Funds  of  the  Society  shall  be  disbursed  in  payment  of 
necessary  expenses  incident  to  the  production  of  the  Works  of  the  Society, 
and  that  all  other  expenses  shall  be  avoided  as  much  as  possible. 

XII.  That,  after  the  Members  of  the  Society  shall  have  reached  One 


12  LAWS    OF    THE    CAMDKN    SOCIETY. 

Thousand  Two  Hundred,  vacancies  in  that  number  shall  be  filled  up  by 
the  Council,  from  time  to  time  as  they  occur. 

XIII.  That  every  Member  not  in  arrear  of  his  Annual  Subscription, 
shall  be  entitled  to  One   Copy  of  every  Work  published  by  the  Society 
during  that  year. 

XIV.  That  the  Members  shall  be  invited  to  contribute  or  recommend 
Works  for  publication. 

XV.  That  Editors  of  Works  printed  by  the  Society  shall  be  entitled  to 
Twenty  Copies  of  the  Works  they  edit. 

XVI.  That  the  Council  shall  determine  what  number  of  copies  of  each 
Work  shall  be  printed,  and  that  the  copies  over  and  above  those  required 
by  the  Members  shall  be  sold  in  such  manner,  and  at  such  prices,  as  shall 
be  fixed  by  the  Council,  the  proceeds  being  carried  to  the  account  of  the 
Society. 

XVII.  That  the  Publications  of  the  Society  shall  all  form  separate  and 
distinct  Works,  without  any  other  connexion  than  that  which  must  neces- 
sarily exist  between  the  volumes  of  such  Works  as  consist  of  several 
Volumes. 

XVIII.  That  any  Member  of  the  Society  may  at  any  time  compound 
for  his  future  Annual  Subscriptions,  by  payment  of  £10  over  and  above 
his  Subscription  for  the  current  year. 

XIX.  That  every  Member  of  the  Society  who  shall  intimate  to  the 
Council  his  desire  to  withdraw  from  the  same,  or  who  shall  not  pay  his 
Subscription  for  the  current  year  within  three  Months  after  his  Election, 
or  after  such  Subscription  shall  have  become  due,  shall  thereupon  cease  to 
be  a  Member  of  the  Society. 

XX.  That  the  Council  may  appoint  Local  Secretaries  in  such  places, 
and  with  such  authorities  as  to  them  shall  seem  expedient ;  every  Local 
Secretary  being  a  Member  of  the  Society. 

XXI.  That   no  alteration  shall  be  made  in  these  Laws,  except  at  a 
General  Meeting,  nor  then,  unless  One  Month's  notice  of  any  alteration 
intended  to  be  proposed  at  such  Meeting  shall  have  been  given  in  writing 
to  the  Secretary. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  CAMDEN  SOCIETY, 

FOR   THE 

FOURTH    YEAR,    ENDING    2ND  MAY,  1842. 


Those  Members  to  whose  names  (c.)  is  prefixed  have  compounded  for  their  Annual  Subscriptions. 
The  Members  whose  names  are  printed  in  Capitals  were  on  the  Council  of  the  year. 

THE  RIGHT  HON.  LORD  FRANCIS  EGERTON,  M.P.  President. 

H.  R.  H.  THE  DUKE  OF  SUSSEX,  K.G.,  F.R.S.  F.S.A. 

THE  MOST  REV.  AND  RIGHT  HON.  THE  LORD  ARCHBISHOP  OF  CANTERBURY. 

THE  RIGHT  HON.  LORD  LYNDHURST,  LL.D.  F.R.S.,  LORD  HIGH  CHANCELLOR. 

THE  MOST  HON.  THE  MARQUESS  OF  NORTHAMPTON,  D.C.L.,  PRES.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

THE  RIGHT  HON.  THE  EARL  OF  ABERDEEN,  PRES.S.A.,  F.R.S. 

Arthur  Abbot,  Esq.  Exeter. 


Abraham  Abell,  Esq.  Cork. 

Joseph  Ablett,  Esq.  Llanbedr  Hall, 
Ruthen. 

Right  Hon.  Lord  Viscount  Acheson, 
M.P. 


(c.)  Sir  Robert  Shafto  Adair. 

John    Adams,     jun.    Esq. 
Christ  Church,  Oxford. 


M.  A. 


John  Adamson,  Esq.  Secretary  of 
the  Society  of  Antiquaries  of  New- 
castle. Local  Secretary  at  New- 
castle. 

Rev.  James  Adcock,  M.A.  Lincoln. 
John  Adolphus,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Professor  Dr.  Adrian,  Librarian  of 
the  University  of  Giessen  (Hesse 
Darmstadt). 

John  Yonge  Akerman,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Sec.  Num.  Soc. 


(c.)  Edward  Nelson  Alexander,  Esq. 
F.S.A.  Local  Secretary  at  Hali- 
fax. 

Robert  Alexander,  Esq.  Q.C.,  F.R.S. 
F.S.A. 

Robert  Henry  Allan,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Treasurer  of  the  Surtees  Society. 
Local  Secretary  at  Durham. 

George  Edward  Allen,  Esq.  Bath. 
John  Allen,  Esq. 
Mr.  William  Allen. 

Richard  Almack,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Long 
Melford,  Suffolk. 

The  Vicomte  Louis  d'Armaille,  Paris. 
Thomas  Frederick  Hill  Alms,  Esq. 

George  Henry  Ames,  Esq.  Cote 
House,  near  Bristol. 

Samuel  Amory,  Esq. 

THOMAS  AMYOT,  Esq.  F.R.S. 

Treas.  S.A.  Director. 
A.  P.  Anderson,  M.D. 
Alexander  Annand,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Sut- 

ton,  Surrey. 

Thomas  Chisholme  Anstey,  Esq. 
c 


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MEMBERS    OF   THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


Samuel  Appleby,  Esq.  Gray's  Inn. 
George  Appleyard,  Esq. 

Rev.  Thomas  Arnold,  D.D.    Head 
Master  of  Rugby  School. 

M.  le  Chevalier  Artaud,  Membre  de 
1'Institut  de  France. 

Robert  John  Ashton,  Esq.  F.L.S. 

The  Athenaeum  Club. 

George  James  Aungier,  Esq. 

Benjamin  Austen,  Esq. 

William  Ayrton,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

W.    Scrope   Ayrton,    Esq.    F.S.A. 

Barrister-at-Law. 

James  Bacon,  Esq.  Barrister-at-Law. 
Thomas     Bacon,     Esq.     Redlands, 

Reading. 

Edward  Badeley,Esq.  F.S.A.  Temple. 
The  Right  Hon.  Lord  Bagot,  LL.D., 

F.S.A. 

James  Evan  Baillie,  Esq. 
George  Baker,  Esq.  Local  Secretary 

at  Northampton. 

Rev.  Bulkeley  Bandinel,  D.D.  Bod- 
leian Librarian,  Oxford. 
George  Banks,  Esq.  St.  Catharine's, 

near  Doncaster. 
Rev.  Richard  H.  Barham,  B.A. 
Benjamin  Barnard,  Esq. 
John  Barnard,  Esq. 
Alfred  Brooke  Barnes,  Esq. 
Keith  Barnes,  Esq. 
Ralph  Barnes,  Esq.  Exeter. 
Charles  Frederick   Barnwell,    Esq. 

M.A.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Rev.  John  Bartholomew,  Morchant. 
John  Baron,  Esq.  M.D.  F.R.S. 
Mr.  J.  Bartlett,  Blandford. 
Rt.  Rev.  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Bath 

and  Wells,  F.R.S.  and  F.S.A. 
R.  R.  Bayley,  Esq. 


Thomas  Baylis,  Esq,  F.S.A.  Prior's 

Bank,  Fulham. 
Rev.  Thomas  Vere  Bayne,  B.C.L. 

Warrington. 

Edward  Blake  Beal,  Esq. 
Henry  Ridley  Beal,  Esq. 
Mr.  Henry  Mitchison  Bealby. 
John  Beardmore,  Esq. 
Rev.  Daniel  Augustus  Beaufort,  A.M. 

His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Bedford. 

Rev.  Henry  Bedford,  Dunton  Bas- 
sett. 

The  Bedford  Permanent  Library. 

Alfred  Beesley,  Esq.  Banbury. 

James  Bell,  Esq. 

Robert  Bell,  Esq.  Advocate,  Procu- 
rator for  the  Church  of  Scotland. 

Thomas  Bell,  Esq.  F.R.S.  Professor 
of  Zoology,  King's  College,  Lond. 

Charles  Bellamy,  Esq.  D.C.L.  Fel- 
low of  St.  John's  College,  Oxford. 

Samuel  Beltz,  Esq. 

Mr.  James  Bennett,  Tewkesbury. 

Henry  Bentley,  Esq. 

John  Bentley,  Esq.  Birch  House, 
near  Bolton,  Lancashire. 

Michael  Bentley,  Esq. 

Richard  Bentley,  Esq. 

P.  S.  Benwell,  Esq.  Henley. 

J.  B.  Bergne,  Esq. 

Samuel  Berridge,  Esq.  Leicester. 

(c.)  The  Rev.  John  Besly,  D.C.L. 
Vicar  of  Benton,Northumberland. 

J.  Richard  Best,  Esq.  Botley  Grange, 
Southampton. 

Sir  William  Betham,  Ulster  King  at 
Arms,  F.S.A.  M.  R.  I.  A.,  Local 
Secretary  at  Dublin. 

Richard  Bethell,  Esq.  M.P.  Rise, 
near  Beverley. 


MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


15 


M.  le  Comte  Arthur  Beugnot,  Mem- 
bre  de  FInstitut  de  France. 

John  Bevan,  Esq.  Cowbridge. 
La  Bibliotheque  du  Roi,  Paris. 
Robert  Bickersteth,  Esq.  Liverpool. 
John  Bidwell,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Leonard     Shelford     Bidwell,    Esq. 

F.S.A.  Thetford. 
Rev.  George  Augustus  Biedermann, 

Rector  of  Dauntsey,  Wilts. 
Rev.  Edward  T.  Bigge,  M.A.  Fellow 

of  Merton  Coll.  Oxford. 
Arthur  Biggs,  Esq.  Bristol. 
Edw.  Charles  Bird,  Esq.  Southwold. 
Thomas  Birkbeck,  Esq. 
The  Birmingham  Public  Library. 
John  Black,  Esq. 
William  Black,  Esq. 
Alexander  Blair,  Esq.  LL.D.  Bristol. 
Dr.  Malachi  Blake,  Taunton. 
Rev.W.  Blakesley,  M.A.  Trin.  Coll. 

Camb. 

Michael  Bland,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Rev.  George  Bland,  M.A. 
Francis  Lawrence  Bland,  Esq. 
William  Bland,  Esq.  Place  House, 

Hartlip. 
Charles  Bland y,  Esq.  Reading. 

(c.)    John    Jackson    Blandy,    Esq. 

Reading. 
William  Blandy,  Esq.  Reading. 

Octavian  Blewitt,  Esq.  Secretary 
to  the  Literary  Fund  Society. 

(c.)  Rev.  Philip  Bliss,  D.C.L.,  F.S.A. 
Registrar  of  the  Univ.  of  Oxford. 
Local  Secretary  at  Oxford. 

BindonBlood,  Esq.  F.R.S.E.,  F.S.A. 
Scot.,  M.R.I.A.  Edinburgh. 

