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A20021	A letter, containing a most briefe discourse apologeticall with a plaine demonstration, and feruent protestation, for the lawfull, sincere, very faithfull and Christian course, of the philosophicall studies and exercises, of a certaine studious gentleman: an ancient seruant to her most excellent Maiesty royall.	Dee, John, 1527-1608.	1599 (1599)	STC 6460; ESTC S109492	8,418	24

liber Theologicus Mathematicus Hierotechnicus ¶ Truly I haue great cause to praise and thanke God for your graces verie charitable vsing of me both in sundry points else also in your fauorable yelding to yea notifying the due meanes for the performance of her Sacred Maiesties most gracious and bountifull disposition resolution and very royall beginning to restore and giue vnto me her Ancient faithfull seruant some due maintenance to leade the rest of my old daies in some quiet and comfort with habilitie to retaine some speedy faire and Orthographicall writers about me and the same skilfull in Latine and Greeke at the least aswell for mine owne bookes and workes faire and correctly to be written such I meane as either her most excellent Maiestie out of the premisses will make choise of or command to be finished or published or such of them as your grace shall thinke meete or worthy for my farther labor to be bestowed on as else for the speedy faire and true writing out of other ancient Authors their good and rare workes in greeke or Latine which by Gods prouidence haue been preserued frō the spoile made of my Librarie of all my moueable goods here c. Anno. 1583. In which Librarie were about 4000 bookes whereof 700. were anciently written by hande Some in Greeke some in Latine some in Hebrue And some in other languages as may by the whole Catalogus thereof appeare But the great losses and dammages which in sundry sorts I haue sustained do not so much grieue my hart as the rash lewde fond and most vntrue fables and reports of me and my studies philosophicall haue done yet do which cōmonly after their first hatching and diuelish deuising immediatly with great speede are generally all the Realme ouerspread and to some seeme true to other they are doubtfull and to only the wise modest discreet godly and charitable and chiefelie to such as haue some acquaintance with me they appeare and are knowne to be fables vntruths and vtterly false reports and sclaunders Well this shall be my last charitable giuing of warning and feruent protestation to my Countrimen and all other in this case Before the Almighty our God and your Lordships good grace this day on the perill of my soules damnation if I lie or take his name in vaine herein I take the same God to be my witnesse That with all my hart with all my soule with all my strength power and vnderstanding according to the measure thereof which the Almighty hath giuen me for the most part of the time from my youth hitherto I haue vsed and still vse good lawfull honest christian and diuinely prescribed meanes to attaine to the knowledge of those truthes which are meet and necessary for me to know and wherwith to do his diuine Maiesty such seruice as hee hath doth and will call me vnto during this my life for his honor and glory aduancing and for the benefit and commoditie publique of this kingdome so much as by the will and purpose of God shall lie in my skill and hability to performe as a true faithfull and most sincerely dutifull seruant to our most gratious and incomparable Queene Elizabeth and as a very comfortable fellow-member of the body politique gouerned vnder the scepter Royal of our earthly Supreame head Queene Elizabeth and as a liuely sympathicall and true symetricall fellow-member of that holy and mysticall body Catholicklie extended and placed wheresoeuer on the earth in the view knowledge direction protection illumination and consolation of the Almighty most blessed most holy most glorious comaiesticall coëternall and coëssentiall Trinity The head of that body being only our Redeemer Christ Iesus perfect God and perfect man whose returne in glory we faithfully awaite and daily do very earnestly cry vnto him to hasten his second comming for his electes sake iniquity doth so on this earth abound and preuaile and true faith with charity and Euangelicall simplicity haue but colde slender and vncertaine intertainement among the worldly-wise men of this worlde Therefore herein concluding I beseech the Almighty God most aboundantly to increase and confirme your graces heauenly wisdome and endue you with all the rest of his heauenly gifts for the relieuing refreshing and comforting both bodily and spiritually his little flocke of the faithfull yet militant here on earth Amen An Epilogue Good my Lord I beseech your grace to allowe of my plaine