and by his order and for his service required wisdom and true knowledge so do I not doubt but God will according to his accustomed goodnesse provide for me that is best for my vocation here in earth c. E. K. He rose and went away and left me alone in my Study appointed for these actions Deus in adjutorium meum intende Domine ad adjuvandum me festina Gloria Patri Filio Spiritui Sancto sicut erat in principio nunc semper in secula seculorum Amen Thursday Circa 9. As I was in my upper Study and had gathered the holy words of the second and third call and had conferred them with their English delivered also unto us E. K. came up the stairs and so went into his Study and came out again and as he was going down the staires I opened my Study door and saluted him He thereupon came up again and came into my Study And there I shewed him what I had done and how I had some understanding of those holy words their significations by reason of due applying the English to the word Christus in tending thereby to have induced E. K. to likē the better of the manner of our friends due and Methodical proceeding with us and told him that unlesse of this strange language I should have these words delivered unto us Letter by Letter we might erre both in Orthography and also for want of the true pronunciation of the words and distinctions of the points we might more misse the effect expected But as on Tuesday last so now again he said our Teachers were deluders and no good or sufficient Teachers who had not in two years space made us able to understand or do somewhat and that he could in two years have learned all the seven Liberal sciences if he had first learned Logick c. wherefore he would have no more to do with them any manner of way wished himself in England and said that if these books were his that he would out of hand burn them and that he had written to my Lord by Pirmis that he took our Teachers to be decelvers and wicked and no good Creatures of God with many such speeches and reasons as he thought of force to diswade himself from any more dealing with them But willed me to use John my Boy as my Skryer for that these spiritual Creatures were not bound unto him c. I answered unto all these parcels and reasons as time served declaring my perfect trust in God that seeing I have many years desired and prayed for wisdome such as these Actions import at his hands and by such means as to his Divine Majesty seemeth best that he would not either mislike my prayer or abuse my Constant hope in his goodnesse and mercy Therefore I concluded that I referred all to the mercifull will of God and doubted nothing at the length to be satisfied of my request and prayer made unto him So he went from me this second time .... God lighten his heart with knowledge of the truth if it be his Divine will and pleasure Note Permis went on last Wednesday morning and had received our Letters after noon on Tuesday last But on Monday before the wicked Prince of darknesse did what he could to hinder our proceeding On Thursday Tabius brother to my Lord Laskie his wife brought news to Cracovia that my Lord Laskie was coming to Cracovia ward Emericus came from Kesmarks and returned back again Tabius rode from Cracovia toward Kesmark Saturday Aprilis 21. à Meridie After our prayers made appeared shortly Gabriel and Nalvage E. K. propounded six questions orderly which had bred great doubt in this fantafie and requested their answers Δ. He would have our spiritual friends to promise him the performance of the Prints Gab. ...... If we were Masters of our own doings we might well promise But we are servants and do the will of our master But let me ask thee one question Dost thou not think that all things are possible with God E. K. I do so and I know so Gab. ...... Then is there no cause why thou should distrust Let him that is a servant and is commanded to go go and let not the earth rise up and strive against the plow man What sin is it when the creature riseth up and saith in his heart Let the Lord make a Covenant with me considering he is a bond man E. K. They seem both the voices at once to come to my eare None but he that becometh disobedient and refuseth his Master Δ ....... Δ would do so Gab. Nal. ...... These things that is to say this Doctrine delivered by us is of God and of his mercies granted unto you which cannot be in vain and therefore to be performed for the secret determinations of God are unknown unto us He never heard of any man that would ask if God would perform his promises E. K. By August next What if it were a hundred Augusts you may be a weary before August next as the Children of Israel were of their Manna E. K. Why joyn you numbers with these letters and added none with those of the former Table Brother what is the cause that all the World is made by numbers The Numbers we speak of are of reason and form and not of merchants Δ. I beseech you as concerning the powder whereof he thinketh that he hath made due assay of it as if it should have been the Philosophers Stone and so affirmed to be by the minister of this action I beseech you so to answer the thing as his reason may be satisfied Δ. They gave no answer hereunto but proceeded in the former matter of Numbers Gab. ...... Every Letter signifieth the member of the substance whereof it speaketh Every word signifieth the quiddity of the substance The Letters are separated and in confusion