The Arch Conjuror of England (47 page)

12.
LP
, no. 1462.2; ibid., no. 709.51; i (II), no. 2772.32; iv (I), no. 1533.6; TNA SP 1/56, fo. 2; S.T. Bindoff, ed.,
The House of Commons 1509–1558
, 3 vols. (London, 1982), ii, p. 25.

13.
John Guy, ‘Thomas Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell and the Reform of Henrician Government’, in Diarmaid MacCulloch, ed.,
The Reign of Henry VIII: Politics, Policy and Piety
(Basingstoke, 1995), pp. 53–5.

14.
Centre for Kentish Studies, CKS-U908/2/5/9/2/1/4; East Sussex Record Office, SAS/PN/623; TNA PROB 11/26 fos. 49v–50r; R. Pocock,
The History of the Incorporated Towns and Parishes of Gravesend and Milton
(Gravesend, 1797), pp. 147–9; P. Lee, ‘Orthodox Parish Religion and Chapels of Ease in Late Medieval England: The Case of St George's Chapel’,
Archaeologia Cantiana
, CXIX (1999), pp. 55–70.

15.
G.D. Ramsay,
The City of London in International Politics at the Accession of Elizabeth Tudor
(Manchester, 1975), p. 42.

16.
A. Collins,
The Peerage of England
, 9 vols. (London, 1812), ii, p. 588.

17.
Two Tudor Subsidy Rolls for the City of London: 1541 and 1582
, ed. R.G. Lang (London Record Society, vol. 29, London 1993), pp. 150–1.

18.
Worshipful Company of Mercers, ‘Court Minutes’, II, 1527–1560, fo. 112v.

19.
The Inventory of King Henry VIII
, ed. Alasdair Hawkyard (London, 1998); Günther Oestmann, ‘Kratzer, Nicolaus (
b
. 1486/7,
d
. after 1550)’,
ODNB
, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, [
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15808]
; BL MS Add. 70984, fo. 239v; BL MS Royal 7 C XVI, fo. 98.

20.
Hugh Murray Baillie, ‘Etiquette and the Planning of State Apartments in Baroque Palaces’,
Archaeologia
, 101 (1967), pp. 169–99; D. Starkey, Introduction to
The English Court from the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War
(London, 1987).

21.
LP
, xi, no. 519/7; BL MS Lansdowne 110, fo. 72r;
Rotuli Parliamentorum
, III, pp. 443–4;
CPR 1405–8
, p. 3; ibid.,
1413–16
, p. 152; ibid.,
1436–41
, pp. 167, 188, 403, 490–1; ibid.,
1461–70
, p. 70; ibid.,
1476–85
, p. 103.

22.
LP
, xix (i), no. 610/7; I. Doolittle,
The Mercers Company 1579–1959
(London, 1994), p. 8.

23.
TNA SP 12/254/24.

24.
BL MS Lansdowne 110, fo. 113r.

25.
TNA SP 1/212 fo. 179 in
LP
, xx (ii), no. 25/3.

26.
Ibid., xix (i), no. 1035/87, xix; F.C. Dietz,
English Public Finance 1485–1641
, 2 vols., (2nd ed. rev., London 1964), i, pp. 153–5, 176–7; R.W. Hoyle, ‘Place and Public Finance’,
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
, 6th series, 7, pp. 197–216.

27.
Most Henrician Johnians listed in J.H. Venn,
Alumni Cantabrigienses
(Cambridge 1922–54), were Catholics.

28.
C.H. Cooper and T. Cooper,
Athenae Cantabrigienses
, 3 vols. (Cambridge 1858), i, pp. 218–19.

29.
Roger Ascham,
Works
, ed. J.A. Giles, 3 vols. (London, 1864–5), i, p. xxx; Lawrence Ryan,
Roger Ascham
(Stanford, 1963), pp. 17–18; Cooper,
Athenae
, i, p. 208; CR, p. 501.

