The life and times of Dr John Dee

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    Saturday, Septemb. 21. 1583. Die Sancti Matthæi. We departed from Mortlack , about three of the Clock after noon : The Lord Albert Laſky , (Vaywode of Siradiæ, in Polonia) meeting me on the water , as we had appointed: And ſo brought night to London ; and in the dead of the night, by Wherries, we went to Greenwich to my friend Goodman Fern the Pot- ter his houſe : Where we refreſhed our ſelves, and thither came a great Tylt- boat from Graves end to take us in, (by appointment of me and Mr. Stanley) to go to our ſhips , which we had cauſed to ly ſeven , or eight mile beyond Graves end.

    Dee, John. 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.. London, D. Maxwell, 1659, page 33.
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    • JD Jane Dee
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    We went from Mortlake, and so the Lord Albert Lasky, I, Mr. E. Kelly, our wives, my children and familie, we went toward our two ships attending for us, seven or eight myle below Gravessende.

    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 21.

Places

  • Gravesend, England
  • Greenwich, England
  • London, England
  • Mortlake, England
  • Rzeczpospolita Polska

Tags

  • Dee's journey to Krakow
  • sailing
  • travel

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