1789, and is the very book which Dee
alludes to above. It is inscribed "to the Right Honorable and my
singular good Lorde, the Lorde Burghley, Lorde Threasorer of
Englande," with the following verses:--
"+To hoti+ and +to dioti+,
I shew the thing and reason why;
At large, in breif, in middle wise,
I humbly give a playne advise;
For want of tyme, the tyme untrew
Yf I have myst, commaund anew
Your honor may. So shall you see
That love of truth doth govern me."
The work itself is entitled, "A playne Discourse and humble
Advise for our Gratious Queene Elizabeth, her most Excellent
Majestie to peruse and consider, as concerning the needful
Reformation of the Vulgar Kalender for the civile yeres and
daies accompting, or verifyeng, according to the tyme truely
spent."]
March 6th, I, and Mr. Adrian Gilbert and John Davis, did mete with
Mr. Alderman Barnes, Mr. Townson and Mr. Yong and Mr. Hudson, abowt
the N.W. voyage. March 17th, Mr. John Davys went to Chelsey with Mr.
Adrian Gilbert to Mr. Radforths, and so the 18th day from thence
toward Devonshyre. March 18th, Mr. North from Poland, after he had
byn with the Quene he cam to me. I receyved salutation from Alaski,
Palatine in Poland; salutation by Mr. North who cam before to the
Quene, and next to me was his message, hor. 12. Nurse Lydgatt at
Estshene was payd for 5 pound candell, 6 pound sope, and the wagis
due from Rowland his birth.
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