Index

Abbots Bromley, 188

Abnalls Lane, 50

Academiarum Examen, or the Examination of Academies, 182

Acception, 96

Addison, Dean Lancelot, 219, 222–23

Addison’s Walk, 80

Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius, 149–50

Alban, St., 34, 35, 97, 100, 101, 102–3

Albertus Magnus, 171

Aldermaston, 123

Ammon, 151

Amphibal, St., 99

Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (Khunrath), 149

Anderson, James, 96, 115

Andreae, Johann Valentin, 155, 171, 179

Anthropos, 71, 141

Antiquities of Warwickshire (Dugdale), 186, 230

Apollonius of Tyana, 261

Arowak Indians, 194

Artephius, 149

Art of Stenographie, The, 81

Arundel Gardens, London, 248

Asclepius, 151

Ashmole, Ann (Bowyer), 15, 22, 24, 25, 53, 92

Ashmole, Simon, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22, 44, 54

Ashmole, Thomas, 14, 19, 66, 182

Ashmolean Museum, 25, 189, 239, 240, 242, 245, 252, 253

Astbury church, 57, 59, 60, 62, 63

Astley, Jacob, 89

Astrologers’ Feast, 178, 273

Astronomicall Tables First invented by George Hartgill, 165

Athelstan, King, 99

Aubrey, John, 40, 47, 198, 202, 204, 234–35, 264, 277, 278

Azoth, 87

Bachus (W. Backhouse), 257, 269

Backhouse, Flower, 153, 270–71

Backhouse, John, 152

Backhouse, Samuel, 151

Backhouse, William, 139, 149, 151–52, 153, 163, 168, 256, 270

Bacon, Francis, 172, 196, 237–41, 246, 254

Bacon, Roger, 207

Bacon Street, 50, 216

Bagot, Edward, 200

Bagot, Harvey, 188

Bagot, Richard, 66, 67

Baker, Henry, 216

Banqueting Hall, 181

Barbados, 194

Barlow, George, 173, 175–76

Barne Elms, 265

Basilus Valentinus, 149

Basinghall Street, 232, 235

Beamont, William, 113

Bede, 33

Beeston, 110

Biddulph, 100, 109

Biddulph, Francis, 62–63, 64

Biddulph Hall, 62–63

Bidulf, Thomas, 25

Bird Street, 46, 48, 215

Bishops’ Fish Pool, 46, 48

Blague, Col., 173–75

Blake, William, 40, 53, 69, 141

Blazing Star, 123

Blithfield Hall, 129, 139

Blore Hall, 180

Blorepipe Farm, 176–77

Blundeville, Ranulphus de, 110

Blyth Hall, Warwickshire, 164, 186, 202–03

Bocchi, Achille, 72

Bodleian Library, 9, 25, 157–58, 204

Bodley, Thomas, 68

Böhme, Jacob, 139, 140–42, 184, 229

Booker, John, 150, 182

Borrowcop Hill, 39

Borthwick, Captain Richard, 231

Bosley Cloud, 57, 59, 62

Bouillon, Godfroi de, 226

Bowden, Nicholas, 131

Bowyer, Anthony, 25

Bowyer, Bridget, 53

Bradfield, 124–25, 129–31, 139–42, 143, 147, 160, 183–84

Bradfield College, 124

Brasenose College, 67–68, 69, 80, 84, 88–89, 202, 204, 241, 255, 277

Brereton, William, 62, 113

Brewer, Hugh, 95, 114

Brigid, 30, 39

Browne, John, 180–81

Browne, Thomas, 183, 187, 266, 267

Buckingham, Duke of, 177

Burghers, Michael, 247, 248

Burnes, John, 216

Burton, Robert (Anatomy of Melancholy), 272

Butler, Samuel, 165, 167

Buxton, 180

Bysshe, Edward, 195

Cabala, 160

Cademan, Thomas, 57

Caer Lwydgoed, 34

Camillus Leonardus, 149

Campbell, John, 96–97, 100

Cardanus, Hieronymus, 171, 273

Carter, Humphrey, 93

Casaubon, Isaac, 68–69

Casaubon, Meric, 167, 260–61

Catalogue of the Peers of the Kingdoms of England, according to their birth and Creation, A, 194–95

