Albert Laski arrived in England in the spring of 1583 as a visiting magnate, was received at court, taken to Oxford and shown the usual courtesies, and within weeks had found his way to John Dee's house at Mortlake. Dee was then in the middle of the scrying work he had begun with Edward Kelley, and the sessions Laski attended turned toward him quickly. The spirits addressed him directly, promised him greatness, and in the record tie his fortunes to the crown of Poland and to a coming change in the world. Dee wrote it all down, as he wrote everything down.
In September the whole party left England together, Dee with his family, Kelley, and Laski, travelling through the Low Countries into Poland, then to Krakow and eventually to the imperial court at Prague. Those years abroad are when most of the Enochian material was received. The corpus that later occultists inherited therefore exists in the shape it does partly because a Polish nobleman was willing to pay for a journey. Laski's own hopes were practical: the work was expected to yield gold by transmutation and a political result at home, and neither arrived. His money ran out, the arrangement ended, and Dee and Kelley looked elsewhere for support.