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the Rosicrucians were "batchelors of avowed virginity" and was still rebutting allegations of libertinism in Clavis
Philosophiae & Alchymiae in 1633. 47 One of the popular assumptions about the Familists was that they practised
free love. Fludd also felt impelled in Declaratio Brevis to affirm his religious orthodoxy. He was no Calvinist, he
claimed, but a loyal Anglican. The problem was, members of the Family of Love were known to be enjoined to
outwardly maintain membership of the official church whilst secretly attending their Familist conventicles. In 1623
there were allegations of Familist activity among the staff, primarily musicians, of the Chapel Royal. Fludd boasted
of his links with the musicians, English and French, at the court. 48 That the Rosicrucians evolved out of the Family
of Love has been argued before.
Finally, I find it a trifle disappointing that Huffman does not throw any new light on Craven's well-known but
uncorroborated assertion that Michael Maier got on well with Robert Fludd. In fact, Huffman is content to
perpetuate the mystification by claiming "Another tie between Landgrave Moritz [of Hessen-Kassel] and Fludd was
the physician and fellow mystical philosopher Michael Maier". 49 I am not alone in observing that in their published
works neither eminent writer ever directly refers to the other. Bruce T. Moran's researches in the Kassel archives
have uncovered a letter by Maier, dated April 17th 1618, addressed to Moritz the Landgrave, which refers to Fludd.
Moran's translation reads: "I see that the author [Fludd] is pretty insolent in his censure concerning nations& while
tractate 2, part 6, book 3 on the organisation of the army in the field makes German princes& out to be sluggards,
negligent and slow men, but portrays the English as magnaminous, brave, but not squeamish etc. Indeed I would like
to take the stick to these immature censors and show them who, of what sort and how many are the Germans". 50 I
am grateful to Professor Dr. Karin Figala for pointing out in a private communication that Maier's Verum Inventum
was "a sort of response to the derogatory allegations of Fludd and others about the Holy [Roman] Empire". 52
Fludd's congenital insensitivity, it would seem, had created yet another bitter critic in the shape of Michael Maier,
who, like so many, would have liked "to take the stick" to him.
Notes
1. Routledge & Kegan Paul (1988). W.H. Huffman & R.A. Seelinger, Jr "Robert Fludd's 'Declaratio Brevis' to James
I" Ambix xxv (1978).
2. Bayer has no satisfactory biography. But there is Franz Babinger-Muenden's article in Archiv fuer die Geschichte
der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik 5 (1915). British Library. Ms Cotton Jul. C.V. f. 153, f. 225.
3. Ibid. f. 154.
4. Ibid. f. 226.
5. Mosaical Philosophy (1659) p. 100.
6. John Napier of Merchistoun Kuenstliche Rechenstaeblein& Auss anleytung des & Herrn D. Bayrn durch F.
Kesslern zu Werck gericht (1618).
7. John Small 'Sketches of Later Scottish Alchemists' Proc. of Soc. of Ant. of Scot. vol xi (18760 pp. 412-13, 418.
8. Disputationum Medicarum (1607) Praeside Gregorio Horstio. Disputationum Medicarum viginti (1609). Both are
held in the Brit. Lib.
9. H. Joseph Shakespeare's Son-in-Law: John Hall, Man and Physician p.62. p.4 Joseph notes a William Harvey
prescription. Harvey was Fludd's close friend. John Hall Select Observations on English Bodies (1657) p. 243.
10. Corr. of Henry Oldenburg vol. XIII (1676-1681) p. 340.
11. Elias Ashmole ed. C.H. Josten vol. II pp 89, 490. Brit. Lib. Ms Sloane 3505 fs. 218v-239v.
12. F.H. Reusch Der Index der Verbotenen Buecher I (1883) p. 177. Clement 8, 377.
13. Wellcome Ms 257.
14. Brit. Lib. Ms Egerton 1212 fs. 100,32,69v,69. Rumbler (f. 69) wrote the libertine sentiment "Women and win[e],
as they be amiable,/ even so their poison is delectable". f.79v has the signature of the Scot 'Robty Olyphantus'.
15. Berkshire Record Office. Trumbull Ms Misc. LXI. Unfoliated.
16. See biog. in Alumni Cantabrigienses. Athenae Oxonienses vol II "Fasti Oxonienses" 342 (1611) & 355.
17. Corr. du P. Marin Mersenne vol. VIII p. 318, letters pp. 313-20, 355-9, 402-6.
18. Sloane Ms 1792.
19. Brit. Lib. Harleian Ms 7002 f. 281. The letter was actually written by Sir Thomas Overbury. N.K. Kiessling
Library of Robert Burton p. 10. B.H. Newdigate Michael Drayton and his Circle p.9.
20. Huffman p. 25. Copy in Dr William's Library.
21. D.S. Berkowitz John Selden's Formative Years p. 28.
22. J.G. Bishop Lancelot Andrewes Bishop of Chichester 1605-1609 . p. 21. See A. Hamilton William Bedwell the
Arabist 1563-1632 . Jan van Dorsten 'Thomas Basson (1555-1613), English printer at Leiden', Quaerendo vol. xv/3
(1985).
23. A. Hamilton William Bedwell p. 52. J. van Dorsten ibid. p. 219.
24. Berk. Rec. Off. Trumbull Ms Misc. LXI.
25. Robert Plot Natural History of Stafford-shire.
26. B. Ulmer Martin Opitz (1971) pp. 34-5. Various references to Nigrinus are made in M. Blekastad Comenius,
including pp. 239,350,357-8.
27. A. Hamilton op.cit. p. 22. Ludwig Keller Comenius und die Akadamien der Naturphilosophen de 17.
Jahrhunderts (1895) p. 60. Christopher Meinel ed. Der Handschriftliche Nachlass von Joachim Jungius (1984) p.
125.
28. Marquess of Downshire Papers II pp. 201,249.
29. R. Heisler 'Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians' The Hermetic Journal (Autumn 1986).
30. Public Record Office S.P. 46/75 fs. 18,20-1,78d. Huffman p. 4. Parson Foster's attack on Fludd included the
sarcasm that Fludd "& being a weapon-bearing Doctor, may well teach the weapon-curing medicine".
31. Brit. Lib. Sloane Ms 2149 Baldwin Hamey the Younger 'Bustorum aliquot Reliquae'. Also J.J.Keevil The
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