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Short Title: Attorney General v Kellam. [Cause code: SCEL-15729]. Documents: information...
Catalogue reference: STAC 5/A1/18
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Short Title: Attorney General v Kellam.
[Cause code: SCEL-15729].
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Plaintiffs: Attorney General (Edward Coke).
Defendants: John Kellam alias Gray alias Cotton.
County: London.
Subject: defrauding Joan Stanton a widow under colour of witchcraft; Kellam, being a man that lives by shifting and deceiving, repaired to the house of one Joan Stanton and pretended to reveal great secrets that tend to the hazard of her life, and gave unto her pieces of paper written some with signs and some with cypher to wear, and by this means she should be preserved, and also a certain piece of brass strangely engraved with a charme; the said Kellam disclosed that he could make gold and that if she would give him a house with a garden, he would put into practice his art [of alchemy] but first he must have the value of £200 in gold and silver coin; she gave him £300 and a house and garden at All Hallows in the Wall.
Regnal year: 43 Eliz I.
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