A True and Faithful Relation, Volume III

Volume III brings Meric Casaubon's 1659 publication of John Dee's reported spiritual conferences to its surviving close. It opens after the household returns to Prague at the end of 1584, follows the continental record through Prague, Krakow, Niepolomice, and Trebon, then jumps abruptly to London and Mortlake in 1607. Letters, repeated pages, empty positions, a document dated 1589 among papers from 1586, and a restart of printed pagination remain where the source transmits them. Dee records prayer, inquiry, household need, political appeals, religious controversy, alchemical operations, travel, illness, and doubt. Edward Kelley reports voices and figures, questions what he encounters, resists reported commands, and seeks release from the work. The edition keeps these reported events distinct from observed acts and from Casaubon's later skeptical judgments. The Trebon sequence preserves the crisis surrounding the 1587 covenant. Reported commands, objections, threats, resistance by Jane Dee and Joan Kelley, subscription, Dee's later account, and the aftermath remain in order. The edition neither suppresses this material nor infers consent, motive, paternity, or events beyond the surviving document. The text has been modernized conservatively against the Public Domain Mark Wellcome Collection witness, with the CC0 EEBO Text Creation Partnership transcription used as a locating aid. All 147 source units are accounted for. Spelling, punctuation, and difficult syntax are clarified where the witness permits. Names, dates, speakers, repetitions, damaged readings, failed checks, technical terms, and documentary uncertainty remain visible. What this edition includes: - 147 source units retained once in received order - 577 language records plus 21 documented editorial amendments - 414 linked source notes, three tables, and three source figures - Historical orientation, guides, glossary, sources, and index Embedded Latin and other identifiable language receive independent English treatment. Damaged German and opaque Angelical passages remain uncertain where the print cannot support a secure translation. Three semantic tables preserve numerical and letter relations, while three checked source figures pair their spatial evidence with searchable descriptions. The closing appendix retains the Basel locator, a damaged Angelical language sequence, and an empty final position. Historical orientation, a reading key, chronology, linked notes, people guide, glossary, sources, and index support close study without presenting reported religious, visionary, political, alchemical, or medical claims as verified fact. For readers of early modern intellectual life, Renaissance religion and alchemy, historical diaries, Enochian history, and the documentary sources behind later accounts of Dee's spiritual work.