30.
Mordechai Feingold,
The Mathematicians’ Apprenticeship: Science
,
Universities and Society in England 1560–1640
(Cambridge, 1984), pp. 35–6.

31.
Ibid., pp. 35, 41; Ryan,
Ascham
, p. 223; Ascham,
Works
, ed. Giles, ii, p. 103.

32.
Harold H. Joachim, ed.,
Aristotle: On Coming-to-be and Passing-Away
(Oxford, 1922).

33.
Aristotelis philosophorum maximi secretum secretorum ad Alexandrum De regum regimine: De sanitatis conseruatione: de physionomia
(Bologna, 1516), and R&W, 125, 315, 1793, 1807; Feingold, ‘The Occult Tradition in the English Universities of the Renaissance: A Reassessment’, in
Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance
, ed. B. Vickers (Cambridge, 1984), pp. 73–94, at 80–1.

34.
MH
, p. 137;
MP
, sig. b3v.

35.
MP
, sigs. b1r–v, b4r.

36.
Ibid., sig. b4r.

37.
John Bale,
Illustrium Maioris Britanniae Scriptorum
(Ipswich, 1548), fo. 114v.

38.
The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon
, ed. H. Bridges, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1897), ii, pp. 585–7.

39.
Ibid., pp. 627–8.

40.
BL MS Add. 36674, fos. 38r–39r.

41.
Duffy,
Stripping of the Altars
, pp. 394, 400–5, 423, 439; BL MS Sloane 3188, fo. 7r–v; BL MS Add. 70984, fos. 92r–v, 257v; A.G. Watson, ‘Christopher and William Carye, Collectors of Monastic Manuscripts, and “John Carye”’,
The Library
, 5th ser., XX, no. 2 (June 1965), pp. 135–42.

42.
John Venn (ed.),
Grace Book Delta for the years 1542–1589
(Cambridge, 1910), p. 31.

43.
Duffy,
Stripping of the Altars
, pp. 436–9, 444, 449;
LP
, xxxi, (ii), p. 340.

44.
Ryan,
Ascham
, p. 90, and
Original Letters Relative to the English Reformation
, ed. H. Robinson (Cambridge, 1846), pp. 150–1, 264; J. Gillow,
A Literary and Biographical History … of the English Catholics
, 5 vols. (New York, 1885–1902), i, p. 486.

45.
F. Boas,
University Drama in the Tudor Age
(Oxford, 1914, 1966), pp. 16–17; G.C. Moore Smith,
College Plays Performed in the University of Cambridge
(Cambridge, 1923), pp. 51–3, 39, 21; Trinity College Archives, Senior Bursar's Accounts 1547–1563, fo. 59v; C.H. Cooper,
Annals of Cambridge
, 5 vols. (Cambridge, 1842–1908), i, p. 422; L.B. Campbell,
Scenes and Machines of the English Stage
(New York, 1923), p. 187;
MP
, sig. A1v.

46.
R. Aubert et al.,
The University of Louvain 1425–1975
(Leuven, 1976), pp. 117–18, 139–40, 153.

47.
CR, pp. 506, 501; Koenraad Van Cleempoel,
A Catalogue Raisonné of Scientific Instruments from the Louvain School, 1530 to 1600
(Turnhout, 2002), illustrates many; Trinity College Archives, Senior Bursar's Accounts 1547–1563.

48.
D.R. Leader,
A History of the University of Cambridge
:
The University to 1546
(Cambridge, 1988), pp. 324–7; J.E.A. Dawson, ‘The Foundation of Christ Church Oxford and Trinity College Cambridge in 1546’,
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
, LVII, no. 136, November 1984, pp. 208–15.

49.
W.H. Sherman,
John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance
(Amherst, MA, 1995).

50.
GL MS 4887, p. 143.

51.
London and Middlesex Chantry Certificates, 1548
, ed. C.J. Kitching (London Record Society, 1980), pp. 13–14; H.B. Walters,
London Churches at the Reformation
(London, 1939), pp. 248–254, 638, printing part of TNA E 117/4/98.