and comfortable Epilogus for this matter at this time Seeing my studious exercises and conuersation ciuile may be aboundantly testified to my good credit in the most partes of all Christendome and that by all degrees of Nobility by al degrees of the learned and by very many other of godly and Christian disposition for the space of 46. yeeres triall as appeareth by the Recordes lately viewed by two honourable witnesses by Commission from her Maiesty And seeing for these 36. yeeres last past I haue beene her most excellent Maiesties very true faithfull and dutifull seruaunt At whose royall mouth I neuer receiued any one word of reproch but all of fauor and grace In whose princely countenance I neuer perceiued frowne toward me or discontented regard or view on me but at all times fauorable and gracious to the great ioy and comfort of my true faithfull and loyall hart And thirdly Seeing the workes of my handes and wordes of my mouth heere before notified in the Schedule of my bookes and writings may beare liuely witnesse of the thoughts of my hart and inclination of my minde generally as all wise men do know and Christ himselfe doth auouch It might in manner seeme needlesse thus carefully though most briefely and speedily to haue warned or confounded the scornefull the malicious the proud and the rash in their vntrue reports opinions and fables of my studies or exercises Philosophicall but that it is of more importance that the godly the honest the modest the discreet graue and charitable Christians English or other louers of Iustice truth and good learning may hereby receiue certaine comfort in themselues to perceiue that Veritas tandem praeualebit and sufficiently be weaponed and armed with sound truth to defende me against such kinde of my aduersaries if hereafter they will begin afresh or hould on obstinately in their former errors vaine imaginations false reportes and most vngodly sclanders of me and my studies ¶ Therefore to make all this cause for euer before God and man out of all doubt Seeing your Lordships good grace are as it were our high Priest and chiefe Ecclesiasticall minister vnder our most dread and Soueraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth to whose censure and iudgement I submit all my studies and exercises yea all my bookes past present and hereafter to be written by me of my own skill iudgement or opinion I do at this present time most humbly sincerelie and vnfainedly and in the name of Almighty God yea for his honor and glory request and beseech your

A LETTER Containing a most briefe Discourse Apologeticall with a plaine Demonstration and feruent Protestation for the lawfull sincere very faithfull and Christian course of the Philosophicall studies and exercises of a certaine studious Gentleman An ancient Seruaunt to her most excellent Maiesty Royall Pro eo vt me diligerent detrahebant mihi To the most Reuerend father in God the Lord Archbishop of Canturbury Primate and Metropolitane of all England one of her Maiesties most honorable priuy Counsaile my singular good Lord. MOst humbly and hartily I craue your Graces pardon if I offende any thing to send or present vnto your Graces hand so simple a discourse as this is Although by some sage and discreet my friends their opiniō it is thought not to be impertinent to my most needfull suites presently in hand before her most excellent Maiesty Royall your Lordships good Grace and other the Right honorable Lordes of her Maiesties priuy Counsaile to make some part of my former studies and studious exercises within and for these 46 yeeres last past vsed and continued to be first knowne and discouered vnto your Grace and other the Right honorable my good Lordes of her Maiesties priuy Counsaile And Secondly afterwardes the same to be permitted to come to publique view Not so much to stop the mouthes and at length to stay the impudent attemptes of the rash and malicious deuisers and contriuers of most vntrue foolish and wicked reports and fables of and concerning my foresaid studious exercises passed ouer with my great yea incredible paines trauels cares and costs in the search and learning of true Philosophie As therein Só to certifie and satisfie the godly and vnpartiall Christian hearer or reader hereof That by his own iudgement vpon his due consideration and examination of this no little parcell of the particulars of my foresaid studies and exercises philosophicall annexed He will or may be sufficiently informed and perswaded That I haue wonderfully labored to finde follow vse haunt the true straight and most narrow path leading all true deuout zealous faithfull and constant Christian students ex valle hac miseriae miseria istius vallis tenebrarum Regno tenebris istius Regni ad montem sanctum Syon ad caelestia tabernacula All thankes