Edward  Blore,  Esq.  D.C.L.,  F.S.A. 
B.  Blundell,  Esq.  Temple. 


Rev.  Wm.  Blunt,  B.A.  Under  Master 
of  Merchant-Taylors5  School. 

Miss  Bockett,  Southcote  Lodge, 
Berks. 

Henry  G.  Bohn,  Esq. 

Rev.  J.  A.  Bolster,  M.A.,  M.R.I.A. 
Local  Secretary  at  Cork. 

Edward  A.  Bond,  Esq. 

Mr.  William  Boone. 

Mr.  Lionel  Booth. 

Rt.  Hon.  Sir  John  Bernard  Bosan- 
quet,  one  of  the  Judges  of  the 
Common  Pleas,  M.A. 

Rev.  Joseph  Bosworth,  LL.D., 
F.R.S.,  F.S.A.  Local  Secretary 
at  Nottingham. 

William  Fuller  Boteler,  Esq.  M.A., 
Q.C. 

(c.)  Beriah  Botfield,  Esq.  M.P., 
F.R.S.,  F.S.A.  Norton  Hall,  Nor- 
thamptonshire. 

Rev.  Thomas  Bowdler,  Sydenham. 

Henry  Bower,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Local 
Secretary  at  Doncaster.  [Died 
Feb.  25,  1842.] 

Rev.  Thomas  Frere  Bowerbank, 
M.A.  Vicar  of  Chiswick. 

Mark  Boyd,  Esq. 

David  Bradberry,  Esq. 

Robert  Greene  Bradley,  Esq.  Ben- 
cher of  Gray's  Inn. 

Joseph  Hoare  Bradshaw,  Esq. 

George  Weare  Braikenridge,  Esq. 
F.S.A.  Brislington  House,  Som. 

Edw.  Henry  Bramah,  Esq.  Reading. 

Jonathan  Brammall,  Esq.  Sheffield. 

Rev.  Thomas  Brancker,  M.A.  Fel- 
low of  Wadham  Coll.  Oxford. 

Right  Hon.  LORD  BRAYBROOKE, 
F.S.A.  Pres.  Percy  Society. 

Edward  Wedlake  Brayley,  Esq. 
F.S.A. 


16 


MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


Henry  Brice,  Esq.  Bristol. 

Rev.  Thomas  Edward  Bridges,  D.D» 
President  of  Corpus  Christi  Coll. 
Oxford. 

Benjamin  Heywood  Bright,  Esq. 
Ham  Green,  near  Bristol. 

John  Bright,  Esq.  M.D. 

John  Ruggles  Brise,  Esq.  Spains- 
hall,  Finchingfield,  Essex. 

John  Britton,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

James  Broadwood,  Esq. 

Thomas  Broadwood,  Esq. 

William  Brockedon,  Esq.  F.R.S. 

John  Trotter  Brockett,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Newcastle. 

William  Bromet,  M.D.,  F.S.A.  Sur- 
geon 1st  Life  Guards. 

(c.)  Right  Hon.  Lord  Brooke,  St. 
John's  College,  Oxford. 

Francis  Capper  Brooke,  Esq.  Ufford 
Place,  Suffolk. 

Charles  Bros,  Esq. 

The  Right  Hon.  Lord  Brougham 
and  Vaux,  F.R.S.  Pres.  of  Univ. 
College,  London,  and  Member  of 
the  National  Institute  of  France. 

Rev.  John  Brown,  M.A.  Vice-Mas- 
ter of  Trinity  College,  Camb. 

Samuel  Cowper  Brown,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Shillingford  Cross,  Devon. 

W.  H.  Brown,  Esq. 

Rev.  G.  A.  Browne,  M.A.  Fellow  of 
Trin.  Coll.  Camb. 

Rt.  Hon.Sir  Jas.  Lewis  Knight  Bruce, 
Vice  Chancellor,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

JOHN  BRUCE,   Esq.   F.S.A. 
Treasurer. 

Thomas  Bruce,  Esq.  Shenfield. 

Mr.  Leonard  Bruton,  Bristol. 

Rev.  Guy  Bryan,  M.A.,  F.S.A.  Rec- 
tor of  Woodham  Walter,  Essex. 
Local  Secretary  at  Maldon. 

Mr.  John  Bryant. 


Rev.  George  Buckeridge,  M.A.  Fel- 
low of  Worcester  Coll.  Oxford. 
George  Buckton,  Esq.  Oakfield. 
Lieut.-Gen.    Sir    Henry   Bunbury, 

K.C.B.,  F.S.A. 
John  Burder,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
William  Burge,    Esq.  Q.C.   M.A., 

D.C.L. 

John  William  Burgon,Esq.  Auditor. 
James  Burn,  Esq.  W.S.  Edinburgh. 
Ven.  Charles  Parr  Burney,  D.D., 

F.R.S.,  F.S.A.  Archdeacon  of  St. 

Alban^s. 

John  Burrell,  Esq.  Durham. 
Robert  Burrell,  Esq.  Durham. 
Edmund  Burrow,  Esq. 
Decimus  Burton,  Esq.  F.R.S., 

F.S.A. 
John  Hill  Burton,  Esq.  Advocate, 

Edinburgh. 

Septimus  Burton,  Esq. 
Rev.  Thomas  Byrth,  M.A.,  F.S.A., 

Rector,  of  Wallasey,  Cheshire. 
Benjamin  Bond Cabbell, Esq.  F.R.S., 

F.S.A. 

Frederick  Caldwell,  Esq. 
Rev.  Henry  Calthrop,  B.D.  Fellow  of 

Corpus  Christi  Coll.  Camb. 
Rt.  Hon.  Lord  Campbell. 
John  Campbell,  Esq. 
Rt.  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Camperdown. 
Edward  Capps,  Esq. 
Rev.    Henry   Card,   D.D.   F.S.A. 

Great  Malvern. 
J.  S.  Cardale,  Esq.  Leicester. 
The  Cardiff  Institution. 
(c.)  The  Rev.  EdwardCardwell,  D.D. 

CAMDEN'S  Professor  of  Ancient 

History,  Oxford. 

(c.)  Peter  Stafford  Carey,  Esq.  M.A. 
Rt.  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Carlisle,  F.R.S. 
Edward  John  Carlos,  Esq. 


MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


17 


A.  N.  Carmichael,  Esq.  Principal 
Classical  Master  at  the  Edinburgh 
Academy. 

Rev.  John  Carr,  M.A.  Fellow  of 
Balliol  Coll.  Oxford. 

William  Thomas  Carr,  Esq. 

John  Carter,  Esq.  Coventry. 

George  Alfred  Carthew,  Esq.  East 
Dereham,  Norfolk. 

(c.)  Cornelius  Cartwright,  Esq.  Dud- 

^    ley. 

Rev.  W.  Cams,  M.A.  Fellow  of 
Trin.  Coll.  Camb. 

The  Rt.  Hon.  Earl  Cawdor,  F.R.S. 

Mr.  James  Chaffin,  Islington. 

Thomas  Chapman,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

William  Chapman,  Esq.  Richmond, 
Surrey. 

William  Chappell,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Trea- 
surer of  the  Percy  and  the 
Musical  Antiq.  Societies. 

Mr.  Emerson  Charnley,  Newcastle. 

Sir  William  Chatterton,  Bart. 

J.  M.  G.  Cheek,  Esq.  Evesham. 

Rt.  Rev.  the  Lord  Bishop  of,  Chi- 
chester. 

(c.)  John  Walbanke  Childers,  Esq. 
M.P. 

Francis  Cholmeley,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Rev.  Henry  Christmas,  M.A.  F.R.S. 
F.S.A. 

Henry  Christy,  Esq. 

William  Church,  Esq.  Streatley, 
Reading. 

Rev.  Thomas  Townson  Churton, 
M.A.  Brazenose  College,  Oxford. 

Rev.  Francis  Foreman   Clark,  B.A. 

Townfield  House,  near  Newcastle, 

Staffordshire. 

George  Thomas  Clark,  Esq. 
William  Clark,  M.D.  Professor  of 

Anatomy,  Cambridge. 


Charles  Clark,  Esq. 

John  Clarke,  Esq.  Southwark. 

John  Clarke,  jun.  Esq.  Peatling  Hall, 

Leicestershire. 
Thomas  Clarke,  Esq.  Knedlington, 

Yorkshire. 

Thomas  Clarke,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Rev.  Piers  C.  Claughton,  M.A.  Fel- 
low of  Univ.  Coll.  Oxford. 
Rev.  Patrick  Clason,  D.D.  Edinb. 
Jacob  Clements,  Esq. 
(c.)  Rev.  A.  B.  Clough,  B.D.,  F.S.A. 

Jesus  Coll.  Oxford. 
Charles  Thornton    Coathupe,  Esq. 

Wraxhall,  near  Bristol. 
James  Cobb,  Esq.  Yarmouth. 
J.  Ingram  Cobbin,  Esq. 
Sir  William  S.  R.  Cockburn,  Bart. 

M.A.,  Bath. 
William  Colbourne,  Esq.  Chippen- 

ham. 

Robert  Cole,  Esq. 
Rev.  Edward  Coleridge,  M.A. 
Francis    George    Coleridge,    Esq. 

Ottery  St.  Mary,  Devon. 
Henry  Nelson  Coleridge,  Esq.  M.A. 

The  Hon.  Sir  John  Taylor  Coleridge, 
one  of  the  Judges  of  the  Queen's 
Bench,  M.A. 

JOHN  PAYNE  COLLIER,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Director  of  the  Shakespeare  So- 
ciety. 

Mr.  Edwin  Collings,  Bath. 

Edward  Collins,  Esq. 

Thomas  Combe,  Esq.  Oxford. 

Rev.  C.  Comberbach,  Stonor. 

Mr.  John  Comport,  Stroud. 

(c.)  Rev.  John  Connop,  M.A.  Brad- 
field  Hall,  Berkshire. 

Edward  Conroy,  Esq.  M.A., 
M.R.I.A. 

Lord  Albert  Conyngham,  F.S.A. 


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MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


Philip  Davies  Cooke,  Esq.  Owston, 

Yorkshire. 

W.  H.  Cooke,  Esq.  Temple. 
Charles  Henry  Cooper,  Esq.  Coroner 

for  Cambridge. 
CHARLES  PURTON    COOPER,  Esq. 

Q.C.,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Rev.  James  Cooper,  M.A.  St.  PauPs 

School. 

Thomas  Henry  Cooper,  Esq. 
William  Durrant  Cooper,  Esq.  F.S.  A. 
Rev.  William  John  Copeland,  M.A. 

Fellow    of  Trinity  College,  Ox- 
ford. 

James  Copland,  M.D.,  F.R.S. 
The  Lord  Bishop  of  Cork,  Cloyne, 

and  Ross. 

George  Richard  Corner,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
(c.)  Bolton  Corney,Esq.  Greenwich. 

Auditor. 
Frederick  Corrance,  Esq.  Loudham 

Hall,  Suffolk. 

Rev.  Thomas  Corser,  Stand,  Man- 
chester. 
Rev.  G.  E.  Corrie,  B.D.  Fellow  of 

Cath.  Hall,    and  Norrisian  Prof. 

of  Div.  in  the  Univ.  of  Cambridge. 
Rt.  Hon.  Lord  Cottenham. 
Rev.  William  Charles  Cotton,  B.A. 

