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THE CALLS OF
NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
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CHARLES S. KUMAiN'EtJ (ii)
THE CALLS OF
NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
THEIR PASTON CONNECTIONS
AND DESCENDANTS
BY
CHARLES S. ROMANES
PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR BY
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PRINTERS TO HIS MAJESTY
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THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK, THEIR
^ PASTON CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS
O The Calls of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cornwall are an old English family
v^ who have taken part in many political and ecclesiastical struggles
that have occurred in Britain. They came prominently into notice
S^ during the Wars of the Roses, the Reformation, and the Cromwellian
, period. They thus shared in the disputes, struggles, fortunes, and
I sufferings of the party whose cause they espoused.
The editor of these Memorials has in his possession a copy of a
manuscript account of the Norfolk family written by Martin Call on
27th May 1751 at Balshagray, in the parish of Govan in Scotland,
now forming part of Partick and Govan, and also Martin Call's
autobiography, both of which he acquired through his great-grand-
mother, Lucy Call, once of Alnwick, afterwards of St. Petersburg,
daughter of James Call, Alnwick, and granddaughter of Martin Call.
Wliile printing these two manuscripts for private circulation
among his relatives and friends, the editor has added an account of
Martin Call's ancestors, descendants, and connections collected by
him from every available source. To add to any interest he has
awakened by this narrative he has illustrated his work by portraits
and views.
It is probably futile to attempt to explain the origin of the name
of Call. It has been suggested that it was Welsh and meant ' clever,'
or was a species of cap of network for the head. Kail in Welsh
meant crafty or cunning. Calla in Anglo-Saxon was a man and Kail
Koul an island. (D. E. Davy's Suffolk Collection, British Mus.
Addl. MSS. 19160.) But all these suggestions are scarcely beyond the
region of conjecture. We think that it has a common origin with
such names as Cole, Cale, Cally, Callow, upon which we cannot throw
any Ught unless it is from the simple Celtic word, Coil, which means
' wood.'
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THE MSS. OF MARTIN CALL
It having pleased the Almighty to bless me with long life and
more than common health and strength for my years (being now in
my 76th year) and having outlived all my relations that I know of,
of my name, and having out of 12 children, but 3 sons left (Martin,
James and Thomas) and they ignorant of their family and none
other left to inform them, I think it higlily my duty to give them
a short Memorial of it.
I had it from my father John Call, and he from his father Martin
Call and other relatives confirming the same, and they by Tradition
from Father to son, that we are originally Saxons, our very name
confirming it. Call being the Saxon word for bald (as in their language
Kaelth Cop for bald pate), and that we came in with the Saxons in
the 8th Century ; that we were then three brothers, the one settling
in the Highlands of Scotland (from whence we presume the McCalls,
the McAuleys and McCallas, in their Highland way of writing the
name, proceeds). The word Mac which a great part of the Highland
gentlemen continue to prefix to their surnames, is in great esteem
with them, all pretending to high blood and ancient family, as the
Ap8 (for Apshenking) the native Welsh Gentry and the O'^ (as O'Neil)
for the native Irish Gentry.
Another brother settled somewhere in the west of England which
I can give no account of, or ever heard tell of the name that way,
only of one William Call, whose name I saw, signed to an Address to
the parliament from Cornwall in King William's time.
The other brother settled in tlie north east part of England and
chiefly in the County of Norfolk, from whence we proceed. And the
furthest I can go back with any other authority than tradition, is
from Richard Call of Backton, and his son John Call of Little Melton
in Norfolk, Esq^s who by a Daughter of the then Sir John Paston,
Bart, (whose family came afterwards to be dignified with the noble
Title of Earl of Yarmouth) had many sons, and among them my
Greatgrandfather, Nicholas Call, his son and heir who lived in Lyn or
Kings Lyn in Norfolk and had 9 sons, 8 of them being in arms with
him and the rest of the inhabitants in defence of the town against
that transcendant villain and infamous usurper, Oliver Cromwell,
who with his arbitrary Sequestrations and other helhsh devices found
I'ASTON CHURCH
Lirri.i-_ xii.i.ii
MALTBY CHURCH (1919)
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means to ruin my Greatgrandfather (though then a wealthy man)
and all his posterity. Too many the like instances have we seen in
these our days, of too many brave men, and great estates ruined for
their (now mistaken) loyalty.
My Greatgrandfather died and his six sons, leaving only my
Grandfather Martin Call and his two younger brothers, Robert who
died Fellow of Peterhouse College in Cambridge and his younger
brother, Nicholas, who died, leaving one son Thomas Call, who had
an only daughter and she married to one Mr. Hawkins, by whom she
had one son and two daughters, who are all with her since dead.
My Grandfather Martin Call practised Physick and Chirurgery
in great repute, first in Swaffam Market in Norfolk, till Ohver's
malice reached him, who for his Father's and Brothers' loyalty in
Lynn, put him in prison, of which, by the help of Aqua Fortis, he got
out then, but by a strict ' hue and cry ' after him was taken and a
second time confined, with an intent to hang him, but before his tryall
came on, he made a second escape and got into Holland and there
remained till the happy Restoration of King Charles the Second.
When he returned he settled and opened an Apothecary's shop in
Thetford, in Norfolk, and practised Physick and Chirurgery there
with great success, and for his facetious conversation and genteel
behaviour was taken up with the best in Town and Country. He
married a daughter of [Sir Robert] Wright Esq^e a Justice of Peace
of Sandy [Santon] Downham near Thetford, by whom he had only
my Uncle Martin Call, whom he brought up to liis own business,
and my Father, John Call.
My Uncle Martin died and left two sons, Martin, who died young,
and John, who went off and was not heard tell of when I left England,
nor since by all the enquiries I could make. My Uncle also left three
daughters, who married in the neighbourhood of Thetford.
My Father John Call married Mary Cannon [or Canham] a
daughter of Geo. Cannon of Swaffam Market aforesaid, of a family
of better blood there than fortune, by whom he had me, my brother
George, and four sisters, who are dead childless, so that I am with my
three sons the only males left of that formerly worthy name to hand
it down to future ages, that I can hear tell of.
N.B. — This same John Call of Little Melton, Esq^e lived in
Queen Elizabeth's reign, when she sent out her heralds-at-Arms
throughout England to examine and try what tytle every Gentleman
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had to the coat of arms they then pretended to. In their Norfolk
circuit, they minetted down and ascertained this same John Call of
Little Melton, Esqi'e in Norfolk bearing the same coat of arms we
now bear, and have done ever since, from Father to Son, to be his
undoubted right and title, and was then reputed to be a man worth
upwards of three thousand pounds sterhng a year, which was as much
thought of then as £5000 nowadays.
So much for the Antiquity of our Family, being according to
Tradition from Father to Son above nine hundred years standing at
1751, we coming in the year 820 or there about : and that we are the
elder branch, I have sufficiently proved that for more than 200 years
past. That before these 200 years there were younger brothers
branching out which was not my business to take notice of, if there
were any alive my design being only to filch out the elder branch.
I was acquainted with some of their posterity and one or two of their
ancient Men, who allowed us to be the elder branch as I have proved,
and heirs to that estate at Little Melton, if Oliver had not ruined
it, and consequently left us nothing but the wide world to seek our
bread in. (Signed) M. Call.
Balshagray, 27th May 1751.
HIS AUTOBIOGIL\PHY
Since I have given an account of our Family in general I tliink a
short account of my life in particular, with the several changing
scenes thereof, will not be unacceptable to my own Children.
1676. Upon a sunday about midnight on the 16th day of April 1676 I
was born ; and as I grew up my Father took especial care of my
education, kept me close to school first tlirough the Enghsh, next to
the Latin School, and when I had attained a reasonable proficiency
1693. in Latin and Greek, at the age of 17 years, and in the year 1693,
admitted me a student in Caius College, Cambridge, in order
to quahfy me either for Divinity, Civil Law or Physick, as my own
genius should lead me. There I kept close till tlae long Vacation of
the year 1696 that I went down to Thetford to make my Mother a
visit, my Father dying the year before, to my imspeakable loss, for
want of his advice in particular. From Thetford I went to Norwich
and Yarmouth, to visit two relations of my own name Richard Call,
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a grocer in Tombland Norwich, and Andrew Call his elder brother.
Minister of Mautby near Yarmouth, who proposed his niece to me for
a wife, his brother Richai-d's daughter (and with his consent too) of
between 11 and 12 years of age, and the only child they had
between them, and she as fond of me. I accepted of the offer, and
the marriage was to be consummated in the year 1697, when I had
taken my Bachelor of Arts degree. After that I returned to College,
and pursued my studies for my degree, till the latter end of that
year 1696.
When the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Williamson, being ap- 1696.
pointed by King William, his Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary, with the Earls of Pembrook and Jersey, for his treaty
of peace with the French at Reswick, near the Hague in Holland, out
of his great love and respect for my Father, sent for me from College,
to be one of the chief of his Retinue, which was very magnificent,
with a design to show me so much of the world, and to qualify me
for some handsome Post or business at Court at his Return. In the
month of May 1697, we sailed for Holland, and in the month of
September following, the peace was concluded. During the treaty
he employed me close in entering all his despatches, memorials and
minets of whatever passed in conferences private or publick, with the
foreign Ambassadors. Soon after the conclusion of the peace, my
lords Pembrook and Jersey were recalled and Sir Joseph being ordered
to continue, he lessened the bulk of his retinue, and only kept me and
another extraordinary. During my stay there (unhappily for me)
my Cousins Richard and Andrew Call died, and the mother of my little
espoused wife, and her mother's mother, being both Presbyterians,
had yoked her with one of their Sect, who was to the man that married
her a £3000 Ster. fortime. In the month of April 1699, Sir Joseph 1699.
was called home, when pressing the king and treasury hard for the
rest of his Salary due when abroad, and they not answering him to
his expectation, he cast out with them both, and that lost him his
interest at Court, and me my preferment. Yet he continued me in
his family till the year 1701, when he died and left me mom-ning ;
and 130 pound Sterhng legacy. I continued with his Lady the
Lady Catherine O'Brien (by her former husband, the Earl of Tho-
mond's eldest son, of Ireland, who left her a three thousand pound
Sterhng a year jointure) one year, and in that time I had an invitation
from my Tutor and the College to accept of a Junior Fellowship which
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is the fii'st step to better preferment there, but could not accept of
it at that time. But I forgot in due order of time, that in October
1699 at my return from Holland I went down to College and took my
Bachelor of Arts Degree.
1702. In the year 1702, the then Earl of Winchilsea being appointed by
Queen Anne to go as herEnvoy Extraordinary to the Courts of Hanover
and Zell, my lady recommended me to his Lordship for that Embassy.
I went with him as Major Domo, or head servant, and had with me
letters of Credit recommending me to the Princess Sophia for prefer-
ment under her Highness, which she accepted of. Then I stood in
my own hght ; I liked not the Court, excused myself, and came away
with the honour of kissing her hand ordy.
1703. In the year 1703 my Lord was recalled home, when he took me
down with liim to liis seat in Eastwell in Kent, whose situation to-
gether with his Lordships good humour so charmed me, that I enlisted
myself a domestic in that noble fanaily. His lordship was deputy
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Governor of Dover Castle
under Prince George of Denmark, Queen Anne's Spouse, and Lord
Lieutenant of the County of Kent, and employed me as his Secretary,
which would have been a Small Estate to me, had he continued any
time in those Posts : but up Whig, down Tory, away went his Lordship
and Secretary both together. I continued in his Service as a domestic
till the year 1706, when he made me Iiis land Steward, to lett, sell
and manage that part of his Estate near Eastwell of about 3000
pounds Ster. a year, on which with the salary, benefit of drawing
up leases and other allowed perquisites, I throve well. For two
years before I had been courting a young gentlewoman, the only
child and heiress to Mr. Robert Gambell of Knightsbridge, near Hyde
Park Comer, London, and one of the band of Gentlemen Pensioners.
I made sure of her and her mother, but her father would not consent,
though a great croney of mine, but before the year 1706 her mother
died and soon after her father, who upon his deathbed willed me to
her. Soon after her father's death she wrote to me at Eastwell,
telling me of the loss of her father, and that she should be glad to see
me when I came to town. I answered her that then I had a farm to
sell, which before all points could be settled would take up a month's
time. In that time she fell sick, and deferred making her Will, till I
should come over. She growing weak and being pressed hard by
her friends about her, to do it before she died. She ordered an
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Express to me, to come away immediately, which I did and when
I came it was too late, for she was speechless and died three hours
after. At which time I lost my second miss, and with her a clear
Estate of 200 poimds a year, as her own Aunt and friends that were
waiting on her told me, she designed for me, and which went away to
her father's heir at law, Mr. Swan, a Gentleman in Saffron Walden,
Cambridgeshire, a far off Relation, that neither she nor her father
had any respect for. After this second disappointment, I turned
my eye upon my present dear Wife an only child and heiress of Mr.
James Hodges of Ashford in Kent, whom I married on the 29th
November 1709. At which time between us, we made up a thousand
pounds Ster. clear money, of which I put into my lord's hands
650 pounds Ster. at interest till the day of his death, which was in
the year 1712, when to our great loss and surprise, his lordship dying
intestate out came so many judgments and executions, to take place
before bonds and simple contracts that swept away all his personal
estate, and the next heir his real estate, that nothing was left for
poor Martin, or a great many others, but the Dogg to hold or ever
will be there [?].
After my lord died and in the year 1712, with the 350 pounds 1712.
left, by friends' advice, I took up the trade of Hop planting. At that
I drove till the year 1718 with ill success, till I had spent all, obliged
to quit and in debt to boot.
In the year 1718 I removed to London, where I wrote in the 1718.
Council Office occasionally, as a supernumery Clerk, till the month
of September 1719.
That Mr. Southwell his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State 1719.
for the Kingdom of Ireland, took me with him to Ireland, and
placed me a receiver and manager of an Estate of his there of more
than 1000 pound a year, an honourable post there which to keep
up with some credit, cost me more money than he allowed of, that
angered him and we parted.
In the year 1723 I came from Ireland to Scotland and there at 1723.
Saltcoats fell in with Robinson & Co., Tacksmen of the Coal and Salt
Works there, where I served as Grieve and Clerk to both Works till
the year 1729, when the works for a time gave up, that they re- 1729.
commended me to the Laird of Scotstoun, whom I served till his
work grew low, that I went one year to Mr. Scott's work, and in the
year 1743 he recommended me to Mr. Craufurd's Work, whom I
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served as Grieve or Clerk to his Coal Work, till it went do^vn, and
am still serving him occasionally with writing to this very day 27th
May 1751 and hope to continue so till better business offers, of
which, I have some distant view. (Signed) M. Call.
Balshagbay, 11th May 1761.
You will see by the foregoing account the several changing
scenes of my Life for 58 years, from the year 1693, that I first
set out to work for myself, wherein you will observe that the Sun-
shine of Prosperity went down at my birth and the tliick clouds of
Adversity ensued. That I had many benign aspects and as many
malignant oppositions as any man of my time and station, I had
often a sight of the land of Canaan, but am not allowed to enjoy it.
The sure foundation I laid for honourable preferment in College,
or in my little wife with a £3000 fortune was lost by a fair prospect
of greater preferment under Sir Joseph Williamson.
Under my Lord Wiuchilsea, change of Government lost me my
advantageous post, and untimely death (for me) my 650 pounds in
his lordship's hands, and my second miss with an Estate of 200 pounds
a year, and my own folly, my preferment at Hanover and Ireland.
More than I minetted down in the foregoing account, with as
fair a prospect, I attempted twice at a farm and last of all at a Coal
work, in hopes of a sure retreat from service, and being my own
master in my old age (service being no inheritance) but was obUged
at last to quit, and with great loss. So that by an overruling power
I find myself doomed to servitude and to die poor at last, and to my
greatest grief, to the loss of my own dear Children by the death of
Mrs. Hawkins who played the unnatural Jade at last contrary to
all her fine promises and duty. For in her alone I laid my scheme
to be able one day or other to clear off all my engagements mth you,
which sticks too close to mv honest heart.
BALSHAGRAY
Balshagray, where Martin Call wrote his MSS., was then a mere
hamlet ; now it forms part of Glasgow, and the lands are covered
by villas, tenements, pubhc buildings, and shipbuilding yards. The
MARTIN CALL
{1676-1767)
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district is now Partick, and the long street called Dumbarton
Road runs through it. Scottish records supply a good deal of
information regarding the early history of Balshagray.
In the Episcopal Register of Glasgow, vol. i. 9. 11, we find that
David I. in 1136 gave to the See, at the dedication of the restored
cathedral, certain lands ' in terra ilia in Perdeyk ' which would
cover Partick, Scotstoun, and Balshagray. Balshagray certainly
formed part of the prebend which Herbert, the second Bishop,
erected into Govan parish when David in 1147 granted the whole
of Govan to the Church.
Balshagray is first mentioned in the Rental Book of the Diocese
of Glasgow (1509-1570) which is in the handwriting of the Beatons
and Archbishop Dunbar. The Rental contains thirty-nine entries
relating to Balshagray.
When on 29th July 1587 the thirds of the Benefices were annexed
by the Crown, the lands of Balshagray again appear. A series of
Crown Charters follow. The first grant was to Bishop David
Cunningham. Strange to say, eight lairds in succession got into
financial difficulties, and an interesting list of transmissions may be
constructed from the Records.
The lands of Scotstovm extended to 498 acres and Balshagray
to 432 acres.
Martin Call mentions in his autobiography that he was employed
in ' Craufurd's Work.' We find that on 8th October 1720 Walter
Gibson, with consent of his Trustees, sold the lands of Balshagray,
Hindland, and Balgray to Matthew Crawford, Merchant in Glasgow.
Martin also refers to him as the laird of Scotstoun. Matthew Craw-
ford, some time between the years 1729 and 1741, by a Bond of
Interdiction conveyed the lands of Scotstoun to his eldest son William
Crawford. He was twice married, first to Agnes Stewart of Torrance,
by whom he left an only child who married Sir William Dalrymple
of Cousland. By his second marriage to Esther Fletcher, heiress
portioner of Cranston and daughter of Esther Cunningham of Enter-
kine, he had seven sons and one daughter. William Crawford was
owner not only of Scotstoun, but of Balshagray, Hindland, and Bal-
gray. He married Mary Murdoch. Scotstoun he sold to Richard
and Alexander Oswald, whose descendants still own it, but he retained
Balshagray until his death and enriched it by improving the
lands, opening up coal pits, and engaging in other undertakings.
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He died insolvent. His ropework, ships, weaving factory, and other
assets were disposed of to meet his HabiHties, and the estate of Balsha-
gray was purchased by Messrs. Oswald on 25th July 1759. He left
an only son, Peter Crawford, who died without issue, and two
daughters, Ann and Esther.
It has been said that three brothers called Calle came from
Saxony about 700 or 800 a.d. and settled, one in Scotland, the
ancestor of the MacCalls, one in Norfolk, and the third in Cornwall
(Gilbert's Survey of Cornwall, vol. i. p. 576), but this statement is
probably only a repetition of what Martin Call wrote, and hardly
carries us beyond the region of conjecture.
The earliest reference to the name Call that we have found in
the Records is in the year 1199 (10 Richard i.), when Humphrey
Calle appears as an attorney for Henry, son of William de Nutle
in an action against Nicholas de Smalland. (Rotuli Curiae Regis.,
Co. Essex.)
In 1262 (46 Henry iii.) Walter de Calle, Canon of Westminster,
appears for Thomas, Abbot of Begeham, against Alexander, son of
Simon, concerning land in Freston. (Sussex Feet of Fines, file 22,
No. 4.) In an undated Deed [temp. Edw. i.] Thomas de Cah is
mentioned as Rector of Bradenham. (Hist. MSS. Com. Report,
1914, vol. 105, p. 327.)
In an inquisition at Bedford, 20 Edw. i. (26th November 1291)
(Cal. of Inquis., 1219-1307, No. 2329), reference is made to a Richard
Calle in the following abstract : Henry de Mersinton, Rector of
Meperteshale, Roger de Stowe, Chaplain, Henry le Clerk, etc., and
others unknown, came to dawn on Saturday before Midsummer
19 Edw. I. (23rd June 1291) with a cart and two horses to a place
called Christemasscroft and there mowed the headlands (chevessas)
belonging to Nicholas de Meperteshale and put the grass in the cart.
Then there came Richard Calle, Nicholas's hayward (messor) who
desired to take the horses from the cart. John le Keu the Rector's
servant, defended the cart with bow and arrows and in the quarrel
which arose Richard, to avoid death, struck John on the head near the
left ear with a hazelwood stick, so that he died immediately. Richard
fled at once and it was so early that he could not be arrested. The
Jxiry say that he did not commit the act at any one's procurement or
command but simply as hayward to defend his master's rights.
On 28th October 1298 (26 Edw. i.) Walter de Calle near BrestoUe
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came on Saturday before G[eoffrey] de Norton and the Chamberlains
and confessed his absohite ignorance of the Customs of the City, and
he was attached by one dagger, a bacinet for a man's head, a costret
(a vessel for holding wine) and four knives, which pledges were
restored to him on account of his inadvertence on condition that it
shall not occur again under penalty of losing all his goods, etc., and
that he will put himself in the freedom of the city. (Guildhall, Letter-
book B.)
2nd February 1307/8 (1 Edw. ii.) Walter atte Calle and others
sureties for certain aldermen bound to the Sheriff in 3 casks of wine
for trespass and rescue of 3 hackneys. (Guildhall, Letter-book C.)
We next find references to the family in the Suffolk Lay Subsidies,
and can locate them definitely in Waldingfeld Magna and Parva,
and thereafter in Framlingham, both in Suffolk.
In the Suffolk Green-books, No. ix. vol. ii. (printed), we find in
Babergh hundred, among the Subsidy returns of 1827, that Willmo
Calle paid Vs. for the villata of Waldingfeld Parva, and Galfrido Calle
XVIIId. for the villata of Waldingfeld Magna ; while Walter Calle
paid XVId. for the villata of Barewe (Barrow) in Thingo hundred, and
Radulphus Calle XVIIId. for the villata of Hoxne cum Denham in
the hundred of Hoxne.
William Calle was the father of Hugh Calle, who on Friday after
the feast of the Purification B.V.M., 23 Edw. iii. (1850), conveyed to
his brother Geoffrey Calle and Robert Pr . . . [obliterated] all his
lands, etc., which he had by the gift of his father, William Calle, in
Great and Little Waldingfeld. (Bodleian Charters, Suffolk, 409.)
Geoffrey Calle and Matilda his wife held lands in Magna and Paiva
Waldyngfeld in 15 Edw. in. (1842). (Suffolk Feet of Fines.) Geoffrey
Calle was probably the eldest son, for as early as 1827/8 (1 Edw. in.) he
appears in a Subsidy Roll for Norfolk as paying a tax of lOd. in
Mundesley. In the same Roll Simon Calle pays lOd. and Gilbert Calle
pays 2s. in South Repps.
In 1387 (10 Edw. ni.) John, son and heir of Thomas de Aldham of
Little Waldingfeld, remits and quitclaims to Geoffrey Calle and
Matilda his wife all right in a piece of land in Little Waldyngfeld
called ' Padebroklaund.' Dated the Saturday after the feast of St.
Valentine. (Bodleian Charters, Suffolk, 405.)
In 1827 John Calle pays one sliilling and eightpence tax of a
20th for the Villat de Aldynbourn, while in 1382 Hawysia Call and
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Rogo Calle each paid one shilling. (Sussex Subsidies, Sussex
Record Society.)
In 1333 (6 Edw. iii.) John, Cadwaller, Adam, Gernagious,
WilHam, and Rodger Calle are referred to in the Lay Subsidies of
Norfolk in Wapol, Tirington, Stanhobe, Snetisham, and Eymyngham,
hundred of Frethbrigg.
In 1351 John de Cogglestall was appointed to arrest Richard
Calle and others. Carpenters in Finchingfeld, who had been taken by
the Sheriff of Essex to repair Hertford Castle and who after taking
the King's wages withdrew without hcence. (Patent Rolls, 1351.)
On 8th October 1370 Reignold Calle obtained a grant from the
King of the Provostship of the Collegiate College of Chesmeye in the
Diocese of Exeter. (Patent Rolls, 8th October 1370.)
In 1381 Walter Calle pays eleven shillings Poll tax, in Barrow,
Hundred of Thyngoe (Suffolk Lay Subsidies, 4 Rich. ii.).
In 1383 we find a Robert Calle presented to the Free Chapel of
Foxfieet, Southcave, Co. York, and to the Chapel of Borwardesley,
diocese of Hereford. (Patent Rolls, 6 Rich, ii.. Part i. memb. 31.)
In 1396 John Calle of Leyham is referred to. (Suffolk Feet of
Fines, 39 Edw. in.)
In 1401/2 John Calle was one of the Jurors at the Inquisition
held before Thomas Gumey, Escheater for the County of Suffolk,
to settle the marriage portion of Blanche, eldest daughter of the
King (Henry iv.). (Inquisitions and Assessments relating to Feudal
Aids, 1284-1431, p. 104.)
On 16th November 1407 Thomas Caule was appointed Chaplain
of St. Matthew's, Ipswich. (Patent Rolls, Henry iv., 1405-1408.)
There was a Thomas Call, Rector of the Parish of St. Michael's,
Bassyngeshalle (Basinghall), London, about the same period, whose
will was proved in 1437. (Commissary Court Records, Somerset
House.) He was probably the same person.
In 1411 Richard Puddesey of , Co. Yorks., claimed an animal
worth 40s. from Robert Calle of Rycall who unjustly detained it.
(Da Banco Rolls.)
On 6th December 1420 (8 Henry v.) Simon Calle and Agnes his
wife purchased a garden, two crofts, and a certain way adjacent in
Little Waldyngfeld. The following is an abstract of the nuncupative
will of Simon Calle of Waldyngfeld made at Preston on 15th July 1462 :
He gave to his son and heir John Calle all his lands, tenements, etc.,
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 13
with the appurtenances, lying in Great and Little Waldyngfield and
Mildyng in the County of Suffolk and the residue of his lands, etc.,
together with seven bushels on the common feast days, to his executor,
viz. aforesaid son John Calle, Witnesses John Smyth of Bury St.
Edmunds, gentleman, Richard Alisandyr, Thomas Hagown, Thomas
Brown, and Thomas Legg. Probate granted to the Executor in
1462. (Bury St. Edmunds Register, fol. 3146.) John Calle sold
these lands to Robert Appulton and Mary his wife, and to John and
Robert Mounteney in 1523 (14 Henry viii.) for ten marks. (Suffolk
Feet of Fines, Easter, file 259, bundle 39.)
On 18th March 1468 Rosia Calle and John Calle are mentioned
as holding property in Little Waldyngfeld. {Bodleian Charters,
Suffolk, 459.)
From the foregoing notes we construct the following tree of this
Waldyngfeld family :
William Calle = ?
(1327-1342, I
alive)
II I I I I I
Hugh Calle Geoffrey Calle — Matilda ? Galfridas ? Walter ? Railulphus ? Simon ''Gilbert
(mentioned (mentioned
1350) 13371350)
John Calle = ?
I
Simon Calle = Agnes
(1421-1462) I
John Kosia
(mentioned (mentioned
1468) 1468)
From this John Calle ii. we beheve the Framlingham family
sprung, with whom we shall now deal, assuming that this John and
a son of his named John are the persons referred to in our notes from
the Records. It is remarkable that concurrent with the disappearance
of the family from Waldyngfeld they appear at Framlingham.
Nicholas Calle is mentioned in a Muster Roll in 1458 (Records of
Norwich, vol. i. p. 407), and Thomas Calle was a Bailiff of Framling-
ham in 1493 (8 Henry vii.). (Hawes, History of Framlingham.)
In Early Chancery Proc. (vol. iii., Bundle 128, No. 47, date 1486-
1493) we find a WilUam Hester gave to John Hester his son and Agnes
his wife a tenement and thirty-three acres of land in the parish of
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Assheton, Co. Oxford, to them and their heirs for ever. John Hester
died and Agnes married Thomas Calle, whereupon Wilham Hester
refused to give up the deeds to Calle and his wife, who asked for a writ
of subpoena against him.
In Davy's Suffolk Collection, vol. xx. (Brit. Mus. Addl. MSS. 19096)
there are a number of deeds relating to lands in FramUngham, and the
following references appear relating to Calls :
1453 (31 Henry vi.). John Calle a witness.
1465 (4 Edward iv.). John Calle obtains a charter from Edward
Ballis of certain lands in Framlingham.
1473 (12 Edward rv.). John Calle, a witness.
1476 (15 Edward iv.) and 1485 (2 Richard m.). John Calle, a
witness.
1487 (2 Henry vii.). John Calle makes an indenture.
1515 (6 Henry viii.). A John Calle is mentioned for the last time.
1516 (7 Henrj^ viii.). Nicholas and Robert Calle mentioned.
