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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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