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Article ACCOUNT OF DR. DEE, THE ASTROLOGER. ← Page 4 of 6 →
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Account Of Dr. Dee, The Astrologer.
effect , he particularly specifies Dr . Aubrey ' s benefices in the diocese of St . David ' s , and the mastership of St . Cross . He concludes with desiring speedy relief ^ and gives his reasons for preferring * the mastership of St . Cross to any other appointment , it being a retired situation , well adapted for his studies , with a good house annexed ; whereas his present situation at Mortlake was too public , and his house too small to entertain the foreign literati who resorted to him . U the
repon port of the commissioners , " the Queen willed the Lady Howard to write some words of comfort to his wife , and send some friendl y tokens besides ; " she commanded Sir Thomas Gorge to take him 100 marks , and said , " that St . Cross he should have , " and that the incumbent , Dr . Bennet , might be removed to some ' bishopric ; andassigned him a pension of 200 I . per ann . out of the bishopric of
Oxford till it should become vacant . All these promises , like the former , came to nothing ; the mastership of St . Cross he never got . The next year , indeed , he was presented to the chancellorship of St . Paul ' s ; but this was b y no means adequate to his expectations ; and he continued to memorialise her Majesty , till at length he procured the wardenship of Manchester in 1595 . Plere he continued seven years , leading a very unquiet life , and continually , engaged in disputes with
the fellows . Pie returned to Mortlake in 1604 . King James at first patronised , but was afterwards prejudiced against him and his studies ; upon which Dee presented a petition to his Majesty , and another in verse to the House of Commons , praying that he mi ght be brought to trial , having been accused of calling up evil spirits . Dr . Dee died at Mortlake in the year 1608 , having been so poor in the latter part
of his life as to be obliged to sell his library piece-meal for subsistence . He was buried in the chancel of Mortlake church , where , Aubrey says , an old marble stone was shown as belonging to his tomb . The house where Dr . Dee lived is now the property of Richard Godman Temple , Esq . as appears by a survey of Mortlake * , taken A . D . 1617 , where it is called an ancient house . It was most probabl
y built in the reign of Henry VII . An old room' ornamented with red and white roses existed a few years ago . __ It is the opinion of some writers , that Dee was employed by Qtteett Elizabeth as a spyf , and some have gone so far as to suppose that all the notes of his pretended conversations with spirits were , in fact , political intelligence , couched in cyphers . As they contained a kind of jargon , meaning nothing in itself ; they might undoubtedly be used occasionally for sucli purposes . Dee himself avers in his narrative , that he was taken into the Queen ' s service on her accession to the
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Account Of Dr. Dee, The Astrologer.
effect , he particularly specifies Dr . Aubrey ' s benefices in the diocese of St . David ' s , and the mastership of St . Cross . He concludes with desiring speedy relief ^ and gives his reasons for preferring * the mastership of St . Cross to any other appointment , it being a retired situation , well adapted for his studies , with a good house annexed ; whereas his present situation at Mortlake was too public , and his house too small to entertain the foreign literati who resorted to him . U the
repon port of the commissioners , " the Queen willed the Lady Howard to write some words of comfort to his wife , and send some friendl y tokens besides ; " she commanded Sir Thomas Gorge to take him 100 marks , and said , " that St . Cross he should have , " and that the incumbent , Dr . Bennet , might be removed to some ' bishopric ; andassigned him a pension of 200 I . per ann . out of the bishopric of
Oxford till it should become vacant . All these promises , like the former , came to nothing ; the mastership of St . Cross he never got . The next year , indeed , he was presented to the chancellorship of St . Paul ' s ; but this was b y no means adequate to his expectations ; and he continued to memorialise her Majesty , till at length he procured the wardenship of Manchester in 1595 . Plere he continued seven years , leading a very unquiet life , and continually , engaged in disputes with
the fellows . Pie returned to Mortlake in 1604 . King James at first patronised , but was afterwards prejudiced against him and his studies ; upon which Dee presented a petition to his Majesty , and another in verse to the House of Commons , praying that he mi ght be brought to trial , having been accused of calling up evil spirits . Dr . Dee died at Mortlake in the year 1608 , having been so poor in the latter part
of his life as to be obliged to sell his library piece-meal for subsistence . He was buried in the chancel of Mortlake church , where , Aubrey says , an old marble stone was shown as belonging to his tomb . The house where Dr . Dee lived is now the property of Richard Godman Temple , Esq . as appears by a survey of Mortlake * , taken A . D . 1617 , where it is called an ancient house . It was most probabl
y built in the reign of Henry VII . An old room' ornamented with red and white roses existed a few years ago . __ It is the opinion of some writers , that Dee was employed by Qtteett Elizabeth as a spyf , and some have gone so far as to suppose that all the notes of his pretended conversations with spirits were , in fact , political intelligence , couched in cyphers . As they contained a kind of jargon , meaning nothing in itself ; they might undoubtedly be used occasionally for sucli purposes . Dee himself avers in his narrative , that he was taken into the Queen ' s service on her accession to the