1543 (34 Henry viii.). John, George, and Nicholas Calle mentioned
in Indenture.
1551 (4 Edward vi.). Robert Calle, gentleman, mentioned.
1573 (15 Ehzabeth). George and John Calle of Framlingham
mentioned.
From the above notes it would appear that there was a John Call
in Framhngham from 1453 till at least 1487, a Nicholas and Robert
in 1516, a John, George, and Nicholas in 1543, a Robert in 1551,
and a George and a John in 1573.
Putting together these names with the detailed notes we have
collected, we are able to construct a fairly accurate genealogical
tree of this FramUngham family.
From the following abstract of Proceedings in Chancerj^ it is clear
that Robert Call, the son of John ii., had a son John iii., who had a
son John iv. :
John Calle of Framlinghame, Suffolk, Grocer (Plaintiff).
Robert Calle, deceased, grandfather of above, was seised of an
estate of inheritance of lands and Tenements in Framhngham and
Kelsalle in Suffolk, who in his lifetime left the said premises to
Margarett his wife, at her death to John Calle father of said Orator
(John Calle) and his heirs. ' Which said John Calle alsoe dyed lyvinge
the said Margarett his mother and also lyvinge Rose [Barkeley] then
the wyfe of the said John Calle the father, being mother unto yor.
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 15
Lordshippes said Orator, wch. said Margarett alsoe shortly after dyed.'
After whose death the said Rose claimed all the said landes of the late
Robt. Calle whereof her late husband John Calle was seised. For
' quiet sake ' John Calle (Orator) put the matter to Arbitration and
it was agreed he should pay to the said Rose the sum of eleven nobles
during her life in consideration of all her interests in the said estate,
which he did. Since which the said Rose married Rycherd Coytmer,
clerk, who agreed to discharge and acquit the said John Calle from the
yearly payment of three pounds thirteen shiUings and four pence
during the life of the said Rycherd, and by a further agreement John
Calle should stand solely bound in the sum of forty pounds. Later,
Coytmer denied this agreement and still claimed the yearly payment
of £3, 13s. 4d. and John Calle (Orator) petitioned he should answer
the premises in the Court of Chancery. (Chancery Proceedings,
1558/79, Series ii., Bundle 41.) No date, answer missing.
John Calle of Framhngham Castle, as he is sometimes designated,
appears to us to have had the following children :
(1) John ii., probably the eldest, of whom hereafter.
(2) Regnold, a cleric, whose will we record and who was Clerk
of Ipswich and died in 1509. He was brother to Richard
Calle mentioned in his will.
(3) Margaret, also mentioned therein.
(4) Richard of Bacton (Martin's ancestor).
(5) Nicholas, with whose descendants we shall hereinafter deal.
(6 and 7) Daughters who married John Montgomery and
Courtnall, both referred to in Regnold's will.
(8) A daughter who married Well.
John Calle ii. had two sons at least :
(1) Nicholas, who married Christine and died 1525. His will
is dated 20th April 1525.
(2) Robert, of whom hereafter.
Nicholas had the following children :
(1) John, who held lands in Framhngham in 1553 and was in
Thetford in 1560.
(2) Francis, under the age of twenty-two in 1522.
(3) George, married Elizabeth Tomlinson, sister of Gabriel Tom-
hnson. She afterwards married (2) John Laughter, and died
before 1558. George Calle died 1552, of whom hereafter.
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(4) Philip, who was a legatee of Dr. W. Calle.
Philip Calle married Helen , who afterwards married John
Leverington, by whom he had :
(1) Phihp, baptised 20th September 1634.
(2) Frances, baptised 16th May 1631.
Philip died at Wymondham, 27th August 1634.
' Old Mother Calle,' probably his mother, died 12th May 1680.
These baptisms and deaths are recorded in Wymondham Church
Register.
Philip Calle resided in Wymondham where he acquired a property,
according to the Feet of Fines of Norfolk (Bundle 463), when a
final agreement was made in the King's Court at Westminster in
the Octave of Michaelmas, 10 Charles i., before the Bang's Justices
there, between Philip Call, plaintiff, and Henry Castleton, clerk, and
Katherine his wife, deforciants, of one messuage and one garden in
Wymondham, whereof a plea of Covenant was summoned between
them in that Court, that is, that Henry and Katherine have acknow-
ledged the same to be the right of Philip as of their gift and have
remised and quitclaimed the same for themselves and their heirs
to Phihp and his heirs. And moreover for themselves and the heirs
of Henry have granted to warrant Phihp and his heirs therein against
the said Henry and Katherine and the heii*s of Henry for ever. For
which grant, fine, etc., Philip has given Henry and Katherine £60 Stg.
(5) Nicholas, died 1525/7.
(6) Ann.
(7) Ehzabeth.
(8) John ii.
Of these four we have obtained no further information.
Robert Calle of Framhngham married Ehzabeth . He is
probably the nephew Robert Calle referred to in Regnold Call's
will. His will was proved 20th October 1520. We shall dispose of
his descendants before reverting to the family of Nicholas his
elder brother. He had the following family :
(1) John iii. of Framlingham Castle, yeoman, married Rose
Barkeley, who afterwards married Richard Coytmer, clerk.
In the octave of Hilary, 33 Henry viii. (1541/2), he sold for
£20 to George Calle and Francis Pulham a messuage, a shop,
and three acres of pasture in FramUngham ; and on the
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morrow of Holy Trinity, 3 Edw. vi. (1549), he sold there four
acres of pasture called ' John Yorke's close ' for £20 to
Thomas Burton, gent. (Suffolk Feet of Fines.) In the
Octave of Hilary, 4 and 5 Phihp and Mary (1557/8), John
Calle and Rose his wife sold for £40 to Thomas Sayre four
acres of land and one acre of meadow in Pulham. (Suffolk
Feet of Fines.) His will was proved 30th May 1560. Under
this settlement he gave to his wife all his property in Fram-
lingham and Hyngham, Norfolk, as well as his shop in
Harleston, Norfolk. By his wife Rose he had :
(1) John Calle iv., gent., grocer, married Margaret Lamb
of Yarmouth.
(2) Mary, baptised 26th December 1576, buried 2nd
February 1576/7.
John Calle iv. was Under-Sheriff of Framlingham
in 1560/1. Fifteen days after Holy Trinity, 4 EUz.
(1562), he sold twenty-two acres of land, etc., at
Framlingham Castle to Thomas Sanford for £80 ;
at Easter, 7 EUz. (1565), he sold twelve acres of
meadow and timber at Framlingham Castle to Edward
Nuttell for £40 ; and at Easter, 10 Ehz. (1568), he
sold 7J acres of wood there to John Dryver for £20.
He was buried 8th October 1615.
Mary Calle married Thomas Powes of Framlingham.
(2) Alice Calle, married Henry Bacon, Alderman of Norwich.
She died 1573. By her husband, who predeceased her,
she had :
(1) Briante, married Margaret, died before 1573.
(2) Cecylye, married John Wylkinson.
(3) Alice, married Robert Yarham.
(4) Ehzabeth, married Nicholas Sotherton who purchased
the Little Melton estate from John Calle and had :
(1) Henry Sotherton, (2) Ahce Sotherton.
(5) Margaret, married Thomas Norgate.
Alice Bacon, by her will dated 1568, but signed 31st July 1578
and proved at Norwich, 22nd December 1573, was born at Framling-
ham Castle, Suffolk, and her husband at Barningham, Norfolk.
Her three daughters were named her executrices, and the supervisor
c
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was Anthony Style. In her will (wliich is very long) she mentions
her fourth daughter who was married to Nicholas Sotherton, and
to whom she left her house at Norwich. She left money to the
poor of Norwich and Sallhouse, and for the repair of Framlingham
Church and Sallhouse Church. She left a legacy of £5 to her
brother John Calle iii. of Framlingham. To Mary Calle [liis
daughter], her goddaughter, wife of Thomas Powes of Framlingham,
3 yds. of worsteade and to John Rydall of Sallhouse a gold ring
Avith a white headstone. John Calle iii. of Framlingham had also
another daughter who married Christopher Aldred.
George Calle had the following children :
(1) Edward, who was born in 1552 and became Rector of Billing-
ford alias Pyrleston, Norfolk, on 26th May 1587. In 1589
he compounded for the Rectory valued at £9 ; he was
succeeded there on 6th March 1595. (Bishops' Certificates.)
(2) Anthony, married Dorothy, daughter of Robert Gosnolde,
Esq. of Otley, Suffolk, of whom hereafter.
Anthony Calle had by his wife Dorothj' Gosnolde :
(1) Robert Calle of Boyton, Suffolk, married (1) Jajoie, daughter
of William Starke of Woodbridge ; (2) ' Quinboro,' daughter
of William Burrell and widow of William Herberd. She is
called also Kinborough Burrell in the Burwell Pedigree in
Davy's Collection (Addl. MS. 19121), and is there stated
to have married John Herbert of Hollesley and to be the
daughter of William Burwell of Sutton, Suffolk, Lord of the
Manor of Fenn Hall there. She was baptised at Sutton.
Robert Calle is mentioned in the will of John Gosnolde of
Shryblonde, Suffolk, who died in November 1554, in which he is
called his ' servant ' and to whom he bequeathed £20 and certain
lands called Grannage and Heightfeld belonging to the late Abbey of
Lybton. John Gosnold appears to have been the grandfather of
Robert Calle's wife (Somerset House, Wills, 11 More). We have
also traced the will of John Gosnolde of Ottley, proved 17th February
1511, who was evidently the father of this John Gosnolde {Ibid.,
Fetiplace 6).
In Davy's Suffolk Collection, vol. x. (Brit. Mus. Addl, MSS.
19086) we find :
' In Ottley hath for many generations lived a family of Gosnold.
Colonel Robert Gosnold, Esq., is now living this year (1656). He
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 19
hath been a Captain in the army of King Charles against the ParUa-
ment and payd for his composition £600. He was sonne of Robert
Gosnolde Esq. and of Anne daughter of Sir Lionell Tollemache, Kt.
and Bart. Her second husband was Samuel Blumer (?) Haslet of
Lowdham, Esq. Colonel Gosnold married Dorothie, daughter of
the Lady Cornwallys by her first husband Dr. John Jegon, Bishop
of Norwich. Robert Gosnold, great-grandfather of the Colonel, was
a Justice of the Peace in Suffolk until the beginning of the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, in very good repute in his county.'
Robert Calle of Boyton's will was proved 18th December 1639.
He left two daughters :
(1) Margaret, who married John Herbert, 5th January 1619/20.
(2) Frances, married Edward Alpe, 24th April 1631, and had the
following children, Elizabeth, Frances, Herbert, and Martha
Alpe. Edward Alpe held lands in Framlingham, and the
family were wealthy.
The following deeds refer to Robert Calle :
On the morrow of Trinity, 1620 (18 James i.), Robert Call,
gent., and Kinburghe his wife and John Harberd [their
daughter Margaret's husband] sold for £300 to Thomas Shawe,
gent., and William Thompson, gent., one messuage, one
cottage, 140 acres land, 10 acres meadow, 20 acres pasture, 40
acres marsh, 10 acres alder-holt, and 140 acres field and wood
in Hollisley, Boyton, and Tangham. (Suffolk Feet of Fines.)
Fifteen days after Trinity, 1622 (20 James i.), Robert Calle
sold to Wm. Brode and Rose his wife one messuage, one garden,
three acres land, and one acre pasture in Saxmundham for £41
(Ibid.) ; and in the Octave of St. Hilary 1636/7 (12 Charles i.)
Robert Calle and Kenbore his wife and Edward Alpe [their
daughter Frances' husband] sold one messuage, one garden,
and three acres land in Saxmundham to John Fenn for £41
(Ibid.).
Anthony Calle had, besides his eldest son, Robert Calle of Boyton :
(2) Francis of Framlingham, born 29th January 1570.
(3) Anthony, d.s.p.
(4) Mary, baptised 6th November 1575, at Coldenham.
(5) Dorothy, baptised at Hemingston, 28th July 1578.
(6) Margaret, baptised 8th November 1579, married Edmund
Ferdan of Parham, Suffolk.
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(7 and 8) Ann and Elizabeth, twins, baptised at Hemingston,
1st November 1581. Ann married (1) George Bewis of
Finborough, Suffolk, (2) Ralph Hurrell of Bruisyard.
Anthony Calle, gent., and Dorothy his wife sold to Francis Warner,
gent., at Michaelmas 1577/8 (19 and 20 EUz.) (C.P. 26 (1), Bundle 173)
5 messuages, 5 gardens, 30 acres land, 12 acres meadow, 90 acres
pasture, 12 acres wood, and 6 acres alder-halt with appurtenances at
Framlingham Castle, Parham, and Parham Hacheson on the morrow
of St. Martin for £240 sterling.
The following abstract from Exch. Augmentation Office, Miscell.
Books, vol. 522, fols. 3-5, proves the relationship (brother) of George
Calle to Phihp Calle :
Edward Rows of Cranyfforthe, Suffolk. Orator.
Thomas Rows, his father deceased, died seized of ten acres of
pasture in Framlyngham, Suffolk, which he had held for the last
32 years, and which ought at his death to belong to his son Edward.
George Calle about ten years past entered into the premises claiming
the same as copy-hold landes ' holden of the Lord Duke of Norff. as
of his Manor of Framlingham.' Edward Rows denied they were
ever part of the said Manor and that the Manor now belonged to the
King by the attainder of the said Duke. George Calle claimed to hold
the same by Copy of Court Roll, against which the Orator had no
remedy by the Common Law, so requests that the King's most
gracious Letters of Privy Seal be delivered to George Calle command-
ing him to appear in the King's High Court of Augmentations.
In answer George Calle said that the 10 acres were parcel of the
Manor of Framlingham and copy-hold of the said Manor, and Philip
Calle his brother held the said 10 acres by Copy of Court Roll, 31
Henry viii., and surrendered it for his use. He denied that Thomas
Rows died lawfully seized of the premises, etc. The result of these
proceedings is not recorded.
Proceeding now with our argument with reference to Richard
Calle's connection with the Framlingham family, we recall Clement
Paston's contemptuous remark about his sister ' seUing candles and
mustard ' in Framlingham. (Paston Letters, No. 607.) Davy in
his collection of documents relating to Suffolk makes the definite
statement that Richard Calle was a shopkeeper at Framlingham,
and bases this on Clement Paston's letter. Further, Richard Calle
names his eldest son John very probably after liis father. The
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 21
Chancery Proceedings quoted show also that John was a grocer.
It does not follow that though a grocer he was not a compara-
tively wealthy man. He obtained a Charter of lands, in Fram-
lingham in 1465 and made an Indenture in 1487. As we have
tried to show, Richard was probably son of one John Calle and
brother of another John Calle. He retired to Bacton, near Norwich,
in later years, and did not carry on his father's business. It would
seem that Robert, his nephew according to Regnold Calle's will,
who is designed as a grocer, carried on this business after the
death of John. Robert Calle also writes one of the Paston Letters
(No. 858), presumably for Richard. Richard Calle had another
brother Thomas whom he enfeoffed in certain lands, as mentioned
in the following indenture :
Indenture dated 23rd July, 18 Edward iv. (anno 1478), in
which Richard Calle, late of Norwich, gentleman, and Roger Best,
citizen and alderman of Norwich, enfeoffed Thomas Calle, late
of Framlingham, and Alicia Dagville, daughter of John Dagville,
citizen of London, in certain messuages, lands, tenements, etc., with
liberty of foldage, free bull and boar, rents, services, with other
manorial rights and appurtenances, in the fields of Stowbardolff,
Wynbotesham, Downham-Lythe, Walynton, Watlynton, Garbis-
thorpe, and Setch Lythe Parva, which they had by grant from John
Pelly, Esq., by deed dated 7th August, 12 Edward iv. This was the
settlement made on the intended marriage of the said Thomas Calle
with the said Alicia Dagville, to them and their heirs. The said
Thomas and Alicia subsequently, namely in 13 Henry vii., conveyed
the same estate by fine to Nicholas Fincham, clerk. On 6th August
1478 (18 Edward iv.) Thomas Calle, who married Alice Dagville,
acknowledged satisfaction at the Guildhall, London, for liis wife's
property. (Corporation of London Letter-book L, p. 156, footnote.)
An earlier entry in the City of London Letter-books shows that
Alice Dagville's father was John Dagville, Surgeon of London.
On 10th March 1477/8 (18 Edward iv.) came WilUam Witwange,
Surgeon, Peter Pekham, John Pekham, John Mathewe, Mercers,
and John Matterdale, Tailor, before the Mayor and Aldermen and
entered into bond in the sum of £484, 16s. 4d. for the delivery into
the Chamber by the said WiUiam Witwange of the sum of £183, 6s. 8d.
and certain chattels to the use of John, Alice, and Thomas, children
of John Dagville, late Surgeon, when they should come of age or marry.
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There is a monumental brass in Norwich Cathedral bearing the
following inscription :
' Ornte pro anima Willi Calle
qui obiit primo die Aprilis A°
Dni M CCCC LXXX VIII cuis
anime propricietur Deus.'
We have not been able to trace the connection of this person with
Richard Calle, but the fact that Richard Calle named his second son
William and made him a cleric points to the possibihty that he was
his uncle, and thus also the uncle of Reynold Calle, Clerk of Ipswich,
the brother of Richard Calle.
We here insert Reynold Calle's will. It affords information
regarding the family and some of their connections. He was vicar
of Framlingham in 1501 (Green's History of Framlingham, pp. 27
and 28) to 1508 (Hawes' History of Framlingham), and died in
1509.
Will made at Ipswich, 28th January 1509. Proved in the P.C.C.
He bequeathed to the High Altar of Parish Church where he
died, 3s. 4d., and a gown to the Mortuary ' to pray for me.'
To the High Altar of St. Margaret, Ipswich, 6s. 8d.
To the High Altar of St. Mary Tower, 6s. 8d.
To every Parish Priest and Curate in Ipswich, 6d., and every Priest,
Religious and other secular being at Mass the day of his burial, 6d.,
with instructions to them to say Mass and pray for his soul, etc.
To one secular Priest 10 marks ' and an honest chambre for that
year price 6s. 8d.' to pray for the ease of his soul immediately after
his decease in the Church where his body shall be buried.
William Calle, fryor, to have 5 marks of the money that ' resteth
in the hands of John Calle his brother my nevew,' that is £8, 18s. 4d.,
and some books. The residue of the £8, 13s. 4d. to be given to the
said John Calle, nephew, on condition that he gives the said William
Calle his brother the said 5 marks.
To the New College in Cambridge ' Abbot the Doctor upon the
Derectall.'
To Margaret, his sister, his long black gown with the hood and ' a
payr of shetes that I am wonte to lye yn myself not broken and my
cobord at Westerfeld,' for her life and after her decease to go to
Tomesyn the daughter of John Monngumbery ' my nephew ' and to
tna.'.jarniliChur-Ch.K.n^SLj/r,
ST. MARGARETS, KING'S LYNN
ST. MARGAREl'S, RINGS LYiNN (intekiuk)
ST. MARY'S, 'WOODBRIDGE
ST. NICHOLAS'S, IPSWICH
SI. M AKV-Ar-THL-ELMS, ll'SWK 11
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 23
the said Tomesyn an old bed ' that I was wont to have at Westfeld '
and £6 to her marriage. Remits the said John 5 marks that he
(the sd. John) owes and lis. paid for him * tofforde.'
To Mawde Courtnall, ' my nece, the residue of the house that
Willm. Courtnall should pay to me ' and a ' covere cupp ' gilt.
Bequeaths a Chalise to the Church with instructions to be re-
membered in the Bade Rolle every Sunday by name. To every
place of ' freers ' in Ipswich Kyrie Church and St. Peter, 3s. 4d., with
instructions to say Mass for him, etc. To the house of Camsay, 3s. 4d.
To Dame Elizabeth Wyngfeld, goddaughter, a nunn there, 10s. To the
Nunns of Bresyard, 3s. 4d. To the place of Rodelyngfeld, 3s. 4d.
To the ' Chanonys ' of Buttleye, 10s., with instructions to pray for
his soul. To Thomas Awdeley, godson, the money that his father
owes to R. Calle. To Reignold Bernard, godson, 10s. To Reignold
Otwey, 3s. 4d. To Reignold Bisshop, godson, 10s. To Reignold
Danneroy of Westurfeld, godson, 3s. 4d. To Robert Calle, nephew,
a ' weye of salte ' and 3 silver ' sponys,' lis. and ' one of my gowns.'
To the Nunns of Bunngaye, one weye of salt. To the Prioress, 2s. ;
to lady Page, 20d. To the other Nunns of the same place, 8s. 4d.
evenly divided among them. To Thomas Bacon, godson, 10s. ; ' to
the norse there, 10s. ; to Johane, servant there, 8s. 4d. To Beele,
servant there, 3s. 4d.
To Thomas Monngomery, godson, 10s. To Kateryn Monngomery,
niece, 5 marks to her marriage, the best ' womanys girdell and a
pleyn goblet silver ' and 3 silver spoons. To Ehzabeth Well,
niece, 10s., a gowne and the hood, one weye of salt, a little goblet of
silver and 3 silver spoons. To Reignold fflecher of Wychm,
godson, 3s. 4d. To Richard ffulmyston, godson, 3s. 4d. The residue
of his goods undisposed to be disposed of by his executors, Wm.
Courtnall and Mawd his wife ' my niece.'
The reader may not have been able to follow all these links as
they present themselves to the writer, but they are shown in the tree.
The chief points of the argument are that Richard Calle's ancestors
were resident in Framlingham, Suffolk, and were previously in
Waldingfeld, Suffolk, in proximity to Framlingham.
The descendants of Nicholas and Robert Calle, sons of John Calle
of Framlingham, seem therefore to have died out except in the female
line, so that we can turn to Richard Calle of Bacton and his descend-
ants, presumably the elder branch, for the continuance of the family.
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It will be remembered that Martin Call stated in his account of the
family that he had failed to find any near connections beyond his own
children, so that even that branch had to a large extent disappeared.
Richard Call of Bacton was Bailiff or Estate Manager for John
Paston of Paston. He married, in 1469, Marjorie Paston, daughter
of John Paston of Paston and sister of Sir John Paston and his
brother known as Sir John Paston the younger.
While we have not ascertained his parentage with certainty, we
have at least been able to show that this branch of the Call family
were long connected with Framhngham and with the counties
of Norfolk and Suffolk. The notes we have gathered from the
Records afford a fairly accurate account of the earher connections of
Richard Calle and of his collaterals and descendants. The Paston
Letters record his hfe and work in connection with the trials and
struggles of the Paston family and of his devotion to them in all
their chequered history.
Before dealing with Richard Calle and his descendants, it might
be well to record a brief account of the Pastons. Their history has
been very exhaustively dealt with by Mr. James Gardner in the Intro-
duction to his edition of the Paston Letters, but we have prepared the
following short account of the family together with their genealogical
tree for the information of the reader.
GrifiBn de Thwait had a son named Osbern, the priest, who obtained
a grant of the lands of St. Benets of Paston from Anselm, the Abbot
of St. Benets Hulme. (Bloomfield's History of Norfolk, vol. iv.
p. 480.) He was succeeded by Richer de Paston his son, who received
a grant of lands in Paston from William the Abbot in the reign of
Stephen (1135-54). We next find a Ralph de Paston who, Bloomfield
says, was son of Richer, and who had two sons, Sir Richard Paston and
Nicholas Paston who was Abbot of St. Benets Hulme. About this
period we observe another branch of the family represented by a
Wistan or Wolstan de Paston, who lived in the reigns of Henry ii.
and Richard i. and is believed to be the hneal ancestor of Sir William
Paston and the Earls of Yarmouth. He married a Glanville, for the
arms of Glanville and Paston are impaled in a window at Paston Hall.
His son and heir, Robert de Wyston or Paston, died in 1242, leaving
three sons, Robert, Edmund, and William. Edmund obtained a
grant of lands in Paston from Sir Richard. (Addl. Charters, Brit.
Mus., No. 17218.) Edmund's wife was named Margaret.
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There is a record of William the youngest son receiving a pardon
on 16th October 1815. (Palgrave, vol. ii. p. 1262.)
Next we find a Richard and a Nicholas. Nicholas had a son
Clement, who died %vithout issue and was succeeded by a Walter de
Paston who died in 1290. Walter married Cecily, daughter of Sir
Simon Peche and Julian his wife. Their son, Clement Paston de
Paston, married Cecily, daughter of William Leitch, and indentured
the lands to himself and his son Wilham in 1341. He died on 21st
September 1348, and was succeeded by his son William, who married
Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Stalham, and died 6th June 1361.
Clement Paston de Paston, his son, married Beatrice Somerton,
daughter of John de Somerton and Mary Clare his wife. He is
mentioned in 1414. His will, dated — — June 1419, was proved at
Norwich, 4th October 1419.
Clement Paston had a sister named Margery who married John
Bakton or John George (Herald's Visitations), and another sister
who married John Walsam. Clement Paston was succeeded by
his son, Wilham Paston, who was born 1378. He was Justice
of the Common Pleas in the reign of Henry vi. He married Agnes
Berrye, daughter of Sir Edmund Berrye of Ha'-lingburghall, Hert-
fordshire, and Alice Gerbridge, daughter of Sir Thomas Gerbridge.
William Paston's Marriage Settlement was dated 24th March 1420.
He was made a Sergeant in 1421 and a Judge in 1429. He died
14th August 1444, and was buried in the Lady Chapel in Norwich
Cathedral. His will was dated 10th January 1440. Fenn calls him
Sir Wilham Paston, but Gardner questions his knighthood. His
wife Agnes Berrye's will was proved 16th September 1446. His
eldest son, John Paston, the executor of Sir John Fastolf, was born
in 1421. He married (1) in 1440, Margaret, daughter of John
Mautby of Mautby, whose grandfather and guardian was John
Bearney of Readham ; and (2) Lady Ann Beaufort, daughter of Ed-
mund, Duke of Somerset. John Paston died and was buried in
Broomholm Priory in 1466, with issue as undernoted. Sir William
Paston's second son, Edmund, was a Bencher of Clifford's Inn, and
died without issue in March 1449, having married Catherine, daughter
of John Spelman and widow of William Clipsby.
John Paston had the following children :
(1) John Paston, who was born in 1442, was knighted in 1463
and died in November 1499. He married (1) Margaret ,
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(2) Agnes , who was first married to a John Harvey and
after Sir John Paston's death to John Isley. Sir John left
no issue.
(2) John Paston, known as John Paston the younger, afterwards
also knighted, who married Marjory Brews, daughter of Sir
John Brews, and had an only son William who succeeded
him and his brother Sir John.
(8) Clement Paston.
(4) Marjorie, who married Richard Calle of Bacton.
(5) William, who had an only daughter Constance, who married,
about 1508, John Clipsby of Obi.
(6) Ann, who married William Yelverton.
(7) Edmund, who married Margaret — and had an only son
Robert.
Sir William Paston, son of Sir John Paston the younger,
married Bridget, daughter of Sir Henry Hay don of Bacons-
thorpe. His son Erasmus married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas
Wjmdham, and had a son Sir William Paston who married
Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Clere. His son, Christopher Paston,
married Ann Audeley and had a son Sir Edmund, who married
Catherine Kerewitt. Sir Edmund had a son Sir William, who married
Lady Catherine Bertie, daughter of Robert, Earl of Lindsay. His
son. Sir Robert, married Rebecca, daughter of Sir Jasper Clayton,
and was created Baron Paston and Viscount Yarmouth, afterwards
Earl of Yarmouth. His only son William, second Earl, married
Charlotte Jemima Maria, daughter of Charles ii. by Viscountess
Shannon. His only children, Charles (died 1673) and Wilham
(died 1711), left no issue and the peerage became extinct.
On referring to the Call tree it will be observed that Richard
Calle's eldest son, John Calle of Little Melton, married a daughter of
William Clipsby, Edmund Paston married the widow of William
Clipsby, and as the only daughter of his nephew, William Paston,
married John Clipsby, there was evidently a good deal of intermarry-
ing in the families.
