150 The Society’s MSS. Chiseldon, &c. 
branches, the posterity of Eleanor Woodcock and of Agnes 
Lawrence respectively, and it will be convenient to set out the | 
facts to hand concerning the elder line, before treating of the 
younger line, from whom the Calleys of Burderop descended. 
Ralph Calley does not appear to have left a will. His landed 
estate was appointed between his children by settlements on 
marriage, or otherwise, and administration of the estate of ‘ Ralph 
Cawley of Highwaie, co. Wilts,”’ intestate deceased, was granted, 
19th June, 1582, to Agnes Cawley, the relict (C.P.C. Admon. Act. - 
Book, fo. 40d.). j 
There is no allusion whatever, it may be premised, in the will of 
Agnes the widow of Ralph Calley, to her late husband’s issue by 
his first wife, and for whatever reason, it would certainly appear 
that there was a breach between the two families. Highway, as 
will be shown later, was held in dower by the second wife, and 
apparently settled on the issue of the second marriage, while the 
elder line is henceforward found established at Hilmarton hard by. 
Among Mr. Mulling’s notes is one as follows, presumably from 
a deed at Burderop :— 
13th of Elizabeth (A.D. 1570-1) John Calley of Clevaney and 
Ralph Calley his father of Highway. They were then possessed of 
the Manor of Clevancy. 
Of Ralph Calley’s two daughters by his first wife, Susan and 
Anne, of their marriages, and of the personal character of the 
latter, together with details of the Clevancy estate, which, or the 
nucleus of it, was bequeathed by William Calley, of London and 
Winchester, and which had descended to Ralph Calley, and from 
him to his son and heir, John Calley, a document of later date will 
be found to supply a very interesting account. 
His son and heir, John Calley, of Hilmarton, the parsonage, or 
rectory, of which place he and his wife, as we shall hear presently, 
had purchased, in 1590, of the Crown, married Martha Jodrell. 
In Helsby’s edition of Ormerod’s ‘‘ History of Cheshire,” vol. iii., p. 
786, is a pedigree of Jodrell, which is particularly valuable to us — 
as explaining the relationship in which Edward Smith, mentioned 
in John Calley’s will, stood to the testator :— 