and therefore are by numbers gathered together which also gathered signifie a number for as every greater containeth his lesser so are the secret and unknown forms of things knit up in their parents Where being known in number they are easily distinguished so that herein we teach places to be numbred letters to be elected from the numbred and proper words from the letters signifying substantially the thing that is spoken of in the center of his Creator whereby even as the minde of man moved at an ordered speech and is easily perswaded in things that are true so are the creatures of God stirred up in themselves when they hear the words wherewithal they were nursed and brought forth For nothing moveth that is not perswaded neither can any thing be perswaded that is unknown The Creatures of God understand you not you are not of their Cities you are become enemies because you are separated from him that Governeth the City by ignorance E. K. Whether is this Language known in any part of the World or no if it be where and to whom Gab. ......
to the house in St. Stephens street which I had hired for a year for 80 gylders of 30 gr And Master Edward Kelly came to us on Fryday in the Easter week by the new Gregorian Kalendar being the 27 day of March by the old Kalendar but the sixth day of April by the new Kalendar Easter day being the first day of April in Poland by the new Gregorian institution CRACOVIA Martii 13. An. 1584. Omnis Honor Laus Gloria Gratiarum Actio sit Deo Nostro Omnipotenti Trino uni 〈◊〉 semper Amen Δ. MENSIS MYSTICUS SAOBATICUS Pars prima ejusdem Tuesday morning Anno 1584. Aprilis 10. stilo novo Gregoriano CRACOVIAE AFter our divers prayers and contestation of our humility obedience and credit in these Actions and being come now to Cracovia the place sanctified whereunto we were willed to make hast c. At lenth appeared Nalvage E K. He hath a Gown of white silk with a Cape with three pendants with tassels on the ends of them all green it is fur white and seemeth to shine with a wavering glittering On his head is nothing he hath no berd His physiognomy is like the picture of King Edward the sixth his hair hangeth down a quarter of the length of the Cap somewhat curling yellow He hath a rod or wand in his hand almost as big as my little finger it is of Gold and divided into three equal parts with a brighter Gold than the rest He standeth upon his round table of Christal or rather Mother of Pearl There appear an infinite number of letters on the same as thick as one can stand by another the table is somewhat inclined on one side he standeth in the very middle his garment covereth his feet his breast seemeth smooth as the down remaining of a Swan when all the feathers be off so is his neck c. He is lean and long-visaged Δ. The infinite mercies of God be on us and the light of his countenance shine on us and his favourable countenance be on us Nal. ...... Amen unto him that is and was and liveth for ever E. K. He looketh earnestly on his table and turneth him to view it Nal. ...... All things are in order Thus saith the Messenger of him which is the God of Wisdom Is your worthinesse such as you can merit so great mercy or are your 〈◊〉 cleansed and made apt to receive and hold the sweet liquor pure understanding it self Δ. Hath the Sun entred into your bowels or have you tasted of the night-dew Where are your wedding Garments or after what sort do you provide for your marriage Unseasoned you are and withered flesh partakers of those things which make you holy through which partaking and the secret providence of him that is the Highest you became dignified to the end and are sufficiently washed for the time of entrance O stiff-necked people you deserve nothing and yet you have the hire of such as labour But what can corruption be partaker of those things that are incorruptible or man which savoureth in himself can you savour also of the Almighty O you weaklings O you of no faith O you Cankers of the earth Where is the shame you have Where are the tears you let fall Where is the humility you are taught to Nay you are such as say in your hearts if the Spring be fair the Harvest is like to be good If these thing come to passe it is the finger of the Lord. But such is your imperfection such are the fruits of the flesh and the vanity of mortality Notwithstanding consider that you are servants Do therefore the will of your Master You are become free Be faithful and thankful to him that is the giver of liberty Nay you are become children partakers of the counsel of him that sitteth and seeth and saith I am Therefore be sober faithful and waver not for the inheritance of your Father is great your freedom is without recompence and your Master the King of Justice Where are the people or in what generation did they dwell that hath been thus acquainted and drawn into familiarity with the true Servants and Angels of God Unto whom have those mysteries been opened Is it not said of those that are sanctified The Lord appeared unto them in a vision But he cometh to you when you are awake Unto them he came unlooked for unto you he cometh requested Arise up therefore and be not forgetful what the Lord hath done for you for the things of this World are not until they be done neither is there any thing assured but by the end It was said unto Abraham And I will destroy them He believed it but he asked not when Great is the reward