Northern Europe - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation - Volume 1 - Collected By Richard Hakluyt
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He
was a man of vast erudition, but being, in Mary's reign, suspected of
devoting himself to the "black art," a mob broke into his house and
destroyed his library, museum, and mathematical instruments, said to be
worth L2,000; and he himself was cast into prison.
He was in great favour
with Queen Elizabeth, who is said to haue paid him a salary, employed him
on secret political missions, and visited him at Mortlake. He professed
to be able to raise the dead, and had a magic ball (in reality a lump of
black lead), in which he pretended to read the future, and which was
afterwards in Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill. In 1596. he
was made Warden of Manchester College, and died in 1608.] touching the
foresaid voyage of Nicholas De Linna.
Anno 1360. (that is to wit, in the 34. yeere of the reigne of the
triumphant king Edward the third) a frier of Oxford, being a good
Astronomer, went in companie with others to the most Northren Islands of
the world, and there leauing his company together, hee transited alone, and
purposely described all the Northerne Islands, with the indrawing seas: and
the record thereof at his returne he deliuered to the king of England.
[Sidenote: Inuentio Fortunata.] The name of which booke is Inuentio
Fortunata (aliter fortuna) qui liber incipit a gradu 54. vsque ad polum.
Which frier for sundry purposes after that did fiue times passe from
England thither, and home againe.
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