"The charges of the four Swart Ruiters, very well mounted, and appointed to attend on me at Staden, from Breme, being honourably and very carefully sent unto me by the noble consuls and senators of Breme, and that with a friendly farewell (delivered unto me by the speech of one of their secretaries at my lodgings) need not be specified here what it was. For their going with me in two days to Staden, their abode there, and as much homeward, being in all five days' charges, 30 dollars. "This was a very dangerous time to ride abroad in thereabouts, as the merchants of Staden can well remember. The excellent learned theologian, the superintendent of Breme, Mr D. Chrystopher Berzelius his verses, printed the night before that of my going from Breme, and the morning of my departure, openly delivered to me partly, and partly distributed to the company of students and others attending about to see us set forth, and to bid us farewell, may be a memorial of some of my good credit grown in that city, and of the day of my coming from it. "I will not enlarge my lines to specific what other charges I was at to further some of her Majestie's servants at my lying at Breme; as 70 dollars given or lent to one Conradus Justus Newbrenner; and about 40 given to gett some letters of great importance brought to our sovereign's honorable privy council in due time. [Sidenote: 10 lib.] "The charge of my fraught and passage from Staden to London for my goods, myself, my wife, children, and servants [Sidenote: 796 lib.] "So that the sum total of money, spent and laid out, in and for my remove from Trebon to London doth amount to [Sidenote: 1510 lib.] "Whereby the whole sum of the former damages and losses [Sidenote: 796 lib.] "And the removing charges doth amount (with the least) to [Sidenote: 2306 lib.] "Besides the 100 dollars disbursed at Breme for dutiful love to Queen and country." One minor occurrence in the following tradition--viz., the loss of the horse--is related by Lilly as happening to another of the fraternity; but we claim it--upon grounds too trivial it might be deemed by some--for the "Doctor." It is not our intention to spoil a good story by rejecting what we cannot verify. Sufficient for us that the tale exists; though we take the liberty of telling it in our own way. There came a thin spare man one evening to Dr Dee's residence in the college at Manchester, where he then dwelt by permission only from the Earl of Derby, though living there in the capacity of warden to the church.