Many wicked and abominable
transactions are recorded of him. Wever, in his "Funereal Monuments,"
records that Kelly, in company with one Paul Waring, who acted with him
in all his conjurations, went to the churchyard of Walton-le-Dale, near
Preston, where they had information of a person being interred who was
supposed to have hidden a considerable sum of money, and to have died
without disclosing where it was deposited. They entered the churchyard
exactly at midnight, and having had the grave pointed out in the
preceding day, they opened it and the coffin, exorcising the spirit of
the deceased until it again animated the body, which rose out of the
grave and stood upright before them. It not only satisfied their wicked
desires, it is said, but delivered several strange predictions
concerning persons in the neighbourhood, which were literally and
exactly fulfilled.
In "Lilly's Memoirs" we have the following account of him:--
"Kelly outwent the Doctor--viz., about the elixir and philosopher's
stone, which neither he nor his master attained by their own labour and
industry. It was in this manner Kelly obtained it, as I had it related
from an ancient minister, who new the certainty thereof from an old
English merchant resident in Germany, at what time both Kelly and Dee
were there.
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