The Society’s MSS. Chiseldon, &c. 173 
that the possession and occupacion of the said mannor is not in the said 
- complainant nether of his assignes but is the joynture of Ann or Agnes Cawly 
‘mother of the said complainant [&c]. 
Capta apud Marlebrough 28 die Aprilis xxxv° Elizabethe Regine (1593). 
Chancery Proceedings Elizabeth. 
C.1. No. 40. 
It may be proper to add that there appears to have been a family 
of “Colley ” in North Wilts, cotemporary with but distinct from 
‘the “Calley” stock Thus in “ Brown’s Somersetshire Wills,” 
Fifth Series, p. 51, is printed the following abstract, with a 
marginal note, showing that the editor considered the testator to 
belong to the “ Calley’ family :— 
Roger Colley of Wanborowe, Wilts, gent. Will dated 15 June, 1587, proved 
29 Jan. 1588—9, by Margaret his relict. [C.P.C. Leicester, 19.] Poor of 
To Mr. Edward Walronde, of Alborne, Wilts, a standinge bowle 
of silver, &e. To Alice Guilliams, of Charleton, Berks, 502. My brother 
Philip Kiffell. My brother John Colley 5/. My nephew James Colley. My 
brother James Colley, my gold ring. Residue to Margaret my wife, Executrix. 
Having thus set out the little we know of the earlier history of 
the family, we arrive at its re-founder, William Calley, third son of 
ph Calley of Highway by his second wife Agnes Lawrence of 
| isbury, the purchaser of Burderop. He was a man of great 
d is tinction, successful as a merchant, the intimate friend of some 
of the most cultivated and most eminent persons of his time, grave 
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4 nd pious, and well esteemed in the city, in his native county, and 
as is Seecevod, by accident, among the State Papers, and which it 
: intended, hereafter, to reproduce in these pages. or the present 
we must be content with the briefest details. Mr. Richard Mullings 
Ralph Calley by his second wife had issue several children, and amongst 
others the William Calley before spoken of as the purchaser of the Burderop 
William were, by letters patent, dated 8th December, 8th Charles I., appointed 
to the office of ‘receiver general for their lives of the crown rents payable in 
the counties of Oxford and Berks, and Richard Harvey of Burderop was their 
deputy. He [i.e., Richard Harvey] died 16th January, 1668, aged 80. He 
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