The Arch Conjuror of England (56 page)

16.
CSP Spanish (Simancas), iii, 1580–6
, p. 463, no. 331 and n. 3;
CSP Foreign, January–July 1583
, p. 187, Cobham to Walsingham, 11 March 1583.

17.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 19 May 1583; BL MS Add. 15891 fo. 112r, in Nicolas,
Memoirs of Hatton
, pp. 326, 331–2.

18.
CSP Spanish (Simancas), iii, 1580–6
, p. 474, Mendoza to Juan de Idiaquez, 5 June 1583; John Bossy,
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
(New Haven and London, 1991), pp. 22–5.

19.
CSP Spanish (Simancas), iii, 1580–6
, p. 463, no. 331 and n. 3; BL MS Cotton Appendix XLVI, fo. 107v; Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 2–3, BL MS Cotton Vitellius C. VII, fo. 9v, and BL MS Cotton Appendix XLVI, fos. 2v–3v, angelic conversations in ‘Liber sexti misteriorum (et sancti) [-] novalisque 1583’, dating from the summer onwards; Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 1; CR, p. 531.

20.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 4.

21.
Holinshed's Chronicles
(1587), pp. 1,354–5; Anthony Wood,
The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford
, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1792–6), ii, pp. 215–18; BLO MS Ashmole 487, 15 June 1583; Bossy,
Embassy Affair
, pp. 22–3, 99.

22.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 17.

23.
BL MS Cotton Appendix XLVI, fos. 12v–13r, the crown not in Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 17.

24.
Robert Parsons,
A briefe apologie, or defence of the Catholike ecclesiastical hierarchie, & subordination in England
(Antwerp, 1601), sig. +4r; Hatfield House, MS CP 140/5, fo. 51r; C. Talbot, ed.,
Miscellanea: Recusant Records
, Catholic Record Society, vol. 53 (London, 1961), pp. 207–8;
Holinshed's Chronicles
(1587), pp. 1,324–5.

25.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, September 1582.

26.
BL MS Sloane 3188, fo. 77v; Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 17; BLO MS Ashmole 421, fo. 191, William Lilly's ‘History of his Life and Times’.

27.
TNA C3/218/46.

28.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 21.

29.
Thomas Birch,
Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth
, i, pp. 30–1; Camden,
Annals
(1635), p. 253;
CSP Venetian
, viii, pp. 59–60, 92.

30.
Ferne,
The Blazon of Gentrie
, sig. A4v; CR, p. 531.

31.
Davies,
God's Playground
, p. 421.

32.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 31. None found. The Stationers’ Register ceased 15 June to 17 July 1583.

33.
Ferne,
The Blazon of Gentrie
, sigs. A2v, A4v, Kk1r.

34.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 22–3.

35.
CSP Spanish
, iii, p. 504.

36.
Bossy,
Embassy Affair
, pp. 26–34, 101–4; Thomas Watson, dedication to Laski before ‘Artificiosæ memoriæ libellus’ (1583), BL MS Sloane 3731; Howard,
Defensative
, sig. E3r, and see above, p. 129.

37.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 26.

38.
Ibid., p. 28, 2 July 1583;
CSP Foreign, July 1583–July 1584
, p. 6.

39.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 28–9.

40.
Ibid., p. 31.

41.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 30 July 1583. Halliwell,
Diary
, p. 21, and Fenton,
The Diaries of John Dee
, p. 100, garbled Dee's cramped entry here. It reads: ‘she shaked her feres [sic] to me’, which might mean a wave ('f[ing?]eres') or a fist. One hopes the former. CR, p. 512. Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 190, on their pensions.

42.
CR, p. 511; BLO MS Ashmole 487, 1 August 1583, where Halliwell,
Diary
, p. 21, and Fenton,
Diaries
, p. 100, garbled the MS ‘his left hand two lesser fingers bowed in and the top of his thumb hurt’.

43.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 18 August 1583.

44.
Deborah Harkness, ‘Managing an Experimental Household: The Dees of Mortlake and the Practice of Natural Philosophy’,
Isis
, 88 (2) (1997), pp. 247–62.

45.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 33; Roberts and Watson,
Catalogue
, pp. 12, 48; TNA REQ 2/77/48, REQ 2/208/41.

46.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 26 March 1591.

47.
Thomas Day,
Wonderfull straunge sightes seene in the element, ouer the citie of London and other places on Munday being the seconde day of September
(London, 1583).

