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that the possession and occupacion of the said mannor is not in the said 

 complainant nether of his assignes but is the joynture of Ann or Agnes Cawly 

 mother of the said complainant [&c]. 



Capta apud Marlebrough 28 die Aprilis xxxv° Elizabethe Eegine (L593). 



Chancery Proceedings Elizabeth . 

 Cll. No. 40. 



It may be proper to add that there appears to have been a family 

 of " Colley " in North Wilts, cotemporary with but distinct from 

 the " Calley " stock Thus in " Brown's Somersetshire Wills," 

 Fifth Series, p. 51, is printed the following abstract, with a 

 marginal note, showing that the editor considered the testator to 

 belong to the " Galley " family : — 



Eoger Colley of Wanborowe, Wilts, gent. Will dated 15 June, 1587, proved 

 29 Jan. 1588—9, by Margaret his relict. [C.P.C. Leicester, 19.] Poor of 

 Bishopston. To Mr. Edward Walronde, of Alborne, Wilts, a standinge bowle 

 of silver, &c. To Alice Guilliams, of Charleton, Berks, 501. My brother 

 Philip Kiffell. My brother John Colley 51. My nephew James Colley. My 

 brother James Colley, my gold ring. Besidue to Margaret my wife, Executrix. 



Having thus set out the little we know of the earlier history of 

 the family, we arrive at its re -founder, William Calley, third son of 

 Ralph Calley of Highway by his second wife Agnes Lawrence of 

 Tisbury, the purchaser of Burderop. He was a man of great 

 distinction, successful as a merchant, the intimate friend of some 

 of the most cultivated and most eminent persons of his time, grave 

 and pious, and well esteemed in the city, in his native county, and 

 at Court. All this fully appears from such of his correspondence 

 as is preserved, by accident, among the State Papers, and which it 

 is intended, hereafter, to reproduce in these pages. For the present 

 we must be content with the briefest details. Mr. Richard Mullings 

 says : — 



Kalph Calley by his second wife had issue several children, and amongst 

 others the William Calley before spoken of as the purchaser of the Burderop 

 estate. He was knighted between the 3rd and 7th of Charles I. [he was 

 knighted at Greenwich, 11th June, 1629, 5 Charles I.], and he and his son 

 William were, by letters patent, dated 8th December, 8th Charles I., appointed 

 to the office of receiver general for their lives of the crown rents payable in 

 the counties of Oxford and Berks, and Bichard Harvey of Burderop was their 

 deputy. He [i.e., Bichard Harvey] died 16th January, 1668, aged 80. He 



