r Majestie's servants at my lying at Breme; as 70
dollars given or lent to one Conradus Justus Newbrenner; and about 40
given to gett some letters of great importance brought to our
sovereign's honorable privy council in due time.

[Sidenote: 10 lib.]

"The charge of my fraught and passage from Staden to London for my
goods, myself, my wife, children, and servants

[Sidenote: 796 lib.]

"So that the sum total of money, spent and laid out, in and for my
remove from Trebon to London doth amount to

[Sidenote: 1510 lib.]

"Whereby the whole sum of the former damages and losses

[Sidenote: 796 lib.]

"And the removing charges doth amount (with the least) to

[Sidenote: 2306 lib.]

"Besides the 100 dollars disbursed at Breme for dutiful love to Queen
and country."

One minor occurrence in the following tradition--viz., the loss of the
horse--is related by Lilly as happening to another of the fraternity;
but we claim it--upon grounds too trivial it might be deemed by
some--for the "Doctor." It is not our intention to spoil a good story by
rejecting what we cannot verify. Sufficient for us that the tale exists;
though we take the liberty of telling it in our own way.

There came a thin spare man one evening to Dr Dee's residence in the
college at Manchester, where he then dwelt by permission only from the
Earl of Derby, though living there in the capacity of warden to the
church.

The college being dissolved in the first of Edward VI. (1547), the
possessions fell into the hands of that nobleman, who, however, kept
ministers at his own charge to officiate in the church. Mary refounded
the establishment, restoring the greater part of the lands, but Lord
Derby still kept the college house. In 1578 Elizabeth granted a new
foundation to the college, appointing her own wardens. Dr Dee, being the
third on the new establishment, was installed with great solemnity on
the 20th February 1596.

The visitor we have just noticed was muffled in a dark cloak, having a
wide and ample collar, which he threw over his head, as though anxious
for concealment. The Doctor, having retired into his study, was not to
be disturbed; but the stranger was urgent for admission, while Lettice
Gostwich, Dee's help-at-all-work, a pert ungracious slattern, was fully
resolved not to permit his access to her master.

"Then since nothing else will do," said the pertinacious intruder,
"convey me this message--to wit, a stranger comes to him on