48.
Roberts and Watson,
Catalogue
, p. 48; Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 401.

49.
Ibid., pp. 33–4; CR, p. 534.

50.
BL MS Add. 36674, fos. 58–63; Roberts and Watson,
Catalogue
, pp. 49–52.

51.
St. George Kieran Hyland,
A Century of Persecution Under Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns from Contemporary Records
(London, 1920), pp. 381–8, 393, 397; TNA PROB 11/61/fos. 309v–310r; Michael L. Walker, ‘The Manor of Batailles and the Family of Saunder in Ewell during the 16th and 17th Centuries’,
Surrey Archaeological Collections
, 54 (1955), pp. 76–100.

52.
Roberts and Watson,
Catalogue
, p. 13; cf. TNA C3/218/46; Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 50; BLO MS Ashmole 487, 19 October 1595, 1 March 1598.

53.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 228.

54.
CR, pp. 533–4.

55.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 38–40, 47, 36.

56.
Ibid., pp. 40–3.

57.
Ibid., pp. 47–51.

58.
Ibid., pp. 59–61.

59.
Ibid., pp. 62–5, 69.

60.
Ibid., pp. 69–72; BL MS Sloane 3188, fos. 57r, 88r.

61.
Evans,
Rudolf II and his World
, pp. 106–7, 212.

62.
See
http://www.uj.edu.pl/dispatch.jsp?item=uniwersytet/historia/historiatxt.jsp&lang=en
.

63.
Boethius, ‘De consolatione philosophia’, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski MS 620, Roberts and Watson,
Catalogue
, p. 117, M47.

64.
Ibid., pp. 73–7.

65.
Ibid., pp. 77–87; BL MS Sloane 3188, fo. 88v, spirits inadvertently called on 15 April 1583.

66.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 91–2.

67.
Ibid., p. 94.

68.
Ibid., p. 92.

69.
Ibid., p. 114.

70.
Ibid., pp. 117–18; Zantuan, ‘Olbracht Laski’, p. 6.

71.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 139;
CSP Foreign, July 1583–July 1584
, pp. 557–8, Arthur de Champernon to Walsingham, Prague, 19/29 June 1584; Sir Richard Baker,
A Chronicle of the Kings of England
(London, 1643), p. 57.

72.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 139–40.

73.
Ibid., p. 145.

74.
Ibid., p. 160; J. Harvey,
A compendious prognostication
(London, 1584), STC 455, sig. D1r–v.

75.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 168–71.

76.
Ibid., pp. 177–85; see above, pp. 146–7.

77.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 185–90.

78.
Ibid., pp. 196–212.

Chapter 16: ‘Chief Governor of our Philosophical proceedings’

1.
Evans,
Rudolf II and his World
, pp. 100–10.

2.
BLO MS 488, 8 June 1584.

3.
Evans,
Rudolf II and his World
, pp. 87–90.

4.
Ibid., p. 152; Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 225; Thadeus Hagecius,
Dialexis de nova stella
(Frankfurt, 1574), R&W, 438. Dee also owned Hajek's
Astrologica opuscula antiqua
(Prague, 1564), R&W, 431. Neither have been found.

5.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 212.

6.
Ibid., pp. 215–17.

7.
Ibid., p. 218;
MH
, pp. 181–5.

8.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 221–3, 224.

9.
Ibid., pp. 225, 245.

10.
Ibid., pp. 229–30.

11.
Ibid., p. 230.

12.
Ibid., pp. 230–1; Leowitz,
De Coniunctionibus Magnis
, Dee's notes in Cambridge University Library copy R*5 21(E).

13.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 231, 251.

14.
Ibid., pp. 232–3, 213.

15.
Ibid., p. 237, Evans,
Rudolf II and his World
, pp. 89, 223.

16.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 240–9.

17.
Ibid., pp. 255–6; ibid., p. 353 follows p. 256, perhaps marking this missing book, mentioned p. 354, not in BL MS Cotton Appendix XLVI; C.H. Josten, ‘An Unknown Chapter in the Life of John Dee’,
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
, 28 (1965), pp. 223–57, at p. 230.

18.
Ibid., p. 230; Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 353–5, 390.

19.
Ibid., pp. 360–1.

20.
Ibid., pp. 372–3; Evans,
Rudolf II and his World
, pp. 84–5.

21.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 371, 375.

22.
Ibid., pp. 378–82, 389.

23.
Ibid., p. 382.

24.
Ibid., pp. 387–9.

25.
Penny Baker, ‘Lady Margaret Clifford's Alchemical Receipt Book and the John Dee Circle’,
Ambix
, 52, no. 3, November 2005, pp. 271–84, at pp. 277–8.

