JOHK DEE. 
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now by God^s favour and help fully spent; and of the very great injir^ 
ries, damages, and indignities, which for these last nine years he hath 
in England sustained, contrary to her majesty’s very gracious will 
and express commandment, made unto the two honourable commi&i 
sioners by her most excellent majesty thereto assigned, according to 
fhe intent of the most humble supplication of the said John, exhibited 
to- her most gracious majesty at Hampton-coiirt,'aon. 1592, Nov. 
Upon the report made by the commissioners to the queen, he 
received a present, an-d promises of preferment ; but these- promises 
ending like the former, (in nothing,) he engaged his patroness; the 
countess of Warwick, to present another short Latin petition to the 
qu-een, but with what success does not appear. In Dccem'ber, 1594-, 
however, he obtained a grant to the chancellorship of St, Paurs, But 
this did not answer his end : upon which he applied himself next to 
Whitgift, archbishop of Canterbury, by a letter, in which he inserted 
a large account of all the books he had either published or writt'eti’; 
and in consequence of this letter, together with other applications’, !i^ 
obtained a grant of the wardenship of Manchester college.' Febuary. 
1590, he arrived with his wife and family in' that town, and Was' in- 
stiled in his' new charge. He eontinoed there about seven - years 
%vhi'ch he is said to have spent iu a very troublesome an'd unquiet 
manner, 
■ 'June 1604, he presented a petition to king James, earnestly desiring 
him that he might be brought to a trial ; that, by a formal and judi- 
cial sentence, he might be delivered froni those suspicions and suCmiSe^ 
which 'had created him so much uneasiness for upwards of fifty-yeaifs'. 
But the king, although he at first patronized him, being better in- 
formed' of the nature of his studies, refused hini any mark of 'rOyat 
countenance and favour; w'hich must have atfected a man of that vaiif 
and ambitious spirit, which ail his misfortunes could never alter or 
amend. November the same year, he quitted Manchester with his 
family, in order to return to his house at Mortlake, where he reoiained 
but a short time, being now very old, infirm, and destitute of friehds'’ 
and patrons, who had generally forsaken him. We find him at MOrt- 
lake in 1607';' where he had recourse to his former invocations, n'nd 
so came toMeal again, as he fancied, with spirits. One' Hickrriah 
served him now, as Kelly had done formerly. Their' transactioh^ 
were continued to Sept. 7, 1607, wLich is the last date of that journM 
published by Casaiibon, whose title at large runs thus : 
A true and faithful relation of what passed for many years be- 
tween Mr. John Dee, a mathematician of great fame in queeri Elizabeth 
and king James their reigns, and some Spirits, tending, had it suc- 
ceeded, to a general alteration of most states and kingdoms in thC 
world : His private conference with Rodolph, emperor of Germany, 
Stephen king of Poland, and divers other princes, about if : The 
particulars of his cause, as it was agitated in the emperoPs court by 
the pope’s intervention : His banishment, and restoration in part ; a§ 
also the letters of sundry great men and princes, some of whom WerO 
present at some of those conferences and apparitions of spirits to 
the said Dr, Dee : out of the original copy written with Dr. Dee’s own 
ba^ ktipt in the library of Sir Thomas Cotton, krit. baronet, with ¥ 
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