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Dr John Dee was another famous Elizabethan magician-come-scientist. When was he born?
 
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When Henry, Lord Neville, plotted to murder his father, the Earl of Westmoreland, and his wife, he hired a hit man of an altogether different cast to the hit man we imagine today. Lord Henry was relying on malign magic, not an assassin with a knife. But poor Lord Henry, a gambling addict, was as much victim as criminal, having fallen into the clutches of one Gregory Wisdom, physician, magician, and con-man.