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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    £100 damages. With much adoe, I had judgment against him. Five or six months later, he agreed with Mr. Godolphin to release the cosener. Jean Bodin, the famous French writer on witches, and publicist, had come to England with Monsieur, and Dee was introduced to him by Castelnau, the French ambassador, in the Chamber of Presence at Westminster. Letters came from Doctor Andreas Hess, the occult philosopher, sent through Dee's friend, Richard Hesketh, agent at Antwerp. There are also letters from Rome. John Leonard Haller, of Hallerstein by Worms, came to him to say he had received instructions for his journey into Quinsay [or Northern China], which jorney I moved him unto, and instructed him plentifully for observing the variation of the compass in all places as he passed. He notes, as if it were a common occurrence, a fowl falling out between two earls at Court, Leicester and Sussex [the Lord Chamberlain], tells how they called each other traytor, wheruppon both were commanded to keepe to theyre chambers at Greenwich, wher the Court was. It sounds like a schoolboys' quarrel, but the royal schoolmistress would have them both know that they were in disgrace for a time. In July, there was an eclipse of the moon, but it was clowdy, so as I could not perceyve it. In August, about half-past eight on the night of the 26th, a strange Meteore in forme of a white clowde crossing galaxium, lay north and sowth over our zenith. This clowde was at length from the S. E. to the S. W., sharp at both ends, and in the West it was forked for a while. It was about sixty degrees J.D. v