The Society's MSS. Chiseldon, 8fc. 



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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. 



Eoll 238 (58). 



The date (1506-7), it will be noticed, is five years earlier than 



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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 

 " Bemembrancia " we find the following : — 



" 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, 

 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 

 bequest to her of the residue of his estate was cancelled by the 

 bequest of it to his executors, " for the weale of my soule." His 

 heir, 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 

 William Calley in existence, in which it is found that John Calley 

 was his son and heir ; but failing proof of this kind, and with only 

 the wording of the will to guide us, it is difficult to feel any certainty 

 about it. The boy was doubtless his son, but would the testator 

 have described him as " John Calley called Johannes with Master 

 persoune of Lothbury," as in the testament of 15.12, or " John 

 Calley, otherwyse called Johannes with the parsonne of Lothbury/'' 

 as in the will of 1515, if the child were born in wedlock ? 



No particulars are to hand with regard to John Calley, other 

 than are contained in the pedigree of the family of Calley entered 

 at the Visitation of Wiltshire in 1565, by his son. Of this 

 Visitation there are several copies, outside the College of Arms, one 

 in particular with several very interesting additions, not to be found 

 elsewhere, in Harley MS. 1565, fo. 36. In this MS. the arms 



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