the Tower". He claimed however, that he was innocent and was the victim of someone paid to inform against him. Heydon was accused of plagiarising Sir Thomas Browne, Thomas Vaughan, and other writers; his Physician's Guide of 1662 largely derives from Sir Francis Bacon's New Atlantis. He was referred to as "an ignoramus and a cheate" by Elias Ashmole; Frances Yates termed him a "strange character...an astrologer, geomancer, alchemist, of a most extreme type."; while A. E. Waite considered that all that was of value in his mysticism was derived from anterior writers. The precise date of Heydon's death is unknown. Works Heydon published a remarkable volume of work in the last twelve years of his life. A complete list can be found in the "Dictionary of National Biography" (1885–1900) entry (see "references" below), but includes: Eugenius Theodidactus, the Prophetical Trumpeter... (1655) A New Method of Rosie Crucian Physick... (1658) The Rosie Crucian Infallible Axiomata; or, generall rules to know all things past, present, and to come (1660) The Harmony of the World... (1662) The English Physitians Guide: or a Holy Guide (1662) Theomagia, or the temple of wisdom in three parts, spiritual, celestial, and elemental: containing the occult powers of the angels of astromancy in the telesmatical sculpture of the Persians and Ægyptians: the mysterious vertues of the characters of the stars...the knowledge of the Rosie Crucian physick, and the miraculous secrets of nature... (three parts, 1662/4) Psonthonpanchia... (1664) The wise-mans crown, or, The glory of the rosie-cross Elhavarevna; or, the English Physitian's Tutor in the Astrobolismes of Metals Rosie Crucian (1665). References English philosophers English astrologers 17th-century astrologers English occult writers 1629 births 1660s deaths English male non-fiction writers 17th-century English male writers