"In 1595 the queen appointed Dee warden of Manchester College, he being then sixty-eight years of age. He resided there nine years; but from some cause not exactly known, he left it in 1604, and returned to his house at Mortlake, where he spent the remainder of his days."
Can any of your correspondents assign the probable causes which led to Dr. Dee's resignation?
T.T.W.
Burnley, Lancashire, Jan. 21. 1850.
Meaning of "Emerod," "Caredon."—In the Lansd. MS., British Museum, No. 70., there is a letter from Mr. Richard Champernowne to Sir Robert Cecil, dated in 1592, referring to the discovery of some articles pillaged from the Spanish carrack, which had then recently been captured and taken into Dartmouth harbour. Amongst these articles is one thus described:—"An Emerod, made in the form of a cross, three inches in length at the least, and of great breadth."
In the same volume of MSS. (art. 61.) there is the description of a dagger "with a hefte of white Caredon."
From the size of the cross described, "Emerod" can scarcely be read "Emerald," as applied by us to one of the precious stones.
Is "white Caredon" white cornelian?
Can any of your numerous correspondents give me a note in answer to the above queries?