1578-06-30 - The life and times of Dr John Dee

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I told Mr. Daniel Rogers†, Mr. Hackluyt of the Middle Temple being by, that Kyng Arthur and King Maty, both of them, did conquier Gelindia, lately called Friseland, which he so noted presently in his written copy of Monumethensis‡, for he had no printed boke therof.

Dee, John. 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. Edited by James Halliwell-Phillipps. London, The Camden Society, 1842, page 4.

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†

Rogers was a member of the University of Oxford, and a large commonplace-book in his handwriting is in Archbishop Tenison’s library in St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields.

Dee, John. 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. Edited by James Halliwell-Phillipps. Page 4.
Written by James Halliwell-Phillipps
‡

That is, Galfridus Monumetensis de gestis regum Britanniæ. Hackluyt mentions this fact in his collection of voyages.

Ibid., page 4
Written by James Halliwell-Phillipps