IN LONDON. 129 



CHAPTER VI. 



CARDAN IN LONDON. 



SUMMONED to the king on his return to London 1 , 

 Jerome continued to grow rich. 



His visit to King Edward VI. is mentioned in most 

 histories of England. In Bishop Burnet's History of the 

 Reformation, it is recorded thus under the year 1552: 

 " This summer Cardan, the great philosopher of that age, 

 passed through England. He was brought from Italy on 

 the account of Hamilton, Archbishop of St.Andrew's, who 

 was then desperately sick of a dropsy. Cardan cured him 

 of his disease : but being a man much conversant both in 

 Astrology and Magic, as himself professed, he told the 

 archbishop, that though he had at present saved his life, 

 yet he could not change his fate ; for he was to die on a 

 gallows. In his going through England, he waited on 

 King Edward, where he was so entertained by him, and 

 observed his extraordinary parts and virtues so narrowly, 

 that on many occasions he writ afterwards of him, with 



1 Geniturarum Exemplar, p. 133. " Londinum in Anglia reversus, 

 vocatus ad regem, dona accepi." 



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