The Society’s MSS. Chiseldon, &e. 145 
] London, charged with the maintenance of an obit in the Church of S. Michael 
upon Cornhill in manner as directed. Dated 23 March, A.D. 1506. 
Roll 238 (58). 
_ The date (1506-7), it will be noticed, is five years earlier than 
any of the like documents enrolled before it. It may be added 
that the Drapers’ Company do not seem to have enjoyed William 
Calley’s bequests, tainted as they were by “superstitious uses,” 
undisturbed. At any rate in the “Analytical Index” to the 
“ Remembrancia ” we find the following :— 
' 4g Concealed Lands. Letter from the Barons of the Exchequer, 19 May, 
1582, to the Lord Mayor, for the production of the will of William Calley, 
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enrolled 8 Henry VIII.” 
It is tolerably clear from the above documents that Maud, the 
testator’s wife, was living in 1512, but dead in 1515, when the 
, equest of it to his executors, “for the weale of my soule.” His 
hei , subject to large bequests to the Drapers’ Company, and legacies 
to his kith and kin, was John Calley, then a boy, who is not, it will 
be noticed, described, directly, as his son. It is quite possible that 
there may be an “ office,” or “inquisition” taken on the death of 
Villiam Calley in existence, in which it is found that John Calley 
4 4 s Bis a son and heir; but sa proof of this kind, and with — 
al The boy was doubtless his son, but would the testator 
have Peaicibed him as “ John Calley called Johannes with Master 
persoune of Lothbury,” as in the testament of 1512, or “John 
Sethe will of 1515. ifthe child werd born in wedlock ? 
No particulars are to hand with regard to John Calley, other 
