"But when you see th' effects of the Great Medium, Of which one part projected on a hundred Of Mercury, or Venus, or the Moon, Shall turn it to as many of the Sun; Nay to a thousand, so ad infinitum, You will believe me." [14] Godwin's _Lives of Necromancers_, Art. Dee. Dr. Dee's _Diary_ (Camden Soc.) contains many references to his alchemical pursuits.--See pp. 7, 22, 25, 27, 28, 37, and 63. [15] Brewster's _Life of Sir Isaac Newton_, vol. ii. p. 376. [16] Preface to _Bibl. Chem. Curiosa_, quoted by Thomson, p. 18. For a list of Boyle's works connected with alchemy, see the _Philosophical Epitaphs_, by W. C. [17] _Pictorial History of England_, vol. ii. p. 207. [18] Baines's _Lancashire_. [19] _Fœdera_, vol. ix. p. 379. [20] _Rot. Parl._, vol. v. p. 314_a_. [21] _Rot. Parl._, vol. v. p. 314_a_. [22] _Worthies_, &c., p. 122. [23] For a copy of this patent in the original Latin, see Baines's _Lancashire_, vol. i. p. 406. [24] Pennant's _London_. [25] _History of his Life and Times._ [26] Lilly's _Life and Times_, p. 224. [27] Whatton's _Memoir_ in Baines's _Lancashire_, vol. ii. p. 367. [28] From Barnaby Googe's Translation of the _Regnum Papisticum_ (or Popish Kingdom) of Naogeorgus, fol. 41 _b_. [29] _Golden Legend._ [30] Hone's _Every-Day Book_, p. 141. [31] See Durand's _Rationale_. [32] Strutt's _Manners and Customs_, vol. iii. p. 176. [33] Ray's _Collection of Old English Proverbs_. [34] P. P., in _Notes and Queries_, vol. ix. p. 569. [35] Thornber's _History of Blackpool_, p. 342. [36] Toland's _History of the Druids_. [37] Hone's _Every-Day Book_, vol. i. p. 594. [38] _Gentleman's Magazine_, February, 1795. [39] Mr. William Harrison's notes on Waldron's _Description of the Isle of Man_, p. 125. [40] Hampson's _Medii Ævi Kalendarium_, vol. i. p. 252. [41] Rev. W. Thornber's _History of Blackpool_. [42] _Passages in the Life of a Radical_, vol. i. p. 130. [43] _History of Droylsden_, p. 67. [44] Mr. John Higson's _Notices of Droylsden_. [45] See _Pictorial History of Lancashire_, p. 189, and Whitaker's _History of Whalley_, p. 342. [46] _History of Blackpool_, p. 332. [47] In his _L'Allegro_, where he "Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn the cream-bowl duly set, When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shad'wy flail had thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labours could not end; Then lies him down the _lubber-fiend_, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And, cropful, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." [48] _Pictorial History of Lancashire._ [49] _Sketches of Lancashire Life_, p. 192. CHARMS AND SPELLS. These may be placed in two classes--those directed against evil beings, witchcraft, &c., and those which may be termed in their object curative of "all the ills that flesh is heir to." First as to CHARMS AND SPELLS AGAINST EVIL BEINGS.