Richard Calle is first referred to in the Paston Letters about 1448,
when Edmund Paston who died in 1449 writes to his brother, John
Paston, ' ther has been a gret brake betwixt Calle and me as I schal
enforme you at my coming.' (Paston Letters, No. 59.) In 1450 we
find Richard Calle's first letter to John Paston (No. 135) regarding
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 27
a riot at an election, the letting of farms, and other matters as
follows :
To my right reverent and my most wurschipful maystre,
my maystre John Paston
Right WurshipfuU and my moaste reverent mastre I recomaunde
me unto your good mastreship. Like you to witte that on Childre-
masse daye [29th December, Sir Thomas of Canterbury (Becket)]
there were moche people at Norwich at the shire because it was
noyced in the shire that the undresheriff had a writte to make a newe
aleccion wherfore the people was greved because they had labored
so often saying to the Sheriff that he had the writte and pleynly he
shulde not a wey unto the tyme the writte were redd. The Sheriff
(John Jermyn) answered and seyd that he hae no writte nor weste
who had it. Heruppon the people peacyd and stilled unto the tyme
the shire was doone and after that doone the people called upon hym
' Kylle hym. Heede hym.' And so John Dam with helpe of other gate
hym out of the shirehows and with moche labour brought hym unto
Sporyer Rowe (now London St.) and ther the people mett a yenst hym
and so they a voided hym unto an hous and kept fast the dore unto
the tyme the Meyer was sent fore and the Sheriff to strenght hym and
to convey hym a way or ell he had be slayne. Wherfor divers of
the thrifty men came to me desiryng that I shulde writte unto your
maistreship to lete you have undrestandyng of the gidyng of the
people for they be full sory of this trouble, and that it plese you to
sende hem your advice how they shal be gided and rwled for they
were purposed to a gathered an c. or cc. of the thriftyest men and to
have come up to the Kyng to lete the Kyng have undrestandyng
of ther mokkyng. And also the people fear hym sore of you and
mastre Berney (Philip Berney, uncle of John Paston's wife) becauce
ye come not home.
Pies you that ye remember the bill I sent you at Hallowmess for
the place and londs at Boyton weche Cheseman had in his ferme for
V. mark, Ther wol no man have it above xlvj^ viij^ for Alblastre
and I have do as moche thereto as we can but we cannot go above
that. And yet we cannot lete it so for this yere, with owte they have
it for V. or vi. yeres. I wrote to your mastreship hereof but I had none
answre wherfor I beseche you that I may have an answere of this
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be tlwelthe for and we have an answer of this be that tyme we shall
enfeffe hem with all etc.
Mj' right wurshipfull and moost reverent maistre Alymyghty
Jesu preserve you and send you the victorye of your elmyes as I
truste to Almyghty Jesu ye shall. Wreten at Non\'ich on Seyn
Thomas Daye after Crestemasse daye. — Your Pore servant and
bedman, R. Calle.
At p. 182 follows another letter (No. 136) on the same subject of
the farms, written at Blofeld the Thurdsay next after Hallowmes-
day.
On p. 324', No. 236 (1445), Calle again writes about farms.
At p. 518, No. 352, Calle is mentioned as being at Caister.
At p. 527, No. 358, there is a letter from a Robeii Calle at Caister
to John Paston about letting farms. We do not think this is a mis-
take or misprint. If correct, the person is Robert Calle, son of John
Calle of Framlingham, and thus supports our view that a John Calle
was the father of Richard Calle. It will also be observed from the
tree that Robert Calle's daughter, Alice, married Henry Bacon,
Alderman of Norwich, and in Reynold Calle's vn\l he refers to Thomas
Bacon as his godson. In Alice Bacon's will, proved at Norwich,
22nd December 1573, she mentions her daughter, Ehzabeth, who
married Nicholas Sotherton. Sotherton bought Little Melton from
John Calle, son of Richard Calle. She also left a legacy of a gold
ring to John Ryddell of Sallhouse, who married John Calle's daughter
Constance. All this goes further to show the family connection and
to support the view that Richard Calle's father was John Calle of
Framlingham.
A letter from Margaret Paston, dated 21st October 1460, to her
husband John Paston states that ' Richard Calle hath let all yowyr
londys at Caster.' (P. 531, No. 361.)
In a letter from Clement Paston to his brother, John Paston, dated
23rd January 1461, after the battle of Wakefield, when Margaret of
Anjou was marching southward, Richard Calle is mentioned as riding
with a letter. (No. 367.) During the rebeUion against Edward iv.,
prior to 1469, Sir John Paston suffered many trials, and some of his
largest and best estates were forfeited. Unfortunately at this period
he had a quarrel with his faithful bailiff and manager, Richard Calle,
arising through the latter having become engaged in marriage with
Marjorie Paston, sister of Sir John.
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The Paston Letters, while dealing with weighty matters of State,
have preserved also this little romantic love affair. No better account
can be given of this maniage than the narrative of Mr. James
Gardner, as follows : ' It was unfortunate for Sir John Paston's
interests that at such a time as this he happened to have a misunder-
standing with his most faithful bailiff and general manager of his
property, R. Calle. The title deeds of Beckham were in Calle's
hands, but he at once gave up when required both these and every
one of the docimaents in his possession relating to Paston's lands
and made a clear account of everything to John Paston younger.
(No. 633.) The coolness had arisen some months before the siege of
Caister ; the cause was a very old old story. Richard Calle had pre-
sumed to fall in love with Sir John Paston's sister, Marjory. Marjory
Paston had not disdained to return his affection. She at once fell
into disgrace with the whole family. Her eldest brother Sir John,
when he heard of it and it was insinuated that the matter was quite
well known to his brother, John Paston, Jr., and met with his approval,
was very indignant. John Paston, Jr., hastened to disavow the
imputation. A little diplomacy had been used by Calle, who got a
friend to inquire of him whether the engagement was a settled thing,
intimating that if it were not he knew of a good marriage for the lady.
But young John saw through the artifice and gave the mediator an
answer designed to set the matter at rest for ever. "I answered him,"
writes John junior to his brother, "that if my father (whom God
assoil) were alive and had consented thereto and my Mother and ye
both he should never have my good will for to make my sister to sell
candle and mustard at Framlingham." If such a prospect did not
disgust Marjory herself it was clear she must have had a very strong
will of her own. (No. 607.)
' The anger of her relatives was painful to bear in the extreme.
For some time Marjory found it difficult to avow that she had fairly
plighted her troth to one who was deemed such an unequal match.
For what was plighted troth in the eye of God but matrimony itself ?
Even the Church acknowledged it as no less binding. Once that was
avowed, the question was at an end and no human ties could untie
the knot. To interfere with it was deadly sin. Hence Richard
Calle implored the woman of his love to emancipate both herself and
him from an intolerable position by one act of boldness. " I suppose
and ye tell them sadlj' the truth they would not damn their souls
for us." (No. 609.)
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' But it reqviired much courage to take the step which when taken
must be decisive. The avowal was at last made, and though the
family would fain have suppressed it or got the poor girl to deny
what she said, her lover appealed to the Bishop of Norwich to inquire
into the matter and free the point from any ambigviity. The Bishop
could not refuse. He sent for Marjory Paston and Richard Calle
and examined them both apart. He told her that he was informed
she loved one of whom her friends did not approve, reminded her
of the great disadvantage and shame she M'ould incur if she were not
guided by their advice, and said he must inquire into the words that
had passed between her and Richard Calle whether they amounted
to matrimony or not. On this she told him what she had said to
Calle, and added, if those words did not make it sure she would make
it surer before she left the Bishop's presence, for she thought herself
in conscience bound to Calle whatever the words were. Then Calle
himself was examined, and liis statements agreed with hers as to
nature of the pledges given and the time and place when it was done.
The Bishop then said that in case other impediments were found he
would delay giving sentence until Wednesday or Thurdsay after
Michaelmas. (No. 617.) When Marjory Paston returned from her
examination before the Bishop her mother's door was shut to her,
and the Bishop was forced to find a lodging for her until the day
that he was to give sentence. Before that day came the loss of
Caister. The fortunes of the Paston family were diminished,
and Sir John Paston began to feel that he at least could ill afford to
lose the services of one who had been such a faithful and attached
dependent. In writing to his mother he merely expressed a hope
that the marriage might be put off till Christmas. Calle, meantime
unmarried, was staging at Blackborough Nunnery near Lynn, where
his bride had found a temporary asylum. He was still willing to
give his services to Sir John Paston, and promised not to offer them
to any other unless Sir John dechned them. They appear to have
been accepted, for we find Calle one or two years later still in the
service of the family. But he never seems to have been recognised
as one of its members.' (Nos. 617, 632, and 633.)
A love-letter written by Richard Calle to his bride is worthy of
preservation not only as a sample of the letter- writing of the period,
but for the choice language and sentiments expressed :
' Myn owne lady and mastres, and be for God very trewe wyff,
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 31
I with herte full sorrowefull recomaunde me unto you, as he that can
not be mery, nor nought shalbe tyll it be otherwise with us then it is
yet, for this Ij^ that we lede nough is nowther plesur to Godde nor
to the worlde, consederyng the gret bonde of matrymonye that is
made be twix us, and also the greete love that hath be, and as I truste
yet is be twix us, and as on my parte never gretter ; wherfor I beseche
Ahnyghty Godde comfort us as sone as it plesyth Hym, for we that
ought of very ryght to be moost together ar moost asondre ; me
semyth it is a m^i (thousand) yere a goo son that I speke with you.
I had lever thenne all the goode in the worlde I myght be with you.
Alas, alas ! goode lady, full litell remembre they what they doo that
kepe us thus asunder ; iiij. tymes in the yere ar they a cursid that
lette matrymonye ; it causith many men to deme in hem they have
large consyence in other maters as wele as herin. But what lady
suffre as ye have do ; and make you as mery as ye can, for I wys,
lady, at the longe wey Godde woll of Hys ryght wysnes helpe
Hys servants that meane truly, and wolde leve accordyng to Hes
lawys, etc.
' I undrestende, lady, ye have hadde asmoche sorwe for me as
any gentelwoman hath hadde in the worlde, aswolde Godd all that
sorwe that ye have hadde had rested upon me, so that ye hadde be
discharged of it, for I wis, lady, it is to me a deethe to her that ye
be entreated other wise thene ye ought to be. This is a peyneful
lyfe that we lede. I can not leve thus withoute it be a great dis-
pleasure to Godde.
' Also like you to wete that I had sent you a letter be my ladde
from London, and he tolde me he myght not speeke mth you, ther
was made so gret awayte upon hym and upon you boothe. He told
me John Threscher come to hym in your name, and seide that ye
sent hym to my ladde for a letter or a token, weche I shulde have
sent you, but he truste hym not ; he wold not delyver hym noon.
After that he brought hym a rynge, seyng that ye sent it hym,
comaundyng hym that he schulde delyver the letter or token to
hym, weche I conceyve sethen be my ladde it was not be yoiu: sendyng,
it was by me mastres and Sir Jamys [Sir James Gloys, a priest]
avys. Alas, what meane they ? I suppose they deeme we be not
ensuryd to gether, and if they so doo I merveyll, for thene they are
note wele avised, remembryng the pleynes that I breke to my
mastres at the begynnyng, and I suppose be you bothe, and ye dede
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as ye ought to do of very ryght ; and if ye have do the contarre, as
I have be enformed ye have do, ye dede nouther concyensly nor to
the plesure of Godde, withoute ye dede it for feere, and for the tyme
to please suche as were at that tyme a boute you ; and if ye so dede
it for this service it was a reasonable cause, consederyng the grete
and importable callyng upon that ye hadde, and many an on trewe
tale was made to you of me, weche God knowt I was never gylty of.
' My ladde tolde me that my mastres your modre axyd hym if
he hadde brought any letter to you, and many other thyngs she
bare hym on hande, and .a monge all other at the last she seide to
hym that I wolde not make her prevy to the begynnyng, but she
supposyd I wolde at the endyng ; and as to that, God knowt sche
knewe furst of me and non other. I wott not what her mastreschip
meneth, for be my trowthe ther is no gentylwoman on lyve that
my herte tendreth more then it dothe her, nor is lother to displese,
savyng only your person, weche of very ryght I ought to tendre and
love beste, for I am bounde therto be the lawe of Godde, and so wol
do whyle that I leve, what so ever falle of it. I supose, and ye telle
hem sadly the trouthe, they wold not dampne ther soules for us ;
though I telle hem the trouthe they woll not beleve me as weele as
they woll do you ; and ther for, goode lady, at the reverence of Godde
be pleyne to hem and tell the trouthe, and if they woll in no wise
agree therto, betwix God, the Deelf, and them be it, and that perell
that we schuld be in, I beseeche Godde it may lye upon Them and
not upon us. I am hevy and sory to remembre ther dispocision,
God sende them grace to gyde all thyngs weele, as wele I wolde they
dede ; Godde be ther gide, and sende them peas and reste, etc.
' I mervell moche that they schulde take this mater so heedely
as I undrestonde they doo, remembryng it is in suche case as it can
not be remedyed, and my desert upon every behalfe it is for to be
thought ther shulde be non obstacle ayenst it ; and also the worchip-
full that is in them, is not in your manage, it is in their owne mariage,
weche I beseche Godde sende hem suche as may be to ther worschip
and plesur to Godde, and to ther herts ease, for ell[es] were it gret
pety. Mastres, I am aferde to write to you, for I undrestonde ye
have schewyd my letters that I have sent you befor this tyme ;
but I prey you lete no creatur se this letter. As sone as ye have
redde it lete it be brent, for I wolde no man schulde se it in no wise ;
ye had no wrytyng from me this ij. yere, nor I wolle not sende you
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no more, therfor I remj^te all this matre to your wysdom. Al-
myghty Jesu preserve, kepe, and [give] you your hertys desire,
weche I wotte weele schulde be to Goods plesur, etc.
' Thys letter was wreten with as greete peyne as ever wrote I
thynge in my lyfe, for in goode feyth I have be ryght seke, and yet
am not veryly weele at ease, God amend it,' etc. (1469, Fenn, iv. 350.)
To the credit of the Pastons it may be recorded that their faithful
steward, Richard Calle, was retained in his office, and still courage-
ously contended for his master for whom he had even been imprisoned.
It is with great reluctance that the editor refrains from quoting
other letters of Richard Calle, but he must refer the reader to Mr.
Gardner's three volumes for further entertaining reading.
Passing on we find that Marjory Paston had a short married life
and predeceased her husband, who married, as his second wife,
Margaret Trollope, daughter of Andrew Trollope. Of Andrew
Trollope we have the following account :
'In a letter dated 12th October 1460, written by Christopher
Hanson to John Paston when the Duke of York came from Ireland
and gained the battle of Northampton, taking the king a prisoner,
Andrew Trollop is mentioned as one of the garrison of Gyanys under
the " Kyng of France safe condyte " who was going to Wales to the
Queen. (No. 357.) In a letter (No. 367) from Clement Paston to John
Paston, dated 23rd January 1461, it is stated that Lord Fitzwalter
had taken 200 of Andrew Troloppy's men with him north. Andrew
Trollop deserted the Duke of York at Ludlow in 1459 and caused the
dispersion of the Yorkist leaders. He was killed at the battle of
Towton, in March 1461, fighting for the Lancastrians. Lord Fitz-
walter, who took his men, was lolled at the battle of Ferrybridge on
29th March 1461.' (Bloomfield's History, vol. ii. pp. 5, 6.)
The will of Andrew Trolloppe of Boston, Lincolnshire (probably
his son) was proved 8th July 1519 (Ayloff 19, Somerset House). He
mentions Alice his wife, Thomas and Nicholas, sons, and Margaret
and Jane, daughters.
By his first marriage with Marjorie Paston, Richard Calle had
three children at least, John Calle, William Calle, and Richard Calle.
That they were all in childhood when their mother died is proved by
the will of their grandmother, Margaret Paston, dated 4th February
1482 after mentioned.
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Though we have not been able to trace either his baptism or
death, we find that Richard Calle was still alive between 1500 and
1515, which we prove by the folloAving extract from Chancery Pro-
ceedings :
To the most revend Father in God Willm. Archiebissop of
Canterbury and Chancellor of England
' In the most humble Wise shewith unto yor good and g''cious
Lordship Richard Calle of Bakton in the Countie of Norff. Gentilman
that wher as he upon a xiiii yeres past was indetted in the some of
v li. too oon Willm. Wetwang late of London surgeon nowe deceassed
to have been payed at a c'teyn day than shortly foloweng which some
of money at the day of payment therof was sent by c'teyn p'sones
and was truely contented and paied. And they ignoranntly reteyned
no Discharge for the same payment. And the said Willm. Wetwang
is nowe lately decessed aft' whose decesse John Wetwang of London
Drap' son unto the said Willm. Wetwang and executour of his testa-
ment hath nowe lately comensed an action of dett ayenst yo'' said
Oratour upon a fayned syngull obligacion for the said some of v h.
before the Justices of the comen place (ther entendyng to recov'
the said v li. which was before paied ayenst all right and good con-
science. It may therfore please your good Lordshipp the p'misses
tenderly considered to grannt a writt of sub pena to be direct to
the said John Witwang comandyng hym by the same to appere
byfore the Kyng in his Chancy, at a c'teyn day and under a c'teyn
payn by yo'' Lordship to be lymyted ther to have an Injunction no
further to pcede in his said action unto suche tyme he hath further
comandment by this Court. And this at the rev'ence of god and in
the wey of Charite. — pl€g de p6, Thomas Wilkyns de London yeoman,
Willo Hankyn de eadem Skynner.' (Early Chancery Proceedings
between 1500 and 1515, Bundle 298, No. 68.)
Richard Calle was a faithful and devoted servant of the Pastons,
risking even his life in their service. He interfered and interrupted
a Manorial Court proposed to be held by Judge Sir William Yelverton
and William Jenney at the Manor of Cotton in Sussex, so that the
Court was held in Paston's house, of which he held possession for
five days with twelve men and collected the rents from the tenants.
For this act he was cited to appear in the King's Bench, but the day
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before Paston was released and he returned to Norfolk. After this
(in 1462) he had to answer a writ upon an indictment for trespass.
In 1465 he was attacked in the streets of Norwich by twelve men
but was rescued by the Sheriff. ii35 733
All this was before his marriage with Paston's sister, after which
his relationship with the family became strained.
John Calle, his eldest son, is described as John Calle of Little Melton
in the County of Norfolk, Esquire. He married Christian, daughter
of William Clypsby of Obi also of County Norfolk. The Clypsbys
were a very old family in the county who also figured in the Wars
of the Roses. Christian was previously the wife of Thomas Bades-
croft (1502). In the Lay Subsidies of Norfolk, giving a list of all
persons having goods or lands of the value of £40 or more, we find the
only person in Melton Parva who paid assessment was John Calle.
(Hundred of Humbleyard, 15 Henry viii., 1524.)
On 21st January 1505/6 (21 Henry vii.) Richard Platemaker of
Wymondham, Norfolk, and Thomas Cook grant to John Calle,
gentleman, of Little Melton, and Wm. Goodred, clerk [Vicar of Little
Melton], a Messuage and four pieces of land in Melton Parva to hold
to Calle and Goodred, to the use of Calle and his heirs. (Norwich
City Records.)
In 1514 John Calle is assignee of Sir F. Calthorpe, Knt., and
Edmund Calthorpe of living of Lammas with Little Hautboys ;
Rector, Richard Clarkson. (Bloomfield's Norwich, vol. vi. p. 294.)
On 4th October 1517 an Indenture was made between John
Underwood, Bishop of Caleydon, Prior of the Monastery of St. Andrew,
Broomholme, Norfolk, and John Calle, elder of Bacton, and others,
tenants of Bakton, Edyngthorpe, and Paston.
In 1523/4 John Call is taxed for lands in Melton Parva valued £40.
In 1524 he is taxed on goods valued £19, at that time a large sum.
(Norfolk Lay Subsidies, ^-^, 15 Henry viii.) The only person
taxed in Melton Parva, Hundred of Humlyearde, is John Calle on £41.
In 1529 he is supervisor of the wills of John Kemp and his
wife, Catherine, buried at Hethersett, and in 1532 he is witness to
the will of Sir Phihp Calthorpe.
In 1534/5 (34 and 35 Henry viii.) John Calle pays assessments in
St. Nicholas and Trinity parishes, Thetford. Previously Margaret
Calle, widow, pays assessment for money in Paston, Hundred of
Tunsted, in 1524. (15 Henry viii.)
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In 1534/5 he is assessed at £6 in goods and £6 in lands in
St. Margaret's Parish, Thetford. (Lay Subsidies of Norfolk, ^^
and-y-^.)
In 1546 John Calle senior and Richard Calle release to Sir John
Paston all right they had in Fleghall Manor which they obtained in
1515. In 1547 John Calle still holds lands in Melton Parva, but
we fail to trace him after this date.
The second son of Richard Calle was William Calle, a friar, and in
all the ' Visitations ' he is described as a ' fryar minor ' or observant
of the Franciscan order of Grey Friars. The Grey Friars took their
origin from St. Francis of Assisi. They are sometimes called
mendicants or begging friars from their subsisting chiefly on alms
which they begged, as all friars did. Their habit consisted of a loose
grey garment reaching to their heels, girded about the loins with a cord
or rope, and from the colour of this garment they got the name Grey
Friars. In 1537 Lord Surrey lodged in the Grey Friars monastery,
Norwich. Soon after the convent was dissolved and the site, church,
etc., granted to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. There are no remains
left of the convent. (Parkins, History of Norwich, 1783.) Wilham
Calle graduated B.D. in 1507, D.D. in 1510. He became warden,
and minister provincial of the Grey Friars, Norwich, in 1524, and was
the last to hold that office, for the monastery was dissolved on 12th
March 1539, and the lands granted by Queen Mary to the Duke of
Norfolk who sold them to the City of Norwich. He was rector of
Heydon, Norfolk, in 1538 and died in 1539. Of him it is recorded
by the Duke of Norfolk and Sir Thomas Townshend, on the 4th
August 1538, that at the trial of Anth. Browne (sometime Observant
Friar) the Duke of Norfolk had with him Dr. Call, a Grey Friar, who
' handled him right honestly ' in defence of the King. ' The Bishop
(of Norwich) and Call have both shown themselves learned men and
true subjects.' (Calendar of State Papers, Henry viii., vol. 8, part ii.
p. 12.)
We find the following further references to him :
(1) Sth September 1535. John Gostwyk to Cromwell .... I beg your
favor to Dr. Calle, provincial of the Grey Friars, in his suit. He has
asked me to write, ' and for the same has promised me that I shall
lack no rosewater.' {Ibid., vol. 9, p. 102.)
(2) ' My singular good lorde acording to suche comissyon as I
had of you for colleccyon of suche mony as was gatherid by the
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 37
headis of the freres to have purchesid of the kingis g"ce the cofir-
macyon of y^ p'vilegis. In norw'^'i I fonde doctor calle, whome I
exameneid for y' reUgion [the Grey Friars] and he confesseid to
me y* he and Ms rehgion had coUecte about XL''- the w*^*" all restith
in y^ handis of him y* lately was warden of london, and him y* was
warden of greenew^ii excepte X"- y' of late he had receyvid of them
for the w'^'' payement ageyne to me to the kingis use he greid w* me
to seale an obhgacyon the obligacyon was put to y® making and in
the tyme I rode to walsinghfn and returneid a geyne to norw^^ and
he in y* tyme take his horse and cam for the w* Mr. Paston towarde
london to gett releefe of y* x''- as y* y' ys tolld to me, so y* yf sute me
made to yo'' lordeshipe for y^ matt' ye maye use y' at yo' plesur, for
obhgacyon he hathe no sealeid but this contfy to liis promes werete
owt of norw^h,' etc. (Ibid., Henry viii., vol. 139, p. 211.)
(3) Rector of St. Peter's Church at Heydon.
' 1538, Wilham Call, S.T.D., sometime warden of the gray friars
in Norwich, and minister provincial of the order (though a great
enemy (ref. to vol. iii.) to Bilney the martyr, could turn, rather than
bum, as he did) was instituted by Wilham Burtfield, his proxy, at
the presentation of Sir Roger Townesend, Knt. patron here, in right
of the Lady Anne his wife. On Calle's death, in 1539, Master Leonard
Heydon, clerk, succeeded.' (Bloomfield's History of Norwich, vol. vi.
p. 249.)
John Calle had the following family :
(1) Elizabeth, who married Ralf Chestyn of Chestyn in the County
of Suffolk.
(2) Richard Calle of Little Melton, dyer, who married Edith,
daughter of — — Bennett, is designated son and heir to his
father in the Herald's Visitations.
(3) Constance, or Constantia, who married Thomas Riddell of
Sallows Green, Lord of the Manor of Watering and Sallows,
Co. Norfolk. He died 20th September 1545. They had a
son named John Riddell, then only nine years of age, who
afterwards married a daughter of Urquhart of Cromarty
in Scotland by Helen, daughter of LordAbernethy of Saltoun,
and died in 1584 leaving two sons, James and Francis Riddell.
(Betham's Baronetage, 1804, vol. iv. p. 247.)
We have the following correction to make upon the above Herald's
and others' statement. Helen, fourth daughter and fifth child of
38 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
James Abemethy, third Lord Saltoun of Abemethy, married Thomas
Urquhart of Fischerie, Sheriff of Cromarty. (Reg. Great Seal, 31st May
1510.) She is said to have had thirty-six children, twenty-five sons
and eleven daughters (Red-book of Grantidly, vol. i. p. 14), but
seven of the sons met their death at the battle of Pinkie. (Nisbet's
Heraldry, App., p. 273. See New Scottish Peerage, vol. vii. p. 409.)
With reference to the Herald's statements regarding the Riddells
there appears to be some explanation necessary. John Riddell, the
sixteenth in descent from Galfridus Riddell, baron of Blaye in Guinne,
who aided the Normans in the conquest of Apulia, came with William
the Conqueror to England, from whom he received considerable
grants of land. His son, James Riddell, became a merchant at Kasi-
mier in Craconia, Poland, thereafter he was a Burgess of Edinburgh
and died in 1620. He was the ancestor of the Buchanan Riddells
of Ardnamurchan in Argyllshire, who through a marriage with the
heiress of Thomas Milles of Billoekly Hall, Norfolk, are still land-
owners in Norfolk.
Before dealing with the Richard Calle ii. who dispersed the family
estates, and his descendants, we shall refer to the Edingthorpe
family who were descended from Richard Calle i. by his second
wife, Margaret Trollope.
EDINGTHORPE CALLES
There were two or more manors in this town, one of which is
called Edingthorpe Wilbys or Willoughbies, the other Edingthorpe
Howexheons. Of the former, Lawrence de Repps was Lord in 1315.
He died in 1332 and left his manor and estates to be divided between
his two daughters, Sibill, \^dfe of Robert de Repps, and Elizabeth, wife
of Thomas de Wilby, to whose share this manor fell. In 1352 lands
in this town ' abuttaled ' upon the lands of Lawrence de Wilby. This
manor afterwards came to the Hobards of Plumstead, and Miles
Hobard, Esquire, was Lord of this Manor and that of Edingthorpe
Howexheons in 1539. Both were possessed with Little Plumstead
by this family till 1660, when they were sold to the Pastons.
William Paston, Earl of Yarmouth, died seized of them. In 18
Henry vi. lands in tliis town ' abuttoiled ' upon the Lord of the Manor
of the Latimers. In 30 Henry vui. (1538/9) Andrew Calle of Eding-
thorpe, gent., gave an acre of land ' to find the Holy Bread loaf
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 39
every Sunday in Edingthorpe Church.' This land was seized by
Edward vi. and granted to Sir Thomas Wodhouse of Waxham. The
hving is a Rectory in the Archdeanery of Norfolk and Deanery of
Waxtonesham. The King is patron in right of the Duchy of Lancaster
and is as follows :
Dno Rex jure jEdingthorpe R. val. £5, 5s. 2id. iRobert
Ducatus Lanc\Dec. 10, 6d. Syn.,2s. p.c.ls. 3fd. or 6s. Sd.jGoulde.
The church is dedicated to All Saints. William Cattle, rector,
directed that his body was to be buried there in 1479. The church
is a small building dating back to about the time of Henry vi.
having a round tower at the west end of a more ancient date,
which was increased in height by an octagonal addition probably
made about the time the church was built. (Starling's MS., among
papers of Worstead parish, quoted from Norris MSS.)
Richard Calle appears to have had two sons at least by his second
marriage, Andrew Calle of Edingthorpe, gent., and John Call of
Bathlee or Bale, gent., who married Elizabeth Touneshend and died
in 1555/6. She died in 1571.
In 1565, in the Octave of Michaelmas (7 and 8 Ehzabeth, Notes of
Fines, Norfolk) Elizabeth Call, widow, obtains from Roger Townesend,
Esq., the manor of Nygeons alias Nudgyns, with 80 acres land, 20 acres
meadow, 20 acres pasture, 2 acres wood, and 9 shillings rent in
Bathley, Shoryngton Gunthorpe, ffeldalyng, and Hyndryngham, and
the advowson of the church of Bathley alias Bale, with a warrant
against the heirs of Richard Townesend, Esq., his father, and the heirs
of Roger Townesend, Kt., for 130 marks. Through this Townesend
connection it would seem that Dr. William Calle got the presentation
of the vicarage of Heydon from Sir Robert Townesend, Kt., the patron.
