The Society's MSB. Chiseldon, Sfc. 



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Soveraigne Lord the Kinges Majestyes most gracions proces of sub poena to 

 be directed unto the sayd Sir John Earnely Knighte and Martha Calley [&c] 



Digges. 



The family of Lisle, de Lisle, or de Lyle, as spelt in the above 

 Bill, was very anciently seated in Hampshire and the Tsle of Wight, 

 and a family of Blake, near Anne Calley's home, at Oalne ; hnt 

 neither of these ladies' husbands have been, so far, identified. 

 " The executor's year," mentioned in Mrs. Martha Calley's Answer, 

 was a custom widely prevalent : — 



Jur. ult. Octobr. 



1606 Mat. Carew [?] 



The severall answere of Martha Calley 

 widdowe one of the defendauntes to 

 the Bill of Complaynt of Anne Blake 

 widdowe complainaunte. 



Evelyn. 



The said defendaunt by protestacion not confessinge the said bill of complaint 

 in the materiall partes thereof concerninge this defendaunt to be true in 

 manner and forme therein sett forth And saveinge to her selfe now and at all 

 tymes hereafter [&c] for aunswere to soe muche therof as consearneth this 

 said defendaunt, shee this said defendaunt saith, that shee thinketh it to be 

 true that Kaphe Callye in the said bill of complaint named was in his liffe 

 tyme lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee or fee tayle of and in the mannor 

 of Cleevauncye with thappurtenaunces in the said bill of complaint mencioned, 

 and the said Ealphe beinge thereof so seised, he the said Eaphe Calley by 

 good and sufficient conveyaunce and assurance in the lawe and for good 

 consyderacion of money to him therf or paid by John Calley his sonne and heire 

 deceased in the said bill of complaint also named and late this defendauntes 

 husband did convey and assure unto the said John Calley and his heyres the 

 said manrior of Cleeveauncye with thappurtenaunces, by vertue wherof the 

 said John Calley into the said mannor and premysses with thappurtenaunces 

 entred and was therof lawfully seised accordinglye, and shortlye after he the 

 said John Calley by good and sufficient conveyaunce and assurance in the 

 lawe did convey and assure the said mannor and premysses to and for the 

 joynture of this defendaunt dureinge her naturall lyffe, to be had and held 

 after the decease of the said John Callye, sythence which tyme the said John 

 Calley is deceased and the said mannor and premysses doth nowe remayne 

 and is to come to this defendaunt, and this defendaunt ymmediatelye after 

 the decease of the said John Calley entred therinto and was and yet is therof 

 lawfully seised accordingly, and this defendaunt further saith and confesseth 

 it to be very true That ther are within the said mannor and tyme whereof the 

 memorye of man is not to the contrarye there have byne dyvers ancient 



