The life and times of Dr John Dee

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    The Lord Clinton cam to me and offred Skirbeck by Boston for Long Lednam.

    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 7.

Commentary

  • John Dee held the living (rectorship) of Long Leadenham from 1553 until 1583 when it was forfeited due to his not attending to legalities on his departure from England for six years. It’s not clear if he ever visited.

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  • John Dee’s house in Mortlake, England
  • Leadenham, England
  • Skirbeck, England

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Footnotes

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