Section 42

Pag.278. Che gating of t$e
I
-NihcCamplofVhilofopby,Bloome field reckons up a #Vfc that beares the j Title of thtGrebne Lyon, and amongft other Impoftors ^of his Tyme) calls the Ftar of Maiden, ( bur in fome Copies Vicar of JfWwJ the Ambon and confequently efteemes the Wor^e fpurious,
v) Bloomfi u)-«ftenb?oattttfte«tiitbeWittr0f^atootti
$of j?r/* /w*.. CBttMfe &?on
But what P/ece foever that wns I know not: lam consent this, that I here ©refent my K^Jer wish under that Tytk3 is a perfect Wor\$, and truly
(4-75)
pbilofopbicall } UCiiztfomeCwpiesownetAbraftimAiklrem for their Author, and is To confirm'd to me by the Tcftimovy of a credible Philcfopber.
Pag.103l.10. dfroo fa&e tup $9aHev{ei Rfe^- — —
T Homos Cbtmocli (the Author o( the Breviary o{(Naturall Vbilo/opby) had the happinefle to have Two Mafters that made him inheritor of this $6- cret y The firft was he, whom here he Mentions, and it feemes
w) m&* ftaicft in ttfi Clofe of JbdigbntU. ^e^nigm.de
» Aich. This he further confirmes in his Breviary,thus:
x) QfttQtt 3d &>.W name js ttttlp, I »0 Bre?. of
jfttglj to t\)t Cite? ot*&aU0btttg ijig ft»e1itttgf0»- Phil.C^.4.
It feemes he had fomc acquaintance with this Prie/f , and in that time bent his Studies this way, Imomuch that the Vriejt falling pc\ (whilft his ^Tw^c was a going J thought Cfomw^deferving of it ', for He
y) aPfcttityttrjOttgftffoUfc, 7) Chap j,
maos tym ty$ ffsir e
This VVor\e Cbarno(k continued going, till unhappily it perimeth by Fire upon a Hewycaret day at ZSforae ^probably ir might be An. 1 f??. for that fell out in the fir ft and fecond ofTbil. and Mar. and in thofe yeares of their Raigne (which was parte in the yeare t ? 74. and parte in 1 ? $$.) he fa) received the ^\ Chap, ibid* Secret from the aforefaid Prieft, as himfelfe Teftifies. At which time he was A Q^S * about 3 o. or j 1 . yeares of Age (though he intimates he was about 18. yeares old when he firft met with the Prior of Bath) for Ann. 1 774. he was S o. yeares old, as appeares at the end of his (b) Fragments, which I Coppied from his b(%ztpag.^i6 owne Hand.
Pag.r.atfluuj. *0n!f a^oafcf ofxc^om'^eCnealtcaBon,
THis 9A dentally happened, his Name was MUiam Bird^nd by his FunUion, Tri- a)};™?-1™* or ofBatb, at the Diflbhrnon of that Abbey 5 ■ J> G°™.$ucc.
This Bird Awhile Prw/ expended much. Money by fe) endeaiourwg what J*&° J . fc# »)?«(/& *£e ^% Cburcb ~of%ttb (the (/) foundation of which^. mbd* fumptucus Building was^begun by O/rwr l^/«g,but he dying left it unpeifed:) ' 2^4* flwi foii Jrcargfrt it to a perfection, when the VijJ'oltttion of the Abbey, bad once ever- thrown what before was fit up.
It feemes this Prior had the Elixir upon the Supprefiion of the tAbby: he hid icinamtf,
Q^q q 1 g;^no
C47
l) Chap, r. g) Unt> Ccit fcage& afte r \)t mnt to fctc^ (t cut,
3tofe ttyere l)t fotw»fc but ti>e ftople of a Ciotite.
For it was taken away; It made their Hearts light who lound it, but his Co beavy, and the lofle fo difcontented and affli&ed him,
k) Chap.ibid. h) C£at mang £*are ■ af t cr ije fcati r.o fetltng trfacs.
and flofing his E/# foone after his EcclcfigticaU preferments) was quite de- prived of attempting to make the Elixir againe. Whereupon he liv'd cbfcurtij, and grew verypoo^j and not able to give Cbtmocl^ entertainement, but his ewne Purfe paid for it., both times he was with him.
