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 supplied interesting details about the social condition and status of the contemporary clergy (Sketches of the Reformation, &c., J. O. W. Haweis, pp. 71, 76, 78, 80, 100–1). 2. ‘Two Godlie and learned Sermons, appointed and Preached before the Jesuites, Seminaries, and other adversaries to the Gospell of Christ in the Tower of London. In May 7 and 21 Anno 1581, Richard Jhones,’ London, 8vo, b.l. Three letters, dedicatory to Walsingham, to the readers, and to the jesuits, are prefixed, dated 10 June 1581. The sermons are referred to in Gregory Martin's ‘Discoverie of the manifold corruptions of the Holy Scriptures by the Heretikes,’ &c., Rhemes, 1582, pp. 278–80, and in W. Fulke's ‘Defence … against Martin’ (Parker Society), pp. 78, 530–1.

 KELTY, MARY ANN (1789–1873), authoress, daughter of an Irish surgeon resident in Cambridge, was born in that town in 1789. Her brother, Sterling Kelty, graduated from King's College, B.A. in 1804, M.A. 1807, and was a senior fellow of his college until 1826. Her first book, a novel entitled ‘The Favourite of Nature,’ appeared anonymously in 1821. It gained the approbation of Joanna Baillie, and was in 1823 translated into French under the title of ‘Eliza Rivers.’ Her literary reputation, combined with her strong musical tastes, won Miss Kelty many friends in Cambridge; but upon the death of her father and mother, who both died in 1822, she adopted severely evangelical views, under the influence of Charles Simeon's preaching, and abandoned society. She left Cambridge in 1832, and spent the rest of her life at 5 Hanover Street, Peckham, London, where she wrote many rambling books, chiefly of a pious character. She was much attracted by the lives of the early quakers, and frequently attended the Friends' meeting-house at Peckham, though she did not become a member of the society. She died at Peckham 8 Jan. 1873.

Her chief works are: 1. ‘The Favourite of Nature,’ 1821, 8vo. 2. ‘The Catacombs. An Allegory. Taken from a work of the last century (by B. de Mandeville), entitled “The World Unmasked,”’ 1822, 8vo. 3. ‘Time of Trial; being a Brief Narrative of the Progress of the Reformation,’ 1830, 8vo. 4. ‘Spiritual Fragments, selected from the Works of William Law.’ 5. ‘Early Days in the Society of Friends,’ 1840, 12mo. 6. ‘Mamma and Mary, discoursing upon Good and Evil, in six Dialogues,’ 1840, 12mo. 7. ‘Fireside Philosophy, or Glimpses of Truth,’ 1842, 8vo. 8. ‘Memoirs of the Lives and Persecutions of Primitive Quakers,’ 1844, 12mo. 9. ‘Visiting my Relations,’ 1851, 8vo. 10. ‘Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling,’ 1852, 8vo. 11. ‘Waters of Comfort,’ 1856, 8vo. 12. ‘The Real and the Beau Ideal,’ 1860, 8vo. 13. ‘Eventide, a Devotional Diary for the Close of the Day,’ 1860, 8vo. 14. ‘Loneliness and Leisure,’ 1867, 8vo. 15. ‘The Solace of a Solitaire,’ 1869, 8vo.

 KELWAY, JOSEPH (d. 1782), organist and harpsichord player, studied under his brother Thomas [q. v.] and Geminiani. He succeeded Shuttleworth as organist of St. Michael's, Cornhill, about 1730, and resigned in 1736 to succeed Weldon at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. His extempore playing, with its ‘flights, fancies, and execution adapted to the instrument’ (, Musicians, p. 30), had not been excelled ‘even by Handel, though the fugue … of the latter was greater.’ Handel himself, among other musicians, frequented St. Martin's Church to hear his fantastic performances. Kelway was no less esteemed as a performer on the harpsichord. Among his pupils were Charles Wesley, Mrs. Delany, and Queen Charlotte, to whom he was appointed harpsichord master on her arrival in England, 1761. Mrs. Pendarves (, Letters) wrote in 1736 to Ann Granville: ‘My brother has tied me down at last to learn of Kellaway; he has paid him the entrance money, which is two guineas, and has made me a present of Handel's “Book of Lessons.” I don't find Kellaway's method difficult at all;’ and Ann Granville asks Lady Throckmorton, in August 1739: ‘Have you heard Mr. Kellaway upon the harpsichord? He is at Scarborough, and a most delightful player, very little inferior to Handel.’ He rendered Scarlatti's most difficult sonatas brilliantly, and is described by Burney as the ‘head of the Scarlatti sect.’ John Christian Bach subsequently introduced a new style, the pianoforte became fashionable, and Kelway's musical ‘sect’ did not survive the change in public taste.

Kelway died in 1782, and his will (signed 14 April 1779 and proved 5 June 1782) 