of Faith for it giveth strength But those that are faithful are not of this world Notwithstanding you have said as it was said by the Disciples to Christ when they were yet unpure and blind When shall these things come to passe Lord what is meant by this or that Simple Faith excelleth all Science For Heaven and Earth shall perish in their corruption But the voices of the Lord much more his promises are become Angels for ever For as the Sun begetteth in the earth and is father of many things that live in corruption and have end So is the God of Heaven the bringer forth and begetter of things celestial with life and for ever For why Dixit factum est Every Idea in eternity is become for ever and what is thought is become a living creature I teach you a mystery As the tree in sappy life watering her self throughly bringeth forth the ornaments of her own beauty So the spiritual part of man being good and dignified burnisheth himself with his sound and faithful thought I mean the glory and shew of his own beauty for the soul of man groweth either with beauty to salvation or with dishonour and filthinesse to damnation I have done my Commandment I have as a Schoolmaster warned you and as a friend counselled you I will also teach you E. K. He speaketh in a thin small voice Δ. He used a great pause and silence E. K. He standeth and pointeth with his rod to the letters of his Table as if he made some account or reckoning He went out of the middle and measured how may steps it is about Nal. ...... Pater Filius Spiritus Sanctus Fundamentum substantia principium omnium E. K. Thought in his minde rerum and he answered his thought saying What need I say rerum The Grammarians will be on my side Omnium is more than to say omnium rerum E. K. This seemeth to be spoken by some other in my imagination Nal. ...... Omnium is the thing that is my charge E. K. He still conferreth place to place c. So. E. K. Now he standeth still Corpus omnium .... E. K. He pointeth to the whole or round table which he standeth on 1. The substance
a woman comming and she is here now she is all covered in green as with a cloud I may through it discern her fair face and her hairs dispersed abroad The place about her seemeth to be concave replenished with light of the Sunne she standeth as in a hollow shell or Oval figure concave ..... Stephen lift up thy head amongst the stars of Heaven for the Spirit of God is with thee and thou art become the Darling of the Highest but the Lord will reprehend thee for thy sins Behold thou shalt stand and thy sword shall be made holy See therefore that you honour him labour for him and obey him as the anointed and 〈◊〉 of the Lord. For why his spirit shall be plentiful amongst 〈◊〉 and he shall put the pillow of rest under your heads E. K. The more she speaketh the more the place is bright ..... The Prince of Darknesse shall lie as a stumbling block in his way but he shall stride over him without offence The earthly Creatures have not to do in this receptacle Therefore take heed thou defile it not If thou follow the rules of calling them thou shalt see that the air is their habitation Other wayes irregularly they appear in such vessels But such as are prepared for them Take heed therefor thou defile not the place of the Justified with the presence of those that are accursed But as they are of two sorts so let their appearing places be divers Thy servant is conducted and shall not stumble but shall return that the name of God may be blessed Now cease thy voice for our presence until the Lord hath rebuked Stephen in the consideration whereof consisteth the seal of his Election Verbum shall be the first word wherein the Lord shall shew himself unto him Behold I am full of the light of heaven and I shut up and go E. K. She is gone Δ Note all those things I intended or desired to be satisfied in are answered me without my asking Misericordia Pax Lux Dei nobis semper adsint omnis autem laus honor gloria sit Deo nostro Amen Notae 〈◊〉 Monday Tuesday Wednesday May 6 7 8. E. K. was very unquiet in mind and so expressed to me in words for that A. L. had not paid him his money long since due and chiefly for that he doubted very much of A. L. his turning to the Lord with 〈◊〉 his heart and constantly So much did A. L. his former life and ungodly living and dealing offend him and so void was he of any hope that he became in a great 〈◊〉 of mind to find us coupled with so 〈◊〉 a man I shewed A. L. his last Letters how he was in a 〈◊〉 of his own belonging to the 〈◊〉 Rithwyan vvhich he had now by a stratagem won from the unjust delaying of his adversary and what penance and contrition he was in what meditations and what godly purposes c. But E. K. would not hope of conversion and thereupon utterly and 〈◊〉 intended with all speed to be gone from hence toward Prage and willed me if I would to prepare my Letters He became very blasphemous against God to my great grief and terrour what the issue thereof would be so great was the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 against God and his holy purposes in us that almost greater could not be uttered I used as quiet words as I could assuring him of Gods mercies alwayes ready and his helping hand for all such as put their trust in him and call upon him in their 〈◊〉 and times of need and so did betake him to God for that Tuesday night being past 9 of the clock Wednesday morning as I