Pa|^$8.1in x$. C^arnacft is i;ts name, of Ccnet fyat 31fle.
T
*Enet or Tainct is aa£/k that lies in the Ea-fi part o£i$ent, and the 3B/>*£- p\aceoi(Jbamc-c\\ however though'he might be born there, yet he dwelt about (i) Salisbury, when he firft met with his Mafter BirdMe cais himfelf the v) knap. ?♦ Unlettered ScboUar, and by feverall Fragments and NM« that I have feene of his owne Writing, it does not appeare, that he underttood much Latin, or knew how to write true Englijh 5 yet though he wanted the Shell he obteyned the J^erneil, and had the good fortune to meete with that in plaine Englifb, which many (who have the affiftance of otherL^wgw^c/) goe without } Thus we fee by him,that Goihath not excluded all who are M.a(ters of no other then their own Language* from the happinefle of under (taming many Abftrufe and fubtill Secrets j I could inftance feverall in this Sciences and this very Gon- fideration invited that noble Fraternity of the R>C. to publiih their Fame and Cmftfm in Five feverall Languages, to the end the unearned might not be deprived and defrauded of the knowledge thereof. Nor was the Vroceffe ('which all Students may take notice of) tedious or long in delivering to 0}Arm:\* For thus he faith,
|)His Mafter mitfnn tl# ee o? faure &oft$ (k)%t tebeateatome
*Jro?» ®f #mcta!l practice tlje greate ^tflcr(e.
HenvedintheRrfs%cofanO^/'« have priviledged him from being Treft tor a Qommwt Souldkr, And from a Memorandum of his owne hand, it may be gathered, that he pra&ifed Cbirur- ' _ gcry y for thereby it appearcs He bargained to have Five Maries for healing
the Leg of one Richard Deane, for the payment of which x>ne Iobn 7$$dtn and Wffitim Lawly be c ame Succtyes,
$i$
^
C477)
♦
$*o 2-oo.H 13. ffiemembtfng mp Rafter tljo.
Pal' toi.U.5. #2 flpaftet tyall fcnofr ail tftfef.
li.8.Cl)cn frontt) J Sojite to mp Rafter
Plg.3oi.lui.4WeH 3 rgmemb^'mr gew Rafter agame.
TTis ^.lA.theVricli of Salisbury whomCbiirnecli means in thefe fever all J. places, and whofe Cbriftim Nume was 3|ame0 * for in another private Hi- moranium3mizten by Cbarnoch.^ finde thus much y
i»cmo?anb> t^at £>irffioba*t fetyeJbfci* confer feftty mgCft* toi5 £>i* 3lam?0,in fting 0M£e0,T>toeIiefl> now tit t^e^aboije in &onSon, anD 3»ai& tt a ft>o»%uis t^cfe, ajat iif arrs ilamon* toft mt at &>amsr James ^atte.
9nno3Doroi:i?£*.
Page 301.IUU. tfojfoeti; it fcas Iglttfce tfr C^anon «i* #o*.
SOme will have this to bearc a double ConftruSlion (either that Ripley was Bn or Sen/Ml to a Cbanon, as being bred up under a Qhrnm while a Boy j or that it was one who was Ripleys Servant, and brought up with him when toot?- to whom R/p/ey (finding him, fauhfull) might commit the Secret) and (o leave it uncertaine whetherRi;^ or his Scbolkr was Mafter to the afore- faid William Bird. But I rather conceive the latter moft probable j ..for, Rip/e/ // ) dyed about the yeare 1 S 9°- and the time that this Bird communicated this \)B*U Cen t 9: Secret to CHwwcfcwas at leaft 64.yearsafcer.S0 thac ^ftionlefTe this Bird was {0.6i$. too vouns to be acquainted With fo weighty a Myflery at the timeofR/pty's Pmx.pag.578. death. However VViUiam "Bird had a Mafter, thrfugb £)« 3Rame* the Priejl of Salisbury had none j but received it from G^ds hands by infpiration ; for • Cfarowfefaycshctouidhirn /
_— — m)i|cUit»itnotatiai«e, »)Cap.6>
g>f no manor of ^pan but of 9s i?e fc* it was t^natng, itm *« &te fctu
90 atycnfcematje me fromm^ foej&e to be #reu\
C'H#*w£was much hindredin the Gourfeofhis Vraftife by the Malice of this Geflto Grudge, and executed it in as bad a time for the honeft Pbilofopber as pofiible might be 5 [even then when he was neere finilhing his wotke,
. n) WW** ^onctfoefteefcowing.] . ^ Ga
caulin^*/ r >- — Qqb 3
caufing him to be preft for a Sbaldier upon the Defigne of relieving o(£alfs, o ) Stow An. (which was the (°) beginning of Unitary Anno 1558. and almoft hx Mcmtfa J u ' after he had finished the Brevity of Vbilofofiy,) whereupon in 1 Vifcontent he
" » ' deftroyed ^//.