Cathedral Builders, The (Gimpel), 12

Caversham Lodge, 129

Chad, St., 31, 32–38, 109

Chancery Lane, 170

Chapelry of Sankey, The (Beamont), 113

Characters (Butler), 167

Charington, Antipas, 129, 130

Charles II (king), 173, 175, 184, 191–94, 207, 208, 210, 226–28, 230

Charles Louis, Elector of the Palatine, 160, 205

Chiffinch, Thomas, 192

Childe, Robert, 149–50

Christ Church, Oxford, 152

Christianopolis (Andreae), 237–38

Churton, Ralph, Archdeacon, 202

Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 236

Clement’s Inn, 59

Clifford, Lord Treasurer, 206

Clinton, Bishop Roger de, 31, 50

Coachman, Mary, 121, 122

Collier, James, 95, 114–15

Comacene theory, 97

Comenius, 156

Commissioners of Sewers, 208

Compleat Angler, The (Walton), 170, 171, 184, 273

Concerning the Philosopher’s Stone in 12 chapters (Sendivogius), 268

Conduit Lands Trust, 39, 216

Congleton, 60, 118

Constitutions of Freemasonry (Anderson), 96, 115, 235

Corbet, Anne, 122

Corpus Hermeticum, 68, 168

Corvisors, Company of, 19

Cosmopolita, 84

Crane, Francis, 265

Crijnsen, Andreas, 194

Cromwell, Oliver, 64, 86, 140, 165, 167, 171, 189, 190, 195, 228

Cross in Hand Lane, 50

Cross, Jack, 255

Croxden, 100

Croxton, 176

Culpepper, Nicholas, 183, 272

Dam Street, 39

Danvers, Col., 178

Dastin, Jean, 149

Dee, Arthur, 144, 183, 187, 266, 267, 268, 269

Dee, John, 27, 81, 144, 145, 146, 158, 159, 167, 183, 259–69

Dee, Rowland, 144, 266

Denton, Dean, 46

Democritus, 149

Denbigh, Earle of, 188

Derby, Lord, 114

Dionysius Halicarnassus, 84

Diott, Anthony, 182

Dixon, William, 253

Dod, Thomas, 201

Donne, John, 104, 105, 172–73, 175

Dove Bridge, 182

Dover, Earl of, 80

Dover Pier (Oxford), 80–81, 255

Drafgate, Richard, 67

Du Bartas (Divine Weekes and Works), 172

Dugdale, Elizabeth (Mrs. Ashmole), 202–4, 247, 274–75

Dugdale, John, 207, 208

Dugdale, William, 164, 186, 190, 192, 199, 202, 207, 212, 223, 230, 247, 274

Durbar, Rumbald, 100

Dyott, Richard, 46, 47, 67, 87, 144

Eccleshall, 170, 173, 176, 178

Edward I (king), 19, 29

Edward IV (king), 148

Edward V (king), 198

Edward VI (king), 43

Einstein, Albert, 76

Elias, Artista (the Artist), 16, 17, 260

Elijah, 16

Elizabeth I (queen), 13, 82, 266

Elizabeth of Bohemia, 193

Ellam, John, 95, 115

Ellam, Richard, 95, 115

Emerald Table (Hermes), 41

Enchiridion of Fortification (Stone), 105

Enochian (language), 262

Ephemerides (Hartlib), 154

Erdeswick, Sampson, 93, 212–13

Esdras, 166

Essex, Earl of, 14, 66

Essex, 3rd Earl of (Robert Devereux), 265

Evelyn, John, 153, 160, 180, 235

Everard, John, 72, 168

Fairoak, 176–78

Fairthorne, William, 78

Fama Fraternitatis (Andreae), 155, 158, 179, 237

