The Arch Conjuror of England (58 page)

40.
Collinson,
Elizabethan Puritan Movement
, pp. 428–31.

41.
Parsons,
Apologie
, sig. F3r–v.

42.
CR, pp. 507, 519.

43.
Ibid., p. 520.

44.
Ibid., p. 521.

45.
See above, p. 151.

46.
BL MS Lansdowne 36, fo. 66r; HMC,
Salisbury
, xiv, pp. 87–8;
CPR Elizabeth 1580–2
, p. 170.

47.
BL MS Lansdowne 39, fo. 183r–v; Lansdowne 40, fo. 53r–v; Lansdowne 54, fo. 72r.

48.
CR, p. 516; HMC,
Salisbury
, iv, p. 529.

49.
BL MS Lansdowne 77, fo. 138r.

50.
TNA SP 12/248/fo. 256r–257r.

51.
TNA SP 12/256/109.

52.
See, for example, TNA SP 12/241/78.

53.
Vestry Minute Books of the Parish of St Bartholomew Exchange
, ed. Freshfield, pp. 25, 29.

54.
R.B. Wernham,
List and Analysis of State Papers: Foreign Series Elizabeth I
, 7 vols (London, 1964–2004), iii, p. 407, no. 723 (SP 84/44/fo. 128); TNA SP 12/241/100, 15 March 1592.

55.
Lambeth Churchwardens’ Accounts
, ed. Charles Drew, 2 vols. (London, 1940–1) i, p. 182.

56.
Exemplar litterarum missarum e Germania ad D. Gulielmum Cicilium consiliarum regum
(1592); Richard Rowlands alias Verstegan,
Advertisement
(1592).

57.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 6, 9, 10, 16 March 1592; CR, pp. 513–14; W. Gwyn Thomas, ‘An Episode in the Later Life of John Dee’,
Welsh Historical Review
, 5 (1971), pp. 250–6.

58.
BL MS Cotton Cleopatra B. II, fo. 216v.

59.
Ibid., pp. 252–4; BLO MS Ashmole 487, 31 December 1592, 22 February 1593; Helen Coburn Walshe, ‘Meredith, Richard (d. 1597)’,
ODNB
, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2008 [
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18578
].

60.
Thomas, ‘The Later Life of John Dee’, pp. 255–6; TNA E 331/St Davids/8.

61.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 5 April 1592; 14 April, 16 April, 15 May.

62.
CR, p. 515.

63.
TNA SP 12/242/25, Robert Cecil to Heneage, 25 May 1592; see TNA SP 12/247/78, 79, 91.

64.
TNA HCA 13/30, 10 June 1592; SP 12/243/24, 30 September 1592.
APC
, xxii, pp. 543–4; TNA SP 12/240/97, SP 12/242/26.

65.
Anthony G. Petti,
Roman Catholicism in Elizabethan and Jacobean Staffordshire
(Staffordshire Record Society, 1979), pp. 54–5.

66.
APC
, xxiii, pp. 40–2, 21 July 1592, and cf. BL MS Harley 703, fo. 67v.

67.
BL MS Royal 18.D.III, fos. 82v–83r; TNA SP 12/242/116, 121, and
APC
, xxiii, pp. 163–4.

68.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 6, 9, 10, 22 August; CR, p. 515.

69.
Wernham,
List and Analysis
, III, pp. 400–1; Birch,
Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth
, i, pp. 66, 76, 69–70, 80.

70.
APC
, xxiii, pp. 106–8, 110–13.

71.
BL MS Harley 703, fo. 68r, Council to Sussex, and TNA SP 12/242/105, to Lord President of North, SP 12/243/76, Warwickshire response in
Minutes and Accounts of the Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon
, ed. Edgar Fripp (Dugdale Society, 10, 1990), pp. 159–62; TNA SP 12/242/112.

72.
Birch,
Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth
, i, p. 79.

73.
BL MS Harley 703, fo. 68v.

74.
APC
, xxiii, pp. 163–4, 188–9, 192–3, 202–3, 227; Birch,
Memoirs
, i, p. 87; TNA SP 12/243/51.

75.
TNA SP 12/243/37, dated 14 October 1592, and
APC
, xxiii, pp. 253–8, 20 October 1592; BL MS Harley 703, fo. 69r–v.

76.
CR, pp. 538–41.

77.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 18 April 1583, scrying 4, 31 July 1583, 31 July, 9 October 1595.

78.
Verstegan,
Advertisement
, sig. B1v.

79.
M.C. Bradbrook,
The School of Night: A Study in the Literary Relationships of Sir Walter Raleigh
(Cambridge, 1936).

80.
Verstegan to Parsons, Antwerp, 5 March 1592, in Petti, ed.,
The Letters and Despatches of Richard Verstegan
, p. 40.

81.
Ernest A. Strathmann, ‘John Dee as Ralegh's “Conjuror”’,
The Huntington Library Quarterly
, 10, no. 4 (1947), pp. 365–72, could not prove the connection.

82.
BL MS Harley 703, fo. 69v, Council to the Lords Lieutenant of Sussex, and cf. fos. 62r, 63r for the earlier 1591 dismissal.

