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descent of eighteen or nineteen generations, across four centuries 

 and more of time, we can date, not only their arrival there, but 

 their first appearance in the county itself. 



Towards the latter half of the fifteenth century there was resident 

 in the City of Winchester, and apparently in the parish of All- 

 hallows (where it is mentioned that he bought property), one John 

 Calley, who dying, left behind him a widow, Edith, and two 

 children, William Calley and Margaret, afterwards Margaret 

 Purdue. Edith Calley re-married with Thomas Bowlonde, of 

 Winchester, who died in or about the year 1486, having made his 

 will, as follows : — 



14 October, In dei nomine amen. xiiij° die mensis Octobris Anno 

 A.D. 1485. Domini Millesimo cccc lxxxv Ego Thomas Bowlond de 

 parochia Omnium Sanctorum CiuitatisWinton' compos mentis 

 et sane memorie Condo testamentum meum in hunc modum In primis lego ac 

 commendo animam meam deo omnipotenti beate Marie ac omnibus Sanctis 

 corpusque meum ad sepeliendum in ecclesia cathedrali sancti Swituni Item 

 lego eidem ecclesie cathedrali xx s . Item lego ecclesie mee parochiali xl s . Item 

 cuilibet ordini fratrum ciuitatis prediete vj s . et viij d . ita ut sint presentes in die 

 sepulture mee Item lego cuilibet curato ciuitatis prediete xij.d. Item cuilibet 

 clerico parochiali sex denarios ita quod sint presentes in die funeracionis mee 

 Insuper in die trigintal' tantum ut prius Item collegio beate Marie 

 Virginis xl s . ita quod omnes deo ibidem seruientes inter sint funeracioni 

 mee Insuper ut habeant in suo collegio in die funeracionis mee et in die 

 trigintal' cum nota placebo et dirige cum missa de requiem Item ecclesie 

 Omnium Sanctorum de Hursley vj s viij d Item cuilibet filiolo meo xij.d 

 Item lego Edithe sorori mee xx s Item Margarete rilie mee pro maritagio suo 

 xl u Item Johanne filie mee xl H sub ista condicione quod sint gubernate per 

 matrem suam et per executores suos Item lego Roberto Elys seruienti meo 

 decern marcas Item lego cuilibet seruienti meo tarn de viris quam de feminis 

 iij 3 iiij d . Item lego iiij or pauperibus tenentibus iiij 01 torchias in die funeracionis 

 mee et in trigintali cuilibet eorum unam togam nigram ita quod ille torchie 

 sint precij xxvj s viij d et extunc do eas torchias ecclesie Omnium Sanctorum 

 Item volo quod unus presbiter idoneus et secularis celebret per trienium in 

 ecclesia mea parochiali antedicta pro summa per annum nouem marcarum 

 Item volo quod executores mei in die funeracionis mee diuidant pauperibus 

 xxxiij 8 iiij d et tantum in die trigintal' Item volo quod Editha uxor mea 

 habeat omnia tenementa per me optenta durante tempore vite sue et extunc 

 volo quod omnia ilia tenementa mea cum omnibus illis tenementispertinentibus 

 per executores meos diuidantur filiabus meis Residuum vero omnium bonorum 

 meorum tarn mobilium quam immobilum do et lego in manus prediete Edithe 

 uxoris mee ita quod ipsa bona ilia pro anima mea disponat prout sciuerit 

 melius anime mee expedire et omnium amicorum meorum defunctorum huius 



