ced Dee to the notice of Q. Elizabeth,
before her coronation. At which time her Majesty used these
words--"_Where my brother hath given him a crown, I will
give him a noble!_" Before the accession of Elizabeth, he
was imprisoned on being accused of destroying Queen Mary by
enchantment. "The Queen Elizabeth herself became a prisoner
in the same place (Hampton Court) shortly afterwards; and
Dee had for bedfellow one Barthelet Green, who was
afterwards burnt." Dee himself was examined by Bishop
Bonner. On the deanery of Gloucester becoming void in 1564,
Dee was nominated to fill it: but the same deanery was
afterwards bestowed on Mr. Man, who was sent into Spain in
her Majesty's service. "And now this Lent, 1594, when it
became void again (says Dee), I made a motion for it, but I
came too late; for one that might spend 400 or 500 lib. a
year already, had more need of it than I belike; or else
this former gift was but words only to me, and the fruit
ever due to others, that can espy and catch better than I
for these 35 years could do." Mistris Blanche a Parry came
to his house with an offer from the Queen of "any
ecclesiastical dignity within her kingdom, being then, or
shortly becoming, void and vacant"--but "Dee's most humble
and thankful answer to her Majesty, by the same messenger,
was that _cura animarum annexa_ did terrifie him to deal
with." He was next promised to "have of her Majesty's gift
other ecclesiastical livings and revenues (without care of
souls annexed) as in her Majesty's books were rated at two
hundred pounds yearly revenue; of which her Majesty's gift
he never as yet had any one penny." In Oct. 1578, he had a
consultation with Mr. Doctor Bayly, her Majesty's physician,
"about her Majestie's grievous pangs and pains by reason of
the toothake and rheum," &c. "He set down in writing, with
hydrographical and geographical description, what he then
had to say or shew, as concerning her Majesty's title royal
to any foreign countries. Whereof two parchment great rolls
full written, of about XII WHITE VELLUM SKINS, were good
witnesses upon the table before the commissioners." Dee had
refused an hundred pounds for these calligraphical labours.
A list of his printed and unprinted works: the former 8
(ending with the yea