was at my prayers in my study over his Chamber and had made declaration of this cause and of the perplexity most grievous that I was in to see my friend and partner E. K. thus carried away with so grievous a temptation so manifold and 〈◊〉 E. K. yet lying in his bed did call his brother Thomas to him and willed him to callme to him Thomas came when I had in manner ended my devotions and prayers for me I went to him yet lying in his bed And after I had wished a good morrow and sate by him on the Bench at his beds head he began and said such matter as followeth E. K. A Spirit appeared to me this morning by my Bed-side and bid me be quiet Bad me will you to go to morrow with both your servants to my Lord as secretly as you could Bad you comfort him Bad you bring him with you Bad you to go to the King as you came homeward Bad me to board in the mean space with the Italian Doctor at Perins house Bad me lie here every night Hereupon I was most glad and joyful and praised God for his marvellous mercies loving kindnesse and goodnesse toward us and declared my self assured that God had put out his term and setled the degree For the performance of his purposes and promises made to us for his own honour and glory And so with joy and thanks given E. K. for his courteous imparting these good news to me I went about my businesse intended which was to go to the Table of the Lord as I was prepared for it and so went to the Barnardines Church Soli Deo nostro sit omnis laus honor gloria gratiarum actio nunc semper Amen Note I had in my prayers alledged to God that albeit I was in great perplexity and agony of mind yet since I was willed to cease my voice for having at any angelical presence I said he of his divine clemency and care over us in these great desires might counsel us and direct us though we did not urge our request as we were wont The conclusion and shame which many wayes would follow if this intended purpose of E. K. should go forward and take place was so great that we might seem to the world to have been led to that evil end by a manifold digression rather then otherwise led in mercy and verity wherein I requested God to regard his own honour and glory c. ✚ Cracovia Maij 20. Monday à meridie horam circiter 6. in mansio meo NOTE Δ. Δ E. K. sitting with me in my study told me that after my going to Rithian to the Lord Lasky he had very many apparitions and divers matters declared unto him of the state of Christendom c. He said moreover fault was found with my manner of standing before Stephen I should have made some more ample declaration of my Calling and knowledge in these our actions Secondly that I did mistake the phrase spoken unto me at Prage of the rod binding up For he said that Michael Dee should die that I should thereby be afflicted and divers such things he told me and among other that he was willed to be ready to leave me when he should be called for he said our actions
Madi ..... How do you E. K. She maketh a low cursie Δ. I declared our admiration of Ave his so sudden departure aud required her opinion of the case Mad. ..... Surely Sir I cannot tell but I will go see if my mother can tell Δ. He that is the Creatour of all things be mercifull unto us and lighten our hearts with true knowledge as our trust is in him E. K. She went away and came again after a little while Mad. ..... My mother sayeth you should have been at the Emperours Δ. But you see it is impossible to get thither without some good provision of money made by our great friend A. L. I pray you what can you say of Ave Mad. ..... My gentle brother Ave is a good Creature indeed you might have made more of him Δ. I beseech you to give us some Declaration of Ave his last words Mad. ..... There is no word unperfect My brother Ave his nature is to be plain and short Δ. I pray you to say somewhat more plainly of Ave his last words Mad. ..... If it were the commandment of my mother I could do it But this is the good will of my brother toward you Δ. As your brother hath done this of his good will so do I desire you of your good will to do or say somewhat to our comfort Mad. ..... Sir I pray you pardon me I may not meddle with Ave his doing I have nothing to say to you but I know my Mother hath much to say to you As the mighty thunder cometh so cometh the promise of God Rodulphus the Emperour now If the Emperour my mother sayeth do any thing against Lasky or hinder she answereth in earnest there shall be an Emperour A. L. Earnest is means to be Emperour vide 22 Sept. Prage Δ. Make your sentence more perfect Mad. ..... Therein lieth a mystery A Mystery A comfortable promise My Mother my Sisters Ave Il my self and the rest of us will not be from you in your need Δ. Now is our need as we have declared Mad. ..... Sir Content your self For yet a season you must have patience God blesse you for as yet I feel nothing to say to you Misericos clemens pius est Deus Noster Cujus nomen sit benedictum Nunc semper Amen Note About seven of the Clock this afternoon E. K. came again up into my study and seing me reading and considering this Action began to finde talk of it and willed me to assay the practise of it if I understood it And to be brief by little and little fell to this issue that he confessed himself to be very sorry that he was so far raging in words as he was this day Nay said I any man living else would have found just cause of comfort and to give