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Article ACCOUNT OF DR. DEE, THE ASTROLOGER. ← Page 3 of 6 →
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Account Of Dr. Dee, The Astrologer.
the Queen ordered him to return , being then in Bohemia * . On hi * arrival in England he waited upon her Majesty at Richmond , and was very graciously received . She assured him that he might rely upon her protection in the prosecution of his studies . Plaving been in England three years without reaping any advantage from the promise which had been made him , he was induced to present a petition to the Queenpraying that she would appoint commissioners to inquire
, into the losses and injuries which he had sustained , the services he had done her Majesty , and the various disappointments which he had encountered . In consequence of this application , Sir Thomas Gorge , Knt . and Mr . Secretary Woolley were actually appointed commissioners to hear his grievances , and sat as such at his house at Mortlake , Nov . 221592 to whomsitting in his library , he related his case at
, , , large . In the mean time two tables were placed near him ; on one of them were the proper vouchers for the facts he asserted , to which he constantly referred ; on the other , all the printed books and MSS . which he had written . Among the services which he had rendered to the Queen he reckons some consultations with her Majesty ' s physicians at homeand a journey of 1500 mileswhich he undertook
, , iu the winter season , to hold a conference with the most learned philosophers on the Continent upon the means of restoring and preserving her health . In enumerating his losses , he estimates the damage sustained in his library at 390 I . His whole collection , which consisted of 4000 books , of which a great part were'MSS . he valued at 2000 I . Among the latter he mentions a large collection of deeds and charters
relating principally to estates in Ireland which he got out of a ruined church . He says , they had been examined by heralds , clerks of the office of records in the Tower , and other antiquaries , who had spent whole days at his house in looking them over- ; and had taken away to their liking . His chemical apparatus , which cost him sool . was entirely destroyed by the mob when he left Mortlake in 1583 : at the same time they beat in pieces a fine quadrant of Chancellor ' s which cost him 30 I . and took away a magnet for which he gave 33 ] . Among the many promises of preferment which had been made him to so little
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Account Of Dr. Dee, The Astrologer.
the Queen ordered him to return , being then in Bohemia * . On hi * arrival in England he waited upon her Majesty at Richmond , and was very graciously received . She assured him that he might rely upon her protection in the prosecution of his studies . Plaving been in England three years without reaping any advantage from the promise which had been made him , he was induced to present a petition to the Queenpraying that she would appoint commissioners to inquire
, into the losses and injuries which he had sustained , the services he had done her Majesty , and the various disappointments which he had encountered . In consequence of this application , Sir Thomas Gorge , Knt . and Mr . Secretary Woolley were actually appointed commissioners to hear his grievances , and sat as such at his house at Mortlake , Nov . 221592 to whomsitting in his library , he related his case at
, , , large . In the mean time two tables were placed near him ; on one of them were the proper vouchers for the facts he asserted , to which he constantly referred ; on the other , all the printed books and MSS . which he had written . Among the services which he had rendered to the Queen he reckons some consultations with her Majesty ' s physicians at homeand a journey of 1500 mileswhich he undertook
, , iu the winter season , to hold a conference with the most learned philosophers on the Continent upon the means of restoring and preserving her health . In enumerating his losses , he estimates the damage sustained in his library at 390 I . His whole collection , which consisted of 4000 books , of which a great part were'MSS . he valued at 2000 I . Among the latter he mentions a large collection of deeds and charters
relating principally to estates in Ireland which he got out of a ruined church . He says , they had been examined by heralds , clerks of the office of records in the Tower , and other antiquaries , who had spent whole days at his house in looking them over- ; and had taken away to their liking . His chemical apparatus , which cost him sool . was entirely destroyed by the mob when he left Mortlake in 1583 : at the same time they beat in pieces a fine quadrant of Chancellor ' s which cost him 30 I . and took away a magnet for which he gave 33 ] . Among the many promises of preferment which had been made him to so little