Student  of  Christ  Ch.  Oxford. 
The  Right  Hon.  Lord  Courtenay. 
The   Right    Hon.    THOMAS   P. 

COURTENAY.  [Died July 8, 1841.] 
Andrew  Coventry,  Esq.  Advocate, 

Edinburgh. 
S.  P.  Cox,  Esq. 
Mrs.  Cox,  Lawford,  Essex. 
George  L.  Craik,  Esq. 
Rev.  John  Antony   Cramer,   D.D. 

Public  Orator,  Oxford. 
Rev.  Richard  Crawley,  M.A.  Steeple 

Ashton,  Wiltshire. 


Anthony  Crofton,  Esq.  Barrister. 
The  Rt.  Hon.  John  Wilson  Croker, 

LLJX,  F.R.S. 
THOMAS  CROFTON  CROKER,  Esq. 

F.S.A.,  M.R.I.A. 

James  Crofts,  Esq. 

James  Crossley,  Esq.  Local  Secre- 
tary at  Manchester. 

James  Dodsley  Cuff,  Esq. 

George  Godfrey  Cunningham,  Esq. 
Glasgow. 

Peter  Cunningham,  Esq.  Treasurer 
of  the  Shakspeare  Soc. 

Miss  Richardson  Currer,  Eshton 
Hall,  Yorkshire. 

Henry  Curwen,  Esq.  Workington 
Hall. 

The  Rev.  Henry  Curwen,  Rector  of 
Workington. 

Edward  Dalton,  Esq.  LL.D.,  F.S.A. 
Dunkirk  House,  near  Minchin- 
hampton,  Gloucestershire. 

George  Daniel,  Esq. 

Rev.  John  Wareyn  Darby,  Fram- 
lingham. 

George  Webbe  Dasent,  Esq. 

Rev.  C.  N.  Davies,  Norwood. 

James  Edward  Davies,  Esq. 

Robert  Davies,  Esq. 

Thomas  Stephens  Davies, Esq.  F.R.S. 
L.  and  Ed.  F.S.A.  Prof,  of  Mathe- 
matics in  Royal  Military  Acad. 
Woolwich. 

David  Elisha  Davy,  Esq.  Ufford, 
Suffolk.  Local  Secretary. 

Matthew  Dawes,  Esq.  F.G.S.  Bol- 
ton-le-Moors. 

Vesey  Thomas  Dawson,  Esq. 

Rev.  Arthur  Dayman,  M.A.  Fellow 
of  Exeter  College,  Oxford. 


MEMBERS    OF   THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


19 


W.  Head  Deacon,  Esq.  Long  Cross, 

near  Cardiff. 
Charles  Deane,  Esq. 
Rev.  J.BathurstDeane,  M.A.,F.S.A. 
James  Dearden,  Esq.  Rochdale. 
Norris  Deck,  Esq.  Cambridge. 
Right  Hon.  Earl  De  Grey,  Pres.  of 

R.  Inst.  Br.  Architects,  F.S.A. 
Joseph  Delafield,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Rev.  D.  C.  Delafosse,  M.A.  Vicar  of 

Wandsworth. 
Philip  Chilwell  De  la  Garde,  Esq. 

Exeter. 

Rt.  Hon.  Earl  Delawarr. 
George  Dempster,   Esq.    of  Skibo, 

Advocate. 
Mons.  Jules  Desnoyers,  Sec.  de  la 

Soc.  de  FHistoire  de  France. 
His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Devonshire, 

K.G.,  D.C.L. 
Hugh  Welch  Diamond,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Hon.  Libr.  of  the  Numism.  Soc. 
John  Ross  Diamond,  Esq. 
F.  H.  Dickinson,  Esq. 
William  Dickson,  Esq.  Edinburgh. 
Count  Maurice  Dietrich  stein,  Pre- 
fect of  the  Imp.  Library  at  Vienna, 

Associate  of  the  Numismatic  Soc. 

of  London,  &c. 
Charles   Wentworth    Dilke,   Esq. 

LL.B. 

Joseph  C.  Dimsdale,  Esq. 
John  Disney,  Esq.  The  Hyde,  In- 

gatestone. 

I.  Disraeli,  Esq.  D.C.L.,  F.S.A. 
(c.)  George  Dodd,Esq.M.P.,  F.S.A. 
Charles  Cooper  Doggett,  Esq. 

William  Fishburn  Donkin,  Esq.B.A. 
Fellow  of  Univ.  Coll.  Oxford. 

Edward  Douglas,  Esq.Christ  Ch.Oxf . 

John    Edward    Dowdeswell,     Esq. 
Pull  Court,  Worcestershire. 


Charles  Downes,  Esq. 

Thomas  Doyley,  Esq.  D.C.L.  Ser- 
jeant-at-Law. 

William  Richard  Drake,  Esq.  Read- 
ing. 

The  Rev.  W.  Drake,  M.A.  Colle- 
giate School,  Leicester. 

Rev.  Pearce  William  Drew,  Youghal. 

Charles  Seymour  Dubourg,  Esq. 

Samuel  Duckworth,  Esq.  M.A.  Mas- 
ter in  Chancery. 

Adam  Duff,  Esq.  Woodcott  House, 
Oxfordshire. 

George  Duke,  Esq.  Barrister-at- 
Law,  St.  Leonard's,  Sussex. 

Thomas  Farmer  Dukes,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Shrewsbury. 

Andrew   Dun,   Esq.   W.S.,    M.A., 
F.A.S.  Scot.  Edinburgh. 

Philip  Bury  Duncan,  Esq.  M.A. 
Keeper  of  the  Ashmolean  Museum, 
Oxford. 

David  Dundas,  Esq.  M.A.  Temple. 

William  Pitt  Dundas,  Esq.  Advocate, 
Edinburgh. 

James  Dunlop,  Esq.  W.  S.  Edin- 
burgh. 

John  Dunn,  Esq.  Paisley. 

Enoch  Durant,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Right  Rev.  the  Lord  Bishop  of 
Durham,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

Mons.   Dusommerard,    Hotel   de 

Cluny,  Paris. 
Rev.  Alexander  Dyce,  B.A. 

William  Dyce,  Esq.  School  of  Design, 
Somerset-house. 

Rev.  John  Bradley  Dyne,  M.A.  Fel- 
low of  Wadham  College,  Oxford. 
Mr.  Thomas  Eaton,  Worcester. 
Thomas  Edgworth,  Esq. 

Rev.  Andrew  Edwards,  B.D.,  Fel- 
low of  Magdalen  Coll.  Oxford, 


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MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


Edward  Hugh  Edwards,  Esq. 
Joseph  Berry  Edwards,  Esq.  South- 
wold. 

The  Rt.  Hon.  George  Earl  of  Egre- 
mont,  F.S.A. 

Benjamin  Elam,  Esq. 

Rev.  H.  T.  Ellacombe,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Bitton  near  Bristol. 

Sir  HENRY  ELLIS,  K.H.,  LL.B. 
F.R.S.,  Sec.  S.  A.,  Principal  Li- 
brarian of  the  British  Museum. 

Rev.  John  Joseph  Ellis, M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Joseph  Ellis,  jun.  Esq.  Richmond. 
John  Fullerton  Elphinstone,  Esq. 
Hastings  Elwin,  Esq. 
William  Empson,  Esq.  M.A. 
Dr.  Endlicher,  Vienna. 

Rt.  Hon.  Thomas  Erskine,  Chief 
Judge  of  the  Bankruptcy  Court. 

George  Essell,  Esq.  Rochester. 

Thomas  Grimston  BucknallEstcourt, 
Esq.  M.  P.  for  the  University  of 
Oxford.  Estcourt,  Gloucestershire. 

Rev.  Henry  H.  Evans. 

Herbert  Norman  Evans,  Esq. 

Thomas  Evans,  Esq.  Cardiff. 

JohnLeman  Ewen,  Esq.  Southwold. 

Edmund  Eyton,  Esq. 

James  Falconar,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

James  William  Farrer,  Esq.  Master 
in  Chancery. 

Mr.  Thomas  Faulkner,  Chelsea. 

Mr.  William  Faulkner,  Chelsea. 

Rev.  Godfrey  Faussett,  D.D.  Mar- 
garet Professor  of  Divinity,  Oxf. 

Joseph  Fearn,  Esq. 

Tarver  R.  Fearnside,  Esq. 

Dr.  Feder,  Privy  Councillor,  and 
Head  Librarian  to  the  Court  of 
Hesse  Darmstadt. 


Rev.  George  O.  Fenwicke,  F.S.A. 

Aston   near   Birmingham.    Local 

Secretary  at  Birmingham. 
Sir  Charles  Dalrymple  Fergusson,  of 

Hailes  and  Kilkerran,  Bart. 
Copley  Fielding,  Esq.  Brighton. 
Rev.    Henry    Fielding,   M.A.    Sal- 

monby  Rectory  near  Horncastle. 
William  Figg,  Esq.  Lewes. 
Charles  Filica,  Esq. 
John  Joseph  Ashby  Fillinham,  Esq. 
Charles  John  Fisher,  Esq.   Jesus 

College,  Cambridge. 
John  Goate  Fisher,  Esq.  Yarmouth. 

Paul  Hawkins  Fisher,  Esq.  The  Cas- 
tle, Stroud. 

Wm.  Stevenson  Fitch,  Esq.  Local 
Secretary  at  Ipswich. 

Robert  Fitch,  Esq.  Norwich. 

Edward  Herbert  Fitzherbert,  Esq. 
M.A.,  Barrister  at  Law. 

Richard  Wilson  Fitz Patrick,  Esq. 
South  Luffenham,  Rutland. 

The  Right  Hon.  Earl  Fitz  William. 

Sir  Hesketh  Fleetwood,  Bart.  Rossall 
Hall,  Lancashire. 

(c.)  ThomasW.  Fletcher,  Esq.  F.R.S., 

F.S.A.  Local  Secretary  at  Dudley. 
(c.)  Rev.   William    Fletcher,   M.A. 

Local  Secretary  at  Derby. 
(c.)  John  Harris  Flooks,Esq.Wilton. 
Sir  William  J.  H.  Browne  Folkes, 

Bart.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
(c.)    George   Folliott,  Esq.   Vicar's 

Cross,  Chester. 

Thomas    G.    Fonnereau,    Esq. 
F.S.A. 

M.  de  la  Fontenelle  de  Vaudore, 
Conseiller  a  la  Cour  Royale  de 
Poitiers,  For.  Memb.  S.A. 

Charles  Ford,  Esq. 

G.  J.  Ford,  Esq.  Exeter  Coll.  Oxf. 


MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


21 


Rev.  Josiah  Forshall,  M.A.,  F.R.S., 
F.S.A.  Secretary  to  the  British 
Museum. 

John  Forster,  Esq.  Newton-in-the- 

Willows. 
Matthew  Forster,  Esq.  Belsize, 

Hampstead. 

Hon.  George  M.  Fortescue. 
Edward  Foss,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Rev.  W.  W.  Fowler,  Darley,  near 

Derby. 

Lieut.-Colonel  Charles  Richard  Fox. 

Henry  Ralph  Francis,   Esq.    M.A. 

late  Fellow  of  St.  John's  College, 

Cambridge. 

Miss  Francis,  Hampstead. 
Richard  Frankum,  Esq. 

Thomas  Fraser,  Esq.  Advocate,  Inner 
Temple. 

Mons.  Frere,  Rouen. 

