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The Alchemical Patronage of Sir Wil
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Abstract This thesis examines the a
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Acknowledgements Thanks must first
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Kelley‘s demise. 148 Wotton repor
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depryved of his libertye and frends
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According to Page, Kelley had not i
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a number of attempts to convince Ke
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For the Queen and Cecil, Smith‘s
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£500 from the company, they were t
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payment. Peterson refused them; he
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Smith‘s plan, they must have been
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Chapter Four: Alchemy and Economic
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essays Meta Incognita: A Discourse
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y chance she threw and burned in th
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y others without trewthe‖. 25 Wal
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work did not make this link, and ne
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linked. It is, however, significant
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laming betrayal, setbacks and decep
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to involve cementation rather than
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Clearly aware of Cecil‘s rising i
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certainly the practical expert, who
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new process which ―my Lord Burghl
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Image 3: An Elizabethan Map of the
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was the potential benefit for the C
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Medley ―by commaundement mencyone
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thanked Wotton for his letter detai
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intention to have medled with any c
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and to have received through his fa
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again imprisoned, this time almost
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was a key investor, attempted to ut
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understanding of nature. John Dee,
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promised ―an ounce or so of powde
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conviction regarding the reality of
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———, Calendar of Patent Rolls
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Bennet, Henry, A Famous and Godly H
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Szulakowska, Urszula, ‗The Pseudo
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Fiddler, Paul A., and Thomas J. May
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Matthews, John, (ed.), The Rosicruc
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———, The Life of the Learned