150 



The Society's MSS. Chfseldon, 8fc. 



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. 



Ealph 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. 4(R). 



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 : — 



13^ of Elizabeth (A.I). 1570-1,) John Calley of Clevancy 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. in., 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 : — 