The following is an extract from the Feet of Fines, Norfolk,
1569/70 (12 Eliz., Hilary) : A final agreement made in the Queen's
Court at Westminster in the Octave of Hilary, 12 Ehz., before
the Queen's Justices there between Robert Bullen, plaintiff, and
Elizabeth Call, widow, deforciant, of one messuage, one cottage,
12 acres 1 rood of land and the fourth part of one rood of meadow
in Bathale alias Bale, whereof a plea of covenant was summoned
between them, that is that the said Elizabeth acknowledges the
same to be the right of Robert and she grants the reversion of the
said premises — which Eleanor Touneshend, widow, holds for life of
the heritage of the said Elizabeth and which ought to revert to
40 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
Elizabeth after Eleanor's death — to the said Robert and liis heirs to
hold of the chief Lords of the fee by the usual services for ever.
And for herself and her heirs grants to warrant liim and liis heirs
therein against herself and her heirs for ever. For which grant,
fine, etc., Robert has given her £40 sterling.
John Call of Bathley and Elizabeth had an only child, Joan
Call, who married Thomas Digby and had three children, Anne,
Elizabeth, and Margaret Digby, so that the Bathley line became
extinct on the male side. Richard Calle is also said to have had a
son, Anthony Call, according to one of the Herald's Visitations, but
this does not appear to be correct. We have already proved that
Anthony Call was a son of George Call of the Framlingham family.
Andrew Calle of Edingthorpe married Margaret Drake. He was
a Churchwarden of Edingthorpe Church in 1553. His will was
proved on 7th March 1555/6, at NorAvich. He had the following
children :
(1) Richard, who died in 1555, under twenty-three, without issue.
(2) John, who also died without issue.
(3) William, who succeeded him and married Susan Tillington,
daughter of William Tillington of Hyndolveston, Norfolk.
He was buried on 11th February 1596/7.
(4) Margaret.
(5) Sisseley, who married William Spencer of Honningham.
(6) Catherine, who married — — Myles.
(7) Edith.
William Calle of Edingthorpe had the following children :
(1) Andrew, who died without issue.
(2) Susanna, baptised 14th October 1575, and married Nicholas
Brane of Lodin, Norfolk, 1st October 1605.
(3) William Calle ii. of Edingthorpe, baptised 20th May 1576,
married (1), 11th February 1603, Ann Wortes (or Worth),
daughter of William Wortes of Bacton, biuied 19th Julj'
1615 ; (2) Margaret Plaister, 4th August 1619, buried 13th
December 1625 ; (3) Martha Wiitmore, 28th January 1630.
(4) Prudence, baptised 28th January 1577/8, married Thomas
Goodwin or Gedding of Burlingham, 6th Juh^ 1601.
(5) Judith, baptised May 1584, married Wm. Smith of Lodden.
(6) Gyles (of whom hereafter).
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 41
(7) Mary, baptised 4th April 1588.
(8) Thomas, baptised 30th August 1590. He was a merchant in
Great Yarmouth. He died unmarried and was buried, 4th
September 1622, at St. Nicholas's, Yarmouth.
(9) Mary, baptised 22nd October 1592, married William Worth,
1st June 1607.
(10) Myles.
Gyles Call was baptised 24th February 1585. He became a ship-
owner, merchant, and brewer at Great Yarmouth, and took an active
part in pubUc affairs in the borough. He is frequently referred to in
the Records, and seems to have been involved in numerous transac-
tions and litigations. He married, on 15th November 1615, Mary
Gurling, and died in 1653 a wealthy man. But his estate was largely
squandered in Chancery by his son William, who took proceedings
against his brother-in-law, William Cutting.
We quote from the Calendar of the Freemen of Cheat Yarmouth,
printed by Norfolk and Norwich Arch. Soc, 1910, the following entries
relating to him :
1608. Egidius Call, app. of John Hobston, merchant (appren-
ticeship).
1683. John Thompson, app. of Mr. Baihff Call.
1684. Robert Austen, app. of Giles Call.
1642. John Francklin, app. of Mr. Newelect Call.
1649. John Girling, app. of Mr. Giles Call.
The fee or fine paid by Freemen was originally two marks (26s. 8d.).
For several years in early sixteenth century the payment was 20s.,
later in the century that sum is the least paid, fines ranging from 40s.
to £5. After 1590 admissions by purchase were less frequent and the
fines increased in the seventeenth century from £3 to £30 (average be-
tween £10 and £25). Remissions were conceded to sons of burgesses
admitted the same time as their fathers without fee, then to sons of
all burgesses if born since their fathers received the freedom. From
1474 to 1617 each bailiff was allowed to admit one freeman without
fine. When the privilege was withdrawn the sum of £7 each was
voted to them.
Gyles Call afterwards became a Burgess, Baihff, and Alderman of
the town. He was a Churchwarden of St. Nicholas's Church, Yar-
F
42 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
mouth, in 1624 and in 1682 when he signs the Parish Register. He
had the following children according to that Register :
(1) Mary Call, baptised 23rd March 1617, married Edward Denny.
(2) Susan Call, baptised 18th November 1618, married Robert
Robins, Alderman of Yarmouth, on 2nd July 1640. They
had the following children: (1) John Robins, Alderman,
died 1707 ; (2) Susan Robins, married 1670 to Benjamin
Spilman ; (8) Mary Robins, married 1669 to Anthony
Spilman.
(3) Hannah Call, baptised 29th August 1621, married Wm.
Cutting, 1637, and had Mary and Gyles Cutting and five
other cliildren.
(4) Jane, baptised 4th May 1623, died 1702 unmarried.
(5) Judith, baptised 1st April 1627, married Joseph Goose.
(6) Wilham, baptised 25th March 1631, married 10th August
1653, Sarah, youngest daughter of Sir WiUiam Castleton,
Bart., of Rattlesden, Suffolk, at Fornham St. Martins,
Suffolk, and probably died without issue.
Yarmouth is noted for its rows of narrow streets, of which there
are 168. Gyles Call hvedinRow 68, which led from the quay to Howard
Street and is now absorbed by Regent Street. Early in the seven-
teenth century there stood an old house at the north-west corner
belonging to Gyles Call, by whom it was sold to Thomas Lucas,
merchant, who was Bailiff in 1658, after whom it was called Mr.
Thomas Lucas's Row. {Perlustration of Great Yarmouth, by C. J.
Palmer, 1872, vol. i. p. 1378.)
During the reign of Charles i. the Yarmouth Volunteers took
great pains to acquire some knowledge of the art of war, as appears
by a tract pubhshed in 1638 entitled ' Great Yamiouth exercise in
a very complete and martiall manner performed by their artillery
men upon the 22nd day of May last to the great commendations and
applause of the whole town according to the modern discipline of
this our age, 1638. Non solum nobis sed patriae,' by John Roberts.
It is dedicated to the Baihffs (of whom John Robins was one) and
Aldermen, and to the worshipful Capt. Meadows, Capt. de Eugaine,
Capt. Call, and others. A fort was erected on the Denes. Two ' choice
commanders ' were elected, Capt. Meadows, General of the Field, and
Capt. Call, Governor of the Fort. (Ibid., vol. iii., p. 99.)
On 29th October 1632 a letter of thanks from the borough of Great
Yarmouth, signed by Thomas Thompson and Gyles Call, Baihffs,
A YARMOUTH ROW
YARMOUTH TOWN HALL
On extreme right. Shows entrance to
Regent Street which absorbs Row 68
ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH, VARMOU lil (imkkkjk)
WVMONDHAM CHURCH
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 43
was sent to Edward Sackville, fourth Earl of Dorset, for liis instru-
mentality in appointing an able and worthy lecturer whose doctrine
the inhabitants of the town did greatly approve. (Dawson Turner's
MSS., p. 29, Yarmouth Free Library.)
Eg. add. 19398, f. 120 :
' Right Hono''!'' and very good Lord. — As uppon all occasions
wherin wee and o"" p'decessors have beene humble suitors unto yo""
Hono"" for and on the behalffe of this Towne, wee have alwayes found
such full expression of yo"" honors respect for the good and supporte
of this poore Incorporacon, and such good success thereuppon
(espcallye nowe in furthering and healping of our Inhabitants to an
able and worthy Lecturer whome they have heard to preache twice
on one Saboath daye, and doo very much respect him for his
doctrine and abilities) as wee cannott but with all thankfullnes for
ever acknowledge our selves and o"" wholl Towneshipp bounde nott
onelye to remember such great and honoi^ favors so freely Affoarded
but also alwayes to bee obliged in all humble service to rest.
Yo"" Hono^ att Coiiiande
(signed) Tho. Tompson.1 .^^^^^^
(signed) Gyles Call. J
Yarmouth, this 29th of October 1632.
To the Right Hono"
Edward Earle of Dorsett Lo<i
Chamberlyn to the Queens
most excellent Ma"^ and one
of the LLqs of hir Mate^
most honoii Privy Councell.'
We record the following references to Gyles Call :
On 11th February 1618/9 (16 James i.) he was appointed Comp-
troller of the Customs great and small and of the subsidy of wools,
hides, and woollen pelts at 3s. per barrel and 12d. per pound for Great
Yarmouth and all ports, places, and creeks adjoining, in place of
Thomas Homberston, gentleman. (Patent Rolls, 2167.)
In the Octave of St. Hilary, 1 Charles i. (1625/6) he buys from
Abraham Willaers and Rebecca his wife, and Robert Skarlett and
Elizabeth his wife, 10 acres land, 3 acres meadow, and 3 acres marsh
at Burrough Castle for £60. (Suffolk Feet of Fines.)
An Indenture made the 26th of September (1633) between Sir
Owen Smyth of Armingland, Norf., Knight, and Gyles Call of Yar-
mouth, Norf., Merchant, in which Sir Owen Smyth let to Gyles Call
44 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
one Marsh containing (by estimation) six acres and three roods,
abbutting upon the Common of Burgh South and the Marsh of Sir
O. Smyth (now in the possession of Roger Riseing) towards the North.
One other Marsh lying next the last Marsh containing (by estimation)
4 acres 3 roods. One other Marsh containing by estimation 17 acres
2 roods lying next Braydon, from the feast of St. Michael the Arch-
angel, 1633, until the end of seven years, paying therefor yearly at
the south porch of the parish Church of St. George in Tumbleland
within the City of Norwich the sum of £13, 15s. to be paid yearly in
equal portions at the feasts of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Michael
the Archangel. (Court of Wards, large box 48, No. 44.)
Fifteen days after Trinity, 16 Charles i. (1640) (Norfolk Feet
of Fines), Gyles Call, gent., and Joseph Ward, gent., purchased from
Robert Robin for £100 two messuages and a garden in Great
Yarmouth, and in the Octave of Michaelmas the same year (Norfolk
Feet of Fines) he and John Cod purchased from Thomas Lane
and Helen his wife 16 acres of land, 4 acres of pasture, and 22
acres of heath in Catfield, Heckhng, and Sutton for £42. 19th
January 1648, he litigates with Richard Blith regarding Leghorn
barrels. (Chancery Proc, Bridges Div., ^^.)
In 1654 he is found htigating with Mathias Sotherton, of which
the following is an abstract :
(Chanc. Proc, B. and A. Bridges Div., bundle 20, No. 15.)
2Uh February 1654. Giles Call of the City of Norwich, Malster
(Plaintiff).
Mathias Sotherton of Norwich, gent. (Defendant) being pos-
sessed of ' one messuage and Bruing house ' and utensils thereunto
belonging let it to Francis Roberds.
Francis Roberds requested Giles Call to sell him 100 Combes of
merchantable Malt, but he understanding that Roberds had no money
to pay told him he would sell only on condition that Roberds gave
good security for payment. Shortly after Matliias Sotherton and
Francis Roberds treated with him concerning the brewing of 100
Combes of Malt. Fran^ Roberds ' did then buy of yo^ said Orator
one hundred Combes of Malt ' for £93. It was agreed by Mathias
Sotherton and Fran^ Roberds in the presence of Henry Charlett to be
under obligation for £200 under certain conditions, to be paid to
Giles Call, to secure the £93. A dispute about the money arose,
and Mathias Sotherton refused to pay the £93. Giles Call therefore
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 45
desired the Court to order and decree that he be compelled to pay
the £93, etc.
Under his will, dated 29th May 1657, and proved at Somerset
House, 19th November 1657 (Ruthen 409), Andrew Call of Eding-
thrope, gent., left his brother Mr. Gyles Call £50 to discharge a
mortgage in favour of his executrix of copyhold lands held of the
Manor of Willowbyes. His lands in Paston and Knapton were to
be sold and the proceeds with his other estate were to be divided
among his children as given in detail in such will.
An interesting litigation took place after Mr. Gyles Call's death
regarding his estates. The records of this are very long and im-
possible to reprint here, but we submit the chief points of the case,
which was at the instance of William Call, his only son, against his
brother-in-law, William Cutting, and his wife. Gyles is described as
a man of very good personal estate and a ' well moneyed man.'
Cutting, it seems, kept Call's accounts and drew up his will. WilUam
Call and he were appointed executors. Cutting expected to be better
provided for in the will, but he only got £20 in addition to
his wife's provision of £500. Cutting stated in his defence that
after the will was executed, shortly before Gyles Call's death, that
William Call kept it in his possession for three or four days before hand-
ing it to his father, who wished to alter it and increase the provision
for Cutting. Cutting, after Gyles Call's death, collected and retained
moneys due to the estate, whereupon William Call raised this
action against him for payment. A long list of the investments of
Gyles Call is given, including £6, 13s. 4d. advanced as part of a loan
of £100,000 to our brethren the Scots. This action, which began
immediately after the death of Gyles in 1653, went on for many years
until a decree was granted in December 1658 ordering Cutting to
give up all the money he had received as executor. He appealed
against this judgment, and again it went on until 16th November 1662,
when defendant was ordered to be committed to the prison of the Fleet
for contempt of Court. Judgment against the defendant, William
Cutting, seems to have been finally granted about 4th December 1662.
Under liis will Gyles Call left his son William the Manor of
Catfield Cobbs, the patronage of St. Michael's at Plea, Norwich, his
freehold tenements in Lingwood, liis free and copyhold lands in Bur-
lingham Strumshaw, Burrough Castle, and his capital messuage and
appmtenances where he dwelt in Norwich.
46 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
We shall now reveit to Gyles Call's elder brother, WiUiam Call,
who was three times married and had the following children :
(1) Richard, baptised 16th December 1604.
(2) William, buried 6th January 1633.
(3) Andrew, baptised 3rd December 1609, married Elizabeth
Gelsthorpe. His will is dated 29th May 1657 ; buried 2nd
June 1657, of whom hereafter.
(4) Susanna, baptised 13th October 1611, buried 15th March 1633.
(5) Maria, baptised 3rd August 1613, married Richard Wilson,
5th April 1631.
(6) Gyles, baptised 14th October 1614, buried 1st January at
Fornham St. Martins, Suffolk. Under his will, proved 31st
January 1666 (Bury St. Edmunds Probate Registry, fol. 139),
he appointed John Sparke of Fornham and Richard Martin
of Tinworth his executors to call in his debts and dispose of
his moveables in a husbandly way as they shall tliink fit for
the use of his son, Wm. Call, when his apprenticeslup shall be
out, but if he should die, to divide his estate equally between
his brother Call [evidently Andrew] and his sister Willson's
children. Witnesses, Wilham Heckley and Widow Price.
Andrew Call of Edingthorpe, William Call's eldest surviving son,
who married Elizabeth Gelsthorpe, had the following children :
(1) William, baptised 24th October 1637, married, 15th October
1673, Ann Scambler, died 5th May 1683. He left no issue.
His will was proved 3rd April 1683. There is a black
marble stone in Edingthorpe church to liis memory with the
following inscription :
William Call, Gent., sonne of Andrew Call and Elizabeth
(Gelsthorpe) his wife, was borne October 1637 and died
5th May 1683.
(2) Anna, baptised 8th November 1638, died 9th November
1676, married Samuel Annison and had two children, John
and Mary Annison. John had a son, Call Annison.
(3) Giles, baptised 29th December 1639.
(4) Ehzabeth, baptised 8th March 1640 and buried April 1662.
(5) Andrew, who succeeded his father.
(6) Mary, baptised 16th January 1643, buried 23rd January 1661.
(7) Richard, baptised 26th June 1644, buried 24th November 1649.
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 47
(8) Abigail, baptised 22nd April 1648, married W. Feilding of St.
Simons, Norwich, buried 2nd April 1681.
(9) Thomas, baptised 12th July 1650. He became a haber-
dasher, and was buried 12th July 1676, dying without
issue.
(10) Richard, baptised 12th March 1654, of whom hereafter.
The following entry appears in the Records of Caius College,
Cambridge :
' Call, Andrew, son of Andrew Call, gent., deceased. Born at
Edingthorpe, Norfolk (bapt. Jan. 24, 1642/3). Schools, North Wal-
sham under Mr. Lucy, three years ; and the Perse School, Cambridge,
under Mr. Griffiths. Age 16. Admitted sizar, April 24, 1660.
Surety, Mr. Marsh. B.A. 1663/4. M.A. 1667. Scholar, L. Day
1660 to L. Day 1666. Ordained deacon (Exeter), Sept. 24, 1665 ;
priest (Oxf.), June 2, 1667. Rector of Crostwight (otherwise Crost-
wick), Norf., 1669, and of Mautby, 1671-97. Died March 20, 1697,
"aet. suce 56°," M.I. at Mautby (Pedigree in Vis. of Norf.). His
mother seems to have been a sister of Edward Gelsthorpe, alive
1642/3.'
One of the earliest references we have found of Andrew Call is
the following :
Dean Davis in his Diary referring to the illness of Captain Hun-
tingdon, Alderman and Bailiff of Yarmouth, says : ' About twelve
o'clock we came to Mautby to Mr. Call's where we dined and at three
mounted again for Yarmouth in order to attend the funeral.
' Mr. Call bore on a fesse between two cheverels three escallops.'
(Palmer's Perlustration of Norfolk, vol. ii. p. 53.)
In the British Museum Addl. MSS. 27448, fol. 239, appears the fol-
lowing letter to the Countess of Yarmouth (Paston), written and signed
by Andrew Call and sealed (red wax) with his coat of arms :
Mautby, May the 2d., 1683.
Madam, — That I did not signifye my sympathye with your Honour
for the death of my deare and noble Lord long ere this, I pray be
pleased to Attribute to my feares least I should thereby be an occasion
of more harm, where I knew there was enough before, and not to any
want either of regard for your Honour, or of greafe for so great a losse,
to the King, to your Ladyship, to my surviveing Lord, with the rest
of your noble family, and to his whole countrey ; not to speake of
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my owne, who saw the better every day I rose for his Ld.sliip, not
onele in that comfortable Mayntenence he was pleased soe generously
and freely to bestow on me, but alsoe in that respect I met with dayly,
by the advantage of soe honourable a recommendation to the world.
Madam, though my noble Ld. be dead, he shall hve in my memory,
and I shall, god willing, pay my devotion to his, as long as I have my
owne, by my prayers and wel-wishes for your Honours welfare, and
the prosperitye of your whole ffamilye. had I not received so muche
already, I would have begged more, towit. the honour of being con-
tinued a Chaplayne in your Honours ffamilye, and doe humbly crave
your Ladyships ffavour and Assistance therein : There is nothing,
I thank God, that I was ever proud of in the world, unless of that
service. Madam, my wife presents her most humble duty to your
Honor, and I in all humility crave for myselfe that you would be
pleased to enterteyne this opinion of me, that I am. Madam, Your
Honours most ffaythfull and DutyfuU servant, Andrew Call.
Madam, My wife and selfe present our most humble services to
my Lady Clayton (?) and my Lady Elizabeth.
Madam, I have written to my Ld. by the same Post this comes
to your Honours hands.
(Endorsed.) These, To the Right Honourable Lady the Countesse
Dowager Yarmouth in the Pal. Mai, London.
Present.
He married (1) Elizabeth , and had an only daughter, Mary
Call, who died at Mautby on 2-l.th December 1692.
Andrew Call and his wife Elizabeth sold at Trinity 1679 (31
Charles ii.) 3 messuages, 3 gardens, 3 orchards — land, 10 acres of
meadow, 20 acres of pasture, 20 acres of heath and furze in Brunstead-
Runton, to John Harkourt and others for £120 Stg. (Norfolk Feet
of Fines.) He married (2) Ruth after 1692.
In the Norfolk Feet of Fines three weeks from Trinity Day, 6
William and Mary, we find Andrew Call, clerk, and his wife Ruth and
others selling 2 messuages, 2 gardens, 2 orchards, and 60 acres of land
in Cawson, S. Creake, Hindringham and Thursford, to John Hildyard,
Doctor of Laws, and Robert Sydall for £120 Stg., and, in the Octave
of the Purification of the Virgin, 6 WiUiam iii., they sold to his brother
Richard Call and others a messuage, a garden, an orchard, 60 acres
MALTBY CHURCH (showing thatched rook)
MALIUY CHURCH (iNTiuaok)
REV. ANDREW CALL > I i i\l I ;^ I ( iN I
AND ARMS.
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of land, 1 acre of meadow, 25 acres of pasture, and 12 acres of heath
and furse in Edingthorpe, Bacton Witton, Barton, Tunstead, Beeston
aUas Beeston St. Laurence, and Ashmenhaw for £120.
Andrew Call wrote all the entries in the parish register himself
and has signed his name several times. The writing is very bad and
difficult to read. The old silver chalice used by him in Mautby
Church is used by the Rector there to this day.
Besides an old stone tomb of one of the Mautbys, there are
slate stones in the chancel of Mautby Church with the arms of Call
and the following inscriptions :
'Andreas Call A. M. tuijus ecclesice p'viginti sex ann. Rect:
obiit 20'"° die mens: mart: An° Dni 1697. cetatis suae
cuxr: 56*°.'
'Here lyeth ye body of Elizabeth Call late wife of Andrew
Call, Rector of this Parrish, who departed this Life
the 26th and was Buryed on the 29th day of October
1691.'
' Here lyeth ye body of Mary Call ye only childe of Andrew
Call Rector of this parish and of Elizabeth his late wife
who dyed on the 24th and was buryed on ye 26th day of
December 1692.'
Miss Schrader has, in visiting various places mentioned in this
work, taken a good many photographs for the editor, and we here
reproduce Mautby Church and Rectory, the interior of the Church,
and Andrew Call's grave with the Call arms upon it. The arms are
the same as borne by Richard Calle and also by Martin Call.
The youngest son of Andrew Call of Edingthorpe, Richard, was
baptised 14th March 1654. He was a Grocer at Tombland, Norwich,
and married first Mary , and secondly Elizabeth Bosted of Martles-
ham, Suffolk, on 12th June 1671. He died on 10th February 1715/6.
He had an only child, Mary Call, who married, on 24th August 1698,
John Hogan and had an only son, Robert Hogan. This is the child
referred to in Martin Call's autobiography to whom he was engaged.
It will be observed that Martin Call's statements regarding this
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50 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
family are borne out by the records. The tombstones in the aisle
of Edingthorpe Church bear the following inscriptions :
' Here lieth y* body of Mr. Richard Call late of the City
of Norwich Grocer who deparf^ this life the 10th day of
February
Anno Dom 1715
Aged 63 years
Being y* last of the Family of y^ Calls.'
(Length of this stone, 3 feet 1 inch ; width of do., 20 inches.)
' W sculprit
Amico mio Ricardo Adam(s ?)
1834 Augst. 22. Rectore.'
The following notes are from the parish registers and appear in
Mr. G. B. Jay's MSS. in the British Museum. As they corroborate
Martin Call's MSS. we quote them in full.
From Parish Register of St. George of Tombland, Norwich :
Marriages
1698. ' John Hogan of this Parish and Mary Call were married
August the 24th.'
Note. — ' A Richard Call, grocer, voted for Whig candidate at
election in October 1710. He was admitted to the freedom (appr.
of Jere Portland) 16th June 1679, and a " Richard Call of the city
of Norwich, gent., buried February 13th, 1715-16, at Edingthorpe." '
1703. ' William Call and Ehzabeth Hadden of St. Paul's were
married in this parish, ffebruary the 9, 1703.'
Abstract of Will
' Richard Call of Norwich, grocer. Mary, wife, John Hogan,
son-in-law, Robert Hogan, son of said John, after death of Ann
Pycroft and Ruth Springall, my late sisters, land in Edingthorpe,
Paston, Witton, to be sold by Stephen Norris of Norwich, clerk, and
Richard Carter, Jan., Gent., of Nor\vich, supervisors. Call Annison,
son of kinsman John Annison, if said Jolin do not disturb my wdfe as
to legacies of his (the said John's) late uncle, Wm. Call, other children
of said John Annison. Cousin Mary Leech, wife of John Leech,
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 51
executrix, of Norwich, woolcomber. Cousin Mary Browne, wife
of Stephen Browne of Norwich, apothecary ; bro. Anthony Par-
menter, citizen and alderman of Norwich ; kinswoman Hanna Par-
menter, daughter of the said Anthony Parmenter. Dated 2nd
October 1715, proved 23rd February 1715.' (Cons., 1715, fol. |-^.)
We now return to the elder branch of the family and the descend-
ants of Richard Calle ii.
Richard Calle, with consent of his eldest son Thomas Calle and his
wife Catherine, sold the lands of Little Melton or Melton Hall Manor
in 1574 to Nicholas Sotherton, junior, of Norwich, already mentioned.
How the lands passed out of the family finally is recorded in the
following abstracts from the Feet of Fines :
(Feet of Fines, 17 Henry viii. (1526), Hilary, Bundle 28, File 191.)
Abstract. — Final agreement made in the King's Court at West-
minster on the morrow of the Purification of the Virgin, 17 Henry viii.,
before the King's Justices there, between John Calle, senior, Richard
Calle, junior, John Loveday, John Thetford, John Crue, clerk, and
William Woyarde, clerk, plaintiffs, and William Brampton and
Ehzabeth his wife, deforciants, of the moieties of the Manors of
Fleghalle in Waxtonesham and Fleghalle in Wynterton, and of the
advowson of the Church of Waxtonesham as well as of the moiety of
30 messuages, 300 acres of land, 160 acres of meadow, 120 acres of
pastures, 9 acres of wood, 112 acres of furze and heath, and £5 rent
in Waxtonesham, Horsey, Hyklyng, Pallyng, Winterton, Estsomerton,
Marham and Hemesby, whereof a plea of covenant was summoned
between them, that is, that Wm. Brampton and Elizabeth acknow-
ledged the same to be the right of John Calle as of their gift and have
remised and quit claimed the same from William Brampton and Eliza-
beth and the heirs of Wilham to the said plaintiffs and the heirs of
John Calle, and moreover for themselves and the heirs of Elizabeth
have granted to warrant the plaintiffs and the heirs of John Calle in
the said premises against themselves and the heirs of Elizabeth for
ever. For which grant, fine, remise, etc., the plaintiffs have given
William Brampton and Ehzabeth £160 sterling.
From the Feet of Fines of Norfolk we have found particulars re-
garding the sale of the Melton Manor : — Final agreement made at West-
minster from Michaelmas day in one month, 17 Elizabeth, before the
Queen's Justices there, between Nicholas Sotherton, gent., plaintiff,
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and Richard Calle, gent., and Edith his wife and Thomas Calle, gent,
and Katharine his wife, deforciants of the Manor of Melton alias
Melton Hall, with the appurtenances of 3 messuages, 2 dovecotes, 100
acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 40 acres of
wood, and 40s. rent and of free faldage of 300 sheep in Little Melton,
Great Melton, Agristhrop, Hetherset, Colney and Banburgh, whereof
a plea of covenant was summoned between them, that is, that Richard,
Edith, Thomas, and Katherine have acknowledged the same to be the
right of Nicholas as of their gift, and for themselves and their heirs
have remised and quit claimed the same to liim and his heirs. More-
over they for themselves and the heirs of Richard have granted to
warrant liim and liis heirs therein against themselves and the heirs
of Richard. For which fine, grant, etc., Nicholas has given Thomas
and Katherine an annuity of £20 a year issuing from the said Manor
and lands to be paid yearly at Michaelmas. And if the said aimuity is
in arrears then Thomas and Katherine shall enter into the premises
and distrain for that amount until the same is satisfied.
(Feet of Fines, Norfolk, 16 and 17 Eliz., Mich., Bundle 180.)
A final agreement was made in the Queen's Court at Westminster
on the morrow of All Saints, 16 Elizabeth (1574) before the Queen's
Justices there, between Nicholas Sotherton, plaintiff, and Thomas
Calle, gent., and Katherine his wife, deforciants, of 40 acres of land,
4 acres of meadow, 10 acres of pasture, and 4 acres of wood in Little
Melton and Great Melton, whereupon a plea of covenant was summoned
between them, that is, that Thomas and Katherine have acknowledged
the same to be the right of Nicholas as of their gift, and for themselves
and their heirs have renaised and quit claimed the same to Nicholas
and his heirs for ever. Moreover the said Thomas and Katherine
and their heirs have granted to warrant Nicholas and his heirs therein
against the said Thomas and Katherine and their heirs and against
Richard Calle, senior, and his heirs for ever. For which grant, fine,
remise, etc., Nicholas has given to Thomas and Katherine £40 sterling.
