[510:A] Worthies of England, Part II. p. 116.
[511:A] Dibdin's Bibliomania, pp. 313-346. Mr. Dibdin has given us the following account of Dee's Library, "as drawn up by our philosopher himself."
"400 Volumes—printed and unprinted—bound and unbound—valued at 2000 lib.
"1 Greek, 2 French, and 1 High Dutch, volumes of MSS., alone worth 533 lib. 40 years in getting these books together.
"Appertaining thereto.
"Sundry rare and exquisitely made Mathematical Instruments.
"A radius Astronomicus, ten feet long.
"A magnet stone, or Load stone: of great virtue—which was sold out of the library but for v shill. and for it afterwards (yea piece-meal divided) was more than xx lib. given in money and value.
"A great case or frame of boxes, wherein some hundreds of very rare evidences of divers Irelandish territories, provinces, and lands, were laid up. Which territories, provinces, and lands, were therein notified to have been in the hands of some of the ancient Irish princes. Then, their submissions and tributes agreed upon, with seals appendant to the little writings thereof in parchment: and after by some of those evidences did it appear, how some of those lands came to the Lascies, the Mortuomars, the Burghs, the Clares, &c.
"A Box of Evidences antient of some Welch princes and noblemen—the like of Norman donation—their peculiar titles noted on the forepart with chalk only, which on the poor boxes remaineth. This box, with another containing similar deedes, were embezzled.