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36. His. MSS Com. 5th Report Appendix pp. 450-1. "Cirotecis" would be correctly written today "chirothecis".
37. Weckherlin Diary among the Trumbull Papers recently acquired by the British Library (no classification no. at
time of writing).
38. Harry Carr article op. cit. p. 117.
39. It should be mentioned that in The Merry Wives of Windsor (I.i.) Slender swears to Falstaff "by these gloves"
that Pistol had picked his purse. E.A.J. Honigmann Shakespeare: the "lost years" pp. 64-5.
40. On the "School of Night" see Frances A. Yates A Study of 'Love's Labour's Lost' (1936). The British Library has
recently acquired an extraordinary manuscript in an unknown hand which contains notes on the thought of Thomas
Harriot, the leading mathematician and alleged "atheist" in the Ralegh circle, as well as 63 lines from Henry IV Part
I by Shakespeare, Brit. Lib. Add. Ms. 64,078. On these performance dates see Appendix.
41. J. Anderson New Book of Constitutions pp. 63-4.
42. Dr Aston's benchmark paper is due for publication in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum in November 1991.
43. Shakespeare's friend, the printer Richard Field, entered The History of Fortunatus on the Stationers' Register on
22nd June 1615. Churchyard contributed "addresses" to Cardanus Comforte (1573). In 1591 he hired lodgings for
the Earl of Oxford, giving his own bond for payment. But the penniless Oxford decamped, leaving the luckless
Churchyard having to seek sanctuary to avoid jailing for debt. That a man with Oxford's moral sense could have
written the Shakespeare plays strikes me as a dubious proposition. Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker vol. I ed.
Fredson Bowers p. 107. Cyrus Hoy Introduction& in 'The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker' vol. I p. 71.
44. Caroline Bingham James VI of Scotland pp. 130-2. Athelstan, however, did defeat the Scots in battle.
45. J. Anderson op. cit. p. 81.
46. Ibid. pp. 98-9.
47. John Nichols The Progresses of King James the First vol. I pp. 470-1. "Bager" was almost certainly Sit Thomas
Badger. He and Sir Thomas Germain appeared regularly in court masques over the years.
48. C. Nicholl op. cit. pp. 223,240.
49. F.A. Yates The Rosicrucian Enlightenment p. 3. The Tempest ed. Frank Kermode pp. xxi-xxii.
50. J. Anderson op. cit. pp. 80-1. Anderson's list of Grand Masters also has: "Francis Russel, Earl of Bedford in the
North; Sir Thomas Gresham in the South 1570"; after Charles Howard, Lord Effingham, George Hastings, Earl of
Huntingdon, was G.M. till the death of Queen Elizabeth. Inigo Jones became G.M. in 1607. Or at least, so Anderson
claims.
51. D. Knoop and G.P. Jones The Genesis of Freemasonry p. 76.
52. Frances Yates' John Florio is excellent. On Gwinne, see Dictionary of National Biography. Gwinne's brother
was apothecary to Charles Howard, Lord Effingham, a Grand Master, says Anderson. Gwinne was medical fellow at
St. John's College, Oxford, when Robert Fludd studied there. Gwinne was made M.D. at Oxford in July 1593 on the
recommendation of Sackville.
53. Private Diary of Dr. John Dee ed. J.O. Halliwell (1842).
Ron Heisler - Robert Fludd: A Picture in
Need of Expansion
Article originally published in The Hermetic Journal, 1989.
Robert Fludd: A Picture in Need of
Expansion
Ron Heisler
William H. Huffman's Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance largely replaces J.B. Craven's erratic, and
sometimes unreliable biography, which has dominated the field since 1902. However, Huffman's book has an anti-
climactic feel to it, if only for the fact that it does not seem to mark much advance on the excellent article the author
published in Ambix a decade ago. 1 This reader's insatiable desire to know as much as possible about the fascinating
Elizabethan polymath is, I admit, quite unreasonable. But since it will probably be a very long time before we see a
fresh biography of Fludd emerge, perhaps I can be excused for indicating some of Huffman's omissions.
There are key identities that Huffman has not clarified. The most significant of these is that of 'Jean Balthasar Ursin
Bayerius'. Quite inexplicably, Huffman indexes a 'Jean Balthasar', whilst inconsistently not indexing 'Ursin
Bayerius'. Fludd quotes this individual in Declaratio Brevis, which was prepared at the request of James I, as
commending his work. The letter is dated February 3rd 1618 and was sent from Vienna, the author (who is better
known in Germany as Johann Bayer) signing himself off as "Your most obliged friend and servant". Huffman has
missed the very important letters, one signed 'Janus Balthasar Ursinum Bayerius', Bayer sent to William Camden,
the doyen of the Society of Antiquaries and encourager of Fludd's friends, John Selden and Sir Robert Cotton.
Bayer's letter to Camden, dated January 1618 and emanating from Vienna, discusses the Bohemian political scene
and refers to the London based apothecaries, Paul de Lobell and Wolfgang Rumbler, the latter being the King's own
servant. He mentions Fludd, and Thomas Davies of the College of Physicians, in discussing the planned
Pharmacopoeia Londinensis , which the King was to allude to in his 1618 proclamation of the Apothecaries'
Charter. 2 There are two letters by Bayer addressed from London, one dated September 1615, the other December
1616. 3 In an undated letter, which seems to belong to early 1618, Bayer makes several references to Fludd and his
'Microcosmo'. 4
That Bayerus was the same man as Bayer can be gauged from the fact that Fludd mentioned his friend was "a certain
Doctor of Law" and Bayer is known to have been a professional lawyer in Augsburg. The only town Fludd is known
to have visited for certain in Germany happens to have been Augsburg. 5 Bayer, I suspect, carried Fludd's early
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