Attliis period the genealogy of the family is somewhat obscured, and
we are compelled to depend almost entirely upon the Herald's Visita-
tions as recorded in the Harleian MSS. and on the fragmentary notes
which the editor has been able to gather together. It is evident that
the family got dispersed on the sale of Little Melton or Melton Hall
Manor, and we are compelled to search round all the surrounding
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 53
parishes and elsewhere to locate them. Martin Call's statements
regarding their misfortunes appear to be absolutely correct.
Richard Calle of Little Melton had, in addition to his eldest son
Thomas, the following children : (2) Richard, who had a son Richard
baptised 7th February 1573, and a daughter Marjorie baptised 19th
April 1579 ; (3) Robert, who seems to have died in childhood ;
(4) John, who married Ursula and had a daughter Mary bap-
tised 26th December 1576. (In the Octave of St. Hilary, 19 Eliz.
(1576/7), John Call and Ursula his wife sold one messuage, one garden,
one acre of land, and one acre of meadow at Framlyngham Castle to
John Harryson for £40) (Suffolk Feet of Fines) ; (5) Nicholas of King's
Lynn [or Thomas], designed in the Herald's Visitations as the heir
(he married Helena Webb on 31st March 1571, of whom hereafter) ;
(6) Christopher, who was resident at East Dereham and was convicted
of trespass on 30th September 1628 (Session Search Books of Norwich
recording persons presented or indicted for various offences at the
Sessions held at Norwich, Dereham, Lynn, Walsingham, etc.), and on
April 1634 {Ibid.) for seUing victuals without a hcence ; (7) Owen.
He also had the following daughters, whose descendants we have
not concerned ourselves in tracing : Mary (Christian), Ann, Margaret,
and Alice. Margaret married Christopher Willson, 5th September
1592. According to Martin Call's account, Nicholas had a son named
Nicholas, also of King's Lynn and a staunch Royalist during the reign
of Charles i. It is recorded of him that he and his six elder sons all
lost their lives defending King's Lynn for Charles i. against Cromwell.
Beyond the statement made by Martin Call to this effect, the repeti-
tion of it in Playfair's Baronage and Gilbert's Cornwall, we have not
been able to verify it. There is no mention of Calle in the Royalist
Composition Papers.
As we have found Martin Call's account of his family and himself
substantiated generally, we feel inclined to accept his statement
regarding his great-grandfather and his great-granduncles as correct,
though we have not been able to prove such to our own satisfaction.
We have, however, been able to prove from the Lynn registers that
his great-grandfather was a Thomas, that his grandfather was a
Martin, the seventh son according to the tree, and that the eighth
and ninth sons were Nicholas and Robert, as stated by Martin. This
being so, we feel almost bound to accept Martin's genealogical tree
as he constructed it to be correct.
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It is possible that Thomas may have assumed tliat name instead
of that of Nicholas to avoid identification, but whether Martin's
great-grandfather's name was Nicholas or Thomas — as the parochial
register indicates both — we cannot be certain. Thomas was admitted
a freeman of King's Lynn in 1639 and was buried 30th October 1643.
He had the following cliildren by his wife Cissilye Pawe (married 29th
May 1609), who, with the exception of Martin and Nicholas, seem to
disappear about the Cromwellian period :
(1) Thomas, baptised 8th September 1613, married Mary Blanckes
of Hinxten by hcence, 29th April 1639, at St. Edward's,
Cambridge. He died 1651/2. His widow obtained letters of
administration of his estate on 17th February 1651/2, show-
ing that he was only about thirty-six when he died. He had
the following children, who probably all died without issue :
(1) Mary, baptised 19th April 1640, died 9th August 1641.
(2) Margerie, baptised 31st March 1642.
(3) Phihp, died March 1643/4.
(4) Sisley, baptised 24th April 1646.
(5) Ehzabeth, baptised 25th May 1648.
(6) Thomas, baptised 27th June 1650, died February
1652/3.
(2) Elias, baptised 14th April 1616, of whom we have no further
information.
(3) John, baptised 30th September 1619, married 5th December
1643, buried 25th June 1654. Mary Fitzjohn as his widow
obtained letters of administration of his estate on 5th Nov-
ember 1655. This shows that he also was about or under
thirty-six years of age when he died. He had the following
children :
(1) John, baptised 10th May 1647, died May 1647.
(2) Elizabeth, baptised 19th February 1648.
(3) Mary, baptised 27th April 1651, buried 23rd March
1651/2.
(4) Thomas, baptised 3rd May 1652, buried 5th May 1652.
(5) John, born 30th December 1654, baptised 7th January
1654/5.
(4) Robert, baptised 1621.
(5) Martin, baptised 1623/4, of whom hereafter.
(6) Nicholas, of whom also hereafter.
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 55
We thus observe that of the family of Thomas (or Nicholas) only
two remain to be dealt with ; the sons seem to have disappeared with
their father about 1650. Out of the six sons, who Martin says were
killed with their father at the siege of Lynn, we are able to trace
four.
From this period this part of the tree is authentic, for we have
verified it by reference to the parish records, and supplied the dates
which Martin did not give.
We now give an account of the siege of Lynn which Miss Faith
Allen of King's Lynn has contributed :
' In the time of Cromwell, Lynn was an important place and
strongly fortified ; the three gates were furnished with drawbridges,
and in 1648 it had been further fortified by seven pieces of brass
cannon from London. The town was besieged at an early stage
of the war by the Earl of Manchester, at the head of a formidable
force, well supplied with artillery. The town held out for three weeks :
the siege began on 28th August and the place surrendel'ed on 16th
September. The attack was made from the south and east, and an
arrangement had been made to attack by water on the west too if
the town had not capitulated. Cromwell and his cavalry were not
present at the siege. Both St. Margaret's Church and St. Nicholas's
Chapel were damaged — a shot weighing 18 lbs. dropping into the
former building during the sermon on Sunday afternoon, but causing
no loss of life. Finally after a considerable loss of life on both sides
the Royalists capitulated, and a treaty was agreed upon and the Earl
of Manchester took possession of the town. The inhabitants of Lynn-
Regis — although Royalists at heart, almost to a man — with Colonel
Walton as their governor, kept the conditions of the treaty with the
exception of one Sir Roger L'Estrange, who headed an insurrection in
favour of the RoyaUsts, to recover the town for the king. But the
design was betrayed by two of his confederates. L'Estrange was tried
by court-martial and condemned to die as a traitor. The sentence,
however, was not executed and he escaped from prison and made his
peace with the Protector in 1653.
' There seems no mention of the Call family, but the loss of life dur-
ing the siege was considerable, and in one week there were 53 funerals
— so it is quite likely that the Calls were among the sufferers. The town
also sustained much damage, as on " Saturday, 5th August 1648, the
House was informed that the town of Lynn-Regis did want much
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repair, being ruined by these times of war. The House ordered 2000
oaks for reparation thereof." '
From a MS. in the possession of Mr. Colman of Carrow Abbey,
the old meeting-house Church Book, 1642-1681 and 1768-1839, the
following extract shows how Holland was the refuge of the political
and religious offenders about this period :
' In the years 1635 and 1636 numbers of Godly people fled from
Norwich and Yarmouth and the places adjacent to Holland to avoid
the unscriptural impositions and severe prosecutions of Wren and
his instruments. Returning to their native country some years after,
they, by consent of the Congregational Church at Rotterdam which
they left, formed themselves into a Church. Many belonging to
Norwich and many to Yarmouth.' John Leverington was a member
in 1653. He was husband of Helen, widow of Philip Call of Wy-
mondham.
(1) Martin, the son of Thomas (or Nicholas), was, as stated by
Martin, a physician and surgeon in Swaffham [Market]. He was
bom in 1623. He married Ann, daughter of Sir Robert Wright
of Sandy or Santon Downham, Justice or Judge of Norfolk. She was
buried 19th November 1674. He fled at the time of the rebellion to
Holland, and returned to Thetford at the Restoration. We find he
was surgeon on board H.M.S. Antelope from 2nd March 1677/8 to
1680, and we have obtained the following information regarding him
or his son which, from comparison of dates and circumstances, we
consider refers to him and not to his son. It certainly indicates their
attachment to the Royalist party :
Martin Call. Signature in Adm.
Treasurer's Pay Books,
Series i.. No. 92, 1678.
Surgeon on H.M.S. Antelope,
entered 2nd March 1677/8-1680.
Crossed out against J27. 2 li. due to
M. Call's name\Mr. Seaman of Norwich.
Treasury, 27/5, page 456 :
' A List of 4'5s and 2^^ remaining unpayd to the severaJl Ministers
and Chyrurg"»8 of his Ma^^ Frig'^ undermentioned :
Martn. Call, Do. (Chir.), Antelope, £43, 16s. Od.'
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From State Papers, Domestic. Printed Calendar, Letters :
Letter from Major Nathaniel Darell to Williamson (Sir Joseph).
March 6, 1678, 11 a.m., Sheerness.
' About 8 tliis morning the Antelope sailed from the Buoy of the
Nore. , . .'
May 29, 1678. Richard Watts to Williamson :
Deal. ' Yesterday afternoon sailed hence for Scotland . . . the
Antelope, to fetch as is said 2000 men to land at Ostend.'
July 2, 1678. Silas Taylor to WiUiamson :
Harwich. ' At 4 yesterday afternoon arrived the Antelope . . .
below the fort without . . . came to transport Sir Henry Broderick's
(Goodricke's) regiment into Flanders. . . .'
Martin Call was imprisoned several times by Cromwell for his
adhesion to the Royalist cause. He is said by Martin Call, his
grandson, to have been the seventh son, but we trace him as the fifth.
He was buried on 8th October 1710.
(2) Nicholas (the eighth son according to Martin Call), who was a
carpenter, was three times married : first to Katherine Shaw who
died in 1662 ; second to Christian Barefoot, a widow, on 6th December
1664, when he is described as a widower ; and third to Rose Bassett
of Babbingley, on 17th July 1667. He had the following children :
(1) Robert, baptised 15th May 1650, died 24th May 1652.
(2) Thomas, bom 25th October 1652, baptised 30th October. He
had a daughter who married — — Hawkins and is called
an ' unnatural jade ' by Martin Call, and a son called
Thomas who seems to have died without issue.
(8) Ann, bom 3rd August, baptised 17th August 1656.
(4) Nicholas and Robert, twins, born 17th April 1661 ; the latter
died 1st May 1661.
The ninth son, Robert (our fourth), was a fellow of Peterhouse
College, Cambridge, and appears to have died unmarried.
The eldest son of Martin Call was also a Martin, a surgeon and
apothecary in Thetford, and we find his burial on 3rd April 1711. He
had the following children according to the Thetford Register :
(1) Susan, baptised 10th September 1696.
(2) James, baptised 18th April 1701, buried 17th February 1702.
(8) John, born 31st December 1702, baptised 12th January 1703.
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58 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
(4) George, buried 2nd September 1706.
(5) Martin, buried 23rd April 1711.
(6) Mary.
This family, according to Martin Call's tree and MS., appear to
have died out, at least in the male line.
The second son of Martin Call was John Call, silk weaver of
Thetford, who was baptised on 23rd August 1655 at Swaffham. He
married Mary Cannon (or Canham), daughter of George Canham of
Swaffham, on 24th January 1674/5. He was buried at Thetford on
6th August 1696.
The third son, Robert Call, was bom at Swaffham and baptised
there on 28th March 1661. We have not been able to trace his
descendants, if any. The youngest son, Edward, was baptised on
26th March 1663 and buried on 28th April 1663.
In Lay Subsidies of Norfolk, 12 Charles ii. (1660), which consists
of names of persons assessed under ' an Act for the speedy provision
of money for the disbanding and paying of the forces of this Kingdom
both by land and sea,' we find Martyn Call assessed at 4s. on lands and
stock valued at £18 per annum. Mary Cannon, widow, was assessed
on £60 per annum, and Alice Cannon, widow, on £23. A James
Canham was assessed in 1610, and Simon and Margaret about the
same period. Alice Cannon was probably the mother of Mary Cannon,
for John Call names his eldest daughter Ahce.
Martin Call ii. and Mary Cannon or Canham had the following
children :
(1) Martin iii., the author of the MSS., of whom hereafter.
(2) Alice.
(3) Francis, baptised 1st February 1677/8, buried 27th May 1678.
(4) Mary, baptised at Thetford, 22nd January 1679/80.
(5) Susan, baptised 19th July 1681, buried 7th September 1681.
(6) George, baptised 6th August 1682, buried 2nd September 1701.
(7) Ann, baptised 10th April 1685, buried 8th July 1685.
It thus appears that all Martin's brothers and sisters pre-
deceased him, and that without issue as he states.
Martin iii. was bom at Thetford on 16th April 1676. He was
baptised there on 30th April 1676. From the biographical History of
Gonville and Cuius College, Cambridge, we extract the following entry :
' Martin Call son of John Call, silk weaver, Thetford, Norfolk, born
there. School, Thetford, five years under Mr. Tyrell ; age 17, admitted
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 59
sizar, October 13, 1693 ; Tutor, Mr. Lightwine ; B.A., 1697/8 ; Scholar,
1693 to Michaelmas 1701.'
We have reference to seven or eight letters in the British Museum
written by Mr. Martin Call, secretary to Sir Joseph Williamson, to
Mr. Edward Southwell, Dr. Gibson, and others.
The only one preserved is that addressed to the Rev. Mr. Stripe,
etc., as follows :
' Paper Office,
Thursday, May 2, 1700.
' Sir, — Since I saw you I took occasion to let Sir Jos. know how long
you have waited Ms orders. He begs your Pardon for having re-
tarded your great design, that he had streined himself to the utmost
to oblige my Lord A.B.P. and you therein and cannot possibly go
on to gratify you any further till he has a warrant from the King and
Council. Therefore he would have you signify to the Council that
you are upon and whereas there are many papers left in the Paper
Office which you conceive may be useful to you. You humbly crave
leave by their warrant to the Right Hon. Sir Jos. W'm-son to search
for and take notes or copies of such papers as you may then find
necessary for the perfecting a work so conducive to the good of the
Church and the public. This Sir Jos. presumes may easilj?^ be effected
by one word from the Archbishop to a Secretary of State at Council.
You see Sir now its thrown wholly at your door to expedite this
matter, etc. — Yr. obedt. sei-vt., M. Call.
' Mr. Edward Southwell by Sir James Houblon's means very
readily got me an order of Council to search the paper office.' (Brit.
Mus. Addl. MSS. 5853, p. 414.) A neat seal of red wax with Call's
arms is attached.
We reproduce two portraits of Martin Call. One is from a pencil
copy made by the editor's father and in his possession, while the other
is from a copy in oil made by Mrs. Ingeborg Bell, of Stirling. We have
not been able to trace the original. On the back of the pencil copy
there is written in an old hand of the eighteenth century, ' Martin
Call eldest son of John Call and Mary Cannon, born in the parish of St.
Peters, Thetford, Norfolk, April 16, 1676, died October 1767 aged 91.'
We regret that we have failed to obtain much more information
regarding Martin Call's life than what is recorded by himself, but it
60 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
is a matter of satisfaction that we have been able to corroborate his
narratives in almost every detail. We have not been able to discover
what became of liim in his later years, nor where he was buried, but
we can picture the old man, aged seventy-six, hoping for better times
yet to dawn upon him, after seeing all liis earthly prospects bhghted
and misfortunes ever follomng him in every path in hfe he chose,
whether it was diplomacy, land agency, hop raising, farming, or
clerking. We can hardly imagine that he ever recovered lumself.
The fact that two of his only surviving children are found at Alnwick
indicates that they had in some way reached that town in the service
of the Duke of Northimiberland, probably through influence exercised
on their behalf.
Martin Call married Hannah, daughter of James and Hannah
Hodges, who was bom at Ashford, Kent, on the 28th June 1687.
(Ashford Parish Register.) We have traced in this parish register
the following children :
(1) Martin, buried in woollen on 12th March 1713 ;
(2) Mary, buried in wooDen on 2nd April 1714 ; and the following
entry in the parish register of Boughton Alupt :
Christenings
Mariamie, daughter of Martin and Hannah Call, 29th
October 1710. [Probably the above.]
(8) Charles, 5th March 1711.
(4) Martin, 8th March 1713, who was buried as above.
(5) Martin, 25th April 1715.
(6) James, 30th May 1716.
(7) Thomas, 13th August 1717.
Martin Call was a Churchwarden there in 1716.
In Alnwick churchyard there is a tombstone to Ann Call, interred
there 12th March 1766, aged twenty-seven, who may have been
another child, though more probably she might be Ann Millikin, the
wife of Thomas Call.
Martin Call mentions in his MSS. that he had twelve children, of
whom the only survivors were Martin, James, and Thomas. The
other children unaccounted for must have been born and died in some
of the other places where he resided.
CALL HOUSE, ALNW KK
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 61
Those mentioned in Martin Call's tree unaccounted for are :
Hannah, John, and John Miller ; the latter he mentions married
an Esther Antonia. Of none of these have we found any record nor
of two others unnamed.
Of Martin ii. we have not been able to find any trace, but it is
evident if he ever married that his children, if any, died without
issue.
James is referred to in Tait's History of Alnwick, and also in Mr.
Crawford Hodgson's Northern Biographies published by the Surtees
Society. He was factor, land steward, and gardener to the Duke of
Northumberland. The Dukes of Northumberland (Smithsons) at
this period kept up a style almost equal to Royalty, and held Courts
in which pageantry and strictest etiquette were observed. When
they appeared, for instance, in public they were preceded by outriders
and followed by retainers. James Call was entrusted with the erec-
tion of their first greenhouses and conservatories and the planning,
selecting, and rearing of rare trees, shrubs, and plants. We reproduce
his portrait, in full dress with scratch-wig, at the proud moment when
he is handing to the Duke his first pineapple.
Thomas was a siirveyor in Alnwick. He was born at Eastwell,
Kent, on 13th August 1717. He married Ann Mllikin, widow of
John Baron, merchant, Alnwick, to whom she had been previously
married on 2nd May 1759. John Baron was buried 3rd February
1763. Thomas Call died on 2nd September 1782 and was buried
on 8th September 1782, aged sixty-five. (Tombstone, Alnwick.)
James Call married Catherine Anderson in the neighbourhood of
Alnwick. We have not discovered her relatives. He had three sons
and four daughters, Hugh, Thomas, Martin Miller, Hannah, Elizabeth,
Lucy, and Catherine Martin.
(1) Hugh Call, his eldest son, was baptised 9th December 1759.
He married Jane Thompson and had the following children :
(1) James, who died unmarried in America, and (2) Hannah,
who married James Call Weddell, her cousin, of whom
hereafter under the family of Weddell.
(2) Elizabeth was baptised 5th April 1761 and was married to
• — — Sharp. They had two children, James Sharp who died
unmarried in America, and Catherine Sharp who married
James Short, farmer, Humbleton Buildings, Wooler, a tenant
of the Earl of Tankerville. He had one son, David Short,
62 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
who succeeded his lather as tenant. He married ■ Hind-
marsh and died leaving two children. James Short had two
daughters. Miss Catherine Martin Short, who resides at Bank-
hill, Berwick-on-Tweed, and Short who married
Rae and had an only child who married Dr. Gilbert and
has issue.
(3) Hannah Call, the tliird child of James Call, was bom about
1764. She was married to Robert Weddell, Alnwick, and
died 5th December 1837, aged seventy-three. He died 9th
September 1815, aged sixty-eight. They had the following
children :
(1) Robert Weddell, born at Alnwick on 10th April 1794.
(Clayport Dissenters' Register.) He became a sohci-
tor at Berwick-on-Tweed and died there unmarried
on 5th May 1850. He was an antiquary and left a
large collection of notes relating to Berwick-on-
Tweed and district, now in the possession of Thomas
B. Short, J. P., Berwick-on-Tweed.
(2) Jane, born 4th October 1803, died 20th June 1840, aged
thirty-seven. (Tombstone, Alnwick.)
(3) Lucy Weddell, born 12th April 1805, married Captain
T. R. B. Embleton, Sunderland, and died 2nd
June 1877, aged seventy-two. T. R. B. Embleton
died 14th April 1884, aged seventy-six. (Ibid.)
They had two children : (1) Bradley, (2) .
(4) James Call Weddell, born 15th September 1807. He
married his cousin, Hannah Call, daughter of Hugh
Call as already mentioned. He was a solicitor at
Berwick-on-Tweed and died 14th January 1884, aged
seventy-five. We produce portraits of him and his
wife, and an account of his descendants hereafter.
(5) Frances Weddell, died 27th August 1838, aged
thirty-five. (Tombstone.)
(4) Lucy Call, daughter of James Call, was born in 1772 and was
married to Charles Manners (of whom hereafter).
(5) Thomas Call, bom 1775, was a nurseryman and florist at
Spring Gardens, Alnwick.
Reference to the latter's estate was obtained from information
given up by his trustee, wliich shows that he was on 12th December
THOMAS CALL, M.D., ILKLEY
(The Last of the CalLs)
CATHKRINE MARTLN SHORT
JAMES CALL WEDDELL
HANNAH CALL ok WEUDELL
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 63
1826 possessed of 260,000 forest trees, 40,000 thorns, 50,000 seedling,
30,000 seedling elms, 10,000 seedling ash, 1077 great trees of sorts,
1273 shrubs of sorts ; one quarter of house, Bailiffgate, Alnwick,
rent £81 ; and St. Thomas lands, Alnwick, rent £28.
He married late in life, when he was over fifty years of age, Elizabeth
Mary Colville, and died 18th October 1839, aged sixty-four. He was
an elder in Pottergate Presbyterian Church, Alnwick, in 1887. Though
the Church Records have disappeared, this church was established
about 1650. We have seen the church-door collection plate which
bears the date 1689, so that its early estabhshment is proved. He had
an only child, Thomas James Call, M.D. of Ilkley, who was born on
21st January 1833 and baptised 10th March. He was first in practice
in Alnwick, but afterwards became assistant to Mr. Walter Duck-
worth, surgeon, at Addingham, Yorkshire, and thereafter a practi-
tioner at Ilkley. He died on 31st October 1883 unmarried, and
was buried in the Duckworth family burying ground at Adding-
ham. Under his will, dated 24th February 1883 and proved at
Wakefield on 22nd January 1884, he appointed Ann Duckworth
his sole executrix. We produce portraits of Dr. Call and pictures
of the family property in Bailiffgate, Alnwick.
According to Martin Call's tree there were other children of James
Call who appear to have died in childhood : (1) James, (2) Catherine,
and we find on the tombstone in Alnwick churchyard an Algernon
interred, 12th February 1766, aged six months, evidently named
after the Duke of Northumberland.
The youngest of the family was Martin Miller Call, who went to
St. Petersburg and became one of the architects and surveyors of
the Winter Palace and Tzarkoi Celo Palace. His portrait is repro-
duced. He visited Britain repeatedly, and we have evidence of liis
presence in the Midlands about 1844. He died unmarried and was
buried in our family burying ground at Grafskoi Slavanka near Tzarkoi
Celo. There has descended to the editor through succession a single
share in the first Russian Fire Insurance Company of St, Petersburg,
once part of Martin Miller Call's estate. In this little Finnish
burying ground lie some forty or fifty of our ancestors and relatives,
and pictures of it are here reproduced. Possibly it has been
destroyed during the recent struggles.
Lucy Call, sister of Martin Miller Call, was born in 1772 as mentioned
by herself to the writer when a child. She has been described as the
64 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
Belle of Alnwick. From her portraits and the writer's recollection of
her when she was about ninety years of age, though then only a child
he can testify to her striking appearance and fascinating manners.
He has not been able to trace any entries relating to her birth or
baptism in the local records, but this was probably caused by the
family being Nonconformists. The writer being her eldest great-
grandchild, she had a great regard for him and would take him on
her knee and nurse him for hours. Portraits of her are reproduced,
one with the writer as a child by her side. She married, in 1792,
Charles Manners, the son of Charles Manners, who succeeded James
Call in his oflBce of gardener and steward to the Duke of Northumber-
land.
Charles Manners was, like his brother-in-law, in the employment
of the Emperor and Empress of Russia. It seems that the Empress
Catherine had heard of the famous landscape gardeners of the Duke
of Northumberland and had communicated with the Duke, who
arranged that Charles Manners and his brother-in-law, Martin Miller
Call, should proceed to Russia in 1792.
They settled at Schusselburg, where Charles Manners laid out the
Imperial Palace gardens. It may here be recorded that the Imperial
Palace was finally razed to the ground and the whole island acquired
by Messrs. Hubbard & Co. of London, who erected their famous
print and bleach works there on condition that suitable apartments
were always to be kept in readiness for the reception of any member
of the Imperial family who might require them. Only on one occasion
is it recorded that Royalty appeared there. One day a courier
suddenly arrived with orders to have the Imperial suite of rooms
ready because one of the Grand Dukes intended to spend the night
there. Every one rushed to offer a hand in preparing the rooms.
Dusty candelabra, draperies and carpets, bedding and bedhangings
were quickly provided, silver plate and other utensils were supplied,
and a sumptuous dinner prepared, when, to the disgust of Messrs.
Hubbard and their employees, a Grand Duke arrived incognito with
a person not of Royal blood and without any Imperial entourage.
The public-spirited and beloved Empress Catherine next employed
Charles Manners to lay out the grounds aroimd Torida Palace as a
public park known as the ' Torida Gardens.' Tliis palace, under the
Czar Nicholas ii., became the seat of the ' Duma ' or Russian House of
Parhament. Alter the death of the Empress Catherine in 1796, the
LUCY CALL (1772-1862)
CHARLES MANNERS (/.. , ,/. 1824)
EUll'OR AND GRLAT-GRANDMOl HLR
GREAT-GRANDMOl HhR
VIEWS OF BURIAL GROUND, GRAFSKOI SLAVAxNKA
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 65
Emperor Paul (the 'mad Emperor') employed Charles Manners and
his brother-in-law, Martin Miller Call, to lay out the Imperial Palace
gardens at Tzarkoi Celo. Later Charles Manners and his wife and
family removed to Peterhoff, where he laid out the gardens of that
Imperial Palace, and took charge of the greenhouses and fruit cultiva-
tion. Martin Miller Call worked independently of Charles Manners
about this period, because Charles Manners fell into disfavour wth
the Emperor for supplying some choice fruit which the Emperor had
ordered for one of his mistresses to the table of the Empress, and
which had been recognised by the Emperor.
Charles Manners seems to have been of a happy disposition and
full of humour. An anecdote is told of him when living within the
precincts of the Imperial palace of Peterhoff. When returning home
one night he was stopped at the entrance gate by one of the guard,
who had received orders from the Emperor Paul that he was to
allow no person to enter unless he was wearing a swallow-tail coat
and cocked hat. Charles Manners promptly pinned up his coat tails,
bashed in the sides of his hat, and having satisfied the sentry got
home in safety to his family, who like himself enjoyed the adventure.
When Charles Manners fell into disfavour with the Emperor he
had to seek employment among the Grand Dukes, and so we find
him once more living near Schusselburg in his early surroundings,
where he laid out what is still known as the Duke's Gardens situated
on the Schusselburg Road. Here he died from a paralytic shock in
one of the hot-houses on the marriage day of his two daughters,
Catherine and Lucy.
Previous to his return to Schusselburg, and after he had left the
Emperor's service, he was for a time employed by the Count Scheri-
metieff, whose property was situated on the Peterhoff Road. His
brother, Robert Manners, was gardener to Count Scherimetieff at
Moscow.
Charles Manners was buried in the Lutheran burial ground at
Grafskoi Slavanka, now known as Czarskaya Slavianka, which the
editor visited shortly before the outbreak of the war and found his and
other tombstones in good preservation, for which we are indebted
to our aged relative, Mrs. David Maxwell, now suffering privation
at the hands of the Bolsheviks. His widow, Lucy Call, removed to
St. Petersburg to reside with her daughter, Mrs. Stevenson, in the
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Grandfather {1787-1852)
CATlIEkIM': I'HILU'.SOX MANNIikt
Grandmother (1796-1863)
LUCY CALL
Great-Grandmother (1772. 1862)
ROMANES FAMILY UKOUr
BURIAL GROUND, GRAFSKOI SLAVANKA
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 67
1862, aged ninety years and three months, and was buried beside her
husband. The editor can recall her patiently teaching him in
tremulous voice the 8th Psalm, prose version, from memory, when
she was totally blind shortly before her death. She sat erect in her
chair, and he stood beside her while she repeated over and over the
words of this psalm and made him repeat them after her.
We reproduce Charles Manners' portrait from a coloured miniature
in the editor's possession, and several portraits of his wife, the editor's
great-grandmother, in two of which he appears as a child by her side.