Pag.jo3.Ii.^ ^«t>if(0o5rp«cmei^3IS»UImen^t^i0anot6ct^.
THe Breviary o(Natwall Vbilofopby was begun to be written wichintwo or three yeares after he was Mafler of the Secret, and thongh he feeme to promife fome other Wcrty, yet I could never learne that he wrote any thing afterwards , fave onely His two o/Enigmaes ,(the which I have Marmald after his Breviary) and the Fragments incerted, Pag.^. What time he dyed, is uncertaine, but after the yeare 1 5 77. 1 meete with nothing under his owns Hani, although feverall yeares before that, his Pen lay not ftill j for in divers fpare places of his Bootes he inferred fundry Notes, to the which moft com- monly he affixt a Ptftt j fome whereof I have published in this Tkatrum.
Pag.^or. ^loomcfteftrg^ioffomejsf.
THe Author himfelfe alfo calls this Wor^ethtCamp of Pbilofopby,md the VraHkk thereof he ftyles by the Name of his / was written by Wittim Bloomefielitfomt Copies have called him Sir WM&m Bloomefidd) a Baifaikr of Pbyfict^, admitted byH.8.
IhavefeeneafaireAftnw/frjpt of Norton's Ordinall, wherein (at thetoppe ofthe£.«/e,tfaac begins every Cfopttr and fome other Eminent places,) is a Scrowle, aMfn the firft fold thereof is written [Mjrte*] in the midle of it, the Number of the Chapter, and in the third ioU[BUomefieW] which Myles Bloom- field I take to be the Owner of theSto^e (and perhaps fome Brother or Osjnfmau to our William Bloomefield:) Never theiefle by at Note in that Boo\e (of an indifferent antient hand) I afterwards found this Myles Is called the An*
tborof
l&IoomcficltyS Woffcttteg.
I Cannot give my Kwier an Account of Sir Edward V&ky, but I muft alfo men ion that famous Anift, Do&or Jobn&ee-, (whofe laft Frill and Tefta- W€«* folioweth Sir .Edw. ladle's Worke) He being fometime his Intimate frund) and long Companion in Tbilofopbicall Studies, and Q)emicall Expert- mmtsx Till at length the worthy Veclor (leaving him in Germany) returned foj England, and fo by Providence, efcaped from being his further Companion ; in thziftiaiofr Confinement which Sir Erfw. Ifc//gp furfered, (by command of KuJui^b 1 he z, Emperowr of Gtrmany) at Pntgsc.
Touching
C4-7P)
Teaching Sir Edward K*Mty> he was bonk at Worcester, the Scheme of whofe Nativity (graved from the Origmll Calculation of Doctor Pre, and un- der his H**4) J here Exhibits
*
Ttdauardus Kmuls : ^oUMtltuao tjr:5Z: 10.