52.
CPR Elizabeth I, vol. vii 1575–8
(London 1982), p. 339, no. 2328, more than in
Chantry Certificates, 1548
, ed. Kitching, pp. 13–14, 29.

53.
GL MS 4887, p. 145;
Chantry Certificates
,
1548
, ed. Kitching, p. 13.

54.
CPR Edward VI
,
vol. i, 1547–8
, pp. 348–9.

55.
GL MS 4887, p. 148, also in Walters,
London Churches at the Reformation
, p. 246.

56.
London Metropolitan Archives, Corporation of London Records, Court of Aldermen, Repertory 11, fos. 342r–343v; ibid., Repertory 20, fos. 78v, 79r. Longleat House MS TH/Box 64, pp. 35–6.

57.
Longleat House MS TH/XLVIII, fos. 1, 3.

58.
London Metropolitan Archives, Corporation of London Records, Court of Aldermen, Repertory 11, fos. 400 r–v, 483v, Repertory 12 (i), fos. 76v, 95v, 105v, 142v, 145v, 174r.

59.
Calendar of State Papers Domestic
,
Edward VI
, rev. ed., ed. C.S. Knighton (London 1992), p. 71, no. 172, SP 10/5/18; R.W. Hoyle, ‘Taxation and the Mid-Tudor Crisis’,
The Economic History Review
, n.s., 51, no. 4 (Nov. 1998), pp. 649–675, esp. 658, 670–1.

60.
TNA E 117/4/98, printed in Walters,
London Churches
, pp. 246–7.

61.
GL MS 4887, p. 150. Walters,
London Churches
, pp. 248–54.

62.
Dee's annotation on the end-leaf of J. Cardan,
Libelli Quinque
(Nuremberg 1547), Royal College of Physicians, D40/2, R&W, 668.

63.
GL MS 4887, p. 155.

64.
Walters,
London Churches
, pp. 246–7; GL MS 4887, pp. 148–52, 155.

Chapter 2: The Rays of Celestial Virtue

1.
The Diaries of John Dee
, ed. E. Fenton (Charlbury, 1998), p. 305;
Matricule de L'Université de Louvain
, 10 vols. (Brussels 1903–80), iv, pt. 2, p. 411, no. 124, with Story at no. 142;
P. Vandermeersch, ‘Some Aspects of the Intellectual Relationship Between the Southern Netherlands and England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’, in H. De Ridder-Symoens and J.M. Fletcher, eds,
Academic Relations Between the Low Countries and the British Isles 1450–1700
(Studia Historica Gandensia, 273) (Gent, 1989), pp. 5–23; R. Aubert et al.,
The University of Louvain 1425–1975
(Leuven, 1976), p. 68;
A Declaration of the lyfe and death of Iohn Story, late a Romish canonicall doctor, by profession
(London, 1571).

2.
Aubert,
Louvain
, pp. 117–18, 139–40, 153.

3.
H. De Vocht,
History of the Collegium trilingue … Part the Fourth. Strengthened Maturity
(Humanistica Lovaniensia, 13), pp. 318–19, 339–46; Aubert,
Louvain
, pp. 107–12.

4.
Cooper,
Annals
, ii, pp. 26–35; Leader,
History of the University of Cambridge
, pp. 195–7; TNA SP 10/7/10 and 11.

5.
CR, p. 503,
MP
, sig. A 1r–v, citing Aristotle,
Ethics
, and Plato,
Epinomis
.

6.
CR, p. 526; Aubert,
Louvain
, pp. 112, 145; Jonathan Woolfson,
Padua and the Tudors
(Toronto, 1998), p. 43.

7.
MP
, sig. b3v–4r.

8.
S. Vanden Broecke, ‘Dee, Mercator, and Louvain Instrument Making: An Undescribed Astrological Disc by Gerard Mercator (1551)’,
Annals of Science
, 58 (2001), pp. 219–40.

