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 4	A true Relation of Dr. Dees Actions, with spirits.
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                                   LIBER PEREGRINATIONIS
         
                                         videlicet
                                     A Mortlaco Anglia,
                                   Ad Craconiam Polomiae

                       Saturday, septemb. 21. 1583· Die Sancti Matthaei.

	We departed from Mortlack about three of the Clock after noon: The Lord
	Albert Lasky, (Vaywode of Siridia, in Polonia) meeting me on the water, as
	we had appointed: And so brought night to London;  and in the dead of the
	night, by Wherries, we went to Greenwich to my friend Goodmun Fern the Pot-
	ter his house;Where we refreshed our selves, and thither came a great Tylt-
	boat from Graves, end to take us in, (by appointment of me and Mr. Stanley) to
	go to our ships, which we had caused to ly seven, or eight mile beyond Graves
	end.  To which ships we came on Sunday morning by Sun rise: In the greater of them (being
	a  dubble Fly-boat of Denmark) my Lord Lasky, I, and E. K. with my Wife and Children,&c.
	went: And in another Ship (by me also hired for this passage)  went some of my Lord his men,
	two horses, &c.  that ship was a Boyer, a pretty ship. With little winde we straight-way hoysted
	sayl, and began our voyage in the ship.
<1>	This 22. day we were in great danger of perishing (on the sands, called the Spits) about
	midnight: We had (by force of  of winde contrary) anchored by them, and the Anchor came
	home, no man perceiving it, till the ship was ready to strrike on the sands.  Then, upon great
	diligence and pollicy used by our Marriners in hoysting sayl, and cutting our Cable, (to leave
	our shotte anker) and committing our selves to the hands of God, and most earnestly praying for
	a prosperous winde: It pleased the almighty, and most merciful God, Suddenly to change the
	winds, which served us to bear from the sands and to recover Quinborrough, back again.
<2>	The 23. day (being Munday) we came to the mouth and entrance of Quinborrough Creek, or
	Haven. And as we made to land in small fisher boats, the Lord Lasky, my wife and Chil-
	dren in one boat,and I, with E. K. Marie, Elizabeth, and John Crokar, in another, it fell so
	out, at the ship's side, our Fisher-boat his sayl-yard and sayl was entangled on the Mayn-
	yard of the fly-boat (being stroke down) so that, in our setting from the ships side, the top
	of our boat being fast above, and the windes and stream carrying the Boat off below, it in-
	clined so much on the one side, that the one half of the Fisher boat (well near) was in the wa-
	ter, and the water came so in (by the intangling before specified), not easily to be undone, or
	loosed) that my Lord, my Wife, and all that saw us thought that of necessity our boat must 
	sink, and so, we to have perished.  But God in his mercy and providence had greater......of
	us, so that we became clear; the Boat half full of water, so that we sat wet to the knees, and 
	the water with the billow of the sea came still beating in more and more: And in this mean
	trouble; one of our two Boat-men , had lost his long Oare out of the Boat into the water; and
	so not onely we lacked the help of that Oare, but also by reason they would have followed
	the winde and ebb, for that Oar, (contrary to our course in hand and not able to become by)
	with much adoe we constrained them with the sayle, our one Oare, and the Rudder to make
	such shift as they could to get to Quinborrough Town:  And in the mean space E.K. with a
	great Gantlet did empty most part of the water out of the Boatelse it must needs have sunk by
	mans reason.  At length (to be brief) we came to the Town side, up the crooked creek: where,
	when the Master of our ship would have taken me out in his arms (standing in the water
	with his Boots) he fell with me in the water, where I was foul arrayed in the water and Oase.
	God be praised for ever, that all that great danger was ended with so small grief, or hurt.

							At Quinborrough,

	Wednesday, Septemb. 25. Circa 3. a Meridie, jam pleno mari.
	D. Oravimus ad Deum, ejus implorabamus auxilum, Cortina Statim Aparuit. Oravi denuo
	folus, pro auxilio, tempore necessitas : sex pedum altitudine apparebat unus, in aere. quasi
	altera ex parte nubis, inter E.K. Et illum interpositae.

	E.K. Ego Illum cognosco.
	..... Tu habes canfam me cognoscendi, & illum qui me misit, vel jam non vixisses.
	E.K. Videtur esse Michael.
						F.                                      D. Gratias




Maginalia


1.    There arose
      great raging
      winde, N.E,
      almost.

2.    The evident
      Help of God at
      the very mi-
      nute of danger
      deadly.

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