170 



The Society's MSS. Chiseldon, fyc. 



Ursula "Walsingham, widow of Sir Francis Walsingham. From 

 his " answer," dated 1 May, 1592, it appears that he, " Michaell 

 Cawley," was resident in the parish of " Chilton ffollyett," and 

 that one John Merivale had " aboute two yeres past demysed " to 

 him a messuage and land at Soley in that parish, for twenty-one 

 years. Dame Ursula, it may be added, denied Merivale's title, 

 and claimed the fee under a bargain and sale to her late husband. 



No resident in that parish, or indeed in that neighbourhood, 

 could avoid coming into collision with the squire of Littlecot, and 

 accordingly we find William Darell paying " Mr. Colly er for the 

 fine for Hunt's Suit v. Cawley, 16s. 8c?." and to the " Sheriff of 

 Wilts, for returning the attachment v. Cowley and Hunt, 12d." 

 Also there is a letter to Darell from Anthony Hinton, of Wan- 

 borough, received 16 January, 1588-9, beginning " Worshipfull, 

 Understanding you have displeasure against me . . . grounding 

 your quarell upon certen wordes which Mr. Cawlye as you sayd 

 spake unto you ... " with the certificate enclosed, " Whereas 

 Mr. William Darell reporteth that I Michaell Cawley have sayed 

 unto him that my Cosen Anthony Hinton was . . . " (Hubert 

 Hall's " Society in the Elizabethan Age," pp. 208, 209, 267.) 



Another note by Mr. Richard Mullings, of a document dated 

 1606, 4th of King James, but which more probably may be referred 

 to the 14th year of that king, mentions a Richard Calley, presumably 

 the son of Michael : — 



Grant to Thomas Calley, Richard Calley and William Calley, son of William 

 Calley of London, of lands at Highway. The house of William Calley of 

 London was then [1606 sic] situate in the Augustine Friars, in the ward of 

 Broad Street. 



If the above note is referable to the year 1606, William Calley 

 the younger, afterwards of Burderop, could not very well be the 

 person intended, for he was, in 1606, nine years old at most, while 

 Richard, son of Michael was then aged only eighteen. 



It is certain, moreover, that there was another Richard Calley in 

 existence, for in the " Analytical Index " to the " Remembrancia " 

 the following passage occurs : — 