Thomas  Frewen,  Esq.  Cold  Over- 
ton,  Leicestershire. 

Charles  Frost,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Pres.  of 
the  Lit.  and  Philos.  Soc.  of  Hull. 
Local  Secretary  at  Hull. 

Baldwin  Fulford,  Esq.   Great  Ful- 

ford,  Devon, 
(c.)  John  Lewis  Ffytche,  Esq.  Line. 

Coll.  Oxf.,  Thorpe  Hall,  Louth. 

Charles  Gambier,Esq.  Harley-street. 

James  Gandy,  jun.  Esq.  Heave's 
Lodge,  near  Kendal. 

Rev.  Richard  Garnett,  F.S.A.  Bri- 
tish Museum. 

Thomas  Garrard,  Esq.  F.S.  A.  Bristol. 

Thomas  Gaspey,  Esq. 

Mr.  Geeves,  Regent-street. 

Herr  von  Gevay,  Vienna. 

Professor  Aug.  Fred.  Gfroerer,  Di- 
rector of  the  Royal  Library,  Stutt- 
gardt. 


Humphrey  Gibbs,  Esq. 
Joseph  Gibbs,  Esq.  M.I.C.E. 
John  Gidley,  Esq.  Exeter. 
Edward  Gifford,  Esq.  Admiralty. 
Richard  James  Gilman,  Esq. 
William  Anthony  Gilman,  Esq. 
Thomas  Ward  Gleadow,  Esq.  Hull. 

The  Literary  and  Scientific   Asso- 
ciation of  Gloucester. 

John  Hulbert  Glover,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Librarian  to  Her  Majesty. 
Sir  Stephen  Richard  Glynne,  Bart. 

F.S.A. 
George    Godwin,  jun.   Esq.  F.R.S. 

F.S.A. 

Gabriel  Goldney,  Esq. 
Aaron  Asher  Goldsmid,  Esq. 
Sir  Isaac    Lyon    Goldsmid,    Bart. 

F.R.SV  F.S.A. 
Rev.   Charles    Portales    Golightly, 

M.A.  Oriel  College,  Oxford. 

Rev.  W.  Goode. 

James  Gooden,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Jonathan    Gooding,    Esq.     Local 
Secretary  at  Southwold. 

Alexander  Gordon,  jun.  Esq. 
Richard  Gosling,  Esq. 
The  Gottingen  University  Library. 
James  Robert  Gowen,  Esq.  F.G.S. 

John  Black  Gracie,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Sc. 

Edinburgh. 
Charles  Graham,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Rev.   Robert   Henry   Gray,  Christ 
Church,  Oxford. 

The  Library  of  the  Hon.  Society  of 

Gray's  Inn. 

Charles  Green,  Esq.  Spalding. 
Henry  Green,  Esq. 
Thomas  Abbott  Green,  Esq.  Bedford. 
d 


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MEMBERS    OP   THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


John  Greenall,  Esq.  Warrington. 

Benjamin  W.  Greenfield,  Esq.  Shir- 
ley, Southampton. 

Hon.  and  Rev.  George  Neville 
Grenville,  M.A.  Master  of  Mag- 
dalene Coll.  Camb. 

Right  Hon.  Thomas  Grenville,  F.S.A. 

John  MorewoodGresley,Esq.Exeter 
College,  Oxford. 

Charles  Cavendish  Greville,  Esq. 

Philip  Griffith,  Esq. 

Rev.  Robert  H.  Groome,  M.A. 
Caius  Coll.  Camb. 

(c.)  The  Right  Hon.  Earl  Grosvenor. 

John  Grundy,  Esq.  Hampton  Court 

Palace. 

The  Lady  Charlotte  E.  Guest. 
Edwin  Guest,  Esq.  M.A.  Fellow  of 

Caius  Coll.  Camb. 
Sir   John  Guise,   Bart.  Rendcomb, 

Gloucestershire. 

JohnLewis  Guillemard,M.A.  F.R.S. 

Daniel  Gurney,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

(c.)  Hudson  Gurney,  Esq.  V.P.S.A., 

F.R.S. 
The  Hon.  Sir  John  Gurney,  one  of 

the  Barons  of  the  Exchequer. 
Rev.  John  Hampden  Gurney,  M.A. 

Lutterworth. 
John  Mathew   Gutch,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Local  Secretary  at  Worcester. 
Frederick  Gwatkin,  Esq. 
Mr.  Henry  Gwyn. 
Miss  Hackett,  Clapham,  Surrey. 

William  D.  Haggard,  Esq.  F.S.A., 
F.R.A.S.,  M.N.S. 

Mr.  David  Haig,  Advocates'  Libra- 
ry, Edinburgh. 

Edward  Hailstone,  Esq.  Horton 
House,  near  Bradford,  Yorkshire. 

Alexander  Haldane,  Esq.  Barrister. 


Sir  Henry  Halford,  Bart.  G.C.H. 
M.D.  F.R.S.  Pres.  of  the  College 
of  Physicians,  and  Physician  to 
the  Queen. 

Mr.  Charles  Hall,  Blandford. 

Rev.  George  W.  Hall,  D.D.  Master 
of  Pembroke  College,  Oxford. 

Giles  Hall,  Esq.  Gloucester. 

John  Hall,  Esq. 

John  Charles  Hall,  Esq. 

(c.)  Thomas    Henry    Hall,    F.R.S. 

Barrister-at-Law. 
Henry  Hallam,  Esq.  M.A.,  F.R.S. 

V.P.S.A. 

Charles  William  Hallett,  Esq. 
James      Orchard     Halliwell,    Esq. 

F.R.S.  F.S.A. 
William    Richard    Hamilton,    Esq. 

F.R.S.,  V.P.S.A. 

Robert  Handy  side,  Esq.  Advocate, 
Edinburgh. 

Philip  Augustus  Hanrott,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

(c.)  J.  A.  Hardcastle,  Esq.  Hatcham 
House,  New  Cross. 

George  Perfect  Harding, Esq.  F.S.A. 
Joseph  Harding,  Esq.  Finchley. 

E.  T.  Harding,  Esq.  Librarian  to 
the  King  of  Hanover. 

John  Stockdale  Hardy,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Leicester. 

(c.)  Ven.  Julius  Charles  Hare,  M.A. 
Archdeacon  of  Lewes. 

Edward  Harman,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Rev.  William  Harness,  M.A. 

Robert  Harris,  Esq.  Reading. 

Edward  M.  Harrison,  Esq. 

Wm.  F.  Harrison,  Esq.  M.N.S.  Ro- 
chester. 

William  Henry  Harrison,  Esq. 

Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Harrowby, 
F.S.A. 


MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


23 


Marmaduke  Hart  Hart,  Esq. 
Solomon  Alexander  Hart,  Esq.  R.A. 

Rev.  Charles  Henry  Hartshorne, 
M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Lieut.-Col.  Harvey,  Thorpe  Lodge, 
Norfolk.  [Died  Feb.  9, 1842.] 

Henry  Paul  Harwood,  Esq.  M.D. 
Sheffield. 

James  Hastie,  Esq. 

Henry  Hatcher,  Esq.  Local  Secre- 
tary at  Salisbury. 

Charles  Havell,  Esq.  Reading. 

Rev.  Edward  Hawkins,  D.D.  Pro- 
vost of  Oriel  College,  Oxford. 

Edward  Hawkins,  Esq.  F.R.S.  F.S.A. 

Rev.  EdwardCraven  Hawtrey,D.D., 
F.S.A.,  Head  Master  of  Eton. 

E.  W.  Drummond  Hay,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Lond.  and  Sc. 

Rev.  J.  M.  Heath,  M.A.  Fellow  of 
Trinity  Coll.  Camb. 

John  Benjamin  Heath,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Sir  William  Heathcote,Bart.  D.C.L. 
M.P. 

Henry  Heffill,  Esq.  Diss,  Norfolk. 

Henry  Heintz,  Esq. 

Bathurst  Hemans,  Esq.  Barrister- 

at-Law. 

Alexander  Henderson,  M.D.,  F.S.A. 
James  Henwood,  Esq.  Hull. 
Hon.  Algernon  Herbert,  M.A. 
Thomas  Hewitt,  Esq.  M.A.  Cork. 
Henry  William  Hewlett,  Esq. 
James  Hey  wood,  Esq.  F.R.S.  F.S.A. 
Thomas    Heywood,   Esq.    F.S.A. 

Ledbury. 

George  Hickman,  Esq.  Marlow. 
Rev.  W.  Hildyard,  Market  Deeping. 
Henry  Hill,  Esq.  Barrister-at-Law. 

(c.)  Rev.  Herbert  Hill,  Fellow  of  New 
College,  Oxford. 


Jere  Hill,  Esq.  Bristol. 

Matthew  D.  Hill,  Esq.  Q.C. 

John  Hills,  Esq.  M.A. 

John  Hodgson  Hinde,  Esq.  M.P. 

J.  H.  Hippisley,  Esq. 

Francis  Hobler,  jun.  Esq.  Sec.N.S. 

Langford  Lovel  Hodge,  Esq. 

Sampson  Hodgkinson,  Esq. 

Rev.  John  Hodgson, M.R.S.L.  Vice- 
Pres.  Soc.  Ant.  Newc. 

W.  B.  Hodgson,  Esq.  Liverpool. 
James  Maitland  Hog,  Esq.  of  New- 
liston. 

Thomas  Holden,  Esq. 

(c.)    James  Holding,  Esq.  Basing- 

stoke. 

Rt.  Hon.  the  Dowager  Lady  Holland, 
(c.)    Robert    Hollond,    Esq.   M.P., 

M.A.  Barrister-at-Law. 
Richard  Hollier,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Mr.  M.  M.  Hollo  way. 
Bryan  Holme,  Esq.  New  Inn. 
Edward  Holme,  M.D.  Manchester. 
John   Holmes,   Esq.    F.S.A.    East 

Retford.   [Died  May  25,  1841.] 
John  Holmes,  Esq.  F.S.A.  British 

Museum. 

Robert  Home,  Esq. 
Mr.  W.  Hood. 

Frederick  B.  Hoopei?Esq.  Reading. 
John  Hooper,  Esq.  Reading. 
Alexander    Beresford    Hope,    Esq. 

Trinity  College,  Cambridge. 
James  Robert  Hope,  Esq.  B.C.L. 

Fellow  of  Merton  Coll.  Oxford. 
John  Hope,  Esq.  Dean  of  the  Fa- 
culty of  Advocates,  Edinburgh. 

Charles     Hopkinson,    Esq.     M.A. 

Queen's  College,  Oxford. 
William     Hopkinson,     Esq.    Local 

Secretary  at  Stamford. 


24 


MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


Alfred  John  Horwood,  Esq. 

WiUiam  Hosking,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Chandos  Wren  Hoskyns,  Esq. 
Wroxhall  Abbey,  Warwickshire. 

Abraham  Howard,  Esq. 

Edward  Howes,  Esq.  M.A. 

Rev.  F.  Howes,  M.A.  Norwich. 

John  Hubback,  Esq.  Barrister-at- 
Law. 

Rev.  John  William  Hughes,  M.A. 
Trin.  CoU.  Oxford. 

William  Hughes  Hughes,  Esq.  M.P. 
Barrister-at-Law. 

The  Hull  Subscription  Library. 

William  Powell  Hunt,  Esq.  Ipswich. 

Rev.  Evan  Haynes  Hunter,  B.A. 

