Charlotte Fell Smith - (EN) John Dee, Wisdom Ancient, ebook, pdf

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
BIRTH AND EDUCATION
Tercentenary of Dee’s death — No life of him — Persistent misunderstanding
— Birth — Parentage — At Chelmsford Grammar School — St. John’s College,
Cambridge — Fellow of Trinity — Theatrical enterprise — In the Low Countries —
M.A. of Cambridge — Louvain University — Paris — Readings in Euclid —
Correspondents abroad — Return to England.
CHAPTER II
IMPRISONMENT AND AUTHORSHIP
Books dedicated to Edward VI. — Upton Rectory — Long Leadenham —
Books dedicated to Duchess of Northumberland — Ferrys informs against his
“magic” — In prison — Handed over to Bonner — At Philpot’s trial — Efforts to
found a State Library — Astrology — Horoscopes — Choice of a day for Queen
Elizabeth’s coronation — Introduced to her by Dudley — Sympathetic magic —
Bachelor of Divinity — In Antwerp — Monas Hieroglyphica — Preface to
Billingsley’s Euclid — Called a conjurer.
CHAPTER III
MORTLAKE
Proposed benefices — Propædeumata Aphoristica — Alchemical secrets —
Settled at Mortlake — Journey to Lorraine — Illness — The Queen’s attentions —
Mines and hidden treasure — Wigmore Castle — Marriage — Death of first wife —
Literary correspondence — John Stow — Diary commenced — The Hexameron
Brytannicum — The British Complement — Slander and falsehood — A petty navy
— The sea-power of Albion — Fisheries and foreign policy.
CHAPTER IV
JANE DEE
A comet or blazing star — Second marriage — Jane Fromond — Hurried
journey abroad — Berlin and Frankfort — Birth of a son — Christening — Edward
Dyer — Duc d’Alencon — Michael Lock — His sons — The Queen’s visit — Sir
Humphrey Gilbert at Mortlake — Adrian Gilbert — John Davis — The Queen’s
Title Royall — Lord Treasurer Burleigh — Death of Dee’s mother — The Queen’s
visit of condolence — Map of America — Visits to the Muscovy House — Frobisher
and Hawkins — Birth of a daughter — Accident to Arthur.
CHAPTER V
THE SEARCH FOR A MEDIUM
Assistants — Roger cook — Magic and alchemy — Psychic powers — Crystal
gazing — Dreams and mysteries — Vincent Murphy and a lawsuit — Jean Bodin
visits England — Quarrel between Leicester and Sussex — Mary Herbert — Sir
George Peckham — The stage at Paris Garden — Mr. Secretary Walsingham — The
Queen at Greenwich — Barnabas Saul as medium — Edward Talbot — Sight in the
stone — The table of practice — The waxen seals.
CHAPTER VI
EDWARD KELLEY
Edward Kelley — An alias — His previous history — His mysterious powder
— Marriage to Joan Cooper — Jane Dee’s dislike of Kelley — The diary of the actions
— How Ashmole obtained the MSS. — Book of Mysteries — The four angels —
Dee’s thirst for hidden knowledge — A crystal is brought — Medicina.
CHAPTER VII
THE CRYSTAL GAZERS
Kelley, the skryer — A third person — Adrian Gilbert — Kelley and an
“illuder” — Dee employed to reform the Calendar — The Queen and Raleigh —
Hidden treasure — Burleigh’s library — Dee’s precious books — Kelley rebellious —
Threatens to depart — Pacified by Adrian Gilbert — His wife’s letters — He goes to
London — Becomes clairvoyant — Sees Mary Queen of Scots executed.
CHAPTER VIII
MADIMI
Straits for lack of money — Count Albert Laski — Aspirations toward the
Polish Crown — King Stephan Bathory — Dee introduced to him by Leicester —
Laski at Oxford — At Mortlake — Madimi — Galvah or Finis — Laski’s guardian
angel — Madimi a linguist — Kelley threatens to leave — His salary of 50 pounds —
Thomas Kelley — Dee’s suspicions — Kelley’s tempers — His love of money.
