Re: VMs: Pontanus, Westonia

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

Just catching up on things after vacation. First of all - thanks
to Clay Holden for the information on Dee/Kelley digitized
manuscripts on-line. A quick check on Kelley's 8's shows 
he wrote it in a still different way, starting in the middle :-)

Nick Pelling wrote:

> I thought Rafal Prinke had established that Kelley's widow sold his Fumberk
> estate (which Rudolph had previously given to Kelley) to Michael
> Sendivogius - but this would surely be exactly what Rudolph would have
> confiscated?
>          http://main.amu.edu.pl/~rafalp/ART/sendi.html
> 
> Which of the two is correct?

Kelley had numerous estates in and around the city of Jilove
near Prague, as well as Faust's House in Prague itself.
In Jilove his residence was the former mint-house (now
the local museum). Fumberk was just a house with a garden
and a brewery (many town-dwellers had their own!), in
the outskirts of that small borough. I saw it two years ago
(now it is No. 53) but the house there is quite new.

Apparently, he got those estates from Rozmberk in 1590 
and bought others himself, rather than getting 
them from Rudolf. They were confiscated in 1591
but apparently he regained it then and finally lost
it in 1597 when he died (not in 1595, as Dee has
in his diary).

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Kelley - unlike Dee - is a very well known and popular
character in the Czech Republic. There are at least
two pubs in Prague called "At Master Kalley's", and
have a look at this Czech performance of "Kelley & Xena"
(English version):

http://xena.sovinec.cz/index-cz.htm

One of the pieces is "Kelley Revenge" - that must be
about the VMS :-)

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It was probably then when Sendivogius bought Fumberk
from Kelley's wife - it must have taken time 
for the Emperor's officials to establish what
Kelley owned. Or maybe he bought it a little earlier.
Anyway, he probably paid around 4000 threescores
of Meissen grosches (how many ducats would that be? :-))
which was the sum he had borrowed from a ruch Prague
merchant Ludvik Koralek of Tesin.

Best regards,

Rafal
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