Charles Manners had two sons and four daughters. His sons,
Charles and James Manners, both died unmarried. His son Charles
met his death in a very tragic way by hydrophobia, having touched
the clothes of a man who had been bitten by a mad dog.
We shall now proceed to deal with his four daughters and their
descendants. As far as we can ascertain the family of Manners has
died out except in the female line.
Catherine Manners, the editor's grandmother (several of whose
portraits are reproduced), was born at St. Petersburg on 12th March
1796, and married his grandfather, Simon Romanes, there on the 28th
May 1824, on the same day that her sister, Lucy Manners, married
John Peter Gaubert.
A remarkable tragedy occurred that day after the marriages.
Charles Manners, as already stated, suddenly died.
A poem in broad Scots, written the same day by the editor's
grandfather and in his own handwriting describing the marriage
ceremony, is in his possession. It unfortunately is so mutilated that
he cannot quote it.
The editor now proceeds to a short account of his family from
his own reminiscences.
My grandfather had four children who survived childhood, my
father and my three aunts. My father was educated at Russian
schools and at the University of Edinburgh, where he attended the
Arts and Medical classes about 1844- to 1849. The medical course
at that time extended over a period of about seven years, but un-
fortunately his studies were interrupted through his father's serious
illness, which terminated in his death on 13th February 1852 (old
style). He was compelled, when his course had run some four or
five years, to return to Russia to assist in the conduct of his father's
business, but his medical training was of great service, especially
68 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
during the outbreak of the second great cholera epidemic in Russia,
as the following letter which he wrote to a Scottish newspaper
testifies :
'St. Petersburg, 22nd October 1848.
' The Pestilence has been smiting the living around us by thousands
daily and we are the living monuments of the Lord's goodness. Death
has visited and we have passed through much suffering, affhction
and trial. The Lord's hand has been laid upon me heavily and twice
have I been saved from death by the pestilence. I lost an Uncle by
the cholera (Mr. David Bell) ; he fell a martyr labouring for the good
of the suffering people around. Having saved about 1000 individuals
he lived to see the disease abate and caught the infection while attend-
ing an old woman who lay dying of cholera. Only about two dozen
died out of that great number while those treated in the usual way
nearly all died. I also availed myself of the treatment and saved
many a life. I had not a single death among several dozen who had
no other assistance. The plan of treatment I sent to Scotland to be
pubUshed. I also send a copy to Kelso to be made known as the only
specific against cholera known. It was laid before the Emperor and
sanctioned by His Imperial Majesty. All the doctors who adopted
it were successful in curing ; the others were not owing to their
non-agreement as to the nature of the disease.
Charles S. Romanes.'
The Kelso Chronicle proceeds to say : ' We readily give insertion
to the following communications, being from a gentleman intimately
connected with the town of Kelso :
' The first symptoms were generally headache, giddiness, languour,
great anxiety, attended with coldness all over the body ; those
sjonptoms were frequently accompanied with sickness, then vomiting
and purging generally ensued, with a sense of burning heat at the
stomach, and spasms in the feet and limbs and sometimes also in the
hands and arms. When the patient was sick and retching we
(Mr. Bell and family) gave him a copious draught of warm water
several times repeated to cleanse the stomach and when the retching
subsided we gave (an adult) two tablespoons of castor oil with 20 or
25 drops of laudanum and 3 or 4 drops of oil of peppermint, and if
this was retained in the course of an hour a wine glass of French
brandy in two wine-glassfuls of hot water and 20 drops of laudanum.
This given one half at a time and half an hour between each time, but
CHARLES S. ROMANES (i)
Father (1825- 1875)
RACHEL RO.VLANES
(18. 7-1849)
ELEANOR LAhNG DAVIDSON
Mother (1829-1863)
FATHER AND FAMU.Y
AGED 2
(WITH GRANDMOTHER)
^1
CHARLES S. ROMANES (ii)
EDITOR AND SISTER
EDITORS SISTER
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 69
if the castor oil does not produce a stool it should be repeated, but if
the retching continues so that the patient cannot retain the castor
oil on the stomach, two pills each consisting of 1 J grains of opium and
Ij of camphor should be given and a mustard plaster applied to the
pit of the stomach, and after it has been on for 15 to 20 minutes it
should be removed and a Spanish fly blister put on the same place,
as by so doing it makes the blister take effect much sooner, and when
it has taken effect it generally removes the sickness, and then the
castor oil should be given as soon as the patient can retain it, but if
the sickness should still continue to prevent the oil from being re-
tained on the stomach, four more of those pills should be taken, the
patient put into bed and well covered with blankets so as to produce
a warm perspiration, and hot-water bottles or hot bags of bran should
be applied to endeavour to restore heat to the body, as a warm per-
spiration is generally the first favourable symptom, as after being
attacked there is generally a profuse cold sweat all over the body.
'If the patient was attacked with spasms we generally applied
strong spirits in which cayenne pepper had been steeped and rubbed
it well into the parts affected with the hand, and when the spasms
were very bad we put the feet and hmbs into a warm bath, and as soon
as taken out they were then rubbed under the bedclothes so as not
to expose the patient to cold. What never almost failed to remove
the spasms was to rub the parts affected with laudanum mixed with
a httle sweet oil which makes it more agreeable to rub and prevents
the laudanum from taking the skin off, which it would do if applied
alone. This was found of great service in removing the spasms.
' When the purging continued violent an injection was given first
of gruel, rice water, or thin starch with two or three spoonfuls of
laudanum in it, and as the patients are often troubled with very
violent hie, a httle peppermint water was foimd to relieve it. As
there is generally a great thirst, rice water or water gruel was given,
and for food a little rice boiled in water with a little nutmeg or cinna-
mon in it. Everytliing sour must be avoided (even in health) when
cholera is in the land. In proportioning the dose of any medicine
it may be assumed as a general rule that a patient of fourteen years
of age will require about two-thirds of the quantity proper for an
adult, if seven years one-half, if three years one-fourth, if one year
one-eighth. About 60 drops make a teaspoonful equal to a drachm
and a teaspoonful is equal to half an ounce.
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' Mr. Bell saved so many lives in 1831 that the Emperor presented
him with a gold medal and an address expressing his approbation
and thanks. This year Mr. Bell also asked permission to treat the
people which was granted. Mr. Bell not being a medical practitioner
it was necessary to send a petition to the Emperor before administer-
ing the recipe to his subjects. Mr. Bell saved the lives of nearly 1000
of his fellow-men.'
I add the following prescription from my father's note-book :
Cholera Morbus
'The first symptoms are generally headache, giddiness, languor,
great anxiety, attended with cold extremities and sense of cold all over
the body. When the two last are observed bleeding till warmth is
restored or the patient faints is said to be the best method of treat-
ment, and then a dose of castor oil with (warm) hot bottles all round
the body to restore warmth. Bags of hot hops to the stomach. When
the patient is retching violently and purging excessively, copious
draughts of hot water should be given to clear the stomach, but if
this sickness continues a blister should be immediately applied over
the region of the stomach, and the way I generally did was to apply a
mustard poultice, and when it had been on fifteen or twenty minutes
I took it off and applied a strong Spanish fly blister which generally
removed the sickness.
' Then two tablespoonfuls of castor oil with 10 to 15 drops of laud-
anum in it, and with 15 to 20 drops of essence of peppermint, regulated
according to the strength of it. This dose must be repeated till it
operates ; if the patient is violently purged a glyster should be given
first of common gruel to cleanse the intestines, then another of thin
starch, a teacupful with a teaspoonful of laudanum.
' When the case was accompanied with spasms or cramp in the
extremities, capsicum pepper steeped in strong spirit was generally
used to rub the limbs, etc. I found that laudanum mixed with a
little sweet oil was more effectual ; the oil is to make the laudanum
easier rubbed in and prevents the skin being rubbed off ; two or more
persons should be employed to rub where the cramps are most violent.
' I generally had the patient's feet put in hot water up to the knees
when possible to get it done.
' When the sickness was very bad and they could not retain the
IniiBI-:!:! 1xI'M\\1->, li.M, I J .^., I.L.S., v:
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 71
castor oil in their stomach, I generally gave a pill of opium, and if that
did not allay it another after half an hour, and then the castor oil as
soon as it could be retained. And after the castor oil one glass of
French brandy with 10 to 15 drops of laudanum and 15 to 20 drops
of oil of peppermint, and add to this a httle hot water to be given by
two tablespoonfuls at a time as a stimulant as the patient is generally
disposed to sink, and as soon as possible should be put into bed and
covered over with as many blankets as he can bear to procure per-
spiration, and when this ensues it is a favourable symptom.
' Thus I think I have given a brief and complete description of
the treatment I adopted with great success in 1831.'
An account of the great work that his uncle, David Bell, under-
took, will be found further on in an account of the Bell family.
I reproduce portraits of my father when a student, his first wife,
my mother, brothers and sister, and also my aunts and other members
of the Romanes family.
My father married, first, his cousin. Miss Rachel Romanes, daughter
of John Romanes, who survived about two years after their marriage
and died on 17th May 1849 at St. Petersburg. She and her child,
a daughter who only lived about a year, are both buried in Smolensky
cemetery, St. Petersburg.
My father married, secondly, Miss Eleanor Laing Davidson, my
mother, who died in 1864 when we were children, aged thirty-four.
My father had three sons and one daughter : (1) Myself, the eldest ;
(2) Robert Romanes, D.Sc, F.L.S., F.C.S., etc., born on 30th Sep-
tember 1853 at Berwick-on-Tweed ; (3) James Manners Romanes,
B.Sc. ; (4) Isabella Davidson Romanes. I was married on 22nd
September 1887 to Jessie Mary Robb Hatrick, Chff House, Pollok-
shields, and have two children, Charles James Lorimer Romanes,
Writer to the Signet, and Eliza Margaretta Romanes. My son has
an only child, a daughter, who was born in February 1919.
My brother, Robert Romanes (1853-1889), was a very remarkable
child ; he was taught the alphabet, but required little further instruc-
tion, teaching himself to read and devouring every book in our house.
He entered the Chemical Laboratory of the University of Edin-
burgh under Professor Lyon Playfair in 1868, and continued as one of
Professor Crum Brown's assistants until 1874. In April 1874 he
obtained the degree of B.Sc. in Physical and Experimental Science,
72 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
and gained the Baxter Physical Science Scholarship as the best Science
Scholar of the year. That year he went to Germany and attended
the University of Munich, working in Dr. Erlenmayer's laboratories.
After his return from Germany in 1876 he took the degree of D.Sc.
in the department of Inorganic and Technological Chemistry.
In 1876 he became Curator at Chfton College, and in March 1878
the Marquis of Salisbury appointed liim Professor of Physical Science
in the Government College, Rangoon. Later in addition he received
the appointment of Chemical Examiner to the Government, and was
employed from time to time on special duty connected with scientific
inquiries and experiments on behalf of the Government. In 1885
he was appointed Scientific Officer to the Burma Field Force, in the
expedition to Upper Burma which resulted in the deposition of King
Thebaw and the annexation of the country. There were reports
current that the king had great treasures in rubies and other precious
stones. Dr. Romanes found, however, that many of the rubies were
' made in Germany ' of coloured glass. His report on the Burmese
Expedition and his Diary were published in February 1886. For
his services he received the India Medal with Burma clasp. After
being eleven years in Rangoon he applied for three years' leave to
visit this country, and on the day he expected to sail (12th April 1889)
he went to the Shway Dagon Pagoda to search for diatoms in the
ponds, and it is supposed he must have caught infection there, for he
became ill with cholera in its most virulent form and died in a few
hours, to the great regret of the community. He was Captain in the
Rangoon Volunteer Rifles, and his funeral, which was a military one,
was attended by the Chief Commissioner and a great number of friends
and others who had great respect for him.
The best account I can give of my late brother is a memorial
article written by the Rev. J. E. Moir, minister of the Presbyterian
Church of Rangoon, which appeared in the Rangoon Gazette of 16th
April 1889, and the account of his funeral as recorded in that paper :
' On returning from a very short tour of Chaplain's duty I am
filled with grief to hear of the death of my friend Dr. Romanes. It
was but on Thursday evening last that I had a long conversation
vfith. him at the Gymkhana. He said that he had not been feeling
well of late and that he had put in an application to the Syndicate
for short leave. I said that I had not yet seen the apphcation but
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 73
that he might be assured that it was granted. He spoke very earnestly
about the Rangoon College under the present management, and
said he was glad to find that Mr. Marshall, the new Mathematical
Lecturer, remembered him being at Chfton College in days gone by.
He was not hopeful of the immediate success of the proposed tele-
graph classes in the Rangoon College, but said that he wanted the
electrical machines whether there were pupils or not.
' We went on to talk of the difficulties that beset Burman boys in
their study of Enghsh, and he said that he knew of only one Burman
lad, and he lived in a Eurasian family, who could write a really English
letter. He said he thought the reason why Burmese lads speak
Enghsh so much better than native boys do is their free mixture with
their European schoolfellows, and he expressed his strong approval
of our plans at St. John's College. I mention this because he used
to hold different opinions when he first came to the country, and dis-
liked the idea of educating European and native boys together.
Experience, he said, had entirely changed his opinions on this point.
We had much talk on cadet volunteers and their prospects. He
spoke of the difficulties he had had with his own company, but he
felt that he had now overcome all obstacles, and added, " In about a
couple of seasons we shall be as strong as you." We then dropped off
into our never-failing topic of mutual interest and affection — a gentle-
man rejoicing in the nom-de-plume of Shway Yoe. About him Dr.
Romanes seemed to shake off his usual reserve and to talk with deep
interest of every little incident that came up. We talked of the days
when Dr. Romanes first came out eleven years ago. I remember
that Mr. Scott first introduced him to me on the Gymkhana grounds,
where under the Presidency of Mr. Aitchison we were having our
first and last inter-scholastic sports with the Rangoon College.
' I thought the Doctor one of the most taciturn of men. He rarely
gave more than a Yes or No in reply, and a friend said that the
worthy Doctor had brought out a large supply of these monosyllables
and did not intend to use any other words until his stock was ex-
hausted. But upon more intimate acquaintance Dr. Romanes
proved to be one of the most charming of associates. He was un-
doubtedly eccentric. One day he astonished and amused his circle
of friends by leaving p.p.c. cards upon them when he had not the re-
motest idea of quitting Rangoon. Then again he had queer notions
about most things, and he seemed rather in his quiet way to hke
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propounding the strangest ideas just for the fun of the thing. On
Thursday last he said he was going to propose the exclusion of ladies
from the Gymkhana ! He was told that if he did he would be con-
demned to be married forthwith. How deep and varied was his read-
ing none but his most intimate associates could guess. He seemed
to know everything and to know it well. Yet he never paraded his
knowledge. It had to be drawn out of him, and it often came in a
queer and unexpected form.
' He loved his work in his laboratory, but he did not love the
drudgery of teaching. Yet a more painstaking and conscientious man
than Dr. Romanes, Rangoon has not yet seen. How unostentatiously
he did his numerous charities we all know. For money except as
a means of doing good he had no desire, and when several sums
came to him as increments of pay he laid them out in charity and
public utility. His large contribution of Rs.600 to the last Rifle
meeting at Insein was but one instance. Brother Valens could tell
of Dr. Romanes' kindness to the S. Paul's Cadets, whose captain he
became. His notions about soldiering were scientific, but peculiar
and eminently unpractical. Yet he held to them with beautiful
tenacity. In his memorable capture of the enemy's camp at Insein,
long after the battle had been fought and decided and the men had
gone away to bathing drill, he maintained the correctness of his
actions and that General Gordon and his staff were entirely in the
wrong. But he dearly loved volunteering and never spared himself.
He set an example to his cadets of unselfishness and devotion, which
it is to be hoped they will affectionately follow now that the kind
loving officer who cared for them so much has gone to his rest.
"Dear old Romanes " — yet only tliirty-six years of age. He will be
missed in Rangoon by a large circle of friends who knew his I'eal
and genuine worth, from the Rangoon College of which he was one
of the brightest ornaments, from the world where his abilities and
attainments were known and appreciated, from the volunteer corps
of which he was a pattern member. To his relations at home, and to
his sorrowng pupils and bereaved young soldiers in Burma, I would
offer my deepest sympathy. We have all lost a friend and our loss
is keenly felt. But let us bear his bright example, of kindness, of
duty, of hard work, of unselfishness before us, and so shall we but
show our admiration of our friend, who being dead yet speaketh to
us and tells us to follow in his path of usefulness and duty.
(Signed) J. E. Moik.'
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 75
The same paper gave the following account of his funeral :
' The funeral of Dr. Romanes, which took place on Saturday after-
noon, started from the house in Sandwith Road shortly after 5 p.m.
A firing party composed of cadets from the High School, St. John's,
and St. Paul's, under the command of Captain W. B. Addis, led off the
long procession. Then followed the band of the B.S.R.V. playing
the Dead March. On either side of the hearse marched six senior
officers as pall bearers, and on the coffin in addition to the sword,
helmet, belts, etc., of the deceased were some beautiful wreaths that
had been sent by thoughtful friends. Lieut. Redmond followed as
chief mourner, followed by a squad of non-commissioned officers
and men who had requested permission to carry the coffin to the grave.
Then came a long procession of privates, non-commissioned officers,
and officers two and two in order of seniority, the rear being brought
up by other friends of the deceased on foot and in carriages. The
cortege moved at a slow step till clear of the town, breaking into
quick time which was maintained until near the gates of the Canton-
ment cemetery. Here the Rev. Mr. Moir, the minister of the Presby-
terian Church, was waiting with a large concourse comprising the
principal oflficials and residents of the Station, beginning with the
Chief Commissioner. We were glad to notice among the mourners
clergy of every denonfiination, and understand that had longer notice
been given all in Rangoon would have united in paying their last
tribute of respect to one whom all honoured and respected. Although
the funeral invitations had only been issued a few hours in advance,
and the day was one when it was difficult to get people together,
the Scots colony was there almost to a man. On arrival at the grave,
which is situated just across the nullah near the hedge, the firing
party drew up on the slope above and the mourners gathered round.
In a voice more than once broken in genuine emotion the officiating
minister read the solemn and impressive ceremony of his Church,
adding the short and extempore prayer that followed a high tribute
to the personal and other qualities of his friend. Sharp across the
hush and silence sounded the brief words of command, and three
volleys told the large assembly that all was over. Then the mourners
gathered round to cast a last glance, and a handful of earth on the
coffin, while the firing party and escort marched oft.
' It has been our sad duty to attend many funerals in Rangoon,
but rarely have we seen the whole community more shocked or more
sincerely sorrowful than on Saturday. Of the hundreds gathered
76 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
there of Europeans, Burmans, Indians, and Chinese, there was hardly
one without some anecdote testifying to the kindness and Uberahty
of the quiet unassuming Doctor, whose memory will remain among
us long after many of those present on Saturday shall have joined
him beyond the range.
' Dr. Romanes was a native of Berwick-on-Tweed, so it was but
seemly that his town being debatable territory, representatives of
all the United Kingdom should meet around his grave. For some
days he had been feeling unwell, and had mentioned his intention
of applying for immediate leave. Only at half-past five on the Friday
evening he had quitted his work, hurrying down to send by the mail
letters probably intimating his speedy return home.
' For some time previous to his decease. Dr. Romanes had been
engaged on an elaborate research on a new alkaloid that he had dis-
covered in teak ; and we understand that he has left sufficient
material behind for the completion of the monograph he had pro-
jected. It is stated that he fell a victim to duty, having been but
lately engaged in the post-mortem examination of bodies, during the
manipulation of which he in all probability contracted his fatal illness.
'Dr. Romanes was unmarried. A suggestion has already been
made that steps should be taken to perpetuate the memory of the
deceased, either by the erection of a monument or in other seemly
manner. We need hardly inform his friends that our columns are
open for the purpose, and that we can promise cordial support both
among our subscribers and staff.'
My other brother, James Manners Romanes, B.Sc, was bom at
Inverkeithing in 1855. He entered the University of Edinburgh
in 1871. His special study was Chemistry, and for some time he was
assistant to Professor James Dewar, now Sir James Dewar, of Cam-
bridge. His studies being interrupted by ill-health (asthma and
hay-fever), which made it advisable to try a milder climate, he went
to Cornwall and became Metallurgist at the South Down Metal and
Chemical Works, returning to Edinburgh to take his degree of B.Sc. in
1878. Later he turned his attention to hterary woi'k. He was much
interested in Russia and made several journeys to that country, the
first in 1877-1878 when he spent some weeks in St. Petersburg, again
in 1879 when he travelled over a large part of Russia for nearly a year.
In 1883 he went to Moscow as special correspondent for the Glasgow
JAMES MANNERS ROMANES, B.Sc.
A RUSSIAN TOWN
AN INDIAN GATHERING
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 77
Herald, Courant, and South Australian Register, to describe the Coro-
nation of the Emperor of Russia and the festivities connected with
it. In 1884 he made another journey to Russia in order to investigate
the oil industry of Baku, at the request of Nobel Brothers, going via
St. Petersburg and by steamer down the Volga to Astrachan, visiting
on the way Kazan, Saratoff, and many other towns. He spent some
time in Baku, and then crossed the Caucasus mountains by the Pass
of Dariel and visited Tiflis, Batoum, the Crimea, Odessa, Constanti-
nople, Salonica, Athens, etc., remaining a short time at each place.
Meanwhile he wrote articles for the Times, which appeared in August
1884, fully describing the work going on in Baku. He also wrote for
other British and Australian papers many articles on interesting
Russian subjects. In April 1885 he went to Bombay as assistant
editor of the Times of India, where his wide knowledge, as shown in
the many leading articles of that paper, was much appreciated, but
his health broke down in the trying climate and he returned to this
country two years later.
One of his books, Alirabi, by a Hadji of Hyde Park, was pubhshed
by Blackwood and was most favourably reviewed, many critics
suggesting it to be the work of Laurence Ohphant. In 1889 he again
visited Russia and wrote many articles for the Scotsman and other
papers. His interesting letters on the famous Narva manoeuvres
in 1890, in which the German Emperor took such a prominent part,
resulted in his appointment as St. Petersburg correspondent to the
Daily News. In this capacity he did much work and spent some
months in Moscow in 1891 investigating the persecution of the Jews.
After some years he retired from active journalistic work and spent
the last years of his hfe in the vicinity of Edinburgh, where he died
after a very short illness from pneumonia on 23rd April 1919.
I can only add that his extensive reading, scientific knowledge,
and marvellous acquaintance Avith literature generally made him a
great conversationalist, but his delicate state of health prevented him
from attaining that public position which he might otherwise have
attained.
My sister and I remain to mourn the loss of our two brothers.
From the numerous photographs he took in his travels I have
reproduced an Indian village, a Russian village, and two large idols.
After my grandfather's death my grandmother carried on his
business in conjunction with my father. The house in which they
78 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
lived, and where my sister and 1 were bom, was at the corner of
Vosnesenskoi Street and the Great St. Isaac's Plain at the Blue
Bridge (Seinoi Most), and opposite the Grand Duchess Mary's Palace.
In the centre of this great plain or square is situated the Cathedral
of St. Isaac, and beyond it is the monument to Alexander the First,
and further over the equestrian statue to Peter the Great. Beyond
it run the placid waters of the Neva. Towards the right, facing the
river, is the Winter Palace. On the left side of the great square are
many public buildings such as the Duma building, the Synod, and the
Horse Guards. Across the square inins the famous Nefsky Prospect,
called after one of the Russian patron saints, Alexander Nefsky.
In this street are to be found the best shops and many churches such
as the Kazan Cathedral. There is a famous arch in a street leading
near it to the back of the Winter Palace. From the balcony of that
palace many pubHc proclamations have been made, and many an
epoch-making scene has occurred in front of it. Some of my earliest
recollections of childhood and boyhood circle round that old house
and some of the country houses or ' Datchas ' which we occupied in
summer. The war and the Bolshevik rule has prevented me from
obtaining photographs of that house and assistance from relatives
in Russia.
My grandfather's three daughters were : Mary Anne, Elizabeth, and
Lucy Manners Romanes. Mary Anne was born in St. Petersburg on
13th December 1834, and died unmarried in Edinburgh on June
1898 ; Elizabeth was born in St. Petersburg on 26th January 1837,
and died unmarried in Edinburgh on 2nd September 1892 ; and Lucy
Manners was born 3rd December 1838, and married James Davidson,
manufacturer, Berwick-on-Tweed, on , and had three children :
Dr. James Davidson, M.D., etc., of 35 Welbeck Street, Consulting
Physician to the London Missionary Society, and of Dagnall Park,
Selhurst, Croydon ; Katherine Romanes Davidson ; and Robert David-
son. Reproductions of their photographs are given, and also of my
grandfather, Robert Davidson, manufacturer, Berwick-on-Tweed ;
my grandmother, Isabella Dickson, his wife ; of James Davidson in
his uniform as an early volunteer in Artillery, and of his children.
At tliis point I may mention that I have prepared some seventy
genealogical trees of the family of Romanes, but tins work has already
extended to such dimensions and far beyond my intention when I
thought of printing Martin Call's MSS., that I am unable to extend it
ISAHKLLA I)A\"II)SON
Grandmother
ROBERT DAVIDSON
Grandfather
LUCY MANNERS DAVIDSON
JAMES DAVIDSON
JOHN ROMANES
Grand-uncle (1781-1844)
RACHKL LORIMKR OR ROMANES
Grand-aunt (1791-1871)
RACHEL ROMANES
JANE ROMANES OF BUSKINGBURN
(1812-1874)
MARY LAMB OK ROMANliS (?)
Great-Great-Grandmother
M. RUMANES
J. L. ROMANES AND E. M. ROMANES
JAMES LORIMER ROMANES OF BUSKINGBURN
(1825-1887)
HELEN WYLLIE ROMANES
(1815-1378)
p'.ii
j||j|j|iKg«r-'^^
s
M. A. AND E. ROMANES AND DR. DAVIDSON
DAVIDSON FAMILY
ELIZA MARGARETTA ROMANES OF BUSKINGBURN (1S30-1917)
WILLIAM SMITH
MAkY ROMANES OR SMITH
MRS. RUMANES AND SON
E. M. ROMANES
(Editor's Daughter)
C. J. LORIMEK ROMANES, W.S.
(Editor's Son)
MRS. C. I. L. ROMANES
EDITOR'S GRANDCHILD
BUSKINGBURN HOUSE
DR. DAVIDSON AND FAMILY
CHARLES S. ROMANES (ii)
MRS. AND MISS ROMANES
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 79
to embrace a history of the family of Romanus, Rolmanhouse, and
Romanes. I may print it as an Appendix with additional Call notes.
I submit the portraits of my grandfather's brother, John Romanes ;
his wife, Rachael Lorimer ; and one whom I believe to be my great-
grandmother, Mary Lamb. And also of members of the family of John
Romanes : Jane Romanes of Buskingburn ; James Lorimer Romanes
of Buskingburn, solicitor, Kelso ; and Eliza Margaretta Romanes
of Buskingburn. Also their cousin, Helen Wylie Romanes. All
these died unmarried, leaving now my son and myself as the only
representatives in the male line of our branch of the Romanes family.
GAUBERT
John P. Gaubert, papermaker, was three times married, first to
Lucy Manners as already recorded. He had only one child by his first
marriage, George Manners Gaubert, who succeeded him as managing
director of the Ouglitch Paper Mill Company. He died on 22nd July
1885, aged sixty. His line became extinct on the death of his only
daughter, Elizabeth Hoeltzer. Mr. Gaubert's second wife was Eliza-
beth Manners, daughter of Robert Manners, Moscow, and cousin of
his first wife. By her he had the following sons :
(1) John Gaubert, who had an only child, Lena Gaubert, who now
resides at Bushey, Herts.
(2) Frederick Gaubert, an officer in the Russian Army, who died
unmarried in Russia.
(3) Peter Alfred Martin Gaubert, who died unmarried at Chalk
Hill, Bushey, Herts, on 19th May 1887, aged thirty-four.
(4) Robert Gaubert, who succeeded his brother, George Manners
Gaubert, as managing director of the Ouglitch Paper Mill.
He married his second-cousin, Elizabeth Kroukenoffsky,
^ daughter of Elizabeth Bannister and Kroukenoffsky.
Elizabeth Bannister was the daughter of Nestacia Cleopatra
Manners and Robert Bannister, St. Petersburg. Mr. Ban-
nister had by his wife two other cliildren : Robert Bannister,
and Lucy Bannister who married Zimmermann, St.
Petersburg. Robert Gaubert died at Ouglitch without issue,
so that the Gaubert family in the male line is now extinct.
Mr. Gaubert married, as his third wife, Anna Maria Manners, who
80 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
died on 10th October 1880 at Chalk Hill, Bushey, Herts, and was
interred at Kensal Green Cemetery on 15th October. He had an
only child by his third marriage, Lucy Gaubert, who married
Laurence Ustich Jeans, Watford, and has three children : Laurence
Jeans, Commander in the Royal Navy ; Francis Jeans, Lieutenant in
the British Army ; and one daughter, Nancy Jeans, who recently
married Dr. Glyn Hall.
