drawn each by four horses, several baggage wagons and a 

 guard of twenty-four armed horsemen. He left Trebona in 

 March, 1589, and travelled via Bremen, where he received a 

 visit from a famous hermetic philosopher, Dr. Heinrich 

 Kunrath, of Hamburg, and conducted amicable correspon- 

 dence with the Landgrave of Hesse, to whom Dee presented 

 his twelve Hungarian horses. On his arrival in England, in 

 November, he found that his residence at Mortlake had been 

 pillaged during his absence by a mob who had accused him of 

 necromancy ; all his furniture had been broken, his valuable 

 library had been burned, and the philosophical instruments 

 and the curiosities in his museum had been ruined or stolen. 

 Dee endeavored to get compensation from the state, but 

 though the Queen received him graciously at Richmond, he 

 never recovered the value of his property. Being settled 

 again at Mortlake, he was occasionly visited by Elizabeth as 

 of old, and at Christmas, 1590, she sent him two hundred 

 angels, and other presents. Being in favor at court Dee 

 carried on his studies and experiments without molestation, 

 but six years passed before he was given substantial emolu- 

 ments; in 1595 he was granted the Chancellorship of St. 

 Paul's Cathedral, and a few months later he was installed 

 Warden of Manchester College, " wherein he had the un- 

 happinesse to be often vext with the Turbulent Fellowes of 

 that Colledge". These sinecures he held until his death in the 

 eighty -first year of his age, " deserving the Commendations 

 of all learned and ingenious Schollers, and to be remembered 

 for his remarkable Abilities." 



While at the court of Ructolph Dr. Dee had kept Kelley 

 in the background, through mistrust and jealousy, but after 

 Dee's banishment Kelley secured an intimate footing in 

 imperial circles. He was at that time about thirty years of 

 age, a few years younger than the Emperor ; he had an 



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