are most due therefore vnto the Almighty Seeing it so pleased him euen from my youth by his diuine fauor grace and helpe to insinuate into my hart an insatiable zeale desire to knowe his truth And in him and by him incessantly to seeke and listen after the same by the true philosophicall method and harmony proceeding and ascending as it were gradatim from things visible to consider of thinges inuisible from thinges bodily to conceiue of thinges spirituall from things transitorie momentanie to meditate of things permanent by thinges mortall visible and inuisible to haue some perceiuerance of immortality And to conclude most briefely by the most meruailous frame of the whole World philosophically viewed and circumspectly wayed numbred and measured according to the talent gift of God from aboue alotted for his diuine purposes effecting most faithfully to loue honor and glorifie alwaies the Framer and Creator thereof In whose workmanship his infinite goodnesse vnsearchable wisdome and Almighty power yea his euerlasting power and diuinity may by innumerable meanes be manifested and demonstrated The truth of which my zealous carefull aud constant intent and endeuour specified may I hope easilie appeare by the whole full and due suruey and consideration of all the Bookes Treatises and discourses whose Titles onely are at this time here annexed and expressed As they are set down in the sixt Chapter of an other little Rhapsodicall Treatise intitled The Cōpendious Rehearsall c. writtē aboue two yeares since for those her Maiesties two honorable Commissioners which her most excellent Maiesty had most graciouslie sent to my poore Cottage in Mortlake to vnderstand the matters and causes at full through which I was so extreamely vrged to procure at her Maiesties handes such honorable Surueiors witnesses to be assigned for the due proofe of the contents of my most humble and pitifull supplication exhibited vnto her most excellent Maiesty at Hampton Court An. 1592. Nouemb. 9. Thus therefore as followeth is y e said 6. Chapter there recorded My labors and paines bestowed at diuers times to pleasure my natiue Countrey by writing of sundry Bookes and Treatises some in Latine some in English and some of them written at her Maiesties commandement Of which Bookes and Treatises some are printed and some vnprinted The printed Bookes and Treatises are these following Propaedeumata Aphoristica De praestantioribus quibusdā Naturae virtutibus Aphorismi 120. Anno. 1558. Monas Hieroglyphica Mathematicè Anagogicéque explicata ad Maximilianum Dei gratia Romanorum Bohemiae Hungariae Regem sapientissimum an 1564. Epistola ad eximium Ducis Vrbini Mathematicum Fredericum Commandinum praefixa libello Machometi Bagdedini De superficierum Diuisionibus edito in lucem opera mea eiusdem Commandini Vrbinatis Impressa Pisauri Anno 1570. The Brytish Monarchy otherwise called the Petty Nauy Royall for the politique security abundant wealth and the triumphant state of this kingdome with Gods fauor procuring Anno 1576. My Mathematicall praeface annexed to Euclide by the right worshipfull Sir Henry Billingsley Knight in the English language first published written at the earnest request of sundry right worshipfull Knights and other very well learned men Wherein are many Arts of me wholy inuented by name definition propriety and vse more then either the Graecian or Roman Mathematiciens haue left to our knowledge Anno 1570. My diuers many Annotations and Inuentions Mathematicall added in sundry places of the foresaid English Euclide after the tenth Booke of the same 1570. Epistola praefixa Ephemeridibus Ioannis Felde Angli cui rationem declaraueram Ephemerides conscribendi 1557. Paralaticae Cōmentationis Praxeosque Nucleus quidā 1573 The vnprinted Bookes and Treatises are these some perfectly finished and some yet vnfinished THe first great volume of Famous and rich Discoueries wherein also is the History of King Salomon euery three yeeres his Ophirian voyage The Originals of Presbyter Ioannes and of the first great Cham and his successors for many yeeres following The description of diuers wonderfull Iles in the Northen Scythian Tartarian and the other most Northen Seas and neere vnder the North Pole by Record written aboue 1200. yeeres since with diuers other rarities Anno 1576. The Brytish Complement of the perfect Art of Nauigation A great volume in which are contained our Queene Elizabeth her Arithmeticall Tables Gubernauticke for Nauigation by the Paradoxall compasse of me inuented anno 1557. and Nauigation by great Circles and for longitudes and latitudes and the variation of the compasse finding most easilie and speedily yea if neede be in one minute of time and sometime without sight of sunne moone or star with many other new and needefull inuentions