John  Hunter,  Esq.  jun.  W.S. 

Rev.  JOSEPH  HUNTER,  F.S.A. 

Mr.  WiUiam  Hurley. 

(c.)  Richard  Charles  Hussey,  Esq. 
F.S.A.,  Birmingham. 

(c.)  Rev.  Robert  Hussey,  B.D.  Stu- 
dent of  Christ  Church,  Oxford. 

Mrs.  Hutcheson,  Bristol. 

John  Ibbotson,  Esq. 

Sir  Robert  Harry  Inglis,  Bart.  LL.D. 
F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  M.P.  for  the  Uni- 
versity of  Oxford. 

(c.)Rev.  JamesIngram,D.D.,  F.S.A. 
President  of  Trin.  Coll.  Oxford. 

The  Royal  Irish  Academy. 

David  Irving,Esq.  LL.D.  Edinburgh. 

James  Ivory,  Esq.  Solicitor-General 
for  Scotland. 

The  Islington  Literary  and  Scientific 
Society. 

Henry  Jackson,  Esq.  Sheffield. 

Rev.Stephen  Jackson,  M.A.  Ipswich. 

Rev.  Thomas  Jackson,  M.A.  Incum- 
bent of  St.  Peter's,  Mile  End. 

B.  Jacob,  Esq.  Dorchester. 


Rev.  William  Jacobson,  M.A.  Vice- 
Principal  of  Magdalen  Hall,  Oxf. 

John  Richmond  Jaffray,  Esq. 

G.  P.  R.  James,  Esq.  The  Shrub- 
bery, Walmer. 

David  Jardine,Esq.  B  arris  ter-at-law. 

Rev.  Richard  Jenkyns,  D.D.  Master 
of  Balliol  CoU.  Oxford. 

Right  Hon.  Sir  Herbert  Jenner, 
LL.D.,  Dean  of  the  Arches. 

Mr.  Robert  Jennings. 

William  Jerdan,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

James  Jermyn,  Esq.  Reydon,  Suffolk. 

Edward  Jesse,  Esq.  Windsor. 

Mr.  George  James  Johnson,  Reading. 

Maurice  Johnson,  Esq.  Spalding. 

Charles  Jones,  Esq. 

George  Jones,  Esq.  R.A. 

Rev.  H.  Longueville  Jones,  M.A. 
Paris. 

Michael  Jones,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Pitman  Jones,  Esq.  Local  Secretary 
at  Exeter. 

Richard  Jones,  Esq. 

William  Bruce  Jones,  Esq.  M.A. 
Oxford,  Barrister-at-Law. 

William  Samuel  Jones,  Esq. 

Henry  Holmes  Joy,  Esq. 

Herr  Theodor  von   Karajan,    Hof- 
kammer- Archives  Beamte,  Vienna. 
Edwin  Keats,  Esq. 
Fitzroy  Kelly,  Esq.  M.P.,  Q.C. 
John  M.  Kemble,  Esq.   M.A. 

Robert  Palmer  Kemp,  Esq.  Yar- 
mouth. 

Russell  Kendall,  Esq.  Gifford'sHall, 

Stoke  by  Nayland,  Suffolk. 
Rev.  George  Kennard. 
John  Kenyon,  Esq. 
Philip  Kernan,  Esq. 
James  Kerr,  Esq.  Coventry. 


MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


25 


John  Kerr,  Esq.  Local  Secretary  at 

Glasgow. 

Edward  Key,  Esq.  Holbeach. 
Richard  T.  Kindersley,  Esq.  Q.C. 
Frederick  King,  Esq.  Fulham. 
Mr.  John  Venables  King. 
Richard   John    King,  Esq.   Exeter 

College,  Oxford. 
Joseph  Chas.  King,  Esq.  St.  John's 

Wood. 
Thomas  W.  King,  Esq.  F.S. A.  Rouge 

Dragon  Pursuivant  of  Arms. 

Paul  Augustine  Kingdon,  Esq.  Exe- 
ter College,  Oxford. 

George  Ritchie  Kinloch,  Esq.  Edinb. 

Charles  Knight,  Esq. 

Henry    Gaily   Knight,  Esq.   M.P., 

F.S.A. 
William  Knight,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Rev.  Erskine  Knollys,  M.A.  Merton 

Coll.  Oxford. 

Rev.  Charles  Knyvett,  Windsor. 
Charles  Konig,  Esq.  K.H.,  F.R.S. 

Herr  Matth.  Kupitsch,  Antiquarian 

bookseller  at  Vienna. 
Rt.  Hon.  Henry  Labouchere,  M.P. 

David  Laing,  Esq.  F.S.A.  L.  &  Sc. 

Edinburgh. 
Rev.  F.  Laing,  M.A.  Tewkesbury. 

Rev.  John  Lamb,  D.D.  Master  of 
Corpus  Christi  Coll.  Camb. 

John  Newton  Lane,  Esq.  King's 
Bromley  Manor,  Lichfield. 

William  Lang,  Esq.  Bristol. 

Right  Hon.  Lord  Langdale,  Master 
of  the  Rolls. 

Arthur  S.  Larken,  Esq.  St.  Alban's 
Hall,  Oxford. 

(c.)  Dr.  J.  M.  Lappenberg,  For. 
Memb.  Soc.  Ant.  Local  Secre- 
tary at  Hamburg. 


Mons.  de  Larenaudiere,  V.P.  de  la 
Soc.  de  Geographic  de  Paris,  Chev. 
de  la  Legion  d'Honneur,  &c. 

Mr.  W.  Law. 

Andrew  Lawson,  Esq.  Borough- 
bridge. 

Sir  William  Lawson,  Bart.  F.S.A. 

Robert  Leadbitter,  Esq.  Newcastle. 

Lt.-Col.  Wm.  Martin  Leake,  F.R.S. 

Rev.  J.  E.  Leefe. 

P.  Bainbridge  Le  Hunt,  Esq.  Ash- 
bourne. 

Robert  Lemon,  Esq.  F.S.A.  State 
Paper  Office. 

Charles  Lever,  Esq. 

Peter  Levesque,  Esq. 

Rev.  T.  T.  Lewis,  M.A.  Bridstow, 
near  Ross.  Local  Secretary. 

Mr.  Lewis  A.  Lewis. 

Robert  Leycester,  Esq.  Cork. 

William  Liddiard,  Esq. 

Alfred  Lillingston,  Esq.  Southwold. 

Mr.  Joseph  Lilly. 

The  Lincoln  Permanent  Library. 

Mons.  Le  Roux  de  Lincy,  Paris. 

John  Lindsay,  Esq.  Barrister-at- 
Law,  Maryville,  Cork. 

Rev.  John  Lingard,  D.D.  Hornby, 
Lancashire. 

Thomas  Henry  Lister,  Esq. 

The  Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Joseph  Littledale, 
M.A. 

Right  Rev.  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Llan- 
daff,  Dean  of  St.  Paul's,  F.S.A. 

Edward  John  Lloyd,  Esq.  M.A. 
Barrister-at-Law. 

George  Lloyd,  Esq.  Brynestyn,  near 
Wrexham. 

William  Horton  Lloyd,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Mr.  Richard  Lloyd,  Hollo  way. 

Sir  Joseph  Lock,  Oxford. 

HenryF.Lockwood,Esq.F.S.A.Hull. 


26 


MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


Rev.  John  Lodge,  M.A.  Librarian  of 
the  University  of  Cambridge.  Lo- 
cal Secretary  at  Cambridge. 

City  of  London  Library,  Guildhall. 

The  London  Library. 

The  London  Institution. 

The  City  of  London  Literary  and 
Scientific  Institution. 

Gwalter  B.  Lonsdale,  Esq. 

Rev.  John  Lonsdale,  M.A.  Principal 
of  King's  College,  London. 

C.  W.  Loscombe,  Esq.  Clifton. 

Henry  Albert  Loscombe,  Esq.  An- 
dover. 

Very  Rev.  Thomas  Hill  Lowe,  M.A. 
Dean  of  Exeter. 

(c.)  James  Lucas,  Esq.  Stirling. 
Samuel  Lucas,  Esq.  Bristol. 
Ebenezer  Ludlow,  Esq.  M.A.  Ser- 

jeant-at-Law. 

Robert  Wheatley  Lumley,  Esq. 
Edmund  Ormond  Lvne,  Esq. 

Colin  Campbell  Macaulay,  Esq.  Lei- 
cester. 

John  David  Macbride,  Esq.  D.C.L. 
Principal  of  Magdalen  Hall,  Oxf. 

Le  Conseilleur  Commandeur  de 
Macedo,  Secretary  General  of  the 
Royal  Society  of  Sciences,  Madrid. 

Andrew  D.  M'Kellar,  Esq. 

Rev.  Charles  Mackenzie,  St.  Olave's, 
Southwark. 

J.  Whitefoord  Mackenzie,  Esq.  W.S. 
Edinburgh. 

James  Macknight,  Esq.  W.S.,  Edin- 
burgh. 

Miss  Macleod. 
William  M'Mahon,  Esq. 

The   Hon.    Alexander  Maconochie, 

Lord  Meadowbank. 
Allan  A.  Maconochie,Esq.  Advocate. 


James  A.  Maconochie,  Esq.  Advo- 
cate, Sheriff  of  Orkney. 

Robert  Maconochie,   Esq. 

(c.)  Sir  FREDERIC  MADDEN,  K.H., 
F.R.S.  F.S.A.  Keeper  of  the 
MSS.  in  the  British  Museum. 

James  Maidment,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Scot. 

Rev.  Samuel  Roffy  Maitland,  F.R.S. 
F.S.A.  Librarian  to  the  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury. 

Sir  Alexander  Malet,  Bart.  Sec.  of 
Legation  at  the  Hague. 

Benjamin  Heath  Malkin,  Esq.  LL.D. 

Edward     Heath    Mammett,    Esq. 
F.G.S.  Ashby  de  la  Zouche. 

Thomas  John  Manchee,  Esq.  Bris- 
tol. 

W.  S.  Mare,  Esq.  Magdalen  College, 
Cambridge. 

James  Heywood  Markland,  Esq. 
F.R.S.,  F.S.A.  Treasurer  of  the 
Roxburghe  Club.  Local  Secretary 
at  Bath. 

Rev.  Herbert  C.  Marsh,  M.A.  Pre- 
bendary of  Peterborough. 

Robert  Marsham,  Esq.D.C.L.,  War- 
den of  Merton  College,  Oxford. 

George  Martin,  Esq.  M.A.  Cork. 

John  Martin,  Esq.  F.L.S.  Woburn. 

Studley  Martin,  Esq.  Liverpool. 

Theodore  Martin,  Esq.  Edinburgh. 

Philip  Martineau,  Esq. 

Thomas  Mason,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Copt 
Hewick,  near  Ripon. 

Thomas  Bardwell  Mason,  Esq. 

William  Matchett,  Esq.  Bracondale, 
Norwich. 

John  Mee  Mathew,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
William    Constable  Maxwell,  Esq. 

Everingham  Park,  Yorkshire. 
Daniel  Charles  Meadows,  Esq.  Great 

Bealing,  Suffolk. 


MEMBERS    OP    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


Rev.  Thomas  Medland,B.D.,  Fellow 
of  Corpus  Christ!  Coll.  Oxford. 

(c.)  David  Melville,  Esq.B.A.  Brase- 
nose  Coll.  Oxford. 

