138
NOTES AND QUERIES, ff* s. vm. AUG. 17, MOI.
of Pembroke. A more personal note occurs
lower down: "Anno 1509 vel 1508 on cnstmas
day 21 October [sic] my mother was born : to
whome I am very like in having my
And she was married 1524 " All the rest on
this subject is illegible. I will give one more
scrap: " Wilton herbart obsesus [1]
My lord of C her sonne wife to comes
etc. of pe'brok anno 1544." The reference here is to him and his wife receiving from Henry VIII. the estates of the dissolved Abbey of Wilton in Wiltshire.
6. Hangest (Hieronymus) Liber proportip | nu' magistri hie | ronimi de han- | gest. Black letter, folio, Parisiis (Jehan Petit), s.a.
Signature on title-page, " Joannes Dee 1557. 4 Maij, Londini."
7. Hispalensis (Joannes) Epitome | totius astro- lo | gicae. 4to, Noribergae, 1548.
Signature on title-page, "Joannes Deeus 1548, Decembre, Antwerpise, xij d ij s ." A few marginal notes.
8. Lombardus (Bonus) Introductio | in divinam | chemiae artem. 8vo, Basileae, 1572. Signature on title-page and on pp. 88 and 116. Numerous marginal notes. On p. 122 is the following quotation :
Bathon and Raymund w th many Authors mo Write under covert, and Aristotle allso For what haveoc they wrath with theyr penne Theyr clowdy clauses, dulled many men.
Norton in the proheme of his Ordinall.
9. Lully (Raimundus) [title-page missing] Libel- lus de Kabbalistico avditvi in via Raimundi Lvlli. Black-letter, 12mo, Venetiis, 1518.
On first leaf signature with date 1564. On last leaf, " Aspice domine de sede sa'cta tua. Joannes Dee, Lond. Recepi a Roma 29 Aprili A 1564 Antwerpiae." A few notes at the end.
10. Matthaeus Westmonasteriensis. Flores | His- toriarum. Folio, Lond., 1570.
Notes in handwriting similar to that in the other books.
11. Mizaldus (Antonius) Planetologia, re- | bus astronomicis, medicis, et philo- | sophicis ervdite referata. 4to, Lugduni, 1551.
Signature on title-page with date "1553, Londini 17. Sep."
12. Munsterus (Sebastianus) Canones super | novvm instrvmentvm luminarium. 4to, Basileae, 1534.
13. Pastellus (Gulielmus) De Vniversitate liber [seu de cosmographia compendium 1 . Second edi- tion, 4to, Paris, 1563.
Marginal notes.
14. Ptolomaeus. Quadriparti. Ptolo. Black- letter, folio, Venice, 1519.
Long note on fly-leaf headed :
" Hora et minuta nativitatis et considerari de- bent : et inde de f utura corpora' dispositione, atq'
adeo animoru' facultatibus praescriri posse 1551.
Meloni [?] 14 Septembris." Numerous marginal notes.
15. Riffinus(G. H.) In Caii Plinii | i. etii. cap.
libri xxx. Com- | mentarius una cum | Joannis
Tritemii Abbatis Span- | cheymensis in Libros
suos Stegnographie, Epistola | apologetica, &c. 4to, Wurzburg, 1548.
The reason which Trithemius gives here for not publishing his ' Steganographia ' (of which Dee must have possessed a MS. copy) is its power of evil should it fall into bad hands. See 5 th S. xi. 401, 422.
To one page of this book was pinned a piece of paper containing on one side notes in Dee's handwriting on the other, in a set book-hand, the following exorcism :
What manner of evell y* ever thow be
on goddys behalfe I co'iure the
I co'iure the with the blessyd crosse +
that JhC was done one with fforse
I co'iure the with the nayls thre
rJhC was done apon the tre co'iure the with the crowne of thorne
y fc on JhC heyd was done ffor scorne
I co'iure the with the blessyd bloode
that JhC bleyd on the rode
I co'iure the with the wounds ffyve
y* JhC suffurt in his live
I co'iure the with the wholye spere
y* longins tyll his hart can bere
yet I co'iure the never the lasse
with all the vertues of the masse in honore ble. marie et bli. batolphi et scte apolonie
et sancte Petro et et unu' credo hie
faithe hie sanctune wed n helfe cryste helpe
Quforbiu' pelitorie of speane stavyeatur [?J. W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.
Royal College of Physicians.
BEVIS MARKS SYNAGOGUE BICENTENARY.
AN eventful day in the annals of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community in this country was Wednesday, the 26th of June, when was celebrated the completion of two hundred years since the inauguration of the synagogue "Saas Asamaim" (Gate of Heaven), situate in Bevis Marks, the oldest existing Jewish place of worship in England. The Jewish World of the following Saturday gave a concise record from 1701 to 1901.
The first synagogue in this country was in King Street, Aldgate. It was established in 1656, and Thomas Greerihalgh found there in 1662 a hundred male worshippers, men of apparent affluence, besides ladies in very rich attire The lease of the cemetery in the Mile End Road is dated 1657 ; it was for 999 years. The Spanish and Portuguese "Beth-Holim" Hospital now occupies its site.
Once the Aldgate synagogue was estab- lished, the attention of the community was
