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UNiverfis Sancta matris Ecclefia filijs, ad quos præfentes litera perventure funt, Vicecancellarius Catufq; omnis Regentium on Regentium, Univerfitatis Cantabrigia, Salutem in Domino fempiternam. Conditiones & Merita hominum in noftra Univerfitate ftudentium, affectu fincero perpendentes, cos folos teftimonio noftro ornandos effe arbitramur, quos fcimus obraditionem, & morum, probitatem promeritos effe, ut iftud beneficium à nobis confequantur: Quamobrem, cum hoc tempore ipfa veritas teftimonium noftrum fibi postulat, veftræ pietati, per bas literas fignificamus; Quod dile&us nobis in Chrifto, Johannes Dee, Artium Magifter, in dicta nostra miverfitate faliciter verfatus; plurimam fibi & dorina honeftatis laudem comparazit: De cujus gradu, & converfatione (que honefiiffima femper fuit,) ne qua ufpiam ambiguitas, aut quæstio oriri poffit, apud eos, quibus hujus viri virtutes band fatis innotuerint, vifum eft nobis, in diEli Johannis gratiam, bas literas noftras Tefiimoniales confcribere; & confcriptas, publico Academic noftræ figillo, obfignare: quò, majorem apud vos authoritatem, &pondus litera noftræ babeant, Bene valete. Datum Cantabrigiæ, in piena Convocatione Magistrorum Regentium non Regentium, Academia prædicta: 14. Calend. Aprilis, Anno à Chrifto nato. 1548.

For certain due refpects the very Image of the forefaid Seal, is not here in portrature publifhd; the Moto Locus veri figilli.

Peroratio.

THe Almighty and moft mercifull God, the Father; for his only Son (our Redeemer) Jefus Chrift his fake: by his holy Spirit, lo direct, bleffe, and profper all my ftudies, and exercifes Philofophicall, (yea, all my thoughts, words, and deeds henceforward, even to the very moment of my departing from this world, That I may evidently and abundantly be found, and undoubtedly acknowledged of the Wife and Juft, to have been a zealous and faithfull Student in the School of Verity, and an Ancient Graduate in the School of Charity: to the honour and glory of the fame God Almighty; and to the found comfort and confirming of luch as faithful y love and fear his Divine Majeftie, and unfain d'y continue in labour to do good on earth: when, while, to whom, and as they may, Amen.

Very fpedily written, this twelfth even, and twelfth day, in my poore Cottage, at Mortlake: Anno. 1595. currente à Nativitate Chrifti: afi, An. 1594. Completo, à Conceptione ejufdem, cum novem præterea menfibus, Completis.

Alwayes, and very dutifully, at your Graces commandement:

Jo. Dee.

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