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A75719	Theatrum chemicum Britannicum· Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. / Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, Esq. Qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus. The first part.	Vaughan, Robert, engraver.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682.; Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692.	1652 (1652)	Wing A3987; Thomason E653_1; ESTC R205904	256,178	516

by Grace from Heaven I give you the same here in Chapters seaven As largely as by my fealty I may By licence of the dreadfull Judge at domes daye The first Chapter shall all Men teache What manner People may this Science reache And whie the trew Science of Alkimy Is of old Fathers called Blessed and Holy In the second Chapter maie be sayne The nice Joyes thereof with the greate paine The third Chapter for the love of One Shall trewly disclose the Matters of our Stone Which the Arabies doon Elixir call Whereof it is there understonde you shall The fowerth Chapter teacheth the grosse Werke A foule laboure not kindly for a Clerke In which is found full greate travaile With many perills and many a faile The fift Chapter is of the subtill Werk Which God ordeyned only for a Clerke Full few Clerks can it comprehend Therefore to few Men is the Science send The sixt Chapter is of Concord and love Between low natures and heavenly spheares above Whereof trew knowledge advanceth greatly Clerks And causeth furtherance in our wonderfull werks The seaventh Chapter trewly teach you shall The doubtfull Regiments of your Fires all NOw Soveraigne Lord God me guide and speede For to my Matters as now I will proceede Praying all men which this Boke shall finde With devoute Prayers to have my soule in minde And that noe Man for better ne for worse Chaunge my writing for drede of Gods curse For where quick sentence shall seame not to be Ther may wise men finde selcouthe previtye And chaunging of some one sillable May make this Boke unprofitable Therefore trust not to one Reading or twaine But twenty tymes it would be over sayne For it conteyneth full ponderous sentence Albeit that it faute forme of Eloquence But the best thing that ye doe shall Is to reade many Bokes and than this withall Ro Vaughan sculp Nortons Ordinall CHAP. I. MAIS tryefull merveylous and Archimastrye Is the tincture of holi Alkimy A wonderfull Science secrete Philosophie A singular grace gifte of th' almightie Which never was founde by labour of Mann But it by Teaching or Revelacion begann It was never for Mony sold ne bought By any Man which for it hath sought But given to an able Man by grace Wrought with greate Cost with long layfir and space It helpeth a Man when he hath neede It voydeth vaine Glory Hope and also dreade It voydeth Ambitiousnesse Extorcion and Excesse It fenceth Adversity that shee doe not oppresse He that thereof hath his full intent Forsaketh Extremities with Measure is content Some people would not have it cauled Holy And in this wise thei doe replye Thei say how Painims maie this Arte have Such as our Lord God woll never save For their wilfull fals infidelitie The cause of goodnes possessours cannot be Alsoe it maketh none other thing But Gold or Silver for Mony Cupp or Ring Whiche of wise men is proved and well founde Least verteous thing that is upon the Ground Wherefore concluding all men of that sect Say how this Science n'is holy in effect To this we say and wittnes as we cann How that this Science was never tought to Man But he were proved perfectly with space Whether he were able to receyve this Grace For his Trewth Vertue and for his stable Witt Which if he faulte he shall never have it Also no man coulde yet this Science reach But if God send a Master him to teach For it is soe wonderfull and soe selcouth That it must needes be tought from mouth to mouth Also he must be he never soe loath Receive it with a most sacred dreadfull Oath That as we refuse greate dignitie and fame Soe he must needly refuse the same And also that he shall not be so wilde To teach this seacret to his owne childe For nighnes of Blood ne Consanguinity May not accepted be to this dignity Soe blood as blood may have hereof noe part But only vertue winneth this holy Arte Therefore straightly you shall search and see All manners and vertues with th'abilitie Of the person which shall this Scyence leere And in likewise make him straightlie swere Soe that noe man shall leave this Arte behinde But he an able and approved Man can finde When Age shall greeve him to ride or goe One he may teach but then never no moe For this Science must ever secret be The Cause whereof is this as ye may see If one evill man had hereof all his will All Christian Pease he might hastilie spill And with his Pride he might pull downe Rightfull Kings and Princes of