83.
Birch,
Memoirs
, i, p. 92, Nicholas Faunt to Anthony Bacon, London, 22 November 1592.

84.
APC
, xxiii, p. 289.

85.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 13 October 1592, meaning Christian Francken,
Praecipuarum enumeratior causarum, cur Christiani cum in multis doctrinis mobiles sint et varii, in Trinitatis tamen retinuendo dogmate sint constantissimi
[Cracow, Aleksy Rodecki, 1584], R&W, D9, and Joannes Sommerus,
Refutatio scripti Petri Carolii editi Wittebergae
(Aleksy Rodecki, Cracow, 1582), R&W, D20, now in Lambeth Palace Library, shelf mark F110.

86.
BLO MS Ashmole 488, 9 July 1587.

87.
Parsons,
Responsio
, p. 36, sect. 43.

88.
TNA SP 12/238/163. Strathmann, ‘John Dee as Ralegh's “Conjuror”’, pp. 356–8. Victor Houliston, ‘The Lord Treasurer and the Jesuit: Robert Persons's Satirical
Responsio
to the 1591 Proclamation’,
Sixteenth-Century Journal
, xxxii, 2 (2001), pp. 383–401.

89.
CR, pp. 525–6.

90.
CR, pp. 498–9; HMC,
Salisbury
, xiii, p. 467, no. 1250.

91.
CR, p. 499.

92.
HMC,
Salisbury
, iv, pp. 239, 324, 583–4; ibid., v, pp. 339, 369.

93.
BL MS Lansdowne 72, fo. 197r–198v.

94.
R.E. Ham, ‘The Autobiography of Sir James Croft’,
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
, 50 (1977), pp. 48–57.

95.
BL MS Lansdowne 46, fos. 69r–71v.

96.
BL MS Lansdowne 106, fo. 132r–v; L. Howard,
A collection of Letters
(London, 1753), pp. 184–8.

97.
CR, pp. 500–6, 519–20.

98.
Ibid., pp. 505, 521–2, 509–19, 548.

99.
Ibid., pp. 524–41.

100.
Ibid., pp. 514–15.

101.
See
http://www.stcrosshospital.co.uk/

102.
CR, pp. 544–9.

103.
Ibid., p. 550; BLO MS Ashmole 487, 1 December 1592.

104.
CR, p. 551; J. Atherton,
Ambition and Failure in Stuart England: The career of John, First Viscount Scudamore
(Manchester, 1999), p. 28.

Chapter 20: Checkmate: Exiling the Conjuror to Manchester

1.
Murdin,
Collection of
state papers
, ii, p. 659, Earl of Pembroke to Elizabeth, 11 February 1593; Hartley,
Proceedings
, iii, pp. 11–13, 15–19, esp. pp. 26–7, 62–3; TNA SP 12/244/91; 35 Eliz., c. 2, ‘An Act against Popish Recusants'; William R. Trimble,
The Catholic Laity in Elizabethan England 1558–1603
(Cambridge, MA, 1964).

2.
R. Bancroft,
A Survey of the Pretended Holy Discipline
(London, 1593), sigs. A2r, B1r.

3.
R. Bancroft,
Daungerous positions and proceedings
(London, 1593), sigs. V1r–V3r.

4.
Ibid., sigs. V3v–V4r.

5.
Ibid., sigs. Y4v–Aa2r, Aa4v–Bb2r.

6.
35 Eliz., c. 1; HEHL, MSS EL 2101–18, 2121–3.

7.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, January–March 1593, September 1600.

8.
Ibid., 17 March 1593, 23 March 1594.

9.
Ibid.,
idem
and 20 March 1594; Beyer, ‘Lady Margaret Clifford's Alchemical Receipt Book’, pp. 276–7.

10.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 25 October 1593, 3 and 4 December 1593; Beyer, ‘Lady Margaret Clifford's Alchemical Receipt Book’, pp. 277, 283–4.

11.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 10, 11 April 1592; ibid., 12 May 1592.

12.
TNA E 178/2939.

13.
TNA SP 78/32, fo. 380, Sir Robert Sidney to Burghley from Dover, 23 December 1593, in R.B. Wernham,
List and Analysis, vol. V, July 1593–December 1594
(London, 1989), pp. 377–8.

14.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 24, 25, 26 December 1593.

15.
Isaac H. Jeayes,
Letters of Philip Gawdy
(London, 1906), pp. 83–4;
APC
, x, p. 209.

16.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 9, 26 January 1594.

17.
Ibid., 10 March 1594.

18.
Hatfield House MSS CP 22/74, 26/96, 22/75.

19.
HMC,
Salisbury
, v, p. 79.

20.
BL MS Lansdowne 76, fo. 162r, Edward Delve to Burghley, 28 May 1594; R&W, DM 97, BLO MS Ashmole 204, part item 6, fo. 115r;
Calendar of State Papers Domestic, Elizabeth, 1591–4
, p. 524, 1 July 1594, p. 525, 4 July 1594, p. 537, 4 August 1594.

21.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, December 1593, January 1594, March 1594.