CHAPTER IX
A FOREIGN JOURNEY
Gifts from the Queen — Departure from Mortlake — Laski and the whole
party sail from Gravesend — Queenborough — The Brill — Haarlem —
Amsterdam — Harlingen — Dokkum — Instructions from Gabriel — Embden —
Oldenberg — Bremen — Il’s levity — Visions of England — Hamburg — Lubeck.
CHAPTER X
PROMISES AND VISIONS
Promises of wealth — Dee’s doubts — His books and library destroyed by the
mob — Rostock — Stettin — Posen Cathedral — Severe winter weather — The table
set up — Nalvage — Sir Harry Sidney — Madimi — The Queen’s affection — At
Lask — Cracow.
CHAPTER XI
CRACOW
Cracow — The new Style — Dee’s work on the Reformation of the Calendar
— Kelley’s discontent — Geographical lessons — Laski and King Stephan —
Kesmark — Gabriel’s pleading — Kelley repentant — A vision of four castles —
Ave — Dee’s patience.
CHAPTER XII
FROM CRACOW TO PRAGUE
Rowland’s illness — Dee sets out for Prague — Thomas Kelley — Dr.
Hageck’s house — Rudoplh II. — Simon’s study — Interview with the Emperor —
Kelley’s outbursts — Dr. Jacob Curtius — Dee’s natural history — The Spanish
Ambassador — Jane Dee ill — A passport granted — Back to Prague — Kelley’s
doubts.
CHAPTER XIII
A DREAM OF GOLD
To Limburg — Michael baptised in Prague Cathedral — Easter — Poverty and
distress — Kelley again restive — “Parabola de Nobus Duobus” — Return to Cracow
— Mr. Tebaldo — Interviews with King Stephan — His death — Dr. Annibaldus —
Back at Prague — Francisco Pucci — The Book of Enoch — Claves Angelicae —
Banished by Papal edict — William Count Rosenberg — Dee at Leipsic — Letter to
Walsingham — A new Nuncio — Invitation to Trebona.
CHAPTER XIV
THE CASTLE OF TREBONA
Trebona Castle — Rosenberg Viceroy of Bohemia — Invitation to Russia —
Projection with Kelley’s powder — A gift to Jane Dee — Letter from Kelley — Jane
to her husband — Joan Kelley — Dee’s friends desert him for Kelley — Arthur to be
the skryer — Kelley’s pretended vision — A hard and impure doctrine — Dee’s
scruples overridden — A solemn pact — Kelley disowns blame — End of his
clairvoyance — The spirits’ diary closed.
CHAPTER XV
THE END OF THE PARTNERSHIP
Letters to Walsingham — A tutor for the children — Coldness and jealousy
— Furnaces constructed — Rumours and reports — Book of Dunstan — Kelley’s
haughtiness — Accident to Michael — The great secret — Kelley steals the best
workman — Break-up of the Trebona family — Dee’s letter to the Queen on the
Armada — Gifts to Kelley — His departure — Coaches and horses provided — Dee
quits Bohemia — Arrival in Bremen.
CHAPTER XVI
THE END OF KELLEY
Kelley in favour with Rudolph — Given a title — Corresponds with Dee —
Fabulous stories of gold — Burleigh begs his return to England — A token to be sent
— A prescription for his gout — Letter to Kelley — Kelley’s fall from favour —
Flight from arrest — Capture at Sobislaus — Imprisonment — Writings on alchemy
— Letters to Dee — Attempted escape — Death.
CHAPTER XVII
RETURN TO ENGLAND
Dee’s life in Bremen — Letter of safe conduct from the Queen — Writes to
Walsingham — Timon Coccius — Heinrich Khunrath — Departure for England —
Dr. Pezel — Events in England since Dee left — Arrival at Court — Offers of friends
— Madinia born — School for the children — Death of Walsingham — Richard
Cavendish — Ann Frank — The Queen at Richmond — Christmas gifts.
CHAPTER XVIII
A ROYAL COMMISSION
Loss of income — Hopes of a benefice — The Court at Nonsuch — Mary
Herbert — Arthur sent to Westminster School — His disposition — Birth of Frances
— Dr. William Aubrey — Deferred hopes — The commissioners’ visit —
Compendious Rehearsall — Dee’s half-hundred years — The blinded lady Fortune.
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