Tercentenary of Dee's death - No life of him - Persistent misunderstanding - Birth - Parentage - At Chelmsford Grammar School - St. John's College, Cambridge - Fellow of Trinity - Theatrical enterprise - In the Low Countries - M.A. of Cambridge - Louvain University - Paris - Readings in Euclid - Correspondents abroad - Return to England.

Books dedicated to Edward VI. - Upton Rectory - Long Leadenham - Books dedicated to Duchess of Northumberland - Ferrys informas against his "magic" - In prison - Handed over to Bonner - At Philpot's trial - Efforts to found a State Library - Astrology - Horoscopes - Choice of a day for Queen Elizabeth's coronation - Introduced to her by Dudley - Sympathetic magic - Bachelor of Divinity - In Antwerp - Monas Hieroglyphica - Preface to Billingsley's Euclid - Called a conjurer.

Proposed benefices - Propaedeumata Aphoristica - Alchemical secrets - Settled at Mortlake - Journey to Lorraine - Illness - The Queen's attentions - Mines and hidden treasure - Wigmore Castle - Marriage - Death of first wife - Literary correspondence - John Stow - Diary commenced - The Hexameron Brytannicum - The British Complement - Slander and falsehood - A petty navy - The sea-power of Albion - Fisheries and foreign policy.

A comet or blazing star - Second marriage - Jane Fromond - Hurried journey abroad - Berlin and Frankfort - Birth of a son - Christening - Edward Dyer - Duc d'Alencon - Michael Lock - His sons - The Queen's visit - Sir Humphrey Gilbert at Mortlake - Adrian Gilbert - John Davis - The Queen's Title Royall - Lord Treasurer Burleigh - Death of Dee's mother - The Queen's visit of condolence - Map of America - Visits to the Muscovy House - Frobisher and Hawkins - Birth of a daughter - Accident to Arthur.

Assistants - Roger cook - Magic and alchemy - Psychic powers - Crystal gazing - Dreams and mysteries - Vincent Murphy and a lawsuit - Jean Bodin visits England - Quarrel between Leicester and Sussex - Mary Herbert - Sir George Peckham - The stage at Paris Garden - Mr. Secretary Walsingham - The Queen at Greenwich - Barnabas Saul as medium - Edward Talbot - Sight in the stone - The table of practice - The waxen seals.

Edward Kelly - An alias - His previous history - His mysterious powder - Marriage to Joan Cooper - Jane Dee's dislike of Kelly - The diary of the actions - How Ashmole obtained the MSS. - Book of Mysteries - The four angels - Dee's thirst for hidden knowledge - A crystal is brought - Medecina.

Kelly, the skryer - A third person - Adrian Gilbert - Kelly and an "illuder" - Dee employed to reform the Calendar - The Queen and Raleigh - Hidden treasure - Burleigh's library - Dee's precious books - Kelly rebellious - Threatens to depart - Pacified by Adrian Gilbert - His wife's letters - He goes to London - Becomes clairvoyant - Sees Mary Queen of Scots executed.

Straits for lack of money - Count Albert Laski - Aspirations toward the Polish Crown - King Stephan Bathory - Dee introduced to him by Leicester - Laski at Oxford - At Mortlake - Madimi - Galvah or Finis - Laski's guardian angel - Madimi a linguist - Kelly threatens to leave - His salary of £50 - Thomas Kelly - Dee's suspicions - Kelly's tempers - His love of money.

Gifts from the Queen - Departure from Mortlake - Laski and the whole party sail from Gravesend - Queenborough - The Brill - Haarlem - Amsterdam - Harlingen - Dokkum - Instructions from Gabriel - Embden - Oldenberg - Bremen - Il's levity - Visions of England - Hamburg - Lubeck.

Promises of wealth - Dee's doubts - His books and library destroyed by the mob - Rostock - Stettin - Posen Cathedral - Severe winter weather - The table set up - Nalvage - Sir Harry Sidney - Madimi - The Queen's affection - At Lask - Cracow.

Cracow - The new Style - Dee's work on the Reformation of the Calendar - Kelly's discontent - Geographical lessons - Laski and King Stephan - Kesmark - Gabriel's pleading - Kelly repentant - A vision of four castles - Ave - Dee's patience.

Rowland's illness - Dee sets out for Prague - Thomas Kelly - Dr. Hageck's house - Rudoplh II. - Simon's study - Interview with the Emperor - Kelly's outbursts - Dr. Jacob Curtius - Dee's natural history - The Spanish Ambassador - Jane Dee ill - A passport granted - Back to Prague - Kelly's doubts.