STEVENSON
The third daughter of Charles Manners and Lucy Call, Elizabeth
Manners, married Alexander Stevenson, merchant, St. Petersburg.
He is said in his will to be a native of Loanhead, and from the
titles of a property he succeeded to at Gilmerton, a village about
three miles south-east of Edinburgh, I have concluded that he came
from that neighbourhood.
The late Alexander Stevenson, Writer to the Signet, who lived
and died at 9 Heriot Row, Edinburgh, appears to have been a relation
of his and held some of their family titles, but I have not been able
to construct the Stevenson genealogy. Mr. Stevenson's mother's
name was Heriot, and he had a brother-in-law, Captain Waldie, both
members of old Edinburgh families. I have prepared a genealogical
tree of this family of Stevenson from Alexander Stevenson only.
His eldest son, John Alexander Stevenson, was a papermaker at
OugUtch, Tver, Russia, where his father-in-law, John P. Gaubert, had
established a paper mill which he formed into a joint-stock Company,
the shares of which were chiefly held by the Gaubert, Stevenson, and
Manners families. John Stevenson, who was secretary of the Company,
married his cousin, Ehzabeth Sarah Gaubert, who died at Bridgewater
on 11th October 1898, aged fifty-eight. They had an only child,
Elizabeth Lucy Alice Stevenson, who married Arthur Basil Cottam,
architect, Bridgewater, Somersetshire, and died on 15th August 1903,
aged thirty-nine, leaving two children. Alexander Stevenson, the
second son of Alexander Stevenson, married and died without issue.
His widow resides at Annerley, London, S.E. He was also a shareholder
in the paper mill, and became secretary of the Company on his brother's
death. The only daughter of Alexander Stevenson, Lucy Stevenson,
married her cousin, George Manners Gaubert, who became managing
director of the Company on the death of his father. He had an only
GAUBERT GROUP
BELL GROUP
JOHN P. GAUBERT
MRS. GAUBERT (3rd)
MRS. JEANS
(Only child of 3rd marriage)
LAURENCE USlleH JLANS
CAPTAIN JliANS
LIEUTENANT lEANS
NANCY GLYN HAIJ.
ELIZAHETH MANNERS ok STEVENSON
(1802-1867)
JOHiN A. STEVENSON
(Eldest Son)
ELIZABETH LUCY ALICE STEVENSON
(Only Child, 1864-1903)
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 81
child, Elizabeth Ann Lucy Gaubert, who married Hoeltzer,
Ouglitch, Yaroslav, Russia, and died at Annerley on 15th February
1915, aged fifty-one, without issue.
We thus record the failure of the Stevenson line except in the
children of Basil Cottam, architect, Bridgewater, before mentioned.
BELL
The following account of this family is chiefly an abridgment of
a MS. narrative written by Mrs. Ingeborg Bell, to whom I am much
indebted for information and help. We have not been able to trace
the family earlier than David Bell's father, John Bell, as the name is
comparatively common in the parish of Cupar and neighbourhood,
and we have been confronted with the difficulties of identification
which we have not been able to overcome, but we found David Bell
was born at Cupar, Fife, on 9th July 1793. His father was John
Bell, woollen weaver, and his mother's maiden name was Isabella
Gibson. Besides David they had a younger son, John, and three
daughters : (1) Euphemia ; (2) Elizabeth, who married a farmer named
Ferguson, and died without issue at Cupar on 4th June 1881 ; and (3)
Margaret, who married late in life Cresswell, Inland Revenue
Officer at Stafford, and also died without issue. Mr. Cresswell had
three children by a former marriage. Portraits of David Bell, and
his wife, Ann Manners, and of his two sisters, Mrs. Ferguson and
Mrs. Cresswell, are reproduced.
David Bell served his apprenticeship with a firm of engineers in
Glasgow who chiefly manufactured spinning and weaving machinery.
He was of a deeply religious nature and a member of the old Scottish
Independent body which took its rise through the labours of the
Haldanes at the close of the eighteenth century. He proved him-
self a devoted son and brother. In after years he bought a house in
Cupar for his aged sisters, and thus enabled them to live rent free.
In 1824, when Mr. Bell was thirty-one, he went to Russia at a period
when there was a general revival of industry following the Napoleonic
Wars. The efforts of the Empress Catherine to encourage her sub-
jects in developing the country was continued by her grandson,
Alexander i. Under General Wilson, a Scotsman, the Emperor
promoted the ' Imperial Alexandroffsky Manufactory,' in which he
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chiefly employed boys and girls from the i'ouudling hospitals under
British foremen, who were selected as heads of the various depart-
ments. David Bell was appointed head of the engineering depart-
ment. When the first ' Jacquard ' loom was erected a silk portrait
of the Emperor was woven, which still remains as a treasured relic in
the Bell family. One of the industries put under the charge of Mr.
Bell was the manufacture of playing-cards, of which the Government
retained the monopoly. He invented a process for polishing the
surface by using a smooth flint. One of the De la Rues from London
was appointed as his assistant. FamiUes of the name of Maxwell
and Anderson from Lancashire, and spinners and weavers from
Dunfermline, received other appointments, and soon a British colony
was formed at Alexandroffsky which continues to this day. Recently
the pastor of the Presbyterian church, the Rev. Mr. Key, aged
ninety-three, a native of Norwich, returned to this country a victim
of Bolshevik ill-treatment. His portrait we reproduce. He died
in March 1919, aged ninety-four.
' David Bell, a strict Sabbatarian, used to walk to St. Petersburg
on Sundays to worship with the British Dissenters, who at that time
met in the meeting-house of the German Moravian Brethren after
their morning service. The use of snuff among these brethren was
so great that the room had to be thoroughly ventilated before the
British congregation could enter, so that the meeting room was nick-
named "the snuff-box." '
The first Independent minister of this congregation was the
Rev. Richard Knill, who was born at Braunton, Cornwall, on the
14th April 1787. He was first a missionary in India, and on his return
to England in 1820 he was invited by the London Missionary Society
to go to Russia to carry on a work previously begun by Dr. Paterson
in Finland and Russia. Mr. Knill was a very remarkable man. His
memoirs and correspondence, by Mr. Charles M. Birrell of Edge Hill,
Liverpool, with a character sketch by the Rev. John Angell James,
contain much information relating to the condition of Russia at that
period, and of those associated with him in the early rehgious work
begun in Russia under the encouragement and support of the Emperor
Alexander i. (To this interesting book the editor would draw the
attention of his readers.)
Mr. Knill left Russia on the outbreak of the first great cholera
epidemic of 1831, intending to return, but his labours were so greatly
REV. JOHN D. KILBURN
REV. MR. KEY
(1825-19.9)
UAVID BELL
(1793-184S)
ANN MANNERS ok BELL
(1804-1877)
MISS BELL AND MRS. FERGUSON
MRS. CRESSWELL
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 83
valued in Britain that he was induced to remain here. After having
various charges in connection with the Independent body he be-
came latterly pastor of a large congregation at Chester, though he
was chiefly engaged in evangelistic work, street preaching, and tract
distribution. He died at Chester on 2nd January 1857. We reproduce
his portrait.
' The second minister of this community was the Rev. John
Croumbie Brown, LL.D., from Haddington (whose portrait we also
reproduce). It was during his ministry that the British and American
Chapel in St. Petersburg was built from plans prepared by him.
' When David Bell worshipped at " the snuff-box " he met Ann
Manners, fourth daughter of Charles Manners and Lucy Call, at the
house in the Vaseelie Ostroff of Alexander Stevenson, merchant, St.
Petersburg, who had married her sister EHzabeth. At that time Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Manners were living at Tzarskoi Celo with their youngest
unmarried daughter, Ann, then about twenty-two, who frequently
paid week-end visits to her sister. In this way the tall, solemn, and
lonely Scot wooed, won, and finally married Ann Manners in 1827.'
He had the following children : (1) Isabella, (2) Charles, (3) David,
(4) John, (5) James, and (6) Lucy Ann Bell.
The cholera year (1831) was a very strenuous one for David Bell,
for he devoted all his spare time attending to the suffering and dying
with marvellous results. It seems he obtained the recipe, which
he used with so much success, from a doctor who had returned from
India and who had had great experience and success in treating
Asiatic cholera patients. The peasants and lower classes indulged
largely in the hot season in eating raw cucumber and other vegetables,
and as they lived in most insanitary conditions cholera spread with
alarming rapidity when an outbreak occurred. The peasants and
working people became most grateful and attached to David Bell
for his indefatigable labours on their behalf to check the plague.
Charles Bell never to his dying day forgot his father or ceased to speak
of him with the greatest love and reverence, and through all his
eighty-three years abstained from tobacco and card-playing because
his father had required it of him when a youth.
Card-playing in Russia had grown to such an extent that the
nobility in these days of serfdom, when they had nothing more to
stake at their card tables, would pledge their serfs on their estates.
A pack of cards was never used more than once, so that by the small
84 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
hours in the morning the players were often sitting knee-deep in
cards.
Charles Bell was educated first at a school kept by two Misses
Cable, who were the instructors of many of the British famihes
connected with Russia, and latterly at the Russian Gynmasium.
After leaving school he became an apprentice engineer under his
father, and old General Wilson, now almost totally bhnd, took an
active interest in liis welfare.
About this time John Bell, a brother of David Bell, came out to
Russia to assist his brother in the works. Shortly after, fire broke out
in the buildings, and the office occupied by David Bell was attacked
by the flames. John Bell saw his brother rush out to save his books
and papers, but he did not observe that his brother had escaped
through a back door. Shortly after the roof fell in and John Bell,
believing that liis brother was buried in the ruins, got so excited over
the incident that he had a nervous breakdown. He returned to
Cupar, where he was maintained till his death by his brother.
About this period David Bell invented an eye salve to cure the
eye diseases (chiefly King's-evil) wliich were so prevalent among the
Russians. This salve is still made and distributed by his two grand-
daughters to relieve the suffering poorer classes.
Dr. J. Croumbie Brown, having returned to Britain, was succeeded
by the Rev. Thomas Scales Ellerby about 1840. We reproduce his
portrait. There was then no rehgious instruction for the small
British colony at Alexandroffsky beyond an occasional visit by a
missionary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. In 1845, how-
ever, Messrs. Harrison, Winans, and Eastwick, an American firm of
engineers, entered into a contract to manufacture engines for the
Petersburg-Moscow Railway, and services were then regularly held
on the Sunday afternoons at the house of Mr. Harrison by Mr. Ellerby.
Subsequently a Presbyterian church was built, of which the Rev.
Mr. Key became minister.
In 1848 the second great cholera epidemic broke out, and once more
David Bell came to the rescue of the poor Russians, as recorded in
my father's letter. The German doctors, Bredoff and Kayus, could
not combat the disease though trying many remedies. The people
refused to accept their services, as they discovered that their relatives
when in a cold death-Uke faint were being whipped with nettles till
their skin was blistered to promote circulation. These German
physicians even ordered patients to be put into scalding baths till
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 85
the skin came off and the victim died in agony. These men, when they
saw the great success which attended the labours of David Bell,
became jealous of him and his assistants, and got the authorities to
prohibit his practice on the ground that he was an unqualified
practitioner.
Then the poor people applied to General Wilson to appeal to the
Czar Nicholas i. to permit Mr. Bell to continue his work of mercy.
The permission was granted, and General Wilson offered to refund
Mr. Bell all his expenses so that the poor might receive relief free of
charge. The Czar stipulated that a register should be kept of all
who received relief. It is recorded that 1083 persons received such
relief, of whom only about twenty-four died. The Emperor presented
Mr. Bell with a gold medal, having on one side his effigy and on the
other the legend ' Za Ouserdia' ('For Devotion'). The medal was
suspended on a ribbon of St. Vladimir, and an address and permission
to wear the Order of St. Vladimir accompanied the gift.
One evening after all had retired to bed there came an entreaty to
Mr. Bell to come immediately to see liis old coachman who had been
taken suddenly seriously ill. Though tired and worn out through his
unceasing labours, Mr. Bell rose and went with the messenger to the
stricken one, whom he found almost beyond human aid. He gave
him all the aid he could, and rubbed him till perspiration broke on
his patient's brow in the small hours of the morning and he had re-
stored the man to life. He could then with safety leave him to his
friends and himself retire to rest. In his weak and exhausted con-
dition Mr. Bell had contracted the disease. His wife and children
then nursed him and apphed all the remedies he had taught them.
They succeeded in bringing him through the cholera, but typhoid
fever supervened and his strength graduall)' ebbed away.
On the 10th/22nd of July 1848 he gathered his wife and children
together round his bed, and after reading the fourteenth chapter
of St. John's Gospel took leave of them, exclaiming ' Lord Jesus, I
am coming,' and breathed his last, leaving his widow and young
children to the loving care of the Saviour he had so faithfully served.
His name and memory was so revered among the poor and the peasants
that they crossed themselves when they mentioned his name, as if
he had been a Russian saint. As late as 13th February 1899
Charles Bell wrote to the Rev. Mr. Key in the following terms,
recalling the days of his early youth :
' When my father of blessed memory died on the 10th July (O.S.)
86 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
1848, I knew that Miss Schofield was then staying at the Eastwicks,
and watched the solemn procession of bis coffin being carried shoulder
high by his devoted workmen all the way from our home at Alex-
androffsky to the vault of the British and American Chapel at St.
Petersburg before the funeral took place from that church to Graf-
skoi (now Czarskaya) Slavanka, near Pavlosky. I walked, as his eldest
son and chief mourner, close to the head of his coffin, and saw as I
passed the enclosed summer-house (besetka) at Messrs. Harrison and
Eastwicks, near the bridge on the high road, that Sarah B. Schofield
was there with her friends showing their great sympathy with us
under our bereavement. (Sarah was a niece of Rev. T. S. Ellerby,
and was staying with him, acting as governess to his three young
daughters, Lucy, Alice, and Emily.)
' During 1848/9 I still continued my engineering apprenticeship at
Alexandroffsky under my father's successor, Mr. Philip Boardman,
but in 1850 old General Alexander Wilson, who was the Director
of both Alexandroffsky and Colpino works, died. He took a great
personal interest in our family after my father's death, and thought
it would be for my future advantage to complete my practical
mechanical and engineering training at the Colpino works imder
Mr. James Johnston. Our family was allowed for many years to
retain our home undisturbed at Alexandroffsky. I was lodged with
Russian families at Colpino, as near as possible to the works, and
had Mrs. Johnston and her sister, Mrs. Muirhead, to look after my
comforts. My health broke down from rapid overgrowth at the
age of twenty in 1851, when I was sent away to Cupar, Fifeshire, my
father's native town, to live some months in the house my father
had provided for his three sisters.'
Charles Bell remained wth his aunts about six weeks, passing
through Edinburgh on the day that Sir Walter Scott's monument was
unveiled. He then went to London to the great Exhibition of that
year, and returned to St. Petersburg by the SS. Victoria, Captain
Kruger. He was offered a situation in the office of Mr. Arcliibald
Merrilees through Mr. Merrilees having observed his fine handwriting.
In 1856 General Wilson's successor let his mother the Government
farm on favourable terms, and a Yorkshire farmer, Mr. Stickney Hoe,
was engaged as steward and to train David Bell, junior, who had
intended becoming a farmer.
David Bell occupied that farm fifty years. He married Emma
SARAH BELL
(First Wife)
CHARLES BELL
(1831-191S)
SARAH BELL
CHARLES BELL
CHARLES BELL AND INGEBORCJ BELL CHARLES BELL, DAVID BELL, AND JAMES BELL
LNGI-'.l'.ORC l^ELL
JC)HN HELL
ARCHIBALD JENKINS
ALICE INGEBORG JENKINS AND CHILD
CHARLES BELL, JK.
EDITH INGEBORG BELL
MRS. MAXWELL, EDNA HALL, AND
DAUGHTER
EDNA HALL AND DAUGHTER
x-?^
LUCY BELL MAXWELL
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 87
Hughes and left two daughters : Lily, who married Captain Tudeer
of Helsingfors ; and Florence, who married Henry Pearson of
Smolensky near St. Petersburg.
In 1857 Mr. Charles Bell married Miss Sarah B. Sehofield at the
house of her uncle, Richard Bealey, Radcliffe, Manchester.
James Bell became a merchant in Moscow and married Miss Lucy
Ann Weddell of Berwick-on-Tweed. James Bell was very successful
as a merchant in Moscow, and retired after making his two sons,
Frederick and Henry, his partners and successors. Coming to Britain
with his two daughters, Olga and Ada, he settled at Southborough.
On his first return voyage to Russia to visit his sons he became a
victim in the tragic wreck of the SS. Berlin off the Hook of Holland
in February 1907.
Mrs. Ann Bell died at St. Petersburg on 28th October 1877, aged
seventy -three.
John Bell emigrated to Sydney, N.S.W., and became a homeo-
pathic practitioner there. He married Miss Mary Anderson and died
in 1870 without issue.
In 1867 Charles Bell left the firm of Muir and Merrilees and
came to Britain, first staying at Brighton for his health, afterwards
coming to Glasgow, where he carried on business till he retired
about 1897. His wife, Sarah Bell, died in 1887. He married,
a second time, in 1892, Ingeborg, youngest daughter of Peter
Rasmussen of Slagelse, Denmark. His two children, Charles and
Alice Ingeborg, were born in 1893 and 1896. Charles Bell, junior,
married on 10th September 1914, Miss Edith Ingeborg Jensen of
Copenhagen.
Charles Bell died on 28th February 1915 at Stirling, in his
eighty-fourth year, after being an invalid for eleven years.
His daughter, Ahce Ingeborg Bell, married, in April 1917, Archibald
Jenkins, soKcitor, Stirling. In June of that year Mr. Jenkins joined
the Royal Garrison Artillery and was stationed at ' The Castle,'
Broughty Ferry. In July 1918 he took influenza, and died of
pneumonia on the 12th of that month. On 9th February 1918 their
child, Inge Lihas, was born.
Isabella Bell, the eldest daughter of David Bell, was born in
1830 and married Charles Smith, a merchant in St. Petersburg, and
had a numerous family. Several of their daughters married Russians,
and we have lost touch with the family and their descendants.
88 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
Lucy Ann Bell, the youngest child of David Bell, married, as his
third wife, David Maxwell, manager in Russia for Messrs. Hubbard
and Co., Ltd., London, at their Spasky and Petroffsky print and cotton
mills near St. Petersburg. His two daughters by his former marriage
were Emma, who became Mrs. Bate Thornton, and Maud now Mrs.
Ketley. Mrs. Maxwell, who is ahve and suffering great privations
in Petrograd, has had ten children : (1) Edith, who was married to
Tom Harper Hall, now of London ; (2) James Maxwell, who has after
many years obtained his father's position as head of Messrs. Hubbard
and Co.'s Spasky and Petroffsky mills, has bravely remained at his
post through the war and terrible revolutions which have occurred
in that distressed empire, and has suffered imprisonment at the hands
of the Bolsheviks ; (3) Alice, who married a German, Rudolph A.
Hartig, and died in Finland in 1913 ; (4) Lucy, who is at present
residing in London, and whose portrait we reproduce ; (5) Annie,
who remains at Petrograd and suffers hardships with her mother
there ; (6) Daisy, who married the Rev. WilUam Orr, sometime
minister of the Congregational Church at Petrograd, who now resides
at Rothesay ; (7) Elsie, who married Hans Herberz ; (8) Edna, who
married Charles Hill, at present resides in London ; (9) Harry,
who was in business in Petrograd but is now on military service
at Archangel ; (10) Arthur, an architect in London. Portraits
of Mrs. Maxwell and her daughter, Mrs. Hill, and child are repro-
duced.
I am indebted to W. A. Lindsay, Esq., K.C., Norroy King of Arms,
for the heraldic coat of arms and this extract from the Records of
the Heralds' College :
' Richard Call of Backton in com. Norff, Esqr. marr. to liis ffirst
wyffe Margery Daughter to Sr. John Paston of Paston in com. Norff.
Knight and had Issue John Sonne and hair, Willm. Second Sonne a
ffryer mynor, Richard third Sonne.
' After the said Richard marr. to his second wyffe Margery daught.
to Andrew Trollopp and had Issue, John ffourth sonne, Andrew
fiifte Sonne. Andrew Call of Edingthorpe in com. Norff. gen. ffyft
Sonne of Richard marr. the daughter of Drake and had Issue Richard,
John and Willm. obier. Willm. Sonne and heir, Cycellie marr. to Willm.
Spencer of Heningham in com. Norff. gen, Willm. Call of Edingthorpe
in com. Norff. gen. Sonne and Heir of Andrew marr. Susan Daughter of
Willm. Tylhngton of Hyldolweston in com. Norff. gen. and had Issue
DAVID MAXWELL AND FAMILY
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 89
Willm. Sonn and heir, Andrew obyt. Gyles Second Sonne, Thomas
third Sonne, Susan marr. to Nyeholas Brane of Lodden in com. Norff.,
Prudence marr. to Thomas Guddinge ot BurUngham in com. Norff.,
Judyth marr. to Willm. Smith of Lodden in com. Norff., Mary marr.
to Willm. Worttes of Barton in com. Norff., Mary unmarr. Willm.
Call of Edingthorpe in com. Norff. gen. Sonne and Heir of Willm.
marr. Anne daughter of Willm. Worttes of Backton in com. Norff.,
and hath Issue Richard Sonne and heir, Willm. second son, Andrew
third son, Susan.'
Extracted from the Records of the College of
Arms, London (c. 15, p. 3).
(Sgd.) W. A. Lindsay, Norroy.
18th November 1919.
We have not made any searches regarding the Cornwall family,
but we here insert the following from Gilbert's Historical Survey of
Cornwall, vol. i. p. 576 :
CALL OF WHITEFORD
* The family of Call is said to have been originally of Saxony, three
brothers of which came into England about the end of the eighth
century. From one of these descended the clan of MacCalls in
Scotland, another settled in Norfolk, where his descendants con-
tinued until the beginning of the last century (seventeenth), and the
third settled in Cornwall. The latter branch chiefly resided in the
parish of Camborne, its two principal residences being Rosewame
and Crane. They also possessed considerable landed property in
Devon and Cornwall. Their property became much reduced during
the Civil Wars by their attachment to the Royal interests ; it was at
last nearly annihilated. In the early part of the eighteenth century
the family lived at Launcells near Stratton, through the marriage of
John Call with Sarah Mill, the heiress of an ancient family of that
place. John Call, their eldest son, went to India, 1750, and became
a famous military engineer, held various important offices, returned
to England in 1770. On 21st June 1791 he was created a Baronet.
In 1784, 1790, and 1796 he was M.P. for CaUington. He died 7th
March 1801, much lamented for his extreme goodness and generosity,
etc.
'(1) WiUiam Pratt, his eldest son, 2nd Bart., married Hon.
M
90 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
Louisa Forbes, daughter of George, 4th Earl of Grenard. (2) George,
second son, had his seat at Vacy, Cornwall ; (3) the eldest daughter
married a son of Benjn. Bathurst, LL.D., Lord Bishop of Norwich ;
(4) Louisa married Matthew, 5th Lord Aylmer ; (5) Frances married
Charles, son of Sir Wm. Cunningham, Bart. ; (6) Catherine married
Daniel M'Kinnon, a General in the Army.
' Arms. Crest. Motto.
• Chief seat : Whiteford, near Callington, Cornwall.'
From Complete Baronage, ed. by G. E. C, vol. v. p. 272 :
' Sir Willm. Pratt Call, 2nd Baronet, married secondly Georgina
Augusta, daughter of Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley.
He died 1851, aged seventy.'
' Sir Wilham Berkeley Call, 3rd Bart., only son and heir, born 10th
May 1815, married Laura Emma, youngest daughter of Charles
Wright Gardiner of Whitchurch, Oxon. He died 1864, aged forty-
nine,' etc.
' Sir Willm. Geo. Montagu Call, 4th Bart., only son and heir, born
6th February 1849, married Marie Valentine, daughter of Capt.
Mauleon of Anjou. He died s.p. October 1903, aged fifty-four, when
the Baronetcy became extinct. His widow living 1905,' etc.
Bethani's (Rev. Willm.) Baronetage of England, published 1804,
vol. iv. p. 227 :
' Call of Whiteford, Cornwall.
' Their property . . . nearly annihilated by their attachment to the
royal cause during the Civil Wars of Charles i. which equally ruined
the other branch of the family settled in Norfolk, and now wholly
extinct. Nicholas Call and eight of his sons were active in the
defence of Lynn against Oliver Cromwell, who meant to have executed
the father, but he escaped the night before, and fled into Holland.'
And now my work is done. Amidst pressure of all kinds I have,
during the past two years, put together in a crude form my notes on
this interesting family, and if they afford any entertainment and profit
to the recipient of this volume, my object has been gained. The work
THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 91
is not published, but only printed and presented to relatives and
private friends.
To those who have assisted me or supplied me with information
I offer my heartfelt thanks. To Miss Schrader, Record Searcher,
57 Chancery Lane, London, who helped ixie by searching the public
records in London, Norfolk, and elsewhere, prepared the Index and
assisted me in revising my j^roofs, I specially tender my thanks for
her able and invaluable help. I am indebted to Mr. Frederick Johnson,
archivist, Norwich, for searching the local records and suppljang me
with copies of wills and other documents. I am indebted to Miss
Short, Berwick-on-Tweed, for lending me family portraits to repro-
duce, and to Mrs. Ingeborg Bell, Stirling, for allowing me to copy a
large portion of her notes on the Manners and Bell families taken down
by her from information obtained from her late husband, Mr. Charles
Bell, and also for lending me family portraits to copy. To others who
have assisted me in this way I also tender my thanks. Among these
I may mention Dr. Davidson, 35 Welbeck Street, London ; Mrs.
Jeans, Watford ; and my sister. From Mr. J. Crawford Hodgson,
M.A., Alnwick, and Mr. H. M. Wood, F.C.A., Sunderland, I have
received local information and notes from parish registers, etc.
BusKiNGBUHN, CoLniNGHABi ; and
3 Abbotskord Crescent, Edinburgh.
25th December 1919.
INDEX OF PLACES
Abernbthy, 38.
Addingham, 63.
Agristhrop, 52.
Aldyngbourn, 11.
Alexandroffsky, 82, 84, 86.
Alnwick, 60, 6l, 62, 63, 64.
Anjou, 90.
Annerley, 80, 81.
Archangel, 88.
Ardnamurchan, 38.
Armingland, 43.
Ashford, 7, 60.
Ashmenhaw, 49.
Astrachan, 77.
Athens, 77.
Babfingley, 57.
Backton, 89. See also Bacton and Bakton.
Baconsthorpe, 26.
Bacton, 15, 21, 23, 24, 26, 35, 40, 49.
Bakton, 34, 35.
Baku, 77.
Bale alias Bithlee or Bathley, 39, 40.
Balgray, 9.
Balshagray, i, 4, 8, 9, 10.
Banburgh, 52.
Barewe, il.
Barningham, 17.
Barrow, 12,
Barton, 49, 89.
Batoum, 77-
Bedford, 10.
Beeston alias Beeston St. Lawrence, 49.
Berwickon-Tweed, 62, 76, 78, 87.
Billingford alias Pyrleslon, 18, 37.
Blackborough, 30.
Blaye, 38.
Blofeld, 28.
Bombay, 77.
Borwardesley, 12.
Boston, 33.
Boughton Aluph, 60.
Boyton, 18, 19, 27.
Bradenham, 10.
Braunton, 82.
Braydon, 44.
BrestoUe, 10.
Bresyard, 23.
Bridgewater, 80, 81.
Brighton, 87.
Broomholm, 25, 35.
Broughty Ferry, 87.
Brunstead-Runton, 48.
Bunngaye, 23.
Burlingham, 40, 45, 89.
Burma, 72, 74.
Burrough Castle, 43, 45.
Bushey, 79, 80.
Buskingburn, 79.
Buttleye, 23.
Caister, 28, 29.
Caleydon, 35.
Callington, 89.
Camborne, 89.
Cambridge, 47, 54, 57, 58, 76.
Catfield, 44, 45.
Cawson, 48.
Chestyn, 37.
Christmasscroft, 10.
Colney, 52.
Colpino, 86.
Colton, 34.
Constantinople, 77.
Copenhagen, 87.
Cousland, 9.
Cranston, 9.
Cranyfforthe, 20.
Crimea, 77.
Crostwick (or Crostwight), 47.
Croydon, 78.
Cupar, 81, 86.
Denham, II.
Downham, 3.
Downham-Lythe, 21.
East Dereham, 53.
Eastwell, 6, 61.
Edinburgh, 38, 67, 71, 76, 78, 80, 86.
Edingthorpe, 38, 39, 40, 46, 47, 49, 50.
Edyngthorpe, 35, 38.