thanks for AVE such speeches to him as he used unto you upon true compassion and no skoff c. B t you by and by called him Devil and raged on 〈◊〉 against Michael and Gabriel and the heavenly powers with most horrible speeches c. He became very penitent and acknowledged that he had offended God and said that surely it was of the Devil for he did not remember his words but he is sure that they were not decent and beseeched God to forgive him And so did I and was very glad of this his reforming himselfe and we being oft before called down to supper were going out of my Study and as he was almost at the door to go out he said to me I feel a very heavy thing upon my shoulder and it is warm with all Whereat I put to the door and we sat down again Verily thinking as it was that it was the presence of AVE whereupon I said unto the Creature Δ. In the name of Jesus Ave art thou there he answered immediately after as followeth Ave ..... Because thou E. K. 〈◊〉 acknowledged my honour again I will also acknowledge my help toward you But where man curseth the Heavens what holy Creature can abide Or where Satan is brought into possession by free will of man what good Angel is he that departeth not Δ. O Lord confirm thy mercies upon us from henceforth Ave. ..... As concerning your Action The Heavens bear witnesse of it Yea yesterday did the good Angels contend with the wicked and there was a great conflict betwixt them and that about the love of God towards you and your Action But I will visit you again in the morning and will perform my good will in God toward you But 〈◊〉 must pray often if thou wilt avoid temptation God be mercifull to you forgive you and strengthen you to the end Δ. Amen sweet Jesu Amen Δ. When all was thus ended I delivered to E. K. my Psalter book with the short prayers annexed to every Psalm where he himself very devoutly and penitently prayed three of them and I hearing also of them gave my consent in heart to the same prayers Δ. To God onely be all praise honour and glory now and ever Amen Wednesday 27. Junii Cracoviae Mane horam circiter 7. Oratione Dominica finita peculiari Oratione contra Tentationes Sathanae apparuit ipse AVE c. E. K. He is here Δ. Gloria Patri filio spiritui sancto c. Amen Ave. ..... In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Δ. Amen ..... Now what is that that is hard to you 4. First whether the Table for the middle Crosse of uniting the four principal parts be made perfect or no. Ave. ..... Thou hast found out the truth of it Δ. I think a mystery did depend upon the choice of the three names Lexarph Comanan and Tabitom Ave. ..... That is not to our purpose Δ. You bad me 〈◊〉 out of the Tables the Characters of fewest Letters and I found them to be OARA JA and L you said they are eight you said there are eight in four I know not what this meaneth Ave. ..... You must make up the name Paraoan Δ. What shall become of the L aversed Ave. ..... It may be N or L. Δ. What must I now do with that name Ave. ..... In Exarph there wanteth an L. which L. is of more force then the N. and therefore it is set in the Tables As far as that N. stretcheth in the Character so far shall that Countrey be consumed with fire and swallowed into Hell as Sodom was for wickednesse The end of all things is even at hand And the earth must be purified and delivered to another The Heavens shall be 77 times above themselves And the earth shall bring forth without Tillage Prophets speak of dayes as presently that are far off But we speak of dayes that are hard at hand For immediately after your being with Caesar shall the whole world be in sudden alteration Battails and bloudshed great number The Kings of the
so much doth the gift that is given thee from above excel all earthly treasure Notwithstanding because that Manna is loathsom unto thee behold what is said unto thee this day Thou art made free neither shalt thou any time hereafter be constrained to see the judgment of the highest or to hear the voices of the heavens But thou art a stumbling-block unto many Notwithstanding my Spirit shall dwell with thee and in the works of thy hands thou shalt receive comfort And the power which is given thee of seeing shall be diminished in thee and shall dwell upon the first-begotten Son of him that sitteth by thee as I have * before said In the mean season shall he be exercised here before me until the time come that his eyes shall be opened and his ears receive passage towards the highest And these fourteen dayes shall it be a time unto thee of chusing or refusing For I will not cast thee away neither out of my house unless it be long of thy own ignorance and wilful despising of my great benefit If thou therefore be weary of it the fourteenth day hence bring hither and lay before me the Powder which thou hast for thou hast offended me as a false steward in taking out of that which is not thine own I will no longer dally with you but will give unto you according unto your works Δ. O God be merciful unto us and deal not with us according to the wickedness frowardness and blindness of our hearts Amen NOTE Δ. UPon this former part of the Third Action General where my first begotten Son namely Arthur was assigned to the Ministry of seeing and hearing in place and stead of E. K. if he would utterly refuse the same office hitherto by him executed and by him to be executed until the seven actions general finished And