the scratching girl of Cock Lane — first séance in England basically, and it was a kid with a board

Been down a rabbit hole on this one for weeks. 1762, Cock Lane, right by Smithfield market, two minutes from St Paul's. There's a moneylender, William Kent, who'd shacked up with his dead wife's sister Fanny (couldn't legally marry her, church wouldn't have it). They lodge with this parish clerk Ric……