1596-06-14

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- John Dee
Antony Cowley went for[th?] early [?] from my howse, I know not whither.

Dee, John. Local Gleanings: an Archælogical & Historical Magazine, Chiefly Relating to Lancashire & Cheshire. Edited by J. P. Earwaker. Manchester, page 88.
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- John Dee
Antony Cowley went yerely from my howse, I know not whither.

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 55.

Commentary

Dee’s friends the Saviles, introduced into the Diary, may be identified with a little care. On 3rd February, 1583, “Mr. Savile, Mr. Powil the younger, travaylors, … cam [to Mortlake] to be acquaynted with me” (p. 18). Next occurs this present reference, in 1596, to Mr. Harry Savile, the antiquary, who again came to Dee on 5 July following. The only other mention of him is a note 28 January, 1598, omitted by the Camden Society, when Mr. Harry Savile sent to Dee a present of fish from Lichfield. In the above note identification is made perplexing through bonk having been printed book, and Dunningley Denningley. Bank, or the Bank, the home of a branch of the Saviles, was situated on the Beacon Hill, overlooking Halifax. Both descriptions of the place occur in Watson’s Hist. and Antiq. of Halifax, pp. 303, 512 ; and it is called “ Banke” by Ant. à Wood in his notice of “ Long Harry Savile ” of that place, who entered as a student in Merton College, Oxford, in 1587, at which time his kinsman, the more celebrated Henry, was Warden (Athen. Oxon., ii. 201). The latter was the “ traveller ” who called upon Dee in 1583 ; for it is said that soon after Savile had been Proctor to the University he travelled (viz., in 1578), into France and other countries ; “ and thereupon improving himself in learning, languages, and the knowledge of the world and men, he became a most accomplished person at his return.” After this followed his introduction to the Queen and his appointment to the Wardenship of Merton (1585), when he was something more than a traveller. “ The antiquary ” of 1596 would perhaps be “ Long Harry Savile,” who was M.A. in 1595, and whom Wood calls “ an eminent scholar, especially in the mathematics, physic (in which faculty he was admitted to practise in the University), chymistry, painting, heraldry, and antiquities ” (Athen. Oxon., ii. 201). He was a friend of Camden’s, to whom he described some antiquities near Ottley, Yorkshire. Hence his intimacy with his neighbour Saxton. He died in 1617. Sir Robert Cecil was the son of Lord Burghley by Mildred, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke. Cecil had acted as secretary to Lord Derby, ambassador in France, and was in 1596 under-secretary to Sir Francis Walsingham. On the death of the latter he became Secretary of State and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. His house was in the Strand, next door to the Lord Treasurer’s. He was subsequently created Earl of Salisbury by James I., who called him “ my littill beagle.”

Various authors. Local Gleanings: an Archælogical & Historical Magazine, Chiefly Relating to Lancashire & Cheshire. Edited by J. P. Earwaker. Page 89–90.
Written by John Eglington Bailey

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