that the same Childe and Son in the mean space that is to say between the day of the part of Action received and the end of the same determined to be fourteen dayes after should be exercised before God I thereupon thinking that E. K. would should or best could instruct and direct the Childe in that exercise did alwayes await that E. K. would of himself call the Boy to that Exercise with him and so much the rather because he said that he was very glad now that he should have a Witness of the things shewed and declared by spiritual Creatures And that he would be more willing to do what should be so enjoyned to him to do then if onely he himself did see and that for divers causes But when E. K. said to me that I should exercise the Childe and not he and that he would not I thereupon appointed with my self to bring the Childe to the place and to offer him and present him to the service of Seeing and Skrying from God and by Gods assignment and of the time of fourteen dayes yet remaining being the 15 16 17 dayes of April and next before the 18 day the day assigned to end the Action in to have the Childe exercised in them And thereupon contrived for the Childe this order of Prayer ensuing Die Mercurii summo mane die Aprilis 15. anno 1587. Trebonae In the Name of God the Father of God the Son and of God the Holy Ghost Amen Glory be to God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen O Almighty and Everlasting the true and living God have metcy pity and compassion on my father John Dee and on me Arthur Dee who being now called hither by thy assignment am now here present and ready in all humility obedience and faithfulness to serve thy Divine Majesty with all the gifts and graces which thou hast hither to endued me with and with all other which of thy most bountiful and fatherly mercy thou wilt henceforward bestow upon me Lighten therefore O Almighty God mine eyes and open thou mine ears Quicken Instruct and Confirm in me and unto me my discretion judgement understanding memory and utterance that I may be a true and perfect Seer Hearer Declarer and Witness of such things which either immediately of thy Divine Majesty or mediately by the ministry of thy holy mighty and faithful Angels shall be manifested declared or shewed unto me now and at all times and occasions for the advancing of thy Praise Honour and Glory Amen Hereupon Wednesday morning the 15 of this April I brought the Childe to the holy Table being in order of the furniture thereto belonging and set before him the Stone in the frame my first sanctified Stone and caused him on his knees to say the foresaid Prayer And I also praid to the Childs hearing other Prayers to God for the purpose in hand and at his coming to look and see in the Stone There appeared to him as he judged divers little square figures with pricks and divers other figures and lines which I caused him with his own hand to imitate upon a paper with pen and ink The lines were white and some of the pricks also but other of the pricks were black as of ink Arth. Two old men with black beards and with golden Crowns upon their heads do appear One is now gone this holdeth his hands before him like a Maid Arth. Now in the place of those square marks I see two Lions the one very exactly and gaping About the upper brim of the Stone they appear and the Lions feet be waxen greater and greater I see another man from the breast upward I can see no hair on his head I see a great company of feet and their garments skirts somewhat above their ankles and they are like womens kirtles with gards about them I see another man without a doublet in his shirt and with a white Cloke about him hanging his hands down by his sides Δ. Nothing else esteemed or judged to be shewn in the Stone by the Childe we ceased that Exercise and committed all to Gods mercies Δ. On Thursday and Friday I determined each of them two dayes that the Childe shall thrice in the day be put to the Exercise and each time repeat the Prayer prescribed thrice Δ. In the forenoon I brought the Childe to the Exercise and he said as followeth I see two men with Crowns of gold upon their heads their apparel is black and white I cannot see their feet Their faces are white their eyes are black like spots of ink There appear now two other without Crowns of the which one standeth whole before and of the other I see nothing but the head which standeth behinde the first I see not any with Crowns now The apparel of him is white that I see I see no hands of him I see nothing now The squares and pricks appear again as yesterday And I doubted it was something of the Glass it self as there were in it certain