Fame and Confession of the Rosy Cross Fraternity (Vaughan), 150

Fasciculus Chemicus (Dee), 75, 85, 87, 138, 141–45, 147, 183, 229, 268

Featherstone, Alexander, 223, 224

Fitton, Lady Elizabeth, 94–95, 180

Fleet Street, 170, 172

Fleming, Daniel, 253

Flood, Dr., 149

Fludd, Robert, 166, 238

Forestarius, Ricardus, 25

Forster, Humphrey, 143, 160, 185, 195, 199

Forster, William, 123

Foster, William, 141

Fox, George, 35

Frankk, Richard, 173

Frank, Solomon, 160

Freake, J., 149–50

Frederick, Elector of the Palatinate, 205

Freemason’s Arms, The, 177

Freemasons Company (London), 104, 232, 233

Fumberk Estate, 268

Gadbury, John, 165, 167, 275

Gadbury, Timothy, 165, 275

Gaia, 38–40

Gardner, Samuel, 224

Gawsworth, 94, 180, 183, 201

George Inn (Lichfield), 215

Gibbons, Grinling, 206

Gimpel, Jean, 12

Giorgi, Francesco, 172

Goddard, Jonathan, 197

Golden Builders, The (Churton), 137, 155

Goldsmiths Hall, 128

Goostrey, 116

Gorton, William, 219

Gresham College, 120, 122, 196

Gresham, Thomas, 120

Grey, William, 231–33

Griffinfeld, Lord High Chancellor of Denmark, 243, 245

Guidon, Ormus le, 25, 63

Guildhall Library, 103

Guild of St. Mary, 43

Guy’s Cliff, 186–87

Hacket, John, 212–13, 219, 223

Halton, Timothy, 253

Hamlyn, John, 124

Hamon, William, 231–34

Hanch Hall, 209–10

Hanner, Edward, 255

Harmony of the World (Giorgi), 172

Hartlib, Samuel, 152, 154–55, 156, 163–64, 169, 193, 205

Hartshorn Inn (Lichfield), 51

Hasolle, James (nom de plume for Ashmole, Elias), 144, 147, 268

Hayes (Lord Marshall’s Secretary), 207

Heidelberg, 205

Hendrix, Jimi, 88

Henrietta Maria (queen), 57

Heptarchia Mystica, De, 260, 261, 264

Herbert, George, 175

Hermenes, 102

Hermes, 75, 87, 102, 132

Hero Alexandrinus, 84

Hershaw (Surrey), 261

Heydon, John, 82, 89, 167–68

Hill, John, 66, 81

History of the ancient Parish of Leek, A (Sleigh), 109

Hoar Cross, 182

Hollar, Wenceslas, 186

Hollis, William, 216

Holme, Randle, 114

Hooke, Robert, 246

Hooker, Richard, 175

Holy Guide, The (Heydon), 167, 169

Hopkins, Edward, 216

Howard, Robert, 207

Hudibras (Butler), 165, 167

Hurst Wood (Hershaw, Surrey), 258

Hyde, Anne, 253

Hyde, Henry, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, 153

Hyram, King, 102, 213

Idea of the Law, The (Heydon), 168–69

Ilam, 198

Indman, Thomas, 224

Institutions, Laws and Ceremonies of the most Noble Order of the Garter, The, 184, 270

Invisible College, 196

Ishtar–Tammuz, 38

James I (king), 112, 172

James II (king), 208, 210, 211, 219, 275

Jardine, Lisa, 189

Jílové, 267, 268

Jones, Inigo, 104–5

Josten, C. H., 8–12, 24, 74, 75, 81, 83, 119, 120, 144, 145–46, 166, 194, 202, 203, 233, 234

