This man pretended
to instruct him how to obtain, by means of certain invocations, an
intercourse with spirits. Soon afterwards there came to England a Polish
lord, Albert Laski, palatine of Siradia, a person of great learning. He
was introduced to Dee by the Earl of Leicester, who was now the doctor's
chief patron. Becoming acquainted, Laski prevailed with Dee and Kelly to
accompany him to his own country. They went privately from Mortlake,
embarking for Holland, from whence they travelled by land through
Germany into Poland. On the 3d February 1584, they arrived at the castle
of their patron, where they remained for some time.
They afterwards visited the Emperor Rodolphe at Prague. On the 17th
April 1585, Laski introduced them to Stephen, king of Poland, at Cracow;
but this prince treating them very coolly, they returned to the
emperor's court at Prague, from whence they were banished at the
instigation of the Pope's nuncio, who represented them as magicians.
The doctor and his companion afterwards found an asylum in the Castle of
Trebona, belonging to Count William, of Rosenberg, where they lived in
great splendour for a considerable time.
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