174 The Society's MSS. Chiseldon, &c. 
lived nearly sixty years in the Calley family, and among other legacies given 
by his will he left 1007. to buy land the income of which was, on St. Thomas’s 
Day, to be distributed to twenty of the poor, not receiving alms, in the 
discretion of the heirs of Calley. Sir William died in 1630, leaving issue by 
Judith Bowdler his wife, daughter of Richard Bowdler, citizen and merchant 
tailor of London, his son William, of the Inner Temple (guery Middle Temple) 
and afterwards of Burderop, his heir. 
Other notes of Mr. Richard Mullings are :— 
In the year 1625 William Calley sent 307. to King Charles, required to be 
paid under writ of Privy Seal. 
William Calley of London, draper, was one of the society of Merchant 
Adventurers trading to Spain. His brother-in-law was named William Meggs, 
in 1610. 
Henry Thistlethwayte the Under Sheriff to William Calley, esq., High 
Sheriff. 
In the ‘Analytical Index” to the “ Remembrancia,” already 
quoted from, occurs the following interesting entry :— 
Letter from the King to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, requiring 
them to discharge from serving the office of Sheriff, without fine, Sir William 
Calley, knight, a persone above seventy-two years of age, who left the city 
above thirty years since, and who in his respect of his age, had obtained leave 
to resign an office of much easier execution in the King’s service. 10 July, 
1637. 
In the absence of other particulars of his career as a merchant, 
which could, doubtless, be recovered from the books of the Drapers’ 
Company, the following extract from some Chancery Proceedings 
may be inserted here, as showing the nature of his business :— 
27 Aprilis 1605 
To the Right honorable Sir Thomas 
Egerton knight Lorde Ellesmere 
Lorde Chauncellor of Englande 
Humblie complayeninge sheweth unto your good Lordeshippe your daylie 
Oratour Frauncis Allen of London clotheworker That whereas your Lorde- 
shippes said Oratour for many yeares laste paste hathe used and kepte a 
Mercers shoppe at and in Cheapeside within the parishe of St. ffosters within 
the Citty of London, and for your oratour’s said trade did use to buye of 
dyverse Marchauntes and others all manner of Sylkes velvettes Grograynes 
ffustians and other lyke Mercery Wares of greate vallew to be uttered by your 
Lordeshipps said oratour in his said shoppe and your Lordeshipps said 
oratour amongest other persones did at dyverse and sondrye tymes bwye of 
one William Cawley of London Draper and of Raufe Stynte of London 