Jung, C. G., 40–41, 83, 134–35

Kabbalah, 149, 160, 172

Kelley, Edward, 183, 261, 262, 265, 266, 267

Kelley, Joan, 267, 268

Kepler, 13

Kermincham, 64, 116

Khunrath, Heinrich, 127, 149, 269

King, Henry, 172

Kiss, William, 220

Knights Templar, 30, 184

Knipe, Dr., 97

Knypersley, Alured de, 25

Korálek, Ludvik, 268

Lamb, John, 209, 210, 212

Langot Valley, 177

Langton, Walter de, 29, 39, 48

Laplove, William, 60

Laski, Lord, Count Palatine of Siradz, 265

Lastingham, 33

Lectocetum, 34

Legh, Thomas, 116–17

Leigh, Thomas, 188

Leo III (pope), 38

Lesser George, 173–74, 176, 184, 226

Lewson, Richard, 188

Lhuyd, Edward, 275, 278

Liber Enoch, 263

Lightfoot, John, 214

Lilly, William, 17, 52, 79, 89, 119, 121, 125, 128, 130, 139, 167, 182, 185, 218, 258, 273–74

Lincoln’s Inn, 202

Lindisfarne, 33

Lister, Martin, 275

Litleton, Henry, 218

Littler, Henry, 95, 112

Lollies, Monsieur, 121

Madimi, 269

Magdalene, Mary, 30, 186

Maidstone, 150, 157, 180

Maier, Michael, 149, 158, 159, 164

Mainwaring, Edward, 57, 63, 113

Mainwaring, Eleanor (Mrs. Ashmole), 55–58, 59, 60–61, 104, 116

Mainwaring, Ellen (nèe Minshull), 55, 64, 93, 94, 105

Mainwaring, Henry, 64, 65, 103, 105, 112, 113, 116, 118, 176, 273

Mainwaring, Jane, 61

Mainwaring, Margery, 58, 116, 117

Mainwaring, Lady Mary (Mrs. Ashmole), 123–26, 138, 185, 247, 274–75

Mainwaring, Peter, 55–56, 63, 91, 116, 118, 183, 186, 201

Mainwaring, Philip, 55, 58, 63–64, 105

Mainwaring, Randle, 58, 116, 177

Mainwaring, Thomas, 113, 125

Manwaring, John, 223, 224

Malpas (Cheshire), 201

March, Elizabeth, 88–89, 120–22, 125

Marchington, 34

Market Street, 46, 47, 67

Marten, Simon, 209–10

Martill [Martel], Charles, 102

Mary’s Chapel No.1 Lodge (Edinburgh), 193

Mary (queen), 27, 44

Masons Avenue, 232

Masons Hall, 231–32, 235, 236

Master Key (Browne), 181

Mathematical Feast, 120

Mathematical Magick (Wilkins), 161

Mathematical Preface (Dee), 161, 197

Maynard, John, 185

Meare, John, 255

Mein–warin, Roger de, 116

Mercia, 32, 36

Mercuriophilus Anglicus (Ashmole), 2, 6, 86, 126, 144, 230, 246, 269

Mercurius Aulicus, 74–75

Mercurius Politicus, 75

Middle Temple, 59–60, 213, 214,

217, 251

Middle Temple Lane, 202

Milley, Thomas, 49

Milward, Robert, 175

Minshull, Elinor, 92–93, 94

Minshull, Peter, 93

Minshull, Vernon, 93

Miraval, Raimon de, 126

Moggs (Lichfield), 215–16

Molton, Dr., 157

Monas Hieroglyphica (Dee), 81, 82, 145, 146, 249, 267

Moore, Jonas, 119, 120

Moray, Robert, 193, 264

Morsius, Joachim, 127

Mortlake, 263, 264–65, 270

Most, 267

Moxon, Joseph, FRS, 273

Mozart, W. A., 76

Museum of the History of Gardening, 277

Museum of the History of Science, 9, 81, 239–40, 262

Nantwich, 117

Natural History of Oxfordshire (Plot), 242, 243