26.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 3 February 1583; see TNA SP 12/180/23, 180/45, 180/53, 181/42, 181/60, 181/61, 181/71, 181/72, similar attacks on Burghley; BLO MS Tanner 78, fo. 100v, MS Tanner 300, fo. 47v.

27.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 144, 390–3, 422; CR, pp. 523–4.

28.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 387–97; Josten, ‘Unknown Chapter’, p. 230.

29.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 397,
Pymander Mercurii Trismegisti cum commento Fratris Hannibalis Rosseli. Liber primus de SS. Trinitate … Liber secundus de Spiritu S. & Angelis
(Cracow, 1585).

30.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 398, 401; Josten, ‘Unknown Chapter’, p. 235.

31.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 401–2.

32.
Ibid., pp. 403–8; Josten, ‘Unknown Chapter’, p. 230.

33.
Evans,
Rudolf II and his World
, pp. 102–4; BLO MS Ashmole 488, front-leaf note on Pucci, 12 July 1585.

34.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 409–17; Evans,
Rudolf II and his World
, p. 103.

35.
BLO MS Ashmole 1790, fos. 1–10, translated in Josten, ‘Unknown Chapter’, pp. 226–55.

36.
Josten, ‘Unknown Chapter’, pp. 232–7; Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 420.

37.
Josten, ‘Unknown Chapter’, pp. 238–47.

38.
BL MS Sloane 3188, MS Cotton Appendix XLVI.

39.
BL MS Sloane 3191, fos. 1–13 (angelical calls), MS Sloane 3189 (Enoch's wisdom, in Kelley's handwriting), survive.

40.
Josten, ‘Unknown Chapter’, pp. 247–54.

41.
Ibid., pp. 254–5.

42.
BL MS Sloane 3189 (Enoch's wisdom), BL MS Sloane 3191, fos. 1–31v (angelical calls and ‘Book of the Knowledge of earthly aid and victory').

43.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 418–19.

44.
BL MS Cotton Appendix XLVI, printed by Casaubon as
True Relation
.

45.
Evans,
Rudolf II and his World
, pp. 64–9, 140–3.

46.
Ibid., p. 223, nuncio Sega's report of 29 May 1586.

47.
CSP Venetian
, viii, p. 169.

48.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 420–1, misnumbered ‘417’.

49.
Ibid., pp. 422–3.

50.
Ibid., pp. 424–8, 430.

Chapter 17: The Magnificent Master Alchemist

1.
CSP Venetian
, viii, p. 169.

2.
Ibid., pp. 429–34.

3.
Bruce T. Moran, ‘Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel: Informal Communication and the Aristocratic Context of Discovery’, in Thomas Nickles, ed.,
Scientific Discovery: Case Studies
(London, 1980), pp. 67–96; Moran, ‘German Prince-Practitioners: Aspects in the Development of Courtly Science, Technology and Procedures in the Renaissance’,
Technology and Culture
, 22(2) (April, 1981), pp. 253–74. Dee owned Andreas Schoner's
Gnomonice
(Nuremberg, 1562), R&W, 261, produced under Wilhelm's patronage, and Peter Ramus's
Scholarum mathematicarum libri unus et triginta
(Basle, 1569), R&W, 331. Neither has been found.

4.
Murhardsche Bibliothek, Kassel: 2 MS Chem 19, I, fos. 114r–115r, quoted in Moran, ‘Privilege, communication, and chemiatry’, pp. 125–6; Moran, ‘Prince-Practitioning and the Direction of Medical Roles at the German Court: Maurice of Hesse-Kassel and his Physicians’, in Vivian Nutton, ed.,
Medicine at the Courts of Europe, 1500–1837
(London and New York, 1990), pp. 95–116.

5.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, p. 434; BLO MS Tanner 309, fos. 53v–54r, Powle to Walsingham, 27 January 1587.

6.
Ibid., fos. 53v–54r, 67v–68r; BLO MS Ashmole 1790, fos. 1–10, in Josten, ‘Unknown Chapter’, pp. 226–55; BL MS Cotton Vitellius C.7, fo. 314r.

7.
CSP Foreign, Elizabeth (1586–7)
, vol. 21 (2), pp. 123–4.

8.
BLO MS Tanner 78, fo. 99r, Powle to Burghley, 10 September 1585; BL MS Cotton Vitellius C.7, fo. 318r.

9.
Casaubon,
True Relation
, pp. 444–7.

10.
BLO MS Ashmole 488, October–December 1586.

11.
TNA SP 12/196/fo. 143; SP 15/30/30.