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CHAPTER XIII.
ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS : JOHN HEYDON.
THE last of the line of apologists who has any claim on our
notice is the extraordinary Royalist mystic and geomancer,
John Heydon, who, in the preface to " The Holy Guide,"
has left us the following interesting and curious fragment
of autobiography :
" I was descended from a noble family of London in
England, being born of a complete tall stature, small limbs,
but in every part proportionable, of a dark flaxen haire, it
curling as you see in the 1
Effigies, and the above figures of
1 The portraits prefixed to several of John Heydon's works repre-
sent him as a young, beardless man, of an amiable but melancholy
countenance.