To Limburg - Michael baptised in Prague Cathedral - Easter - Poverty and distress - Kelly again restive - "Parabola de Nobus Duobus" - Return to Cracow - Mr. Tebaldo - Interviews with King Stephan - His death - Dr. Annibaldus - Back at Prague - Francisco Pucci - The Book of Enoch - Claves Angelicae - Banished by Papal edict - William Count Rosenberg - Dee at Leipsic - Letter to Walsingham - A new Nuncio - Invitation to Trebona.

Trebona Castle - Rosenberg Viceroy of Bohemia - Invitation to Russia - Projection with Kelly's powder - A gift to Jane Dee - Letter from Kelly - Jane to her husband - Joan Kelly - Dee's friends desert him for Kelly - Arthur to be the skryer - Kelly's pretended vision - A hard and impure doctrine - Dee's scruples overridden - A solemn pact - Kelly disowns blame - End of his clairvoyance - The spirits' diary closed.

Letters to Walsingham - A tutor for the children - Coldness and jealousy - Furnaces constructed - Rumours and reports - Book of Dunstan - Kelly's haughtiness - Accident to Michael - The great secret - Kelly steals the best workman - Break-up of the Trebona family - Dee's letter to the Queen on the Armada - Gifts to Kelly - His departure - Coaches and horses provided - Dee quits Bohemia - Arrival in Bremen.

Kelly in favour with Rudolph - Givena title - Corresponds with Dee - Fabulous stories of gold - Burleigh begs his return to England - A token to be sent - A prescription for his gout - Letter to Kelly - Kelly's fall from favour - Flight from arrest - Capture at Sobislaus - Imprisonment - Writings on alchemy - Letters to Dee - Attempted escape - Death.

Dee's life in Bremen - Letter of safe conduct from the Queen - Writes to Walsingham - Timon Coccius - Heinrich Khunrath - Departure for England - Dr. Pezel - Events in England since Dee left - Arrival at Court - Offers of friends - Madinia born - School for the children - Death of Walsingham - Richard Cavendish - Ann Frank - The Queen at Richmond - Christmas gifts.

Loss of income - Hopes of a benefice - The Court at Nonsuch - Mary Herbert - Arthur sent to Westminster School - His disposition - Birth of Frances - Dr. William Aubrey - Deferred hopes - The commissioners' visit - Compendious Rehearsall - Dee's half-hundred years - The blinded lady Fortune.

The library at Mortlake - Books and instruments - Richard Chancellor's quadrant - A radius Astronomicus - Mercator's globes - A watch-clock by Dibbley - Boxes of MSS. - Seals and coats of arms - Records for the Tower - Autograph works - Recorde's Ground of Artes - Catalogue of the books - Classic authors - English authors.

The Queen's gift - Anne Countess of Warwick - Christmas at Tooting - Francis Nicholls - Visitors to Mortlake - the Lord Keeper - Elizabeth Kyrton - Messengers from Laski - Mr. Webbe - Bartholomew Hickman - The Queen at Greenwich - Advantages of St. Cross - Archbishop Whitgift - The whole family to see the Queen - "Adieu to Courts and Courting" - Michael's death - Chancell or of St. Paul's - Jane's supplication - A post at last - Manchester College - Birth of Margaret - Lord Derby - A move northward.

Collegiate Church of Manchester - The Byrons of Clayton - Cotton's servant - Titles of the college lands - Mr. Harry Savile - Survey of the town - Christopher Saxton - A surprise visit - Governess for the girls - Witchcraft in Lancashire - Dee's library in request - Disputes among the Fellows - Perambulation fo teh bounds - Richard Hooker - Marking boundaries - Earl and Countess of Derby - College affairs - The Queen's sea sovereignty - Letter to Sir Edward Dyer - Humphrey Davenport - Sir Julius Caesar - Welcome gi fts - Journey to London.

Absence from Manchester - A special commission - Return to the north - Grammar School inspection - Dreams and sleepless nights - Trouble with the Fellows - Unsatisfactory curates - Borrowing money on plate - Crystal gazing again - Untrue visions - Return of Roger Cook - College property in Cheshire - Arthur the chapter clerk - End of the Diary.

Death of Theodore - Arthur's marriage - His horoscope - Death of the Queen - James I. and his Demonologie - Act against witchcraft - Dee petitions Parliament and the King at Greenwich - Passionate protest - Offers to be burned - Pleads for an Act against slander - Neglected and alone - Death of Jane - The children ill - Dee in London - Katherine his mainstay - Cruel delusions - A journey to go - Failing memory - John Pontoys - The vision fades - Death - A grave at Mortlake - Garrulous reminiscences.