- Page 1 and 2:
The Alchemical Patronage of Sir Wil
- Page 3 and 4:
Abstract This thesis examines the a
- Page 5 and 6:
Acknowledgements Thanks must first
- Page 7 and 8:
List of Abbreviations APC Acts of t
- Page 9 and 10:
Introduction William Cecil, through
- Page 11 and 12:
late seventeenth and early eighteen
- Page 13 and 14:
economic policy, only cursory exami
- Page 15 and 16:
otherwise. The dull, elderly, burea
- Page 17 and 18:
y such prolific authors as A. E. Wa
- Page 19 and 20:
marginalised the importance of alch
- Page 21 and 22:
Many of the distortions in the hist
- Page 23 and 24:
difficult to access with microfilm
- Page 25 and 26:
Chapter 1: Cecil and Alchemical Phi
- Page 27 and 28:
other aspects of medieval knowledge
- Page 29 and 30:
explain why alchemy made sense in t
- Page 31 and 32:
accuracy of the Aristotelian texts.
- Page 33 and 34:
short-sighted match. 44 There is ev
- Page 35 and 36:
University in the period. 56 A high
- Page 37 and 38:
some tentative conclusions about Ce
- Page 39 and 40:
Cecil tended to favour more practic
- Page 41 and 42:
Actes and Monuments (1563), ―fata
- Page 43 and 44:
Dee and Cecil‘s relationship over
- Page 45 and 46:
symbolism, seems tenuous. It ignore
- Page 47 and 48:
great pleasure in the workes of Nat
- Page 49 and 50:
demonstrated the divine spirit of l
- Page 51 and 52:
alchemical knowledge than his geogr
- Page 53 and 54:
eports to Cecil are almost exclusiv
- Page 55 and 56:
Thynne also affirmed the importance
- Page 57 and 58:
From Longleat Thynne wrote for Ceci
- Page 59 and 60:
his desperate financial situation.
- Page 61 and 62:
no significant records of their pra
- Page 63 and 64:
such as John Dee and country gentle
- Page 65 and 66:
The late 1560s saw the first signif
- Page 67 and 68:
eminently qualified to deal with th
- Page 69 and 70:
the patronage of James Blount, Lord
- Page 71 and 72:
medicines. Amongst the collection o
- Page 73 and 74:
gold into France to fund Catholic e
- Page 75 and 76:
in distayne‖. 98 However, it is n
- Page 77 and 78:
of a dedicatory epistle to Cecil, f
- Page 79 and 80:
home I have not seen‖. 120 Where
- Page 81 and 82:
of yeeres before Paracelsus time‖
- Page 83 and 84:
Henry Bossevyle suggested practical
- Page 85 and 86: metal and European currencies, furt
- Page 87 and 88: De Lannoy first came to the attenti
- Page 89 and 90: god send it her majesty as trouly a
- Page 91 and 92: perform alchemy. Rather, Waad belie
- Page 93 and 94: and Leicester. 56 De Lannoy promise
- Page 95 and 96: Cecil could not convince the Queen,
- Page 97 and 98: the accounts of Elias Ashmole and S
- Page 99 and 100: context of Dee‘s failed English C
- Page 101 and 102: By March 1589 Dee had left Bohemia
- Page 103 and 104: entirely self centred‖. 117 Cecil
- Page 105 and 106: Cecil and the Queen‘s demands tha
- Page 107 and 108: love and honor vertue and knolledge
- Page 109 and 110: Kelley‘s demise. 148 Wotton repor
- Page 111 and 112: depryved of his libertye and frends
- Page 113 and 114: According to Page, Kelley had not i
- Page 115 and 116: a number of attempts to convince Ke
- Page 117 and 118: For the Queen and Cecil, Smith‘s
- Page 119 and 120: £500 from the company, they were t
- Page 121 and 122: payment. Peterson refused them; he
- Page 123 and 124: Smith‘s plan, they must have been
- Page 125 and 126: Chapter Four: Alchemy and Economic
- Page 127 and 128: essays Meta Incognita: A Discourse
- Page 129 and 130: y chance she threw and burned in th
- Page 131 and 132: y others without trewthe‖. 25 Wal
- Page 133 and 134: work did not make this link, and ne
- Page 135: linked. It is, however, significant
- Page 139 and 140: to involve cementation rather than
- Page 141 and 142: Clearly aware of Cecil‘s rising i
- Page 143 and 144: certainly the practical expert, who
- Page 145 and 146: new process which ―my Lord Burghl
- Page 147 and 148: Image 3: An Elizabethan Map of the
- Page 149 and 150: was the potential benefit for the C
- Page 151 and 152: Medley ―by commaundement mencyone
- Page 153 and 154: thanked Wotton for his letter detai
- Page 155 and 156: intention to have medled with any c
- Page 157 and 158: and to have received through his fa
- Page 159 and 160: again imprisoned, this time almost
- Page 161 and 162: was a key investor, attempted to ut
- Page 163 and 164: understanding of nature. John Dee,
- Page 165 and 166: promised ―an ounce or so of powde
- Page 167 and 168: conviction regarding the reality of
- Page 169 and 170: ———, Calendar of Patent Rolls
- Page 171 and 172: Bennet, Henry, A Famous and Godly H
- Page 173 and 174: Szulakowska, Urszula, ‗The Pseudo
- Page 175 and 176: Fiddler, Paul A., and Thomas J. May
- Page 177 and 178: Matthews, John, (ed.), The Rosicruc
- Page 179 and 180: ———, The Life of the Learned