Editorial note — PRIVATE DIARY (continued 2)
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gg. Dee has preserved several interesting notices of his intimacies with the principal navigators of his time. A general reference to Hackluyt will be sufficient.
hh. See the “Compendious Rehearsall,” published by Hearne from a Manuscript in the Cottonian collection, now partially destroyed by fire, for a more extended account of this.
ii. Now in the Cottonian collection. Ashmole has preserved a copy of it in MS. Ashm. 1790.
kk. This entry is not very clear. It either refers perhaps to Harriot, the celebrated mathematician, or to the London goldsmith whom the Abbotsford novelist has immortalized.
ll. This notice is particularly interesting, showing the intimate connexion which existed between the first English mathematician of the day and the philosopher of Mortlake.
mm. In a note by Dee in MS. Ashm. 488, he says, “All Barthilmew’s reports of sight and hering spirituall wer burnt; a copy of the first part, which was afterward fownd, was burnt before me and my wife.”