Natural History of Staffordshire (Plot), 98, 105, 178, 182

Natural History of Wiltshire (Aubrey), 235

Negative Oath, 128

New Atlantis (Bacon), 167, 169, 196, 237–38, 239, 240, 241

Newcome, Henry, 198–99

Newton, Isaac, 69, 76, 115, 147–48, 190, 240, 246, 260

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 145

North, Dudley, 97

Norton, Thomas, 148, 159

Norwich, 266

Novy Liben, 267

Old Charges, 103, 110, 114, 115

Oldenburg, Henry, 248

Oppenheim, 205

Oration on the Dignity of Man (Pico), 151

Ordinall of Alchemy (Norton), 148

Orme, Captain, 209, 210

Ottey, Thomas, 15, 17

Owlerinshaw, Mr., 180, 181

Oxford Movement, 227

Paget, William, 44

Pagit, James, 53, 55

Pagit, Justinian, 54

Pagit, Mazaretta, 54

Pagit, Thomas, 54, 55, 59

Paris, Matthew, 34, 35

Peada, King, 36

Penket, Richard, 95, 111–112

Penketh Hall, 112

Penketh, Richard, 112

Penketh, Thomas, 111

Pepys, Samuel, 258, 273

Petty, William, 154, 169

Pharmacopoeia Londiniensis (Culpepper), 272

Philadelphians, 184

Picatrix, 130

Pico della Mirandola, 5, 151, 172

Plot, Robert, 98, 100–1, 103, 178, 243, 253

Poimandres, 84

Pollard, Charles and Nathaniel, 222

Polybius, 84

Pordage, John, 139, 140, 142, 143, 184

Pordage, Samuel, 141

Prideaux, Humphrey, 242–43

Prince Rupert’s Mount, 38, 179

Princk, Rafal, T., 267

Pudsy, Henry, 230

Pump Court, 251

Pymander (Everard), 72, 168

Queen’s College, Oxford, 253

Ramsey, David, 149

Ranton Abbey, 178

Rawlins, Mr., 217

Reynolds, John, 278

Richard II (king), 43

Ripley, George, 148

Rixam, Mr., 213, 216

Roberts, J., 115

Rockwood, R., 205

Rosicrucians, 150–55

Rosie–Crucian Physick (Heydon) 168

Rostherne, 116–17

Royal Society, 196–98

Rubens, 181

Runciman, Steven, 64

Rupert, Prince of the Rhine, 38, 67, 160

Sadler Street, 46, 47

Sahyoun (Syria), 110

St. Dunstan’s (Fleet Street), 173

St. George’s Chapel (Windsor), 205

St. Mary’s, Lambeth, 277

Sankey, Edward, 101, 113–14

Sankey Parva (Little Sankey), 112

Sankey, Richard, 101, 113

Santayana, George, 75–76

Scanlan, Matthew, 234, 236

Sendivogius, Michael, 267–269

Shadbolt, Thomas, 231–33

Sheldon, Gilbert, 212, 214, 222, 255

Sheldonian Theatre, 214, 222, 252

Shorthose, Thomas, 231–33

Silverstreet (London), 131, 138

Sleigh, John, 109

Sloane, Hans, 101, 105–6

Smallwood, 57–63, 91–92

Smallwood, Dean, 221

Smaragdine Table, 137

Sneyd, Ralph, 94

Sol in Ascendente… (E. Ashmole), 192

Solomon, Kinge, 102, 213

Solomon’s House, 238

Sophia, Holy, 30

Sprat, Thomas, 154, 160, 196

Stafford, Edward, 123, 125, 129

Stafford, Humphrey, 130, 143

Stanley, Edward, 114

Stanton, William, 231–34

Stephens, Philip, 150

Stoke, 214

Stone, Henry, 105

Stone, John, 105

Stone, Nicholas, 58, 104–5, 236

Stone, Nicholas (the younger), 105