renowne Wherefore the sentence of perill and jeopardy Upon the Teacher resteth dreadfully So than for doubt of such pride and wreach He must be ware that will this Science teach No Man therefore maie reach this greate present But he that hath vertues excellent Soe though Men weene Possessours not to aide To hallow this Science as before is said Neither seeme not blessed effectually Yet in her Order this Science is holy And forasmuch as noe Man maie her finde But only by grace she is holy of her kinde Also it is a worke and Cure divine Foule Copper to make Gold or Silver fine No man maie finde such chaunge by his thought Of divers kinds which Gods hands have wrought For Gods Conjunctions Man maie not undoe But if his Grace fully consent thereto By helpe of this Science which our Lord above Hath given to such Men as he doth love Wherefore old Fathers conveniently Called this Science Holy Alkimy Therefore noe Man shulde be too swifte To cast away our Lords blessed guift Consideringe how that Almighty God From great Doctours hath this Science forbod And graunted it to few Men of his mercy Such as be faithfull trew and lowly And as there be but Planets seaven Amonge the multitude of starrs in Heaven Soe among millions of millions of Mankinde Scarslie seaven men maie this Science finde Wherefore Lay-men ye may lere and see How many Doctors of great authoritie With many searchers hath this Science sought Yet all their labours hav● turned into nought If thei did cost yet found thei none availe For of their purpose every tyme thei faile And in despaire thei reason and departe And then thei said how there is noe such arte But fained Fables thei name it where thei goe A fals fond thing thei say it is alsoe Such Men presume too much upon their minde They weene their witts sufficient this Arte to finde But of their slaunder and words of outrage We take thereof trewlie little Charge For such be not invited to our feast Which weeneth themselves wise and can doe leaste Albeit such Men list not lenger to persue Yet is this Science of Alkimy full trew And albeit some proude Clerks say nay Yet every wise Clerke well consider may How he whiche hereof might no trewth see Maie not hereof lawfull wittnes be For it were a wonderous thing and queinte A man that

so farr in preass That secreate Trewth to shew I cannot cease Rehersing such as were greately too bold So great secreats to shew as thei tolde Thei said that within the Center of incompleate White Was hid our Red Stone of most delight Which maie with strength and kinde of Fier Be made to appeare right as we desier Pandulphus in Turba saide mente secura Et ejus umbra in vera tinctura Maria confirmed it in fide oculata Quod in ipsa albedine est rubedo occultata The Boke Laudabile Sanctum made by Hermes Of the Red Worke speaketh in this wise Candida tunc rubeo jacet uxor nupta marito That is to saie if ye take heede thereto Then is the faire White Woman Married to the Ruddy Man Understandinge thereof if ye would gett When our White Stone shall suffer heate And rest in Fier as red as Blood Then is the Marriage perfect and good And ye maie trewly know that tyme How the seminall seed Masculine Hath wrought and won the Victory Upon the menstrualls worthily And well converted them to his kinde As by experience ye shall finde Passing the Substance of Embrion For then compleate is made our Stone Whom wise Men said that ye shulde feede With his owne Venome when it is neede Then ride or goe where ye delight For all your Costs he woll you quite Thus endeth the subtill Warke with all her store I need not I maie not I woll shew no more Vaughan sculp s CHAP. VI. TOwards the Matters of Concordance Consider there be no variance Betweene such things as shulde accorde For of variance maie grow discord VVhereby your VVarkes maie be lost VVith all your labour and all your cost He that wol take our VVarke in hande Five Concords he must understande The first Concord is neede to marke VVhether his Minde accorde with the Warke VVhich shal be Lord to paie for all Els all your labour destroy ye shall The second Concord is needfull to kenn Between this Crafte and her Workemen The Third shall serve well your intents VVhen Warke accordeth with Instruments The fourth Concord must welbe sought VVith the Place where it shall be wrought For trewlie it is no little grace To find a perfect working Place The Fift is of Concord and of Love Betweene your VVarkes and the Spheare above Of theis five Concords reherse we shall Beginning with the first of all FOr the first ye shall well finde That full few Lords be stable of Minde Thei be hasty the VVarke is longe Thei woulde have you doe Nature wronge Some now be onward as hasty as fier Halfe a yeare after have noe desire And some in a Weeke it is noe Nay Woll chaunge their mindes and some in a day And for one Moneth have full