174 



The Society's MSS. Chiseldon, Sfc. 



lived nearly sixty years in the C alley family, and among other legacies given 

 by his will he left 1001. to buy land the income of which was, on St. Thomas's 

 Day, to be distributed to twenty of the poor, not receiving alms, in the 

 discretion of the heirs of Calley. Sir William died in 1630, leaving issue by 

 Judith Bowdler his wife, daughter of Eichard Bowdler, citizen and merchant 

 tailor of London, his son William, of the Inner Temple {query Middle Temple) 

 and afterwards of Burderop, his heir. 



Other notes of Mr. Eichard Mullings are : — 



In the year 1625 William Calley sent 307. to King Charles, required to be 

 paid under writ of Privy Seal. 



William Calley of London, draper, was one of the society of Merchant 

 Adventurers trading to Spain. His brother-in-law was named William Meggs, 

 in 1610. 



Henry Thistlethwayte the Under Sheriff to William Calley, esq., High 

 Sheriff. 



In the " Analytical Index " to the " Remembrancia," already 

 quoted from, occurs the following interesting entry : — 



Letter from the King to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, requiring 

 them to discharge from serving the office of Sheriff, without fine, Sir William 

 Calley, knight, a persone above seventy-two years of age, who left the city 

 above thirty years since, and who in his respect of his age, had obtained leave 

 to resign an office of much easier execution in the King's service. 10 July, 

 1637. 



In the absence of other particulars of his career as a merchant, 

 which could, doubtless, be recovered from the books of the Drapers' 

 Company, the following extract from some Chancery Proceedings 

 may be inserted here, as showing the nature of his business : — 

 27 Aprilis 1605 



To the Bight honorable Sir Thomas 

 Egerton knight Lorde Ellesmere 

 Lorde Chauncellor of Englande 

 Humblie complayeninge sheweth unto your good Lordeshippe your daylie 

 Oratour Frauncis Allen of London clotheworker That whereas your Lorde- 

 shippes said Oratour for many yeares laste paste hathe used and kepte a 

 Mercers shoppe at and in Cheapeside within the parishe of St. ffosters within 

 the Citty of London, and for your oratonr's said trade did use to buye of 

 dyverse Marchauntes and others all manner of Sylkes velvettes Grograynes 

 ffustians and other lyke Mercery Wares of greate vallew to be uttered by your 

 Lordeshipps said oratour in his said shoppe and your Lordeshipps said 

 oratour amongest other persones did at dyverse and sondrye tymes bwye of 

 one William Cawley of London Draper and of Baufe Stynte of London 



