d, but acquitted of the charge.
He was then turned over to Bonner, to see if heresy might not be found
in him. After a tedious prosecution he was set at liberty, August 19,
1555, by an order of the council.

Upon Queen Elizabeth's accession he was consulted as to a fit day for
the coronation, and received many splendid promises of preferment, which
were never realised.

In the spring of the year 1564, he made another journey abroad, when he
presented to the Emperor Maximilian his book, entitled "Monas
Hieroglyphica," printed at Antwerp the same year. He returned to England
in the summer, producing several learned works, which showed his
extraordinary skill in the mathematics.

In 1571 he went to Lorraine, where, falling very ill, he was honoured
with the solicitude of the Queen, who sent two of her physicians, and
gave him many other proofs of her regard. Upon his return to England he
now settled himself in his own house at Mortlake in Surrey, where he
collected a noble library, and prosecuted his studies with great
diligence. His collection is said to have consisted of more than four
thousand books, nearly a fourth part of them manuscripts, which were
afterwards dispersed and lost. This library, and a great number of
mathematical and mechanical instruments, were destroyed by the fury of
the populace in 1583, who, believing him to be a conjuror, and one that
dealt with the devil, broke into his house, and tore and destroyed the
fruit of his labours during the forty years preceding.

On the 16th March 1575, Queen Elizabeth, attended by many of her court,
visited Dr Dee's house to see his library; but having buried his wife
only a few hours before, he could not entertain her Majesty in the way
he wished. However, he brought out a glass, the properties of which he
explained to his royal mistress, hoping to wipe off the aspersion, under
which he had long laboured, of being a magician.

In 1578 her Majesty being indisposed, Dee was sent abroad to consult
with some German physicians about the nature of her complaint. But that
part of his life in which he was most known to the world commenced in
1581, when his intercourse began with Edward Kelly. This man pretended
to instruct him how to obtain, by means of certain invocations, an
intercourse with spirits. Soon afterwards there came to England a Polish
lord, Albert Laski, palatine of Siradia, a person of great learning. He
was introduced to Dee by the Earl of Leicester, w