5. _Roger Bacon_ our Countryman, who was a _Franciscan_ Fryar, and Doctor of Divinity, the greatest Chymist, Astrologer, and Mathematician of his time, yet could not escape the injurious and unchristian censure of being a Conjurer, and so hard put to it, that as _Pitts_ saith, he was twice cited to _Rome_ by _Clement_ the Fourth, to purge himself of that accusation, and was forced to send his Optical and Mathematical Instruments to _Rome_, to satisfie the Pope and the Conclave, which he amply performed, and came off with honor and applause. To vindicate whom I need say little, because it is already performed by the Pens of those learned persons, _Pitts_, _Leland_, _Selden_, and _Nandæus_, only I shall add one Sentence forth of that most learned Treatise, _De mirabili potestate artis & naturæ, & de nullitate magiæ_. Where he saith thus: _Quicquid autem est præter operationem naturæ vel artis, aut non est humanum, aut est fictum & fraudibus occupatum_. Another of our Country-men Dr. _John Dee_, the greatest and ablest Philosopher, Mathematician, and Chymist that his Age (or it may be ever since) produced, could not evade the censure of the Monster-headed multitude, but even in his life time was accounted a Conjurer, of which he most sadly (and not without cause) complaineth in his most learned Preface to _Euclid_, Englished by Mr. _Billingsley_, and there strongly apologizeth for himself, with that zeal and fervency, that may satisfie any rational Christian, that he was no such wicked person, as to have visible and familiar converse (if any such thing can be nowadays) with the Devil, the known Enemy of Mankind, of which take this short passage, where he saith: “O my unkind Country-men, O unnatural Country-men, O unthankful Country-men, O brain-sick, rash, spiteful, and disdainful Country-men, why oppress you me thus violently with your slandering of me contrary to verity, and contrary to your own consciences?” Yet notwithstanding this, and his known abilities in the most parts of abstruse Learning, the great respect that he had from divers Princes, Nobles, and the most Learned in all _Europe_, could not protect him from this harsh and unjust censure. For Dr. _Casaubon_ near fifty years after Dr. _Dees_ death, hath in the year 1659. published a large Book in Folio of _Dees_ conversing for many years with Spirits (wicked ones he meaneth.) But how Christian-like this was done, to wound the mans reputation so many years after his death, and with that horrid and wicked slander of having familiarity with Devils for many years in his life time, which tends to the loss both of body and soul, and to register him amongst the damned, how Christian-like this is, I leave all Christians to judge? Besides, let all the World judge in this case, that Dr. _Casaubon_ being a sworn Witchmonger, even to the credulity of the filthiest and most impossible of their actions, cannot but allow of the Law that doth punish them for