John  Herman  Merivale,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Barrister-at-Law. 

Samuel  Merriman,  M.D. 

Francis  Mewburn,  Esq.  Darlington. 

A.  G.  F.  Meyer,  Counsellor  of  Jus- 
tice, Hanover. 

George  Meynell,  Esq.  York. 

Sir  Samuel  Rush  Meyrick,  K.H., 
F.S.A. 

Mons.  Michelet,  Memb.  de  Plnsti- 
tut,  Professeur  d'Histoire  au  Col- 
lege Royal  de  France. 

John  Miland,  Esq. 

Andrew  Miller,  Esq.  Cardiff. 

(c.) William  Henry  Miller,  Esq. 

F.S.A. 

Samuel  Mills,  jun.  Esq. 
Rev.  Thomas  Mills,  Rector  of  Stut- 

ton,  Suffolk. 

Rev.  William  Mills,  D.D.  Exeter. 
Rev.    Henry   Hart   Milman,    M.A. 

Prebendary  of  Westminster. 
Thomas  Mist,  Esq.  Fulham. 
Richard    Mitchell,    Esq.    Enderby 

Hall,  Leicestershire. 

Henry  Mitchison,  Esq.  V.P.  of  Is- 
lington Lit.  and  Scient.  Society. 
[Died  Sept.  3d,  1841.] 

Rev.  John  Mitford,  M.A.,  Rector 

of  Benhall,  Suffolk. 
Nathaniel  Cranch  Moginie,  Esq. 
Mons.  Monmerque,  Membre  de  1'In- 

stitut  de  France. 

John  Moore,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Danefield 
House,    Henley-upon-Thames. 
[Died  April  1842.] 

Mr.  John  Moore,  Tewkesbury. 

Maurice  Peter  Moore,  Esq.  Sleaford. 


Thomas  Moore,  Esq.  Sloperton  Cot- 
tage, Devizes. 

Thomas  Moore,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Rev.  W.  Moore,  D.D.  Holbeach. 

Edward  Raleigh  Moran,  Esq. 

Louis  Selliers  Chevalier  de  Moran- 
ville,  Amanuensis  Imp.  Library, 
Vienna. 

John  Shank  More,  Esq.  Advocate, 
Edinburgh. 

William  Bowyer  Morgan,  Esq. 

John  Morice,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

W.  C.  Morland,  Esq. 

Mr.  John  Morris,  Bath. 

Rev.  James  Morton,  B.D.  Preben- 
dary of  Lincoln.  Local  Secretary 
at  Holbeach. 

Mr.  William  Richard  Morton. 

Joseph  Moule,  Esq.  Resident  of  the 
General  Post  Office,  Edinburgh. 

Thomas  Moule,  Esq. 

J.  D.  Moxon,  Esq.  Bristol. 

James  Patrick  Muirhead,  Esq.  M.A. 
Edinburgh. 

Baron  Eligius  von  Mimch-Belling- 
hausen,  Kh.Hof-Secretar,  Vienna. 

The  Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Munster, 
F.R.S.,P.R.A.S.,M.R.S.L.  [Died 
March  20,  1842.] 

Rev.  Jerom  Murch,  Bath. 

Charles  Robert  Scott  Murray,  Esq. 
Christ  Church,  Oxford. 

Rt.  Hon.  Sir  John  Archibald  Mur- 
ray, one  of  the  Lords  of  Session 
in  Scotland. 

John  Murray,  Esq.Albemarle-street. 

Thomas  Murray,  Esq.  LL.D.  Edinb. 

Sir  Francis  W.  Myers,  K.C.S.  Pent- 
low  Hall,  near  Sudbury,  Suffolk. 

Peter  Rickards  Mynors,  Esq. 

Rev.  C.  Nairn e,  Lincoln. 

(c.)  T.  C.  Neale,  Esq.  Chelmsford. 


28 


MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


Richard  Neave,  jun.  Esq. 
John  Nedham,  Esq.  Leicester. 
Joseph  Neeld,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
John  Newman,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Charles  Thomas  Newton,  Esq.  B.A. 

Student  of  Christ  Church,  Oxf. 
Iltyd  Nicholl,  Esq.  Usk,  near  Mon- 

mouth. 

Mrs.  S.  Nichols,  Highbury  Place. 
J.  Bowyer  Nichols,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

John  Gough  Nichols,  Esq.  F.S.A., 

Treasurer  of  the  Surtees  Society. 

(c.)  Rev.  William  L.  Nichols,  M.A. 

Alexander  Nicholson,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Lond.  and  Scotl.,  Ufford,  Suffolk. 

George  Stewart  Nicholson,  Esq. 

George  Barons  Northcote,  Esq.  Exe- 
ter College,  Oxford. 

Nicholas  Nugent,  Esq.  M.D. 

George  Offer,  Esq. 

Rev.  George  Oliver,  Exeter. 

George  Ormerod,  Esq.  D.C.L. 
F.R.S.  F.S.A. 

Thomas  Osier,  Esq.  Bristol. 

Frederick  Ottley,  Esq.  Barrister-at- 
Law. 

Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Gore  Ouseley,  G.C.H. 
F.R.S.  F.S.A. 

Frederick  Ouvry,  Esq. 

Rev.  Peter  Ouvry,  M.A. 

The  Oxford  and  Cambridge  Club. 

Cornelius  Paine,  jun.  Esq. 

William  Dunkley  Paine,  Esq. 

Samuel  Alexander  Pagan,  Esq. 

Peter  Page,  Esq.  East  Sheen. 

Sir  Francis  Palgrave,  K.H.  F.R.S., 

F.S.A. 
Alfred  Zouch  Palmer,  Esq.  Sonning, 

Berks. 

Arthur   Palmer,   Esq.  Bristol. 


Arthur  Hare  Palmer,  Esq.  Bristol. 

Charles  John  Palmer,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Local  Secretary  at  Yarmouth. 

Henry  AndrewesPalmer,Esq.Bristol. 

John  Palmer,  Esq.  Dorney  Court, 
Windsor. 

Rev.  William  Palmer,  M.A.,  Wor- 
cester College,  Oxford. 

The  Hon.  Sir  James  Parke,  Knt. 
one  of  the  Barons  of  the  Ex- 
chequer. 

Charles  Parker,  Esq. 

John  Henry  Parker,  Esq.  Oxford. 

John  W.  Parker,  Esq.  West  Strand. 

Kenyon  S.  Parker,  Esq. 

Joseph  Parkes,  Esq. 

Rev.  Richard  Parkinson,  Fellow  of 
Christ  Church,  Manchester. 

Thomas  Parry,  Esq. 

John  Parsons,  Esq.  Oxford. 

The  Hon.  Sir  John  Patteson,  one 

of  the   Judges   of  the  Court  of 

Queen's  Bench,  M.A. 
Jacob  Howell  Pattisson,  Esq.  LL.B. 

Witham,  Essex. 
L.  Paulding,  Esq.  Stockport. 
Rev.  Frederick  Pawsey,  B.A.  Vicar 

of  Wilhelmsted,  Beds. 

Mr.  J.  G.  Payne,  Wallingford. 
John  Thos.  Payne,  Esq.  Pall  Mall. 
Anthony  Peacock,  Esq. 
Reginald   Peacock,   Esq.    Downhill 

House,  near  Sunderland. 
Rev.  J.  R.  Pears,  Bath. 
Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Robert  Peel,   M.P., 

F.R.S.  F.S.A. 
Thomas  Pemberton,  Esq.  Q.C. 

M.P. 

Henry  Perkins,  Esq. 
Rev.  Charles  Perry,  M.A.    Fellow 

and  Tutor  of  Trinity  Coll.  Camb. 


MEMBERS    OF   THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


Alexander  Peterkin,Esq.Edinburgh 
Mr.  John  Petheram. 
Louis  Hayes  Petit,  Esq.  F.R.S.  F.S.A. 
Thomas    Joseph    Pettigrew,     Esq. 

F.R.S.  F.S.A. 

W.  V.  Pettigrew,  Esq.  M.D. 
Joseph  Philips,  Esq.  Leicester. 
Johnson  Phillott,  Esq.  Bath. 
Mr.Wm.  Pickering,  Piccadilly. 
Rev.  John  Piccope,  Manchester. 
Henry  Clark  Pidgeon,  Esq. 
Simon  Fraser  Piggott,  Esq.  Barris- 

ter-at-Law. 

Rev.  John  Hearne  Pinckney,  D.D. 

East  Sheen. 
John  Pitcairn,  Esq. 

(c.)    Robert  Pitcairn,   Esq.  F.S.A. 

Scotland. 

Jas.  Robinson  Planche,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Thomas  Joshua  Platt,  Esq.  Q.C. 
Charles  Innes  Pocock,  Esq.  Bristol. 
Lewis  Pocock,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
George  Pococke,  Esq. 

Edward  Polhill,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Brigh- 
ton. 

James  Prince  Pollard,  Esq. 
Archer  Poison,  Esq. 

William  G.  Ponsonby,  Esq.  M.A. 
Gray's  Inn. 

Thomas  Ponton,  Esq.  M.A.  F.S.A. 

Rev.  Thomas  Pooley,  M.A.  Rector 
of  Thornton  in  Lonsdale,  Yorks. 

Robert  Porrett,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

John  Powell  Powell,  Esq.  Quex 
Park,  Thanet. 

Richard  Cowley  Powell,  Esq.  Exe- 
ter College,  Oxford. 

Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Powis,  Pre- 
sident of  the  Roxburghe  Club. 

Charles  Poynder,  Esq.  Henley-upon- 
Thames. 


Samuel  P.  Pratt,  Esq.  Bath. 

Rev.  Jermyn  Pratt,  Rector  of  Camp- 

sey  Ash,  Suffolk, 
(c.)  Osmond   de  Beauvoir  Priaulx, 

Esq.  Barrister-at-Law. 
Rev.  Thomas  Price,  D.D.  Hackney. 
Richard  Price,  Esq.  M.P. 
Rev.  George  Proctor,  D.D. 

G.  H.  Proctor,  Esq.  Balliol  CoUege, 

Oxford. 

Robert  Proctor,  Esq. 
Thomas  Prothero,  jun.  Esq. 
Edward Protheroe,  Esq.  M.P.  F.S.A. 
Rt.  Hon.  Lord  Prudhoe. 
Maryborough   Pryor,    Esq.    Hamp- 

stead. 

James  Brook  Pulham,  Esq. 
Hamilton   Pyper,    Esq.    Advocate, 
Edinburgh. 

Madame  la  Marechale  Duchesse  de 

Raguse. 

Henry  Raikes,  Esq.  Chester. 
J.  M.  Rainbow,  Esq. 
Rev.   James    Raine,    M.A.    F.S.A. 

Newc.,   Secretary  of  the  Surtees 

Society. 

Charles  Ranken,  Esq.  B.A.,  Gray's 
Inn. 

Francis  Harrison  Rankin,  Esq! 
F.R.G.S.  Local  Secretary  at  Li- 
verpool. 

Christopher  Rawson,  Esq.  F.G.S. 
President  of  the  Halifax  Literary 
and  Philosophical  Society. 

W.  Rayner,  Esq.  M.D.  Stockport. 

Rev.  Joseph  Bancroft  Reade,  M.A. 
F.R.S.  Peckham. 

John  Read,  Esq.  Derwent  Hall  near 
Sheffield. 