beleife And the next Moneth thei woll the Arte repreeve It were much better for such to cease Than for this Arte to put them in preasse Let such like Butterflies wander and passe And lerne this lesson both more and lasse Following the Sentence of this holie letter Attingens à fine usque ad finem fortiter Disponens omnia suaviter That is proceede mightily to the End From the Beginning maugre the feinde All things disposing in the meane space With great suavity that commeth of grace All short-witted Men and mutable Such must needs be variable And some doe every Man beleive Such credence doth their Cofers greive To everie new Tale to them tolde They give Credence and leave the olde But some Lords be stable of wit Such be apt to finish it Everie such Lord or Master of this Werke Be he Layman or be he Clerke Be he rich man Knight Abbot or Lorde He hath with this Arte greate Concorde THe seconde Concorde with this Arte is When ye can finde apt Ministers Noe Minister is apt to this intent But he be sober wise and diligent Trewe and watchfull and also timerous Close of Tongue of Body not vitious Clenly of hands in Tuching curious Not disobedient neither presumptuous Such Servants maie your workes of Charge Minister and save from all outrage But trust not that two such Servants or three Maie sufficient for your worke be If your Matter be of quantity reasonable Then Eight such Servants be convenable But upon litle quantity finde ye shall Foure men able to performe all That one halfe of them must werke While the other Sleepeth or goeth to Kerke For of this Arte ye shall not have your praye But it be ministred as well by Night as Daye Continually except the holy Sonday alone From Evensong begin till Evensong be done And while thei worke thei must needes eschewe All Ribaudry els thei shall finde this trewe That such mishap shall them befall Thei shall destroy part of their Works or all Therefore all the Ministers must be Men Or else thei must be all Weomen Set them not occupied one with another Though some to you be Sister or Brother Yet thei must have some good disporte Their greate labours to recomforte Then nothinge shall better avaunce Your worke than shall this Concordance THe Third Concord is to manie full derke To ordeyne Instruments according to the Werke As everie Chapter hath divers intents Soe hath it divers Instruments Both in Matter and also in Shape In Concord that nothing may mis-happ As workes of D●vision and Seperation Have small Vessells for their Operation But Vessells broade for Humectation And some deale broad for Circulation But longe Vessells for Precipitation Both short and long serve Sublimation Narrowe Vessells and foure inches high Serve Correction most properly Of Vessells some be made of Leade And some of Clay both quick and deade Dead Clay is called such a thinge As hath suffered greate roastinge Such medled in powder with good raw Claye Will Fier abide and not goe away But manie Claies woll leape in Fier Such for Vessells doe not desire Other Vessells be made of Stone For Fier sufficient but few or none Amonge Workemen as yet is founde In any Country of English grounde Which of Water nothing drinke shall And yet abide drie Fier withall Such Stones large for our intente Were a precious Instrument All other Vessells be made of Glasse That spirituall matters should not out-passe Of Ashes of Ferne in this Lond everi-each one Be made but els-where be of Stone Of our Glasses the better kinde The morning stuffe ye shall it finde Which was Ashes the night before Standing in Heate all night and more The harder stuffe is called Freton Of clipping of other Glasses it come Tincture with anealing of Glasiers Will not perse him as thei reherse By this Doctrine chuse or refuse Take which you woll unto your use But for figures of Vessells kinde Everie Man followeth his owne minde The best fashion is ye maie be sure She that best concordeth with Vessell of Nature And figure that best Concordeth with quantity And with all Circumstances to matter best is she And this sheweth well Albertus

Magnus In his Boke De Mineralibus Hereof a Secreate disclosed was By my good Master to more and lesse Saying Si Deus non dedisset nobis vas Nihil dedisset and that is Glasse Instruments needefull there be more As be Furnaces ordeyned therefore Olde Men imagined for this Arte A speciall Furnace for everie parte Everie-each divising after his owne thought But manie Furnaces of them be naught Some were too broade and some too longe Manie of them did Nature wronge Therefore some Furnaces maie be well used But manie of them must be refused For theie were made but by advice Of them which seemed and were not wise The most Commendable Fashion of them all In this Boke portraied finde ye shall One Furnace by me is found of newe Such as Olde Men never knewe Whose secreate Power with study