The life and times of Dr John Dee

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• scrying (121 entries)
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• Adrian Gilbert (39 appearances)
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• Edmond Cooper (2 appearances)
• Edmond Hilton (17 appearances)
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• Edward Kelley (221 appearances)
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• Emperor Rudolf ⅠⅠ (21 appearances)
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• Isabel Lister (2 appearances)
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• Jacob Kurz (10 appearances)
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• Jane Dee (144 appearances)
• Jane Kelley (14 appearances)
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• John Dee (680 appearances)
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• Jordan Cole (0 appearances)
• Katherine Dee (78 appearances)
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• Peregrine Bertie Baron Willoughby de Eresby (2 appearances)
• Permis (1 appearance)
• Pope Gregory ⅩⅠⅠⅠ (1 appearance)
• Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ (26 appearances)
• Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester (4 appearances)
• Robert Garland (1 appearance)
• Robert Lemon (0 appearances)
• Sarah Williams (0 appearances)
• Sidney Lee (0 appearances)
• Tabius (1 appearance)
• Tadeáš Hájek (2 appearances)
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• Thomas Hankinson (1 appearance)
• Thomas Kelley (21 appearances)
• Thomas Radclyffe 3rd Earl of Sussex (1 appearance)
• Thomas Short (0 appearances)
• Thomas Sinkinson (3 appearances)
• William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley (17 appearances)
• William Langley (1 appearance)
• Šimon Hájek (1 appearance)
• Šimon Hájek (2 appearances)
• Царь Фёдор Ⅰ (3 appearances)
• אַשְמְדּאָי‎ (1 appearance)
• אוּרִיאֵל (5 appearances)
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• מִיכָאֵל (3 appearances)
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• Amsterdam, Nederland (2 appearances)
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• Mortlake, England (8 appearances)
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• Oatlands Palace, England (1 appearance)
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• Rzeczpospolita Polska (1 appearance)
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• Praha, Česká republika (28 appearances)
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• Richmond Palace, England (10 appearances)
• Roma, Status Ecclesiasticus (1 appearance)
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• Shinfield, England (1 appearance)
• Bazylika św. Michała Archanioła i św. Stanisława Biskupa i Męczennika (1 appearance)
• Skirbeck, England (1 appearance)
• Sneyd Green, England (2 appearances)
• Sain Silian, Cymru (1 appearance)
• St Mary’s Church, Wimbledon, England (1 appearance)
• Stargard, Polska (1 appearance)
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• Stony Stratford, England (1 appearance)
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• Szadek, Polska (1 appearance)
• Szczecin, Polska (8 appearances)
• Tendring, England (1 appearance)
• Thaxted, England (1 appearance)
• The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford, England (1 appearance)
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• A blazyng Starre or burnyng Beacon, ſeene the 10. of October laſte (and yet continew⹀ yng) ſet on fire by Gods prouidence, to call all ſinners to earneſt & ſpeedie repentance
• A General Chronological History of the Air, Weather, Seasons, Meteors, &c. in Sundry Places and different Times ; more particularly for the Space of 250 Years. Together with ſome of their moſt Remarkable Effects on Animal (eſpecially Human) Bodies, and Vegetables
• A True & Faithful Relation of What paſſed for many Yeeres Between Dr. John Dee (A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reignes) and Some Spirits : Tending (had it Succeeded) To a General Alteration of moſt STATES and KINGDOMES in the World.
• Assorted works of John Dee, not otherwise collected
• Autobiographical Tracts of Dr. John Dee, Warden of the College of Manchester
• Cotton MS Vitellius C ⅤⅠⅠ
• De Gestis Britonum
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900
• Harley MS 6986
• General and rare memorials pertayning to the Perfect Arte of navigation: Annexed to the Paradoxal Cumpas, in Playne : now firſt publiſhed : 24. yeres, after the firſt Inuention thereof.
• Imperium Brytanicum
• John Dee (1527–1608)
• Letters written by John Chamberlain during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
• Local Gleanings: an Archælogical & Historical Magazine, Chiefly Relating to Lancashire & Cheshire
• Philobiblon Society. Bibliographical and Historical Miscellanies
• Monas Hiero- glyphica Ioannis Dee, Londinensis, ad Maximilianvm, Dei gratia Romanorvm, Bo- hemiæ et Hvngariæ re- gem sapientissimvm.
• New Observations, Natural, Moral, Civil, Political and Medical, on City, Town, and Country Bills of Mortality. To which are added, Large and Clear Abstracts of The beſt Authors who have wrote on that Subject. With an Appendix on the Weather and Meteors
• Olbracht Łaski Wojewoda sieradzki. Wizerunek historyzny na tle dziejów Polski ⅩⅤⅠ wieku
• Dr. John Dee’s conference with angels from Dec. 22. 1581. to May 30. 1583. being what preceeds yͤ other conferences printed by Dr. Meric Casaubon Lond. 1659. in folio. With a preface by Elias Ashmole. An: 1672
• Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, preserved by Her Majesty’s Public Record Office
• The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalog of His Manuscripts, from the original manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge