Dec. 10th, Mr. John Carpio went
toward Prage to marry the mayden he had trubbled; for the Emperor's
Majestie, by my Lord Rosenberg's means, had so ordred the matter.
Dec. 12th, afternone somwhat; Mr. Ed. Keley his lamp overthrow, the
spirit of wyne long spent to nere, and the glas being not stayed
with buks abowt it, as it was wont to be; and the same glas so
flitting on one side, the spirit was spilled out, and burnt all that
was on the table where it stode, lynnen and written bokes,-- as the
bok of Zacharius with the Alkanor that I translated out of French
for som by spirituall could not; Rowlaschy his thrid boke of waters
philosophicall; the boke called Angelicum Opus, all in pictures of
the work from the beginning to the end; the copy of the man of
Badwise Conclusions for the Transmution of metalls; and 40 leaves in
4?, intitled, Extractiones Dunstani, which he himself extracted and
noted out of Dunstan his boke, and the very boke of Dunstan was but
cast on the bed hard by from the table.
1588. Jan. 1st, abowt nine of the clok afternone, Michel, going
chilyshly with a sharp stik of eight ynches long and a little wax
candell light on the top of it, did fall uppon the playn bords in
Marie's chamber, and the sharp point of the stik entred throwgh the
lid of his left ey toward the corner next the nose, and so persed
throwgh, insomuch that great abundance of blud cam out under the
lid, in the very corner of the sayd eye; the hole on the owtside is
not bygger then a pyn's hed; it was anoynted with St.
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