sought And with greate Cost was dearely bought In him wil be at one tyme wrought Threescore Warkes and cost right nought More than it shulde for one Warke or twaine Therefore profitable it is certaine Threescore degrees divers ye maie gett For threescore warkes and everie-ech of divers Heate Within that Furnace to serve your desire And all thei served with one litle Fier Which of a Foote square onlie shal be Yet everie-ech of the threescore as greate space as he Manie purposes ye maie thereby fulfill For here you shall have Heate after your will Of this Instrument all Men maie not be sure Therefore it is not formed in Picture Another Furnace woll serve threescore Glasses trewly and yet farr more Everie-ech of them standing in like Heate As by the Picture Doctrine ye maie gett Another Furnace for this operation By me was found by Imagination Notably serving for Seperation Of dividents and for Altification And for Dis-junction called Division And for Correction called Ablution Yt woll for some things serve Desiccation Yt serveth full well for Preparation Soe for six things it serveth well And yet for all at once as I can tell This is a new thinge which shall not be Set out in Picture for all men to see Another Furnace in Picture be shall More full of perills than other Furnaces all Made for Magnetia whereof bould Men had doubte To tuch with hands a poore lynine Cloute Which in the midle thereof unbrenned stoode For feare of flames brenning fierce and woode Which suttill Furnace I devised alsoe In which I found manie wonders moe Than is convenient at this season to tell Whose graduation is doubtfull and casuell Wherein Magnetia matter of greate coste Must quickly be served or suddainly be loste Of whose graduation if you woll not misse Consider your Stoples and lerne well this The more is the Stople the lesse is the Heate By manifould Stoples Degrees ye maie gett Whoe knoweth the power the working and kinde Of everie Furnace he maie well trewth finde And he which thereof dwelleth in Ignorance All his Warke faleth upon Chaunce Noe man is sure to have his intent Without full concord of Arte with Instrument Manie more Instruments occupied ye shall se Than in this Chapter now rehearsed be Which ye must ordeyne by good or sad advice And prove them before hand oft if ye be wise THe fourth Concord is full notable Betweene this Arte and Places Convenable Some Places must needes be evermore dry Close from Aier no waies Windy Some must be darke and dimme of sight In which Sun-beames none maie light But for some Places the trewth so is Thei cannot have too much brightnes Some Places must needes be Moist and Cold For some workes as Auctors toulde But in our Warkes in everie place Winde will hurt in everie Case Therefore for everie Warke in season Ye must ordaine Places by reason Philosophers said by their engine How it shulde be wrought within locks Nyne Astrologers said it was a grace To finde a Chosen Working Place For manie things woll wonderous doe In some Places and elsewhere not soe But contrarie wonders be of one thinge In contrarie Countries wrought without leasing Whereof none other cause maie appeare But only contrarie places of the Sphere Whereto Places contrarie of the grounde To them Concordaunt and Obedient be found Hereof great Evidence and wittnes full cleere In the Magnets Stone openly doth appeare Whose North pointe draweth toward his Countrie Which under the Southe starr driveth Needles awaye Wherefore wise Men which for this Arte sought Found some Places concordant some Places nought Trewly such Places where Lechery is used Must for this Arte be utterly refused THe fift Concord is knowne well of Clerks Betweene the Sphere of Heaven and our Suttill Werks Nothing in Erth hath more Simplicitie Than th' elements of our Stone woll be Wherefore thei being in warke of Generation Have most Obedience to Constellation Whereof Concord most kindly and convenient Is a direct and firie Ascendent Being signe common for this Operation For the multitude of their Iteration Fortune your Ascendent with his Lord also Keeping th' aspect of Shrewes them fro And if thei must let or needely infect Cause them to looke with a Trine aspect For the White warke make fortunate the Moone For the Lord of the Fourth house likewise be it done For that is Thesaurum absconditum of olde Cle●ks Soe of the Sixt house for Servants of the Werks Save all them well from greate impediments As it is in Picture or like the same intents Unlesse then your Nativity pretend infection In contrariety to this Election The vertue of the Mover of the Orbe is formall The vertue of the Eight Sphere is here Instrumentall With her Signes and Figures and parts aspectuall The Planets vertue is proper and speciall The vertue of the Elements is here materiall The vertue infused resulteth of them all The first is like to a workmans