white spots An hour we were at the practise Δ. The second Exercise before Dinner After the Prayer thrice said c. Arth. I see the first square lines and pricks white and black the pricks for the most part be all white but some are black and the lines all white I saw even now some of those squares made Lions but now there appear none The squares are now turned also into other shapes which I cannot well declare Now the Letters be gone and the squares do appear again The squares are gone and a word is there The letters are clearer then they were for all the lines and letters do appear white There appeareth a B with a square with four black pricks in it It is gone Now some of the squares are come amongst the letters B D O. Under the B appeareth a little `thus ' backward The letters as if one had cut them in the glass B D O Here appeareth a Castle with little pinacles like a Church Now it is gone B a this appeared and suddenly is gone Now there appeareth a young man with a white doublet and his arms by his side and a B before him against his doublet He hath a black beard and a white face I see no hair on his head his beard is a little He is now changed he hath on his doublet breast on each side three black lines He is gone and another is come in his place with a white leather 〈◊〉 and a grey cloke like Hans of Gloats his cloke He is gone The first young man is come again and hath now on the one side of his doublet on the other side thus Now I see only two strokes overthwart all the doublet but he hath no head that I see 〈◊〉 his head is come again or else another man that hath two lines and two 〈◊〉 as he had The light of the candle did seem to shine suddenly on his face and go away again It did not shine on his doublet but onely on his face and his head There is now another man come in who holdeth up both his hands the upper part of his sleeves are white and the half towards his hands black The first man is here still Now he hath no arms but a B before his doublet but no lines but only on each side two pricks in stead of the lines thus These men came amongst the squares suddenly before I was aware Here appear not so many as were here Here are now but six squares and one man I see no farther of the man but to the waste of his doublet The man appeareth not so brim to my sight as he did his head is no bigger than the mark in the margent The third Exercise after Dinner Arth. Whereas I said before there was some of the square figures wanting Now I finde that they are all here again as many as they were at my first feeing In lifting up the Stone and bringing it down again the squares do all seem like B B of the Roman letters Δ. Magna mora Arth. I see now B A. It is now vanished away after three Pater noster times saying R a appeareth but I cannot see clearly the foot of the R. Now it is gone 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I see a thing all white in this form and a little o before it It would seem to be as an X and an o. It is vanished away e B An English little e and a Roman great B. It is gone before I can be aware S B now appeareth B by himself it appeareth following S B thus S B B. N appeareth by the last B in order following thus S B B N. I can see no more now but the S B the B and N. s B appear e B is here now B by himself with two great white pricks before it appear The pricks wax dim The man standeth amongst the squares and letters in the midst of them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This now appeareth The 4 little pricks be gone There appeareth like a B and a d joyning to it A circle appeared with a black prick in it and two white pricks after An n two strikes and two white pricks after The n is white and the prick within the n black ua appeared and quickly went away Two long strikes by themselves white The two pricks black and the crooked line white Four white pricks by themselves Two black Two long white strikes and a prick A round circle white and a black prick in it A white prick by it self A little prick as it were blotted and a stroke by it all white The crooked lines white and the pricks black Two white pricks by themselves Two long white strokes lo These both white Here appeareth the thing like the Castle all white The pricks black the lines white A little English o by it self Four white strokes The man is here in the midst of the things as before I told Four white pricks Note All the shews are within the uppermost quarter of the stone as where A with the prick Like a figure of 2 all white Two little black pricks and the stroke white They are now gone Do appeareth all white Xo appeareth all white B e appeareth white Two o's joyned like a figure of 8 all white A great Roman white S by it self B Bu These appear white A white prick by it self An English little t white Two lines white Mora magna So we ended Δ. God enrich us with his Truths The end of Thursdays third Exeroise Friday Morning 1. The Prayers on both parts being said Arth. I see not the squares lines pricks and those other things which I was wont to see first Mora horae unius After I had tarried an hour and had had no evident shew as I asked the boy diligently again he said that he had from the beginning seen thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Also there appeared X o all white D o the o joyneth to the D. Fiat voluntas Dei in sua-luce veritate ad ejus nominis laudem honorem gloriam Amen Friday II. Preces Mora horae unius spatio Nulla ostensio toto illo tempore Δ. 〈◊〉 misericordia Pax Dei Domini nostri Jesu Christi sit super nos nobiscum nunc in sempiterna saeculorum saecula Amen Friday 3. à meridie Mora Magna Multae factae preces erant invitati illi fideles Dei servi quia etiam auxilia sua 〈◊〉 cessitati quocumque tempore Etsi mora magna admiranda apparitio nulla facta est puero ipsi Δ. Tandem mirabili fortuna sive fato divino accessit ad nos Dominus E. K. quae sequebantur notavi Δ. He sate down by us and Arthur yet standing before me at the Table being covered after the best manner but onely the Stone being set thereon He asked if any thing appeared We answered No albeit I have called oftentimes and have prayed earnestly that some of our