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Arthur Dee (13 July 1579 - Sept./Oct. 1651)
Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Dee Relationships: Arthur Dee was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Thomas Browne (19 Nov 1605-19 Oct 1682)Arthur Dee was a son of John Dee (13 Jul 1527 -1608 or 1609)
Rowland Dee (-) was a grand-father of Arthur Dee
References in Documents:
(Ashmolean MS 1131, f. 280; Vol. 35 of
COLLECTIONS FOR THE ORDER OF THE GARTER.)
Honord Sir,
I give you late butt heartie thancks for the noble
present of your most excellent booke; which, by the care of
my sonne, I receaved from you. I deferred this my ·due
acknowledgment in hope to have found out something more
of Dr.
you written by the hand of his sonne, Dr.
old acquaintance, containing the scheme of his nativity,
erected by his father, Dr.
butt the iudgment upon it was writt by one
rerus
which
Sir, I take it for a great honour to have this libertie of com
munication with a person of your eminent merit, and shall
industriously serve you upon all opportunities, who am,
Your servant most respectfully and humbly,
("Recd.
[Ashmole MS 1788, art. 18, f. 153.]
Most Worthy Sr.
letter and the good newes of the hopefull recoverie of
Dugdale
and shall, God willing, send unto him concerning the
bone
my apprehension how I can afford any addition unto your
worthy endeavours. Notwithstanding, I have enclosed a list
of such tracts of that subject which I have by mee. Most
whereof I receaved from
sonne unto old
yeares and dyed in
accounts agreable unto those which you have sett downe in
your annotations concerning
a persevering student in hermeticall philosophy, and had noe
small encouragement Having seen projection made, and
with the highest asseverations be confirmed unto his death,
that hee had ocularly undeceavably and frequently beheld it
in
vented, hee had not many yeares before his death retired be
yond sea, and fallen upon the solemn processe of the great
worke.
Sr. if you shall desire a viewe of any of these bookes, or all,
I shall find some way to send them, and you may peruse or
2 That is, Lilly's Christian Astrology modestly treated of, in three books: or, an
Introduction to Astrologie, London,
molean Museum
W. H. B.
transcribe them; butt I shall entreat the favour to have them
returned.
fewe yeares past, and if hee signified my mind unto you, you
might have receaved them long agoe. Sir, I thinck myself
much honored in your worthy acquaintance, and shall ever rest
Your very respectful freind and servant,
[Asmole MS 1788, art. 17, f. 151.]
I was very well acquainted with
time or other hee hath given me some account of the whole
course of his life: hee gave mee a catalogue of what his
father
write, butt I think I have seen the same in some of his printed
bookes, and that catalogue hee gave me in writing I cannot
yet find. I never heard him saye one word of the booke of
spirits, sett out by
I make no doubt butt hee would have spoake of it unto mee,
for he was very inquisitive after any manuscripts of his fa
ther's, and desirous to print as many as hee could possibly
obtaine;
well
of them, which he kept in a trunck in his howse in
to my knowledge hee sent divers letters unto
humbly desiring him that hee would not lock them up from
8 MS. Sloane. 1893.Catalogue of Browne's MSS. No. 9, 8vo. vol. iv, p. 463, &c.
9
MS. Sloan. 1854.-
Catalogue of MSS. &c. No. 13, 4to.
the world, butt suffer him to print at least some thereof.
William
hee had some of his father's works not yet published, and
that they were safe from being lost, and that hee was readie
to showe them unto him, butt that hee had an intention to
print some of them himself.
sollicitation, butt
of those manuscripts in his hand.
that hee lived in
other parts of
was their great patron, who delighted much in alchymie;
have often heard him affirme, and sometimes with oaths, that
hee had seen projection made and transmutation of
dishes
at quaits with
this transmutation was made by a
was found in some old place, and a booke lying by it con
taining nothing butt hieroglyphicks, which booke
bestowed much time upon: but I could not heare that he
could make it out.
by
of the powder
peror in a castle, from whence attempting an escape downe
the wall, hee fell and broake his legge and was imprisoned
agayne.
Elizabeth
thereof attempted to get
to that purpose, who giving opium in drinck unto the keepers,
layd them so faste asleepe that
attempt an escape, and there were horses readie to carry him
away;
declared.
the
some addition unto his coat of armes, by a mathematicall
figure added, which I thincke may bee seen at
Dee
John Dee
1 His portrait is preserved in the
W. H. B.
dyed.
projection made in
with, that hee fell early upon that studie and read not much
all his life but bookes of that subject, and two years before
his death contracted with one Hunniades, or
in
lived long in
turne into
was to remain ten weeks, till
The Dr. to my knowledge was serious in this buisinesse, and
had provided all in readinesse to goe; but suddenly hee
heard that
If hereafter any thing farther occurreth to my memorie I
shall advertize.
No. Signature.)
(
Note subscribed byAshmole .} Recd.
1674
directed to
I was very well acquainted with
time or other hee hath given me some account of the whole
course of his life: hee gave mee a catalogue of what his
father
write, butt I think I have seen the same in some of his printed
bookes, and that catalogue hee gave me in writing I cannot
yet find. I never heard him saye one word of the booke of
spirits, sett out by
I make no doubt butt hee would have spoake of it unto mee,
for he was very inquisitive after any manuscripts of his fa
ther's, and desirous to print as many as hee could possibly
obtaine;
well
of them, which he kept in a trunck in his howse in
to my knowledge hee sent divers letters unto
humbly desiring him that hee would not lock them up from
8 MS. Sloane. 1893.Catalogue of Browne's MSS. No. 9, 8vo. vol. iv, p. 463, &c.
9
MS. Sloan. 1854.-
Catalogue of MSS. &c. No. 13, 4to.
the world, butt suffer him to print at least some thereof.
William
hee had some of his father's works not yet published, and
that they were safe from being lost, and that hee was readie
to showe them unto him, butt that hee had an intention to
print some of them himself.
sollicitation, butt
of those manuscripts in his hand.
that hee lived in
other parts of
was their great patron, who delighted much in alchymie;
have often heard him affirme, and sometimes with oaths, that
hee had seen projection made and transmutation of
dishes
at quaits with
this transmutation was made by a
was found in some old place, and a booke lying by it con
taining nothing butt hieroglyphicks, which booke
bestowed much time upon: but I could not heare that he
could make it out.
by
of the powder
peror in a castle, from whence attempting an escape downe
the wall, hee fell and broake his legge and was imprisoned
agayne.
Elizabeth
thereof attempted to get
to that purpose, who giving opium in drinck unto the keepers,
layd them so faste asleepe that
attempt an escape, and there were horses readie to carry him
away;
declared.
the
some addition unto his coat of armes, by a mathematicall
figure added, which I thincke may bee seen at
Dee
John Dee
1 His portrait is preserved in the
W. H. B.
dyed.
projection made in
with, that hee fell early upon that studie and read not much
all his life but bookes of that subject, and two years before
his death contracted with one Hunniades, or
in
lived long in
turne into
was to remain ten weeks, till
The Dr. to my knowledge was serious in this buisinesse, and
had provided all in readinesse to goe; but suddenly hee
heard that
If hereafter any thing farther occurreth to my memorie I
shall advertize.