Minde The second like his Hand ye shall finde The third is like a good Instrument The remnant like a Thing wrought to your intent Make all the Premises with other well accord Then shall your merrits make you a greate Lord. In this wise the Elixir of whom ye make mention Is ingendered a thing of a second intention Trust not in Geomantie that superstitious Arte For God made Reason which there is set aparte Trust not to all Astrologers I saie whie For that Arte is as secreat as Alkimy That other is disproved and plainely forbod By holy Saincts of the Church of God Trust not ne love not Negromancy For it is a property of the Devill to lye Trust to this Doctrine set herein your desires And now lerne the Regiment of your Fiers CHAP. VII Aparfet Master ye maie him call trowe Which knoweth his Heates high and lowe Nothing maie let more your desires Than ignorance of Heates of your Fiers Of manie Auctors written ye maie see Totum consistit in ignis regimine Wherefore in all Chapters you must so proceed That Heate worke not more ne lesse than it need Wherein manie of Gebars Cookes Deceived were though thei be wise

Altitude Latitude and Profundity of the Stone To be three in Substance and one in Essence A most Heavenly Treasure procreate by Quintessence Then studied I what this Quintessence should be Of visible things apparant to the Eye The fift being even a strange privetie In every substance resting invisibly The invisible Godhead is the same thought I Primer cause of being and the Primer Essence And of the Macrocosmy the most soveraigne Quintessence This is that heavenly seacret potentiall That divided is and resteth invisible In all things Animall Vigetall and Minerall Whose vertue and strength in them is indivisible From God it cometh and God maketh it sensible To some Elect to others he doth it denay As I sat thus musing a voyce to me did say Study thou no more of my Being but sted fastly Beleive this Trinity equally knit in One Further of my Secrets to muse it is but folly Passing the Capacity of all humane reason The Heavens closed up againe at that season Then Father Tyme set me at the Gate And delivered me a Key to enter in thereat The Key of knowledge and of Excellent Science Whereby all secrets of Philosophy are reserate The seacrets of Nature sought out by diligence Avoyding fables of envious fooles inveterate Whith Recipe and Decipe this Scyence is violate Therefore to me this Key he did dispose The seacrets of this Arte to open and disclose Thus said Father Tyme this Key when he me tooke Unlock quoth he this Gate now by thy selfe And then upon him sorrowfully did I looke Saying that one Key could not undoe Locks twelve Whose Axe quoth he is sure both head and helve Hold will together till the Tree downe fall Soe open thou the first Lock and thou hast opned all What is the first Lock named tell me then I pray thee said I and what shall I it call It is said he the Seacret of all wise Men Chaos in the bodyes called the first Originall Prima materia our Mercury our Menstruall Our Vitrioll our Sulphur our Lunary most of price Put the Key in the Lock t will open with a trice Then the Key of knowledge I busily tooke in hand And began to search the hollownes in the Lock The words thereof I scarce did understand So craftily conveid they were in their stock I proved every way and at last I did unlock The crafty Gynns thus made for the nonce And with it the other Locks fell open all at once At this Gate opening even in the entry A number of Philosophers in the face I met Working all one way the secrets of Philosophy Upon Chaos darke that among them was set Sober men of living peaceable and quiet They buisily disputed the Materia Prima Rejecting cleane away Simul stulta frivola Here I saw the Father of Philosophers Hermes Here I saw Aristotle with cheere most jocund Here I saw Morien and Senior in Turba more or lesse Sober Democritus Albert Bacon and Ramund The Monke and the Chanon of Bridlington so profound Working most seacretly who said unto me Beware thou beleeve not all that thou doest see But if thou wilt enter this Campe of Philosophy With thee take Tyme to guide thee in the way For By-pathes and Broad wayes deepe Valies and hills high Here shalt thou finde with sights pleasant and gay Some thou shalt meete with which unto thee shall say Recipe this and that with a thousand things more To Decipe thy selfe and others as they have done before Then Father Tyme and I by favour of these men Such sights to see passed forth towards the Campe Where we met disguised Philosophers leane With Porpheries and Morters ready to grinde and stampe Their heads shaking their hands full of the Crampe Some lame with Spasmer some feeble wan and blind With Arsnick and Sulphus to this Art most unkinde These were Brooke the Preist and Yorke with Coates gay Which robbed KING HENRY of a