John Dee, 1527-1608 / / by Charlotte Fell Smith ... with portrait and illustrations.

  • Fell-Smith, Charlotte, 1851-1937.
Date:
1909
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Credit: John Dee, 1527-1608 / / by Charlotte Fell Smith ... with portrait and illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    described in an Appendix to the Rehearsal, written about two years afterwards, and printed by Hearne, and by the Chetham Society at the end of the auto- biographical narrative, to which he had already added a short chapter giving an account of the result of the Commissioners' visit, calling it The Sequel of the Premisses. To return to the day of the visit, November 22, 1592. The Queen's Secretary and the Gentleman of her Wardrobe arrived at Mortlake probably in the morning, and stayed to dinner. Having seated them at the tables in the library, Dee read to them, or related with the manuscript at hand, the story of the halfe hundred years spent in the attainment of good learning, which he reckoned from his leaving Chelmsford Grammar School for Cambridge. It was, of course, drawn up with the skill of a practised author, divided into fourteen chapters, each with an attractive and pithy title. Her Majesties specially Gracious and very Bountifull favours towards me used etc., is by far the longest; the shortest is the twelfth: The Resolution for Generall, very easy, and speedy Remedy in this Rare and Lamentable Case. The remedy he suggests is to make him either Master of St. Cross ; Warden of Manchester; Provost of Eton; or Master of Sherborne, one of which posts had been already promised him four times in three years. The tenth chapter is The hard making of provision for some hundred pounds [? a year] for the maintenance of me, my wife, our children and family for these three last years, and that but with a meane dyet and simple apparel: I