Richard  Reece,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Cardiff. 
Rev.  Thomas  Rees,  LL.D.,  F.S.A. 

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MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


Henry  Reeve,  Esq.  Office  of  Her 
Majesty's  Privy  Council. 

Thomas  Charles  Renshaw,  Esq. 
Barrister-at-Law. 

John  Adey  Repton,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Springfield,  Chelmsford. 

Francis  Riddell  Reynolds,  Esq.  Yar- 
mouth. 

George  Ambrose  Rhodes,  Esq.  Bell- 
air,  Devon. 

(c.)  Edward  Priest  Richards,  Esq. 
Cardiff. 

John  Richards,  Esq.  Reading. 

John  Richards,  jun.  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Local  Secretary  at  Reading. 

Charles  James  Richardson,  Esq. 
F.S.A.,  M.I.B.A. 

George  Gibson  Richardson,  Esq. 
Lawford   Richardson,   Esq.   Black- 
heath. 

Charles  Rickards,  Esq. 
Samuel  Rickards,  Esq. 
Edward  Widdrington  Riddell,  Esq. 

Edward  F.  Rimbault,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Sec.  of  the  Percy  Society. 

James  Ritchie,  Esq.  Wrentham, 
Suffolk. 

Rev,  J.  C.  Roberson,  Boxley,  Kent. 
Charles  Julius  Roberts,  Esq.  M.D. 
Richard  Robert  Roberts,  Esq. 

Archibald  Robertson,  Esq.  Surgeon 
R.N.  Local  Secretary  at  Chatham. 

J.  E.  P.  Robertson,  D.C.L.  Doctors' 
Commons. 

John  Robertson,  Esq.  W.S.  Edin- 
burgh. 

Kev.  C.  W.  Robinson,  Prestwold, 
Leicestershire. 

Henry  Crabb  Robinson,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Barrister-at-Law, 


William    Robinson,     Esq.     LL.D. 

F.S.A.  Barrister-at-Law. 
William  Robinson,  Esq.  Dudley. 
John  Roby,  Esq.  M.R.S.L. 
Rev.  Daniel  Rock,  D.D. 
Mr.  Rodwell,  New  Bond  street. 
Henry  Rogers,  Esq.  Birmingham. 
Rev.  John  Rogers,  M.A.  Canon   of 

Exeter. 
Samuel  Rogers,  Esq.  F.R.S.  F.S.A. 

JOHN  GAGE  ROKEWOOD,  Esq. 
F.R.S.  Director  S.A. 

The  Hon.  Sir  Robert  Monsey  Rolfe, 
one  of  the  Barons  of  the  Excheq. 

Wm.  Henry  Rolfe,  Esq.  Sandwich. 

John  Romilly,  Esq.  M.A.  Barrister- 
at-Law. 

Rev.  A.  W.  H.  Rose,  M.A.  St.  John's 
Coll.  Camb. 

Sir  George  Rose,  F.R.S. 

Rev.  Henry  John  Rose,  B.D.  Rector 
of  Houghton  Conquest,  Beds. 

William  Henry  Rosser,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Mayer  Anselm  de  Rothschild,  Esq. 
Trin.  Coll.  Camb. 

Rev.  Martin  Joseph  Routh,  D.D. 
President  of  Magdalen  Coll.  Oxf. 

James  Yeeles  Row,  Esq. 

Richard  Roy,  Esq. 

Edward  Rudge,  Esq.  F.R.S.  F.S.A. 

The  Russell  Institution. 

James  Russell,  Esq.  Barrister  at  Law. 

Rev.  John  Fuller  Russell,  B.C.L. 
Minister  of  St.  Jameses,  Enfield. 

Rev.  Thomas  Russell,  Walworth. 

William  Russell,  Esq.  Accountant 
General  in  Chancery. 

The  Right  Hon.  Andrew  Ruther- 
furd. 


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His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Rutland,  K.G. 
D.C.L.,  V.P.R.S.L. 

Rev.  Richard  J.  St.  Aubyn,  M.A. 
Trin.  Coll.  Camb. 

Richard  Sainthill,  Esq.  Cork. 

The  Most  Hon.   the   Marquess  of 
Salisbury,  D.C.L. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  the  Lord  Bishop  of 
Salisbury. 

Thomas  Deere  Salmon,  Esq.  Pen- 
llyne  Court,  Glamorgan. 

Charles  Sanderson,  Esq.  Sheffield. 
William  Salt,  Esq. 
Anthony  Salvin,  Esq. 
Osborne  Henry  Sampayo,  Esq. 
William  Sandys,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Wm.  Devonshire  Saull,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Mrs.  Daniel  E.Saunders,  Gloucester. 
Thomas  Bush  Saunders,  Esq.  M.A. 
Thomas  Saunders,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Thomas  Field  Savory,   Esq.  F.S.A. 
Edward  Scholfield,  M.D.  Doncaster. 

Ven.  Archdeacon  Scott,  Whitfield, 
Northumberland. 

D.  G.  Scott,  Esq.  Ipswich. 

James  John  Scott,  Esq.  Barrister- 

at-Law. 
(c.)  Rev.  Robert  Scott,  M.A.  Fellow 

of  Balliol  Coll.  Oxford. 
Edward  Cator  Seaton,  M.D. 
William  Selwyn,  Esq.  Q.C. 
Mr.  Setchel. 
Rev.  William  Sewell,  M.A.  Fellow 

of  Exeter  College,  and  Professor 

of  Moral  Philosophy,  Oxford. 
William    Shackell,   Esq.   M.R.S.L. 

Hammersmith. 
Right  Hon.  Sir  Lancelot  Shad  well, 

Vice-Chancellor  of  England,  M.A. 
Sir  Cuthbert  Sharp,  Knt. 


Rev.  Lancelot  Sharpe,  M.A.  Camb. 
F.S.A.  Head  Master  of  St.  Savi- 
our's School,  Southwark.  Auditor. 

Sutton  Sharpe,  Esq.  Q.C.  F.S.A. 

George  Shaw,  Esq.  M.D.  Leicester. 

Henry  Shaw,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Daniel  Shears,  Esq.  jun. 

Robert  Shelley,  Esq. 

Samuel  Shepherd,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

W.  H.  Sheppard,  Esq.  Keyford 
House,  Frome. 

Mr.  William  Shipp,  Blandford. 

Evelyn  Philip  Shirley,  Esq.  M.P. 
M.A.  Eatington  Park,  Warwicksh. 

Rev.  Robert  St.  John  Shirreff, 
Blackheath. 

Rev.  Thomas  Short,  B.D.  Fellow  of 
Trinity  Coll.  Oxford. 

Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Shrews- 
bury, F.S.A. 

—  Siemsen,  Secretary  of  the  Royal 
Library,  Hanover. 

John  Augustus  Francis  Simpkinson, 

Esq.  M.A.,  Q.C.,  F.S.A. 
Jeremiah  Simpson,  Esq.  Temple. 
Mr.  George  Sims,  Manchester. 
Samuel  Weller  Singer,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Edward     Skegg,      Esq.     F.R.G.S. 

[Died  1842.] 
Edward  Skegg,  Esq.  jun. 

Alex.  A.  Smets,  Esq.  Savanna, 
Georgia. 

Edward  Smirke,  Esq.  M.A. 

Sir  Robert  Smirke,  R.A.,  F.S.A. 

Sydney  Smirke,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Alexander  Smith,  Esq.  Edinburgh. 

Benwell  Smith,  Esq. 

Charles  Roach  Smith,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Sec.  of  the  Numism.  Society. 
Mr.  George  Smith. 
George  Frederick  Smith,  Esq. 


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MEMBERS    OF   THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


George  Spencer  Smith,  Esq. 

H.  Porter  Smith,  Esq. 

John  Abel  Smith,  Esq.  M.P. 

Rev.  J,  J.  Smith,  M.A.  Fellow  of 
Caius  Coll.  Camb. 

Mr.  John  Russell  Smith. 

Newman  Smith,  Esq.CroydonLodge. 

Richard  John  Smith,  Esq. 

Thomas  Smith,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Birstall 
House,  Leicester.  Local  Secre- 
tary at  Leicester. 

William  Smyth,  Esq.  M.A.  Prof,  of 
Modern  History,  Cambridge. 

William  Smythe,  Esq.  Advocate, 
Edinburgh. 

Frederick  Snaith,  M.D.  Holbeach. 

Mr.  John  Snare,  Reading. 

Rev.   Walter  Sneyd,   M.A.    Christ 

Church,  Oxford. 
The  Most  Noble  Edward  Duke  of 

Somerset,  K.G.,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S. 
S.  Leigh  Sotheby,  Esq. 
J.  W.  Southgate,  Esq.  Camberwell. 
Rev.  George  Southwell,  B.A.  Bristol. 

William  Spalding,   Esq.   Advocate, 

Edinburgh. 

Charles  Spence,  Esq.  Admiralty. 
Andrew  Spottiswoode,  Esq. 
George  James  Squibb,  Esq. 
Rev.  Thomas  Stacey,  M.A.  Cardiff. 
THOMAS  STAPLETON,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Sir  George  Thomas  Staunton,  Bart. 

D.C.L.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
(c.)  Rev.  William  Staunton,  M.A. 

Longbridge  House,  near  Warwick. 
G.  Steinman  Steinman,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Archibald  John  Stephens,  Esq. 

M.A.,  F.R.S.  Barrister-at-Law. 
Seth  William  Stevenson,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Local  Secretary  at  Norwich. 


Mr.  C.  J.  Stewart. 

John  Stirling,  Esq.  Edinburgh. 

(c.)  Rev.  Charles  William  Stocker, 

D.D.  St.  John's  Coll.  Oxford. 
George  Stokes,  Esq.  Colchester. 
Henry  Sewell  Stokes,  Esq.  Local 

Secretary  at  Truro. 
Rev.   Thomas     Streatfeild,    F.S.A. 

Chart's  Edge,  Westerham. 
Rev.  Henry  Street,  Bath. 
Miss  Agnes  Strickland,  Reydon  Hall, 

Suffolk. 

(c.)  Rev.  Joseph  Stroud,  M.A.  Wad- 
ham  College,  Oxford. 
John  Stuart,  Esq.  Q.C. 
Right  Hon.  Lord  P.  James  Crichton 

Stuart. 

John  J.  J.  Sudlow,  Esq. 
Mr.  R.  Sunter,  York. 
Rev.  Charles  Sutton,  D.D.  Norwich. 
Edward  Swaine,  Esq.  F.S.S. 
Clement    Tudway   Swanston,   Esq. 

Q.C.,  F.S.A. 
(c.)  Sir  John  Edw.  Swinburne,  Bart. 

F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  Pr.S.Ant.Newc. 
Mr.  John   Sydenham,   Fordington, 

Dorchester. 

Rev.  Edward  Tagart,  F.S.A. 
Thomas  Noon  Talfourd,  Esq.  M.P. 

Serjeant-at-Law. 
Michael  Anne  Tasburgh,  Esq. 
Arthur  Taylor,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Edward  Taylor,  Esq.  Gresham  Pro- 
fessor of  Music. 

Richard  Taylor,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Mr.  John  Taylor,  Gower-street. 
W.  Benj.  Sarsfield  Taylor,  Esq. 
Mons.  Techener,  Paris. 
John  Godfrey  Teed,  Esq.  Bencher 
of  Gray's  Inn. 


MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


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Joseph  FrancisTempest,Esq.F.S.A. 
Christopher  Temple,,  Esq.  Q.C. 

Mons.  Alexandre  Teulet,  Employe 
aux  Archives.  Local  Secretary 
at  Paris. 

Robert  Thackthwaite,  Esq. 

Thomas  Thane,  Esq. 

Frederick  Thesiger,  Esq.  M.P.  Q.C. 

Mr.  Benj.  Thomas,  Cheltenham. 

WILLIAM  J.  THOMS,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Secretary. 

Jonathan  Thompson,  Esq.  Temple 
Grove,  East  Sheen. 

Rev.  W.H.  Thompson,  M.A.  Fellow 
of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge. 

Walter  Thornhill,  Esq. 

Lt.-Gen.  William  Thornton.  [Died 
1841.] 

Ven.  Thomas  Thorp,  D.D.  Arch- 
deacon of  Bristol. 

Benjamin  Thorpe,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Joseph  Win  Thrupp,  Esq. 

Rev.  Mark  Aloysius  Tierney,  F.R.S., 
F.S.A.  Arundel. 

Right  Hon.  Sir  Nicholas  Conyng- 
ham  Tindal,  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Common  Pleas,  M.A. 

(c.)  William  Tite,  Esq.  F.R.S., 
F.S.A.,  Hon.  Sec.  of  the  London 
Institution. 

The  Ven.  Henry  John  Todd,  M.A. 
Archdeacon  of  Cleveland,  F.S.A. 

(c.)  Rev.  James  HenthornTodd,D.D., 
M.R.I.A.,  Fellow  of  Trinity  Coll. 
Dublin,  Sec.  Irish  Arch seol.  Soc. 

F.  G.  Tomlins,  Esq. 

William   Tooke,    Esq.    F.  R.  S., 
M.R.S.L.,  Vice-Pres.  of  the  Soc. 
of  Arts,  Treas.  of  Roy.  Soc.  Lit. 
and  the  Lit.  Fund  Soc. 

Charles  Towneley,  Esq.  F.S.A. 


John  Towneley,  Esq. 

R.  E.  A.  Townsend,  Esq.  Doctors' 
Commons. 

(c.)  Rev.  J.  Montgomery  Traherne, 
M.A.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

Walter  Calverley  Trevelyan,  Esq. 
F.S.A.  Newc.,  Wallington,  Nor- 
thumberland. 

WiUiam  Edward  Trotter,  Esq. 

W.  J.  A.  Tucker,  Esq. 

Charles  A.  Tulk,  Esq. 

Thomas  Turnbull,  Esq. 

William   B.  D.  D.  Turnbull,  Esq. 

F.S.A.  Sc.     Local  Secretary    at 

Edinburgh. 
Alfred  Turner,  Esq. 
Dawson  Turner,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

Great  Yarmouth. 
Francis  Turner,  Esq.   Barrister-at- 

Law. 

Rev.  George  T.  Turner. 
Robert  S.  Turner,  Esq. 
Rev.  Samuel  Blois  Turner,  Hales- 

worth,  Suffolk. 

Gen. Sir  T.Hilgrove Turner,  G.C.H., 
K.S.A.,  K.C.,  F.S.A. 

Rev.  Charles  Turner,  B.A.,  F.S.A., 
F.R.A.S. 

TraversTwiss,  Esq.  B.C.L.,  F.R.S., 
Fellow  of  University  College,  Ox- 
ford. 

William  Twopeny,  Esq.  Barrister- 
at-Law,  Temple. 

Mr.  Samuel  Tymms,  Bury  St.  Ed- 
mund's. 

(c.)  Edward  Tyrrell,  Esq.  City  Re- 
membrancer, Guildhall. 

William  Tyson,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Bristol. 

(c.)  J.   R.  D.  Tyssen,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Hackney. 
Adam  Urquhart,  Esq.  Advocate. 


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MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


EdwardVernon  Utterson,Esq.F.S.  A. 
M.  Aart  Veder,  Rotterdam. 
William  Vines,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Gabriel  Vrignon,  Esq. 
Mr.  Charles  Waine,  Blandford. 
Reader  Wainewright,  Esq.  Barrister- 

at-Law,  F.S.A. 
Daniel  Wakefield,  Esq.  Q.C. 

Francis  Pearson  Walesby,  Esq. 
B.C.L.  Barrister-at-Law,  and  late 
Professor  of  Anglo-Saxon  in  the 
Univ.  of  Oxford. 

Arthur  Waif  or  d,  Esq.  Hammersmith. 

Thomas  Walford,  Esq. 

D.  M.  Walker,  Esq.  Gloucester. 

John  Walker,  Esq.  Cornhill,  Nor- 
thumberland. 

Rev.  Henry  Wall,  M.A.,  Vice-Prin- 
cipal of  St.  Alban  Hall,  Oxford. 

Lionel  A.  B.  Waller,  Esq. 

Thomas  George  Waller,  Esq. 

William  Elyard  Walmisley,  Esq. 

James  Walsh,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Henry  Walter,  Esq.  The  Willows, 
Windsor. 

"Rev.  Jonathan  Walton,  D.D.  Rector 
of  Birdbrook,  Essex. 

William  Wansey,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

John  Ward,  Esq.  Durham. 

Rev.  Charles  Ward,  M.A.  Rector  of 
Maulden,  Beds. 

Rev.  Charles  Warren,  M.A.  Libra- 
rian of  Trinity  College,  Camb. 

Edward  Warren,  Esq. 

John  Warwick,  Esq.  Maidstone. 

Rev.   John  Watson,   M.A.    Brase- 

nose  College,  Oxford. 
ALBERT  WAY,  Esq.  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
Thomas  William  Weare,  Esq.  B.A., 

Student  of  Christ  Church,  Oxf. 


Rev.  John  Webb,  M.A.,  F.S.A., 
M.R.S.L.,  Tretire,  Hereford- 
shire. 

Montagu  Webster,  Esq.  Pen's  House, 

near  Birmingham. 
Hugh  Weightman,  Esq.  B.A. 
Mr.  Richard  Welch,  Reading. 
John  Weld,  Esq. 
Rev.    Charles  Wellbeloved.      Local 

Secretary  at  York. 
—  Werlauff,  Chief  Librarian  of  the 

Royal  Library,  Copenhagen. 
Miss  Westcar,  Tewkesbury. 
Sir    Richard   Westmacott,   R.A., 

F.S.A. 
His  Excellency  M.  Van  de  Weyer, 

Belgian  Minister. 

John  Welchman  Whateley,  Esq.  Bir- 
mingham. 

William  Whateley,  Esq.  Q.C. 
James    Whatman,     Esq.     Vinters, 

near  Maidstone. 
Rev.  William  Whewell,  M.A.,F.R.S. 

F.S.A.,     Fellow     and    Tutor    of 

Trinity  College,  Camb. 
Gordon  Whitbread,  Esq.  M.A. 
Anthony  White,  Esq. 

Harry  White,  Esq.  Halesworth, 
Suffolk. 

Horace  Philips  White,  Esq.  Win- 
chester. 

Rev.  Robert  Meadows  White,  B.D. 
Professor  of  Anglo-Saxon,  Oxf. 

Wm.  Archibald  Armstrong  White, 
Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

Mr.  H.A.  Whitehead,  Gloucester. 

Francis  Whitmarsh,  Esq.  Q.C. 

Rev.  Ainslie  Henry  Whitmore,  Rec- 
tor of  Leasingham,  near  Sleaford. 
Local  Secretary. 

W.Lechmere Whitmore, Esq.  F.S.A. 
Prior's  Bank,  Fulham. 


MEMBERS    OF    THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY,    1841-42. 


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George  Byrom  Whittaker,  Esq. 
Rev.  Sidney  H.  Widdrington,  M.A. 

Rector  of  Walcot,  Bath. 
Right  Hon. Sir  James  Wigram,  Vice- 
Chancellor,  M.A.  F.R.S.  F.S.A. 
Thomas  Willement,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Philip  Williams,  Esq.Q.C.  Lincoln's 

Inn. 

Charles  M.  Willich,  Esq. 
Horace  Hayman  Wilson,  Esq.  M.A. 

Professor  of  Sanscrit,  Oxford,  and 

Pres.  of  the  Numism.  Society, 
(c.)  Rev.  John  Wilson,  B.D.  Fellow 

of  Trin.  Coll.  Oxford. 
Sir  Giffin  Wilson,  F.R.S.  Master  in 

Chancery. 

Joshua  Wilson,  Esq. 
(c.)  Lea  Wilson,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
(c.)  Lestock  Peach  Wilson,  Esq. 
Walter  Wilson,  Esq.  Bath. 
John  Wimbridge,  Esq. 
Benjamin  Godfrey  Windus,  Esq. 
Thomas  Windus,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Charles  Wingfield,  Esq.  Oxford. 
William  Wingfield,  Esq.  Master  in 

Chancery. 

Charles  Winn,  Esq.  Nostel  Priory. 
Thomas  Winstanley,  Esq.  Liverpool. 
Rev.  Robert  Wintle,  B.D.  Culham, 

Oxfordshire. 
Rev/Thomas  Wintle,  B.D.  Fellow  of 

St.  John's  College,  Oxford. 
David  Williams  Wire,  Esq. 
Henry  Wise,  Esq.  Huntley  Cottage, 

Camberwell. 
Mr.  Lewis  Wise. 

Mr.  John  Wodderspoon,  Ipswich. 
Herr  Ferdinand  Wolf,  For.  Memb. 

S.A.  Sec.  Imp.  Library  at  Vienna. 

Local  Secretary  at  Vienna. 


The  DuCal  Library,  Wolfenbuttel. 

Sir  Francis  Lindley  Wood,  Bart. 
Hickleton  Hall,  Yorkshire. 

George  Woodfall,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Henry  WToodthorpe,  Esq.  LL.D., 
F.S.A.  Town  Clerk  of  London. 
[Died  March  3,  1842.] 

Rev.  Christopher  Wordsworth,  D.D. 
Master  of  Trinity  College,  Camb. 

William  Wordsworth,  Esq. 

Francis  Worship,  Esq. 

Rev.  Thomas  Worsley,  M.A.  Mas- 
ter of  Downing  College,  Camb. 

The  Ven.  Francis  Wrangham,  M.A., 
F.R.S.  Archdeacon  of  the  East 
Riding  of  York. 

Rev.  John  Reynell  Wreford,  F.S.A. 
Local  Secretary  at  Bristol. 

William  Ellicombe  Wreford,  Esq. 
Bristol. 

John  Francis  Wright,  Esq. 

Rev.  Godfrey  Wright,  Bilham  House, 

Yorkshire. 
THOMAS  WRIGHT,   Esq.   M.A.. 

F.S.A. 
William   T.   Wright,    Esq.   H.  M. 

Dockyard,  Chatham. 
Wm.  Battie  Wrightson,  Esq.  M.P. 

The  Library  of  the  Writers  of  the 
Signet,  Edinburgh. 

Rt.  Hon.  Charles  Watkin  Williams 

Wynn,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
(c.)  Wadham  Wyndham,  Esq.  M.P. 

Rev.  Philip  Wynter,  D.D.  President 
of  St.  John's  College,  Oxford. 

Rev.  Samuel  Wildman  Yates,  M.A. 
Henry  Galgacus  Redhead  Yorke,Esq. 
Thomas  Young,  Esq. 


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