^:/
IP
9°
vVnich may be gratefull and acceptable unto fuch that can read the Lin* gtwge of the Heavens : Infomuch> that therein they mall finde out more con- cerning him, then Story has left us. F or, whereas he by fome is called Ubi- lofcpbttiJ)ubitut(omtYih2Lt a better 0p/««« might be hence CoUeSfed, and that from the lJofition of Mercury Lord of the N#»fr3 fthe Hck/£ o$J$noi»Udge, Wif- domeznd Science;) and who is placed upon the Cu[pe thereof in Virgoy where he is exceeding Strong, and Fortunate^in Dignities $ Ejjtnfiall and AccidertaU, [viz. inliis owne H««/e,and Exaltation, Vireft, and Jwi/t of Courfe, free from Combufl ion ,and in the Te pay tile Scxtik."] Venus al fo is %AnguU»5 and beholding the C ufpe o( the Ninth Houfc,by a Sextilt} All which (with Confideration that the Degree A fcevdingis in the Tearmes of Mercury,) doe truly render him a iSWtfw of cleere Underftan- dingy qnkk Apprebeiifion, an excellent Wjf, and of great propensity to JPJbi- lofopbicall Studies. And indeede, by all Reports hs was very Ingenious, and a continuall Searcher, in the abftrufe and difficult $rcmx of Vbilofophy and C&c-
Yet for all this, he could not efcape the hard Cenfures and Scandalls of" thofe that uaderftood not what he did} which tteDragm Tayk'mxhe^fccndm,
was

was at all times ready to further 'and promete , and from vtho&Ptfitknthe Nature oithofc abufive AiJerfio?is may be (Generally ) gathered : and partly from z Story which Weverin his Fmerall Monuments inferts, where, rhongh he make him an After in. the worft part. of Conjuration, * and backs his Reluion with fome Hotmail Circumstances i Yet that nothing was done in the Nature he Relates s good and found Reafons (too tedious to be touched here) induce me to believe.
As touching Voftor Dee, he chiefly bent his Studies to the &latbematk\s * in all parts of which he .was an a&foluce and perfect Mafter. WitnefTe his MatbematicaU Preface to Euclids Elements, wherein are enumerated many Arts of him wholly invented (by Name, Definition, Propriety, andJ^e) more then either the grccian or Romane Matbematitians have left to our knowledge : with divers and many Annotations, and Inventions , MatbematicaU , added in fun- dry places of the faid Boo^e : Together with feverall Pieces of Navi- gation, Vcrfpcftive > and other rare Mathematically works of his in UAam- fc-ipt. -. -'- ;-■■ '-.•.■=* •
His Epiftle prefixed to Ubn Field* s Epbemeridcs 1 5 tf.Ve ufu Cflobi C&lcflts to Ed.6. Vc Nubium (olis lm& ac reliquorum Tlanttamm^&c, Viflantiis, &c. to Ed.6. zAfirononticallandLogifiicall Cdstsks to.Cactitafe-$ie Epbemerides byi 2>e ftella admiraada in C'afiiope* Afterifmo\ An Advil! and Difcourfe about the Reformation of the Vulgar Teare, fpeake him ilearhed Aftropomer.
And laftly, that he was a good Aftrolcgiah, and a Itudious Vbilofopber, his goo. lAftnlogicall Apborijmes , His no. Apbori fines Z)f fraftmftribm qui- bufdtm Mturavimtibua.pftonMHieroglipbic*. Speculum unimji, (being axiApv- logie for our famous Frier %tcon):B.is Cabala Hebrakacompendiefa Tabula, with many others, afford no (mall Evidence to the World, ..,.""
All which and many mors (in feverall other kinds of learning) as Hiftoiy,
Heraldry, &c. written by him before the year 1 58}. Some time He beftowed in
/>) 2 8.' Dec. w^gir Cbcmiftry&nd was thcmtiMafter of divers Stett,amongft others he (p)
*579* revealed to one Roger Cocfothe Great Secret ofohe Elixir(as he called it)of the
$alt o£Mctalls, the Projection whereof was One upon a Hundred.
His great Ability in lAftrologie, and the more fecret parts of Learning fee*
which he had a ftrong propenfity and unwearyed Fancy,) drew from the E»w-
om andVulgar, many rtf#, lewd, and lying Scandalls, upon his mofkJtoneft and
juftificablePbilofopbicall Studies} and many times forced him out of the toer-
neffe of his 5owte (which was even Crucified with the malice of Impudent
Tongues) mod feiioufly and fervently to Apologise. Nor coyald he enjoy
Tranquility in his Studies, but was oftentimes difquieted and vexed with the
) A 8 fower dtfpofitions of fuch as moft Injurioufly Scandalised both him and fte,
^/ An. f58J«infom.uch that the (
wherein was 4-00. Booty, and 7ocof them Manufcripts (aCaveat for all Inge:
mom and eminent Pbilofopbcrs to be more wife then to keep any dear or Excellent
Books in their own Houfes.) And tis moft probable that at this time his before
mentioned Spcculu witatis, might fall into thok bands, that would never fince
fufFer ir to fee the Light, which might occafion the Learned Sslden to lay, this
r) Seld.Pref.to (r)Apologie was long h~ncz promifed by himjbat intimating it was never Writ.
