which arrangement, after some further persuasion, Dee consented. Kelley’s profligacy and violent temper, however, had already been the cause of some disagreement between him and the doctor, and this incident leading to a further quarrel, the erstwhile friends parted. In 1589, the Emperor Rudolph imprisoned Kelley, the price of his freedom being the transmutative secret, or a substantial quantity of gold, at least, prepared by its aid. He was, however, released in 1593; but died in 1595; according to one account, as the result of an accident incurred while attempting to escape from a second imprisonment. Dee merely records that he received news to the effect that Kelley “was slayne.” [66] See, for example, WILLIAM LILLY: _History of His Life and Times_ (1715, reprinted in 1822, p. 227). [67] See ANTHONY À WOOD’S account of Kelley’s life in _Athenæ Oxonienses_ (3rd edition, edited by Philip Bliss, vol. i. col. 639.) [68] William Lilly, the astrologer, in his _History of His Life and Times_ (1822 reprint, pp. 225-226), relates a different story regarding the manner in which Kelley is supposed to have obtained the Great Medicine, but as it is told at third hand, it is of little importance. We do not suppose that there can be much doubt that the truth was that Dee and others were deceived by some skilful conjuring tricks, for whatever else Kelley may have been, he certainly was a very ingenious fellow. [69] _The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee_ (The Camden Society, 1842), p. 22. [70] _The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee_ (The Camden Society, 1842), p. 27. It was during his incarceration that he wrote an alchemistic work entitled _The Stone of the Philosophers_, which consists largely of quotations from older alchemistic writings. His other works on Alchemy were probably written at an earlier period.[71] [71] An English translation of Kelley’s alchemistic works were published under the editorship of Mr. A. E. Waite, in 1893. Henry Khunrath (1560-1605). § =53.= =Henry Khunrath= was born in Saxony in the second half of the sixteenth century. He was a follower of Paracelsus, and travelled about Germany, practising as a physician. “This German alchemist,” says Mr. A. E. Waite, “. . . is claimed as a hierophant of the psychic side of the _magnum opus_, and . . . was undoubtedly aware of the larger issues, of Hermetic theorems”; he describes Khunrath’s chief work, _Amphitheatrum Sapientiæ Æternæ_, &c., as “purely mystical and magical.”[72] [72] A. E. WAITE: _Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers_ (1888), p. 159. Alexander Sethon (?-1604) and Michael Sendivogius (1566?-1646).