Dr. Dee. From the Ashmolean portrait as engraved by Schencker.
Dee wrote a large number of works, but comparatively few of them have been printed. No fewer than seventy-nine are enumerated in Coopers' Athenæ Cantabrigienses. A catalogue of his writings, printed and unprinted, is given in his Compendious Rehearsal. Many of his manuscripts came into the possession of Elias Ashmole, the eminent antiquary.
Aubrey says of Dee that 'he was a great peace-maker; if any of the neighbours fell out, he would never let them alone till he had made them friends. He was tall and slender. He wore a gown like an artist's gown, with hanging sleeves, and a slit. He had a very fair, clear, sanguine complexion, a long beard as white as milk. A very handsome man.'
He died in December 1608, and was buried in the chancel of Mortlake Church.
FOOTNOTES:
[17] Harl. MSS. 1879.
ROBERT DUDLEY, EARL OF LEICESTER, 1532?-1588
Book-Stamp of Lord Leicester.