22.
Nashe,
Works
, ii, p. 172.

23.
CR, pp. 514, 541–2; BLO MS Ashmole 487, 22 June 1594.

24.
Ibid., 3 May 1594.

25.
BL MS Cotton Titus C. VII, fo. 57; Nichols,
Progresses of Elizabeth
(1821), iv (i), p. 34.

26.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 21, 25, 29 May, 3, 6 June 1594.

27.
Ibid., June–July 1595.

28.
Ibid., December 1595.

29.
HMC,
Salisbury
, v, pp. 7–8; Brett Usher, ‘Day, William (1529–1596)’,
ODNB
, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2008 [
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7373
].

30.
HMC,
Salisbury
, v, p. 84; Joyce M. Horn,
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857
(London, 1969), i, p. 1; Usher, ‘Day, William’,
ODNB
.

31.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 3 January 1595.

32.
A Letter … Apologetical
, sigs. A2r–B2v.

33.
Ibid., sigs. B3r–C2r.

34.
Manchester Cathedral Archives, Mancath/2/A3/1/1; TNA C66/1428/166; BLO MS Ashmole 487, 18 February, 27 May, 31 July 1595.

35.
T.S. Willan,
Elizabethan Manchester
(Chetham Society 3rd ser., 27, Manchester, 1980), p. 39; Willan, ‘The Trade Between England and Russia in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century’,
English Historical Review
, 63, no. 248 (July 1948), pp. 307–21, at p. 319;
The Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester
, ed. J.P. Earwaker, 12 vols. (Manchester, 1884–90), vols. i and ii;
Continuation of the Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester AD 1586–1602
, ed. J. Harland (Chetham Society, o.s., 65, Manchester, 1865).

36.
BLO MS Ashmole 1788, fo. 145v; Leslie W. Hepple, ‘John Dee, Harleian MS 473, and the Early Recording of Roman Inscriptions in Britain’,
Britannia
33 (2002), pp. 177–81.

37.
Surrey Record Office, Kingston MS 4/2; R&W, D7 (f).

38.
Manchester Cathedral Archives, MS Mancath/2/1/b.

39.
BL MS Harley 249, fos. 95r–105r.

40.
BL MS Lansdowne 23, fo. 106;
CPR Eliz. I, vii, 1575–8
, pp. 91–2; Manchester Cathedral Archives, Mancath/2/A/2/1/2; C. Haigh, ‘Puritan Evangelism in the Reign of Elizabeth I’,
The English Historical Review
, 92, no. 362 (January 1977), pp. 30–58 at pp. 41–2; TNA C54/1002.

41.
CPR Eliz. I, vii, 1575–8
, pp. 399–401; TNA C82/1580.

42.
TNA SP 12/143/32; Haigh, ‘Puritan Evangelism’, p. 43.

43.
TNA E 134/32Eliz/Trin4; TNA E 41/133; TNA E 133/6/904, 1590 Hugh Hurleston v. Thomas Goodyer.

44.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 12 July 1595; F.R. Raines,
The Fellows of the Collegiate Church of Manchester
(Chetham Society, n.s., 21, Manchester, 1891), p. 66.

45.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 11, 21 June 1595, 13, 22 September 1595, 14 November 1597.

46.
TNA C54/1544.

47.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, July–December 1596.

48.
Arthur Redford and Ina Stafford Russell,
The History of Local Government in Manchester
, 3 vols. (London, 1939–40), i, pp. 8–9 and frontispiece.

49.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 20 April, 18 June 1596; TNA DL 44/585; Manchester Cathedral Archives, Mancath/2/A1/10, printed in H.T. Crofton,
A History of Newton Chapelry in the Ancient Parish of Manchester, Volume II, part 1
(Chetham Society, n.s., 53, Manchester, 1904), pp. 60, 64, 68, 71–4.

50.
Heather Lawrence and Richard Hoyle, ‘New Maps and Surveys by Christopher Saxton’,
The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal
, 51 (1981), pp. 51–6.

51.
Dee, ‘Mathematical Praeface’, sig. a2v; Lawrence and Hoyle, ‘Surveys by Christopher Saxton’, pp. 51–6; Stephen Bowd, ‘John Dee and Christopher Saxton's Survey of Manchester (1596)’,
Northern History
, 62 (2005), pp. 275–92; BLO MS Ashmole 487, April, July, September 1597; Manchester Cathedral Archives, Mancath/2/A2/2; TNA DL 4/42/9; TNA DL 4/41/20; TNA DL 1/180/C12, C12a, C12b.

52.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, August 1597.

53.
Cheshire and Chester Archives, Consistory Cause Papers, EDC 5/1596, nos. 32 and 31, 35–9, 41–2; BLO MS Ashmole 487, 9 February 1598; Stephen Bowd, ‘In the Labyrinth: John Dee and Reformation Manchester’,
Manchester Region History Review
, 19 (2008), pp. 17–43.

54.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 5 September 1596, June–July 1597.

55.
BLO MS Ashmole 487, 3 July 1600; Manchester Cathedral Archives MS Mancath/2/1/d/2.

56.
BL MS Lansdowne 158, fo. 16r.