Million of Gold Martin Perien Major Thomas De-la-hay Saying that the King they greatly inrich would They whispered in his Eare and this Tale they him tould We will worke for your highnes the Elixer vitae A princely worke called Opus Regale Then brought they in the Viccar of Malden With his Greene Lyon that most Royall seacrett Richard Record and litle Master Eden Their Mettalls by Corrasives to Calcine and frett Hugh Oldcastle and Sir Robert Greene with them mett Roasting and boyling all things out of kinde And like Foolosophers left of with losse in the end Yet brought they forth things beautifull to sight Deluding the King thus from day to day With Copper Citrinate for the Red and albified for the White And with Mercury rubified in a glasse full gay But at the last in the fire they went away All this was because they knew not the verity Of Altitude Latitude and Profundity Thence Father Tyme brought me into a Wildernes Into a Thicket having by-paths many one Steps and footeings I saw there more and lesse Wherein the aforesaid men had wandred and gone There I saw Marcasites Mineralls and many a stone As Iridis Talck and Alome lay digd from the ground The Mines of Lead and Iron that they had out found No marvel I trow though they were much set by That with so greate Riches could endue the King So many Sundry wayes to fill up his Treasury With filty matters greate charges in to bring The very next way a Prince to bring to begging And make a noble Realme and Common wealth decay These are Royall Philosophers the cleane contrary way From thence forth I went Tyme being my guide Through a greene Wood where Birds sing cleerely Till we came to a field pleasant large and wide Which he said was called The Campe of Philosophy There downe we satt to heare the sweete Harmony Of divers Birds in their sweete Notes singing And to receive the Savour of the flowers springing Here Juno here Pallas here Apollo do dwell Here true Philosophers take their dwelling place Here duly the Muses nyne drinke of Pyrenes Well No boasting broyler here the Arte can deface Here Lady Philosophy hath her royall Pallace Holding her Court in most high Consistory Sitting with her Councellors most famous of memory There one said to me an ancient Man was hee Declaring forth the Matter of the Stone Saying that he was sent thither to Councell me And of his Religion to chuse me to be one A Cloath of Tishue he had him upon Verged about with Pearles of Collour fresh and gay He proceedeth with his Tale and againe he did thus say Here all occult seacrets of Nature knowen are Here all the Elements from things are drawne out Here Fire Air and Water in Earth are knit together Here all our seacret worke is truly brought about Here thou must learne in thy buisines to be stoute Night and day thou must tend thy worke buisily Having constant patience never to be weary As we satt talking by the Rivers running cleere I

but was oftentimes disquieted and vexed with the sower dispositions of such as most Injuriously Scandalized both him and them Insomuch that the ●eare he went beyond Sea his Library was seized on wherein was 4000. Books and 700. of them Manuscripts aCaveat for all Ingenious and eminent Philosophers to be more wise then to keep any dear or Excellent Books in their own Houses And t is most probable that at this time his before mentioned Speculū unitaris might fall into those hands that would never since suffer it to see the Light which might occasion the Learned Selden to say this Apologie was long since promised by him but intimating it was never VVrit An. 1592. Master Secretary VValsingham and Sir Tho George were sent to his then dwelling house at Mortclack by vertue of a Commission to understand the Matter and Causes for which his Studies were Scandalized And for some other thing in the like Nature was he necessitated to send his Apologeticall letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury These kind of Persecutions were stil Multiplyed upon him and he sometimes Personally agreeved by them for about the yeare 1594. he was under a kinde of Restraint which occasioned him to write to the Lady Scydmore to move the Queene that either he might declare his Case to the Body of the Councell or else under the Broade-seale have liberty to goe freely where he pleased And thus much concerning these two famous men in severall now shall I give the Reader an Account of their joynt Actions abroad as also what relates to Doctor d ee after his returne into England which I shall doe from an unquestionable Authority even Doctor Dee's Diary all written with his owne hand where I shall take the larger Field to walke in because I move upon so certaine ground some of which passages may please if not concerne the Reader For I think it not fit to suffer such Eminent lights longer to lie in Obscurity without bringing them forth