Three days later on the feast of St. Brigid, we set sail on our long journey to see the Holy Roman Emperor, find a treacherous English daemon, and, at long last, catch a glimpse of Ashmole 782.
Chapter Twenty Six
Verin de Clermont sat in her Berlin home and stared down at the newspaper in disbelief.
The Independent
1 February 2010
A Surrey woman has discovered a manuscript belonging to Mary Sidney, famed Mrs Anthonyan poetess and sister to Sir Philip Sidney.
“It was in my mother’s airing cupboard at the top of the stairs,” Henrietta Barber, 62, told the Independent. Mrs. Barber was clearing out her mother’s belongings before she went into care. “It looked like a tatty old bunch of paper to me.”
The manuscript, experts believe, represents a working alchemical notebook kept by the Cou
