[790]<Arthur Dee> 'has often told Mr. Whitefoot, of Norwich, who buried him, that he had more than once seen the philosopher's stone, and he thinks that he has written some peice on that subject. He was a man of a very pleasant conversation and had good practice in Norwich: a great acquaintance of Dr. <Thomas> Browne's.'
John Dee (1527-1608).
[791]John Dee:—Mr. Ashmole hath his nativitie. Resp.—'tis in his Theatrum Chemicum. Hee had a very faire cleare rosie complexion: so had the earl of Rochester, exceeding.
[792]'Johannes Dee, natus Londini, 1527, Julii 13, 4h 2´ P.M.'—this nativity[DO] I copied out of the learned John Dee's papers in the hands of Elias Ashmole, esq.
[793]From Elias Ashmole—the father of this John Dee was a vintner in ... London.
[794]John Dee—from Meredith Lloyd:—Talbot, marying an inheritresse of the prince of South Wales (who was descended from Howel Da, i.e. Howelus bonus: the same family from whom John Dee was descended).—Dr. Troutbec hath Raymund Lully's ... (a chymical tract) with John Dee's marginall notes.
[795]I left about 1674, with Mr. Elias Ashmole, 3 pages in folio concerning him[DP].
Memorandum:—Mr. Meredith Lloyd tells me that his father was Roland Dee[DQ], a Radnorshire gentleman[LVII.], and that he hath his pedegree, which he hath promised to lend to me. He was descended from Rees, prince of South Wales.
[LVII.] J. Dee's father was a vintner in London at the signe of ... in ...: from Elias Ashmole, esqre, who had it from his grandsonne (sonne of Arthur).