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The Catalogue of Dee's Library of Manuscripts, although long since
dispersed, is valuable for the notices which it preserves of several
middle-age treatises not now extant. He is said to have expended on this
collection the sum of three thousand pounds, a very large sum in those
days for a person of limited income.
J. O. H.
35, Alfred Place,
March 15th 1842.
DR. DEE'S DIARY.
1554. Aug. 25th, Barthilmew Hikman born at Shugborowh in
Warwikshyre toward evening. My conjecture, uppon his own reporte of
circumstances. Oct. 25th, D. Daniel Vander Meulen Antwerpi?, mane hora
quarta.[a]
[Footnote a: It is almost unnecessary to observe that this and
the following are notes of nativities. They are not for the most
part contemporary notices, but apparently inserted at various
times by Dee when professionally consulted as an astrologer.]
1555. April 22nd, Jane Fromonds borne at Cheyham at none. Aug. 1st,
Ed. Kelly natus hora quarta a meridie[b] ut annotatum reliquit pater
ejus. Oct. 12th, the Lord Willughby born hora septima mane, ante
meridiem, Lat. 51° 30', at Wesell in Gelderland.
[Footnote b: "Anno 1555, Aug. 1, hora quarta a meridie Wigorni?
natus Dominus Edouardus Kel?us," MS. Ashm. 1788, fol. 140, where
there is a horoscope of this nativity in the handwriting of
Dr. Dee. Ashmole, in his MS. 1790, fol. 58, says "Mr. Lilly told
me that John Evans informed him that he was acquainted with
Kelly's sister in Worcester, that she shewed him some of the
gold her brother had transmuted, and that Kelly was first an
apothecary in Worcester.
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