to the view of the VVorld 'T is generally reported that Doctor Dee and Sir Edward Kelly were so stangely fortunate as to finde a very large quantity of the Elixir in some part of the Ruines of Glastenbury-Abbey which was so incredibly Rich in vertue being one upon 272330. that they lost much in making Projection by way of Triall before they found out the true height of the Medicine And no sooner were they Masters of this Treasure then they resolved to Travell into Forraigne Parts where falling into acquaintance with one Albertue Laskey a Polonian Prince which came into England the beginning of May An. 1583. on the 21. of Sept. following They their VVives Children and Families went beyond Sea with the said Prince And whether they found it at Glastenbury as is aforesaid or howsoever else they came by it 't is certain they had it for at Trebona in Bohemia whither they were come to dwell Sir Edward Kelley made Projection with one small Graine thereof in proportion no bigger then the least graine of Sand upon one Ounce and a Quatter of Common Mercury and it produced almost an Ounce of most pure Gold This was done to gratifie Master Edward Garland and his Brother Franc●s and in their presence which Edward was lately come to Trebona being sent thither to Doctor Dee from the Emperour of Muscovia according to some Articles before brought by one Thomas Symkinson I also finde this Note of Doctor Dee's Jan. 5. 1586. Donum Dei 2. ounces E. K Moreover for neerer and later Testimony I have received it from a credible Person that one Broomfield and Alexander Roberts told him they had often seen Sir Ed Kelly make Projection and in particular upon a piece of Metall cut out of a Warming-pan and without Sir Edwards touching or handling it or melting the Metall onely warming it in the Fire the Elixir being put thereon it was Transmuted into pure Silver The Warming-pan and this piece of it was sent to Queen Elizabeth by her Embassador who then lay at Prague that by fitting the Piece into the place whence it was cut out it might exactly appeare to be once part of that VVarming-pan The aforesaid Person hath likewise seen in the hands of one Master Frye and Scroope Rings of Sir Edward Kellyes Gold the fashion of which was onely Gold wyre twisted thrice about the Finger and of these fashioned Rings he gave away to the value of 4000l at the Marriage of one of his Servant Maides This was highly Generous but to say truth he was openly Profuse beyond the modest Limitts of a Sober Philosopher During their abode at Trebona they tried many Chemicall Experiments to see whether they could make that Iewell they possest the particular account of their operations I neede not here relate yet I cannot heare that ever they accomplished any thing onely I finde the 27. of Aprill noted by Doctor Dee with severall expressions of Ioy and Gladnesse as Haec est dies quam fecit Dominus Againe Miserecordia Dei magna and lastly Omne quod vivit laudet Dominum And to testifie what they meant he writes upon the 30. day following Master Edward Kelley did open the Great secret to me God be sharked Whiles they lived at Trebona Sir Edward Kelley went dives times to Prague and the 15. of Ian. 1587. he went into Poland but returned the 9 of Febr. after And 't is probable these Iourncys were made in quest after some famous Chemists Things were not carried here so privately but Qeene Elizabeth had notice given her of their Actions whereupon she used severall meanes by Letters and M●ssages to invite them back into England where it was believed she had so far prevailed that Master Simkinson and Garland's Brother Robert coming from England to Trebona supposed they had beene ready to come over to England upon the Queenes Letters formerly sent them And though Sir Edward Kelley staid behinde yet Doctor d ee left Trebona and and came for England But whether occasioned by some unkindnesse received from Sir Edward Kelley or falling out of their Wives or the Solicitation of Queene Elizabeth or all these concurring I am not yet certaine not unlike but each of them might contribute to their Seperation For that there was some Greate and Wonderfull unkindnesse past from Sir Edward Kelley appeares by his sending for Doctor Dee the beginning of Ian. 1588. under shew of Reconciliation and discovering more then an Ordinary Intimacy and Compliancy about that time which faire shewes the good Doctor notes with this prayer God leade his heart to all Charity and Brotherly love As also by Letters sent from Doctor d ee to Sir Edward Kelley and his Wife the end of March following requiring at their hands Mutuall Charity which after upon Mistris Kelleys receiving the Sacrament she gave her hand to Doctor Dee and his VVife in Token of Charity But it seemes these things were not cordiall but onely outward for 9. Sept. following the Lord Chancellor coming