9.
MP
, sig. d2r.

10.
Vanden Broecke, ‘Dee, Mercator’, p. 239.

11.
Mercator,
Breves in Sphaeram Meditatiunculae, Includentes Methodum et Isagogen in Universam Cosmographium
(Cologne, 1563), sig. E7r–v, quoted in Vanden Broecke, ‘Dee, Mercator’, p. 228.

12.
MP
, sig. b4r; CR, p. 502. Elias Ashmole's partial transcript of these notes partially printed in
Diaries
, ed. Fenton, pp. 305–6.

13.
N. Clulee,
John
Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion
(London, New York, 1988), p. 39; Albohaly Alfayat (al-Khayyat),
De iudiciis nativitatem
(Nuremberg, 1546), R&W, 693, end flyleaves; Vanden Broecke, ‘Dee, Mercator’, p. 239, n. 20.

14.
BLO MS Ashmole 423, fo. 294, MSS Ashmole 487 and 488.

15.
Vanden Broecke, ‘Dee, Mercator’, p. 239, n. 20.

16.
Ptolemy,
Four Books
(Venice, 1519), sig. B4v; Cardan,
Libelli quinque
, sig. X4v, Dee's marginal note.

17.
Clulee,
Dee's Natural Philosophy
, p. 40.

18.
CR, p. 501;
MP
, sig. b3r; De Vocht,
Collegium trilingue
, pp. 554–6.

19.
Johannes Voerthusius,
Academiae veteris et novae ad Maximilianum Austrium II, in coronatione Francofurtensi gratulationis ergo legatio
(Frankfurt, 1563), p. 24, R&W, 552.

20.
BLO MSS Ashmole 487 and 488.

21.
Heilbron, Introductory Essay II, in Dee's
Propaedeumata Aphoristica
, ed. Shumaker, p. 54; Dee,
General and rare memorials pertayning to the perfect arte of navigation
(London, 1577), sig. [epsilon]3r.

22.
CR, p. 503; Susan Doran, ‘Pickering, Sir William (1516/17–1575)’,
ODNB
, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2008 [
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22212]
;
APC
, iv, 1552–4, p. 188.

23.
Cooper,
Athenae
, i, p. 326; Dee,
General and rare memorials
(London, 1577), sig. i2r;
MP
, sig. b1v; CR, pp. 503, 505, 516;
Euclid's Elements of Geometry
(London, 1661), pp. 605–8, Dee's letter to Federico Commandino, June 1563; TNA PROB 11/57, fos. 2–3; S. Adams,
Leicester and the Court
(Manchester, 2002), p. 32.

24.
MP
, sig. *2v; Ramus,
Proemium Mathematicum
(Paris, 1567), R&W, 805, and Roberts and Watson,
John Dee's Library Catalogue,
p. 93; CR, pp. 503–4, cf. Heilbron, ‘Introductory Essay’, pp. 5–8; Aubert,
Louvain
, p. 127;
MP
, sigs. c2r–c3v.

25.
Robert J. Wilkinson,
Orientalism, Aramaic, and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation: The First Printing of the Syriac New Testament
(Leiden and Boston, MA, 2007), pp. 102–14, 125–9; Robert J. Wilkinson,
The Kabbalistic Scholars of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible
(Leiden and Boston, MA, 2007), pp. 57, n. 24, 85; R&W, 1619, B267.

26.
CR, pp. 504–5.

27.
At Paris on 17 August 1551 Dee purchased Demetrius Chalcondylas,
Erotemata, siue Institutiones grammaticae, initiandis graecae linguae studiosis
(Basle, 1546), R&W, 1661, and at Melun on 14 September he annotated Ptolemy's
Tetrabiblos
, R&W, 37.