Hopt. Concor . *An. 1591. (s)Mafter Sec m
sj Nov. 9. his then dwelling houfe at Mortilack by vertue of a Commifion3 tounderftand
the
C+80
the Hattet 2Ltid€dnfcs for which his Studies were1 'Scandalised. And Foe fome
other thing in the like Nature, was he neceflitated to fend his (s) Apohgeticall s) Tan.^ x tg f,
letter to the Arcbbijbop of Qam bury \ '* y
Thefekind otPcrfceutions were ftil Multipiyed upon him,and hefometimes Perfonally agreeved by them: for about the yeare 1594* he was under a kinde of Reftraint, which occafioned him to (t) write to the Lady Scydmore to t\ to q « move the ^ueene that either he might declare his Cafe to the Body of the Com- i^al ctU, or elfe under the Broade-feale have liberty to goe freely where he pleafed. And thus mach concerning thefe two famous men in feverall j now ' mall I give the Reader an Account of their jeynt Actions abroad, as alfo what relates to Vector Dee after his returns into England ; which I mall doe from an unqueftionable Authority, even Doctor Dee's Diary, all written with his owne handj where I mall take thalarger Field to walke in, becaufe I move upon fo certaine ground: fome of which paflages may pleafe (if not concerne) the Reader. Eot I think it not fit to fuffer fuch Eminent lights longer to lie in Obfcurity, without bringing them forth to the view of the World.
'Tis generally reported that Doctor T)ee, and Sir Edward l^elly were fo ftangely fortunate, as to finde a very large quantity of the Elixir in fome part of the Knines of Glaftcnbury- Abbey ,which was fo incredibly Rich in vcrtuc(bc~ ing one upon 27x350.) that they loft much in making Projection^ way of Triati} before they found out the true height of the Medicine,
And no fooner were they Mafters of this Treasure, then the y refol ved to Tr& - veil into F err tigne Parts, where falling into acquaintance with^one Albertus laskty a Holonian prince (which came into England the beginning of &/lay, An. 1 $ 83.) on the 21. of Sep*, following, They, their Wives, Children, and Families, went beyond Sea with the faid Urincc.
And whether they found it at Glaftenbwy (as is aforefaid) or faowfoever elfe they came by it, 'tis certain they had it: for at Trebona in Botawfwhither they were come to'(«) dwell) Sir Edward Valley made (w) Projection with one tfjSept.4.i?86 fmall Cjraine thereof (in proportion no bigger then the IeaftgraineofSand) wjDcc9*!?&$ upon one Ounce and a Quarter of Common Mercury, and it produced almoft an Ounce of moft pure GoW. This was done to gtatifie Mafter Edward Garland and his Brother Francis 3 and in their prefence; which Edward Was lately come to Trebona, being fent thither to Doctor 7)ce, ftotn the Empmur of Mufcovia, according to fome Articles before brought^ by one Thomas $ym\infw* I alfo finde this Note ol Doctor Dec's, J *n,$.i$% 6. Donum Dei 2.ounces.E« }{ More- over, for neerer and later Teftimony,! have received it from a credible Tcrfon, that oncBroomfield and Alexander Roberts ,to\d him they had often feen S/r Erf: "Kelly make Projection , and in particular upon a piece of Metall cut out of a Warming pan, and without S/r Edwards touching or handling it, or melting the Metall (onely warming it in the Fire) the Elixir being put thereon^ic Vi&sTraufnmtcd into pure S/7wr:The Warming-pin and this piece of it,was fent to J^uein Eliytbcibby her Embajjador who then lay at Prdgttcyhat byfitcif g the P/ece into the place whence it was cut out, ie might exa&ly appeare to be once part of that VV 'arming- pan, .The aforefaid Verfon hath likewife feen in the hands - of one Matter Frye and Scroope, Rings of Sir Edward KjUycs Gold, the fafhion of which was onely C70W vryre, twilled thrice about the Finger: and of thefe f afhioned Rings> he gave away,to the value of 4000I. at the Marriage of one of