The life and times of Dr John Dee

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    I dyned with Syr Walter Rawlegh at Durham House.

    Dee, John. Local Gleanings: an Archælogical & Historical Magazine, Chiefly Relating to Lancashire & Cheshire. Edited by J. P. Earwaker. Manchester, page 53.

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    I dyned with Syr Walter Rawlegh at Durham Howse.

    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 54.

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  • Durham House, a stately Hall in the Strand, was during the reign of Edward the residence of the Princess Elizabeth, who, c. 1583, gave it to Sir Walter Rawlegh. Sir Walter is once or twice named by Dee. On 18 Apl 1583 the Queen, going from Richmond to Greenwich on horseback, called for Dee ” by Mr. Rawly his putting her in mynde,” and said to him Quod defertur non aufertur, and gave her right hand for Dee to kiss. On 31 July of the same year Mr. Rawlegh wrote Dee a letter acquainting him of the Queen’s good disposition unto him (Dee). Ralegh was then in the sunshine of Court favour. In Feb. 1594-5 Rawlegh had returned from his voyage to Guinea, and was projecting the expedition against the coast of Spain.

    Various authors. Local Gleanings: an Archælogical & Historical Magazine, Chiefly Relating to Lancashire & Cheshire. Edited by J. P. Earwaker. Page 53.
    Written by John Eglington Bailey

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