[ee.] Where, according to Aubrey, who received his information from Lilly, he was very favourably received by her Majesty.
[ff.] There are a great many brief notices in this diary relative to Jane Dee, most of which are expressed in astrological symbols; and as they are exceedingly difficult to decipher satisfactorily, and are certainly of very little, if any importance, I have thought it expedient to omit them. The entry of “Ιανε ἁδ θεμ” is also of frequent occurrence, though what “θεμ” can refer to I have not been able to discover.
Transcriber’s Note:
See diary entries for June 17, 1587, and February 28, 1588.
[gg.] Dee has preserved several interesting notices of his intimacies with the principal navigators of his time. A general reference to Hackluyt will be sufficient.
[hh.] See the “Compendious Rehearsall,” published by Hearne from a Manuscript in the Cottonian collection, now partially destroyed by fire, for a more extended account of this.
[ii.] Now in the Cottonian collection. Ashmole has preserved a copy of it in MS. Ashm. 1790.
[kk.] This entry is not very clear. It either refers perhaps to Harriot, the celebrated mathematician, or to the London goldsmith whom the Abbotsford novelist has immortalized.
[ll.] This notice is particularly interesting, showing the intimate connexion which existed between the first English mathematician of the day and the philosopher of Mortlake.
[mm.] In a note by Dee in MS. Ashm. 488, he says, “All Barthilmew’s reports of sight and hering spirituall wer burnt; a copy of the first part, which was afterward fownd, was burnt before me and my wife.”