Story, Samuell, 260

Stowe, 36, 38, 39, 46, 216

Streeter, Robert, 221, 222

Subtilitate, De (Cardanus), 171, 273

Sugnall, 176

Suriname, 194

Sutton, Richard, 202

Swallowfield, 154, 156

Swan, the (Lichfield), 210

Sydney, Philip, 265

Sylva Sylvarum (Bacon), 237, 239, 254

Sylvester, Joshua, 172

Tadeás, Simon, 268

Tat, 151

Taylour, Samuell, 231

Temple: Especially as it stood in the dayes of our Saviour, The (Lightfoot), 214 Tesin, 268

Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, 78, 135, 140, 147, 150, 158, 162, 165, 166, 169, 199, 235, 256, 257, 263

Themis Aurea, The Laws of the Fraternitie of the Rosie Cross (Maier), 164

Thompson, John (the “speculator”), 231–35, 259

Thornborough, Bridget, 89, 90

Thoth, 132

Thucydides, 84

Tolkien, J. R. R., 36

Tompson, John, 182, 234

Tory, 218

Tradescant, Hester, 244, 247

Tradescant, John (the younger), 140, 170, 179–80, 189–91, 242, 244

Trained Band, 64

Trismosinus, 149

True and Faithful Relation of What passed for Many Years between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits, A (Casaubon), 260

Turnepenny, Zachary, 213, 215, 217

Twelfth Adept, The (Princk), 267

Upper Peover, 55, 56, 63, 105, 116

Vaughan, Thomas, 150, 158, 168, 264

Vegetius, 84

Venables, Peter, 57–58

Venables, William de, 116

Vic, Henry de, 189, 195

Vindiciae Academiarum (Ward), 183

Voyage to the Land of the Rosie Crucians, The (Heydon), 169

Wadham College, Oxford, 154, 160

Wagge, Mr., 182

Waindsford, Esq., 231–33

Wale, Mrs., 262–63

Wale, Thomas, 261

Walsingham, Francis, 265

Walton, Izaak, 170–76, 178, 180, 184, 226, 227, 273, 274

Ward, Seth, 183, 195

Warde, John, 19

Warrington, 64, 111–113, 114–16, 118

Warwick, 36

Way to Bliss, The, 160, 164, 168–69, 187, 257

Webster, John, 182

Weston, Elizabeth Jane, 268

Wetton, 182

Wharton, George, 75, 80, 130, 138, 143, 274

Wharton, Thomas, 140, 179, 182

Whitmore, 63, 113

Widow Faldo, 264

Wightman, Edward, 45

Wilkins, John, 154, 160–61, 169, 204, 239

William and Mary (king and queen), 219

Willoughby, Lord, 194

Winchester Cathedral, 171

Windsor, 205, 270

Wilson, William, 221, 227, 230–31, 233

Wise Man’s Crown, The (Heydon), 167, 168

Wise, Thomas, 231

Wise, William, 231

Wissage Lane, 36

Women’s Cheaping, 14, 15, 42, 43, 92, 182

Wood, Anthony, 17, 67–68, 79, 165, 170, 198, 203–4, 254, 255, 263, 265, 275, 276–77

Woodall, John, 262

Woolrich, Mr., 257

Worcester, 90, 91

Worcester, Battle of (1651), 173

Worthington, John, 164

Wotton, Henry, 172–73, 175, 176

Wren, Christopher, 160, 161, 184, 189, 214, 222, 226, 235–36, 248–49

Wright, Robert, 210

Wrixam, Mr., 216

Wulfhere, King, 32, 33

Xenophon, 84

Yates, Dame Frances, 4, 158, 204

Yate, Thomas, 68, 202

Young, Nicholas, 231, 233

Zeigler, Philip, 107