. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . - substances, mineral, animal, or vegetable ;every now and then losing their material by an explosion oftheir tightly sealed vessels, or by their borax and lime forminga Hux and dissolving their earthen crucible, lint cliailatan orworker alike brought ruin to all who believed them, and wemay fairly trace the Statute of 1403, forbidding the nudti])lica-tion (if gtild and silver, to the Canons Yeomans Talc, a
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . - substances, mineral, animal, or vegetable ;every now and then losing their material by an explosion oftheir tightly sealed vessels, or by their borax and lime forminga Hux and dissolving their earthen crucible, lint cliailatan orworker alike brought ruin to all who believed them, and wemay fairly trace the Statute of 1403, forbidding the nudti])lica-tion (if gtild and silver, to the Canons Yeomans Talc, and thestate of things therein described. 1wo generations ]iassed, and no more was heard uf alchemytill |)uke Humpjirey found his finances exhausted, and set the 1485] MAGIC AXD ALCHEMY. alclieiuists to wurk aL;-;iin. The works of LuUy were translatecl Alchemyfrom Proven9al iuto Latin in 14-i3, and many persons sought prance,the kings k^ave to engage in the stiid\-, some of the hcencesbeing of exceptional interest. Soon the royal exchequer became. mv^m.¥ AT UOUK (Mf!. I low, and as alcliemists were not wanting to point out usefulmethods by which coin of gold and silver may be multipHedin our Kingdom of England, Henry VI. issued, in 1450-7, threeCommissions to examine and re]iort on the schemes submittedto them. The second thus describes the Elixir: By it all 520 THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. The Dangersof theAlche-mists. (1399 intirinitics may ho cnrcil, lininau life [)iMliini;eil to its utmostlimit, and mankind preserved in health and strength of bodyand mind, clearness, and vigour: all wotmds are healed by itwithout diffieultv, and it is the best and sin-est remedy againstpoisons: with it, too. many other benefits to ns and the com-munity of our realm niay be wrought, such as the transnmtationof metals into actual gold and the purest silver. The effectof these commissiiins seems to liavo been to lessen Henryshopes from alchemy, and tlie pursuit graduall
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