The life and times of Dr John Dee

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    I gave Mr. Richard Candish the copy of Paracelsus twelve lettres, written in French with my own hand ; and he promised me, before my wife, never to disclose to any that he hath it ; and that yf he dye before me he will restore it agayn to me ; but if I dy befor him, that he shall deliver it to one of my sonnes, most fit among them to have it. Theoddor had a sore fall on his mowth at mid-day.

    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 35.

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