Enterkine, 9.
Estsometton, $1.
94 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
Exeter, 12.
Eymyngham, 12.
Feldalvng, 39.
Ferrybridge, 33.
Finborough, 20.
Finchingfeld, 12.
Fischerie, 38,
Flanders, 57.
Fleghall, 36.
Fornham St. Martin, 42, 46.
Foxfleet, 12.
Framlingham, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 40.
Freston, 10.
Garbisthorpe, 21.
Gilmerton, 80.
Glasgow, 8, 9, 87.
Govan, I, 9.
Grafskoi Slavanka, 63, 65.
Great Melton, 52.
Gunthorpe, 39.
Hacheson, 20.
Haddington, 83.
Hague, the, 5.
Hanover, 6, 8.
Harleston, 17.
Heckling, 44.
Helsingfors, 87.
Hemesby, 51.
Hemingston, 19, 20.
Heningham, 88.
Hethersett, 35, 52.
Heydon, 36, 37, 39.
Hindland, 9.
Hindringham alias Hyndryngham, 39, 48.
Hinxton, 54.
HoUesley alias Hollisley, 18, 19.
Honningham, 40.
Horsey, 51.
Hoxne, II.
Humbleyard, 35.
Hyklyng, 51.
Hyndol»eston, 40.
Hyndolweston, 88.
Hyngham, 17.
Ilklf.y, 63.,
Ipswich, 12, 15, 22, 23.
Kasimifr, 38.
Kazan, 77.
Kelsalle, 14.
Kelso, 68, 79-
King's Lynn (or Lynn), 2, 3, 30, 53, 54, 55,
90.
Set also Hyndolveston.
Knapton, 45.
Knightsbridge, 6.
Lammas, 35.
Launcells, 89.
Leyham, 12.
Lingwood, 45.
Little Hautboys, 35.
Little Melton, 3, 4, 17, 26, 28, 35, 36, 37, 51,
.52, 53-
Liverpool, 82.
Loanhead, 80.
Lodden or Lodin, 40, 89.
London, 7, 12, 21, 34, 48, 55, 64, 82, 86, 88,
89.
Lowdham, 19.
Ludlow, 33.
Lynn (see King's Lynn).
Manchester, 87.
Marham, 51.
Martlesham, 49.
Mautby, 5, 25, 47, 48, 49.
Meperteshale, 10.
Mildyng, 13.
Moscow, 65, 76, 77, 79, 87.
Mnndesley, 1 1.
Munich, 72.
Northampton, 33.
North Walsham, 47.
Norwich, 4, 5. 18, 21, 22, 25, 27, 28, 35, 36,
37, 40, 44, 45. 47. 49. 50. 5'. S3. 56-
Obi, 26, 35.
Odessa, 77.
Ostend, 57.
Ottley, t8.
Ouglitch, 79, 80, 81.
Pallyng, 51.
Parham, 19, 20.
Paslon, 24, 35, 45, 50, 88.
Patrick, I, 9.
Pavlosky, 86.
Peterhoff, 65.
Petrograd, 88.
Preston, 12.
Pulham, 17.
Rangoon, 72, 73, 74, 75.
Rattlesden, 42.
Readham, 25.
Reswick, 5.
Rodelyngfeld, 23.
i Rothesay, 88.
I Rotterdam, 56.
I Rycall, 12.
INDEX OF PLACES
95
Saffron Walden, 7.
St. Petersburg, i, 63, 65, 67, 68, 71, 76, 77,
78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 86, 87, 88.
Sallows (or Sallhouse), 18, 28.
Salonica, 77.
Saltcoats, 7.
Saltoun, 38.
Santon Downham, 56.
Saratotii', 77.
Sa.xmundham, 19.
Saxony, 10, 89.
Schusselburg, 64.
Scotstoun, 9.
Setch Lythe Parva, 21.
Sheerness, 57.
Shoryngton, 39.
Shryblonde, 18.
Slagelse, 87.
Slavanka, 86.
Smolensky, 87.
Snetisham, 12.
Southborough, 87.
Southcave, 12.
S. Creake, 48.
South Repps, II.
Stafford, 81.
Stanhobe, 12.
Stirling, 59, 87.
Stowbardolff, 21.
Stratton, 89.
Strumshaw, 45.
Sutton, 18, 44.
Swaffham (Market), 3, 56, 58.
Sydney, N.S.W., 87.
Tanoham, 19.
Thetford 3, 4, 15, 35, 36. 56, 57, 58, 59-
rhursford, 48.
Titlis, 77.
Tinworth, 46.
Tirington, 12.
Torrance, 9.
Towton, 33.
Tunstead, 35, 49.
Tzarkoi Celo, 63, 65, 83.
Vacy, 90.
Vaseelie Ostroif, 67.
Waldingfeld Magna, ii, 13.
i> Parva, 11, 12, 13.
Walsingham, 53.
Walynton, 21.
Wapol, 12.
Watford, 80.
Watlynton, 21.
Waxham, 39.
Waxtonesham, 39, 51.
Westerfeld, Westurleld, or Westfeld, 23.
Whitchurch, 90.
Whiteford, 90.
Winterton (or Wynterton), 51.
Witton, 49, 50.
Woodbridge, 18.
Wymondham, 16, 35, 56.
Wynbotesham, 21.
Yarmouth (Great), 4, 5, 17, 41 42 43
44. 47, 56.
Zell, 6.
INDEX OF PERSONS
Abbrnethv, Helen, 37.
„ Lord, 37.
,, Lord James, 38.
Addis, Captain W. B., 75.
Aitchison, Mr., 73.
Aldham, John de, 11.
,, Thomas de, 11.
Aldred, Christopher, 18.
Alexander i.. Emperor, 81, 82.
Alisandyr, Richard, 13.
Allen, Faith, 55.
Alpe, Edward, 19.
,, Elizabeth, 19.
,, Frances, 19.
,, Herbert, 19.
,, Martha, 19.
Anderson, Catherine, 61.
,, Mary, 87.
Anjou, Margaret of, 28.
Anne, Queen, 6.
Annison, Call, 46, 50.
,, John, 46, 50.
,, Mary, 46.
,, Samuel, 46.
Antonia, Esther, 61.
Appulton, Mary, 13.
,, Robert, 13.
Audeley, Ann, 26.
Austen, Robert, 41.
Awdeley, Thomas, 23.
Aylmer, Lord, 90.
Bacon, Alice, 17, 28.
,, Briante, 17.
,, Cecylye, 17.
,, Elizabeth, 17, 28.
,, Henry, 17, 28.
,, Margaret, 17.
Thomas, 23, 28.
Badescroft, Thomas, 35.
Bakton, John, 25.
Ballis, Edward, 14.
Bannister, Elizabeth, 79.
,, Lucy, 79,
Barefoot, Christian, 57.
Barkeley. Rose, 14, 16.
Earon, John, 61.
Bassett, Rose, 57.
Bathurst, Benjamin, LL.D. , Lord Bishop of
Norwich, 90.
Bealey, Richard, 87.
Bearney, John, 25.
Beaufort, Lady Ann, 25.
Beele, , 23.
Beetham, Rev. William, 90.
Begeham, Thomas, Abbot of, 10.
Bell, Mr., 70.
,, Ada, 87.
,, Alice Ingeborg, 87.
,, Ann, 87.
„ Charles, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87.
,, Charles, jun., 87.
„ David, 68, 71, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86.
87, 88.
,, Euphemia, 81.
,, Elizabeth, 81.
„ Emma, 88.
,, Frederick, 87.
,, Florence, 87.
,, Henry, 87.
„ Ingeborg, 59, 81.
,, Isabrlla, 8'„ 87
,, James, 83, 87.
„ John, 81,83, 84, 87.
„ Lily, 87.
,, Lucy Ann, 83, 88.
,, Margaret, 81.
„ Maud, 88.
„ 01ga,87.
,, Sarah, 87.
Bennett, Edith, 37.
Berkeley, Augustus, Earl, 90.
,, Georgina A., 90.
Bernard, Reignold, 23.
Berney, Philip, 27.
Berrye, Agnes, 25.
,, Sir Edmund, 25.
Bertie, Lady Catherine, 26.
Best, Roger, 21.
Bewis, George, 20.
Bilney, , 37.
Biriell, Charles M., 82.
Bisshop, Reignold, 23.
INDEX OF PERSONS
97
Blanche, dau. of Henry iv., 12.
Blanckes, Mary, 54.
Blith, Richard, 44.
Blumer, Samuel, 19.
Boardman, Philip, 86.
Bosted, Elizabeth, 49.
Brampton, EUzabeth, 51.
,, William, 51.
Brane, Nycholas, 89.
Bredoff, Dr., 84.
Brews, Sir John, 26.
,, Marjory, 26.
Erode, Rose, 19.
,, William, 19.
Broderick, Sir Henry, 57.
Brown, Professor Crum, 71.
Rev. John Croumbie, LL.D., 83, 8.
,, Thomas, 13.
Browne, Anth., 36.
„ Mary, 51.
,, Stephen, 51.
Buchanan Riddell, , 38.
Bullen, Robert, 39, 40.
Burrell, Quinboro, 18.
,, William, 37.
Burtfield, William, 37.
Burton, Thomas, 17.
Burwell, William, i8.
Cable, the Misses, 84.
Cadwaller, John, 12.
Call, Thomas de, 10.
Call (ef Whiteford), 89, 90. See also Calle.
,, Abigail, 47.
,, Algernon, 63.
,, Alice, 58.
,, Andrew, 5, 40, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 81
89.
,, Ann, 57, 58, 60.
,, Anthony, 40.
,, Bailiff, Mr., 41.
,, Captain, 42.
,, Catherine, 63, 90.
,, Catherine M., 61.
,, Christopher, 53.
,, Cycellie, 88.
,, Ellas, 54.
,, Elizabeth, 39, 40, 46, 48, 49, 54, 61.
,, Frances, 90.
,, Francis, 58.
,, George, 3, 14, 40, 58, 90.
,, Giles, 46.
„ Gyles, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 89.
,, Hannah, 42, 60, 61, 62.
,, Hawysia, 11.
,, Helen, 56.
,, Humphrey, 10.
,, James, i, 2, 57, 60, 61, 62.
Call, Jane,42.
,, Joan, 40.
,, John, 2, 3, 4, 14, 39, 40, S3, 54, 57, 58,
59, 61, 88, 89.
,, John M., 61.
,, Judith, 40, 42, 89.
,, Kinburghe (Kinbore), 19.
,, Louisa, go.
,, Lucy, I, 61, 62, 63, 65, 80, 83.
,, Margerie, 54.
,, Maria, 46.
,, Marianne, 60.
,, Marjorie, 53.
,, Martin, i, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 24,
49, 50. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60,
61, 63, 78.
,, Martin Miller, 61, 63, 64, 65.
„ Mary, 41, 42, 46, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54,
58, 89.
,, Myles, 41.
,, Mr. Newelect, 41.
,, Nicholas, 2, 3, 14, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 90.
,, Owen, 53.
,, Philip, 16, 54, 56.
,, Prudence, 40, 89.
,, Richard, 2, 4, 24, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50,
88, 89.
,, Robert, 3, 14, 19, 53, 54, 57.
,, Rogo, 12.
,, Sisley, 54.
,, Susan, 42, 57, 58, 89.
,, Susanna, 40, 46.
,, Thomas, 2, 3, 12, 41, 47, 54, 55. 56,
57, 60, 61, 62, 89.
,, Thomas J., M.D., 63.
,, Ursula, 53.
,, William, 2, 40, 41, 42, 45, 46, 50, 88,
89.
,, Sir William B., Bart., 90.
,, William, Dr., :6, 36, 39.
„ Sir William G. M., Bart., 90.
,, Sir William Pratt, Bart., 89, 90.
Calle. See aha Call.
,, Adam, 12.
,, Agnes, 12, 13,
,, Alice, 17, 28, 53.
,, Andrew, 38, 39, 40.
,, Ann, 16, 20, 53.
,, Anna, 46.
,, Anthony, 18, 19, 20.
,, Catherine, 40, 51.
,, Cecylye, 17.
,, Constance, 28, 37.
,, Christine, 15.
,, Dorothy, 19, 20.
,, Edith, '40, 52.
,, Edward, 18.
,, Elizabeth, 16, 20, 37.
98 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
Calle, Frances, i6, 19.
Francis, 15, 19.
Galfrido, 11, 13.
Geotfrey, 11, 13.
George, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20.
Gernagious, 12.
Gilbert, 11, 13.
Hugh, II, 13, 61, 62.
John, u, 12, 13, 14, IS, 16, 17, 18,
20, 21, 22, 23, 28, 33, 35, 36, 37.
40. S'-
,, Katherine, 52.
,, Margaret, 19, 22, 35, 40, 53.
,, Margarett, 14, 15.
,, Mary, 17, 18, 19.
,, Matilda, 11, 13.
,, Nicholas, 13, 14, 15, 16, 23.
,, Philip, 16, 20.
,, R. , 23, 28, 29.
,, Radulphus, 11, 13.
,, Regnold, !2, 15, 16, 21.
,, Reynold, 22, 28.
,, Richard, 10, 12, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.
26, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, 36, 37. 38, 30.
40, 49, 5". 52. 53-
,, Robert, 3, 12, 14, 15, l6, 18, 19, 21.
23, 28, 53.
,, Rodger, 12.
,, Rose, 15, 17,
,, Rosia, 13.
,, Simon, 11, 12, 13.
,, Thomas, 13, 14, 21, 51, 52, 53.
,, Walter, II, 12, 13.
,, Walter atte, II.
,, Walter de, 10.
,, William, 11, 12, 13, 22, 33, 36, 37, 40.
Calthorpe, Edmund, 35.
Sir F., Kt., 35.
,, Sir Philip, 35.
Canham, George, 58.
,, James, 58.
,, Margaret, 58.
Mary, 58, 59.
,, Simon, 58.
Cannon, Alice 58.
George, 3.
Mary, 3, 58.
Canterbury, Sir Thomas of, 27.
,, William, Abp. of, 34.
Carter, Richard, 50.
,, Richard, jun., 50.
Castleton, Henry, i5.
,, Katherine, 16.
,, Sir William, Bart., 42.
,, Sarah, 42.
Catherine, Empress, 64, 81.
Cattle, William, 39.
Caule, Thomas, 12.
Charles I., 53, 90.
Charlett, Henry, 44.
Charlotte, dau. of Charles 11., 26.
Chestyn, Ralf, 37.
Clare, Mary, 25.
Clark,son, Richard, 35.
Clayton, Sir Jaspar, 26.
Lady, 48.
,, Rebecca, 26.
Clere, Frances, 26.
,, Sir Thomas, 26.
Clerk, Henry le, 10.
Clipsby, John, 26.
William, 25.
Clypsby, Christian, 35.
,, William, 26, 35.
Cod, John, 44.
Cogglestall, John de, 12.
Colman, Mr., 56.
Colville, Elizabeth M., 63.
Cook, Thomas, 35.
Cornwallys, Dorothie, 19.
,, Lady, 19.
Cottam, Arthur B., 80.
Coytmer, Rycherd, 15.
Courtnall, , 15.
,, Mawde, 23.
„ Wm., 23.
Crawford, Ann, 10.
,, Esther, 10.
,, Peter, 10.
,, Matthew, 9.
,, William, 9.
Crawfurd, Mr., 7.
Creswell, Mr., Si.
Cromwell, Oliver, 2, 3, 4, 53, 55, 57. 9°-
Crue, John, 51.
Cunningham, Charles, 90.
Esther, 9.
,, David, bp., 9.
Sir Wm., Bart., 90.
Cutting, Gyles, 42.
,, Mary, 42.
,, William, 41, 42, 45.
Dagville, Alicia, 21.
,, John, 21.
,, Thomas, 21.
Dalrymple, Sir William, 9.
Dam, John, 27.
Danneroy, Reignold, 23.
Darell, Major Nathaniel, 57.
Davidson, Dr., 78.
,, Eleanor L., 71.
James, M.D., 78.
„ Katherine R., 78.
„ Robert, 78.
Davis, Dean, 47.
INDEX OF PERSONS
99
Davy, D. E., i.
De la Rue, , 82.
Denmark, George, Prince of, 6.
Denny, Edward, 42.
Dewar, Prof. James, 76.
,, Sir James, 76.
Dickson, Isabella, 78.
Digby, Anne, 40.
,, Elizabeth, 40.
,, Margaret 40.
,, Thomas, 40.
Dorset, Edward Sackville, Earl of, 43.
Drake, , 88.
,, Margaret, 40.
Dryver, John, 17.
Duckworth, Ann, 63.
,, Walter, 63.
Dunbar, Archbishop, 9.
Ellf.RBY, Alice, 86.
,, fimily, 86.
Lucy, 86.
,, Rev. Thomas S., 84, 86.
Embleton, Bradley, 62.
Capt. T. R. B., 62.
Erlenmayer, Dr., 72.
Eugaine, Capt. de, 42.
Fastolf, Sir John, 25.
Feilding, W., 47.
Fenn, John, 19.
Ferdan, Edmund, 19.
Ferguson, , 81.
Fincham, Nicholas, 21.
Fitzjohn, Mary, 54.
Fitzwalter, Lord, 33.
Fletcher, Esther, 9.
,, Reignold, 23.
Forbes, Hon. Louisa, 90.
Francklin, John, 41.
Fulmyston, Richard, 23.
Gambell, Robert, 6.
Gardiner, Charles W., 90.
,, Laura E., 90.
Gardner, James, 24, 29, 33.
Gaubert, Elizabeth A. L., Si.
Elizabeth S., 80.
,, Frederick, 79.
,, George M., 79, 80.
,, John Peter, 67, 79, 80.
,, Lena, 79.
„ Lucy, 80.
,, Peter A. M., 79.
,, Robert, 79.
Gedding. See Goodwin.
Gelsthorpe, Edward, 47.
,, Elizabeth, 46.
George, John, 25.
Gerbridge, Alice, 25.
,, Sir Thomas, 25.
German Emperor, 77.
Gibson, Dr., 59.
,, Isabella, 81.
,, Walter, 9.
Gilbert, Dr., 62.
Girling, John, 41.
Glanville, , 24.
Gloys, Sir James, 31.
Goodred, William, 35.
Goodwin, Thomas, 40.
Goose, Joseph, 42.
Gordon, General, 74.
Gosnolde, Dorothy, 18.
John, 18.
,, Robert, 18, 19.
,, Col. Robert, 19.
Gostwyk, John, 36.
Grand Duchess Mary, 78.
Grenard, George, Earl, 90.
Griffiths, , 47.
Gudding, Thomas, 89.
Gurling, Mary, 40.
Gurney, Thomas, 12.
Hadden, Elizabeth, 50.
Hagown, Thomas, 13.
Hall, Glyn, Dr., 80.
,, Tom H., 88.
Hankyn, Willo, 34.
Hanson, Christopher, 33.
Harberd, John, 19. See Herbert.
,, Margaret, 19.
Harkourt, John, 48.
Harrison, Winans, and Eastwick, S
Harryson, John, 53.
Hartig, Rudolph A., 88.
Harvey, Agnes, 26.
,, John, 26.
Haslet, Samuel B., 19.
Hatrick, Jessie M. R. , 71.
Hawkins, , 3, 8.
Haydon, Bridget, 26.
,, Sir Henry, 26.
Heckley, William, 46.
Herberd, William, 18.
Herbert, John, 18, 19.
Herberz, Hans, 88.
Heriot, , 80.
Hester, Agnes, 13, 14,
,, John, 13, 14.
,, William, 13, 14.
Heydon, Leonard, 37.
Hildyard, John, 48.
Hill, Mrs., 88.
„ Charles, 88.
100 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
Uindmaish, , 02.
Hobard, Miles, 38.
Hobston, John, 41.
Hodges, Hannah, 60.
,, James, 7, 60.
Hodgson, Crawlord, 61.
Hoe, Stickney, 86.
Hoeltzer, , Si.
,, Elizabeth, 79.
Hogan, John, 49, 50.
,, Robert, 49, 50.
Homberston, Thomas, 43.
Houbloii, Sir James, 59.
Hubbard & Co., 64.
Hughes, Emma, 87.
Huntingdon, Capt., 47.
Hurrell, Ralph, 20.
ISLEY, John, 26.
James, Rev. John A., 82.
Jay, G. B., 50.
Jeans, Laurence U., 80.
,, Francis, 80.
,, Nancy, 80.
Jegon, Dorothie, 19.
,, Dr. John, 19.
Jenkins, Archibald, 87.
,, Inge L., 87.
Jenney, William, 34.
Jensen, Edith I., 87.
Jermyn, John, 27.
Jersey, Earl of, 5.
Johnston, Mrs., 86.
,, James, 86.
Kayus, Dr., 84.
Kemp, Catherine, 35.
,, John, 35.
Kerewitt, Catherine, 26.
Ketley, Mrs., 88.
Keu, John le, 10.
Key, Rev. Mr., 82, 84, 85.
Knill, Rev. Richard, 82.
Kroukenoffsky, , 79.
,, Elizabeth, 79.
Kruger, Capt., 86.
Lamb, Margaret, 17.
,, Mary, 79.
Lane, TIelen, 44.
,, Thomas, 44.
Laughter, John, 15.
Leech, John, 50.
,, Mary, 50.
Legg, Thomas, 13.
Leitch, Cecily, 25.
„ William, 25.
L'Estrange, Sir Roger, 55.
Leverington, Helen, 56.
,, John, 16, 56.
Lightwine, 59.
Lindsay, Robert, Earl of, 26.
W. A., K.C., 88, 89.
Loveday, Thomas, 42.
Lucas, Thomas, 42.
Lucy, Mr., 47.
MacCalls, 10.
M'Kinnon, Daniel, 90.
Manchester, Earl of, 55.
Manners, Ann, 81, 83
,, AnnaM., 79.
,, Catherine, 65, 67.
„ Mrs. Charles, 83.
,, Charles, 62, 64, 65, 67, 80, 83.
,, David, 83.
,, Elizabeth, 79, 80, 83.
,, Isabella, 83.
,, James, 67, 83.
John, 83.
,, Lucy, 65, 67, 79.
,, Lucy A. B., 83.
,, Nestacia C, 79.
,, Robert, 79.
Marsh, Mr., 47.
Marshall, Mr., 73.
Mathewe, John, 21.
Matterdale, John, 21.
Mauleon, Capt., 90.
,, Marie V., 90.
Mautby, John, 25.
,, Margaret, 25.
Maxwell, Mrs., 88.
Alice, 88.
,, Annie, 88.
„ Arthur, 88.
,, Daisy, 88.
„ Mrs. David, 65, 88.
„ David, 88.
Elsie, 8S.
Edith, 88.
„ Edna, 88.
Harry, 88.
,, James, 88.
Lucy, 88.
Meadows, Capt., 42.
Meperteshale, Nicholas de, 10.
Merrilees, Archibald, 86.
Mersinton, Henry de, 10.
Mill, Sarah, 89.
Milles, Thomas, 38.
Millikin, Ann, 60, 61.
Moir, Rev. J. E. , 72, 74, 75.
Monngomery, Kateryn, 23.
,, Thomas, 23.
INDEX OF PERSONS
101
Monngumbery, John, 22.
„ Tomesyn, 22, 23.
Montgomery, John, 15.
Mounteney, John, 13.
,, Robert, 13.
Muir & Merrilees, 87.
Muirhead, Mr., 86.
Murdoch, Mary, 9.
Myles, , 40.
Nicholas, Czar, 85.
Nobel Brotliers, 77,
Norfolk, Thomas, Duke of, 20, 36.
Norgate, Thomas, 17.
Norris, Stephen, 50.
Northumberland, Duke of, 60, 61, 63, 64.
Norton, Geotfrey de, 11.
Norwich, Bishop of, 30.
Nutle, Henry de, 10.
,, William de, 10.
Nuttell, Edward, 17.
O'Brien, Lady Catherine, 5.
Oliphant, Laurence, 77.
Orr, Rev. William, 88.
Oswald, Alexander, g.
,, Messrs., 10.
,, Richard, 9.
Otwey, Reignold, 23.
Page, Lady, 23.
Palmer, C. J., 42.
Parmenter, Anthony, 51.
,, Hanna, 51.
Paston, Ann, 26.
,, Baron, 26.
,, Charles, 26.
,, Christopher, 26.
,, I Clement, 20, 25, 26, 28, 33.
,, Clement de, 25.
,, Constance, 26.
,, Edmund, 24, 25, 26.
,, Sir Edmund, 26.
,, Erasmus, 26.
,, John, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 33.
,, John, jun., 29.
,, Sir John, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 36.
„ Sir John, Bt., 2, 88.
,, Margery, 25, 88.
,, Margaret, 24, 28, 23.
,, Marjorie (Marjory), 24, 26, 28,
30- 33-
,, Nicholas, 24, 25.
,, Ralph de, 24.
,, Richard, 25.
,, Sir Richard, 24.
„ Richer de, 24.
,, Robert, 24, 26.
Paston, Robert De, 24.
,, Sir Robert, 26.
,, Walter de, 25.
,, William, 26.
,, Sir William, 24, 25.
,, Wistan (or Wolstan) de, 24.
I Paston de Paston, Clement, 25.
i Paterson, Dr. 82.
Paul, Emperor, 65.
Pawe, Cissilye, 54.
Pearson, Henry, 87.
Peche, Cecily, 25.
,, Julian, 25.
,, Sir Simon, 25.
Pekham, John, 21.
,, Peter, 21.
Pelly, John, 21.
Pembrook, Earl of, 5.
Plaister, Margaret, 40.
I'latemaker, Richard, 35.
Playfair, Prof. Lyon, 71.
Powes, Thomas, 17, 18.
Price, Widow, 46.
Puddesey, Richard, 12.
Pulliam, Francis, 16.
Pycroft, Ann, 50.
Rae, , 62.
Rasmussen, Ingeborg, 87.
,, Peter, 87.
Redmond, Lieut., 75.
Repps, Elizabeth, 38.
,, Lawrence de, 38.
,, Robert, 38.
,, Sibill, 38.
Riddell, Francis, 37.
,, Galfridus, baron, 38.
lames, 37, 38.
„ John, 37, 38.
,, Thomas, 37.
Riseing, Roger, 44.
Roberds, Francis, 44.
Roberts, John, 42.
Robin, Robert, 44.
Robins, John, 42.
,, Mary, 42.
,, Robert, 42.
,, Susan, 42.
Robinson & Co., 7.
Romanes, Rolmanhouse, Romanus, 79.
,, Charles J. L., 71.
Charles S., 68.
Dr., 72, 73, 74. 75. 76.
Eliza M., 71.
„ Elizabeth, 78.
,, Helen W., 79.
,, Isabella D., 71.
102 THE CALLS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
Romanes, James L. , 79.
James M., B.Sc, 71.
Jane, 79.
John, 7 1,79-
,, Lucy M., 78.
,, Mar)' Anne, 78.
,, Rachael, 71.
,, Rachael L., 79-
„ Robert, D.Sc, 71.
J, Simon, 67.
Rows, EdwarJ, 20.
,, Thomas, 20.
Rydall.John, 18.
Ryddell, John, 28. See also Riddell.
Russia, Emperor and Empress of, 64, 77.
Salisbury, Marquis of, 72.
Sanford, Thomas, 17.
Sayre, Thomas, 17-
Scambler, Ann, 46.
Scherimetieft, Count, 65.
Schofleld, Sarah B., 86, 87.
Scotstoun, Laird of, 7, 9.
Scott, Mr., 7, 73-
Seaman, Mr., 56.
Shannon, Viscountess, 26.
Sharp, Catherine, 61.
,, James, 61.
Shaw, katherine, 57.
Shawe, Thomas, 19.
Short, Mr., 62.
,, Catherine M., 61,62.
,, David, 61.
,, James, 61.
„ Thomas B., J. P., 62.
Skarlett, Elizabeth, 43.
Robert, 43.
Smalland, Nicholas de, 10.
Smith, Charles, 87.
Wm.,40, 89.
Smyth, John, 13.
,, "Sir Owen, Kt., 43'
Somerset, Edmund, Duke of, 25.
Somertnn, Beatrice, 25.
John de, 25.
Sophia, Princess, 6.
Sotherton, Alice, 17.
,, Henry, 17.
,, Mathias, 44.
Nicholas, 17, 18, SI, 52.
,, Nicholas, jun., 51.
Southwell, Edward, 59.
Sparke, John, 46.
Spclman, Catherine, 25.
John, 25.
Spencer, William, 40, 88.
Spilman, Anthony, 42.
,, Benjamin, 42.
Stalham, Elizabeth, 25.
,, Nicholas, 25.
Starke, Jayne, 18.
William, 18.
Stevenson, Mrs., 65.
,, Alexander, 80, S3.
Elizabeth L. A., 80.
,, John, 80.
,, John A., 80.
,, Lucy, 80.
Stewart, Agnes, 9.
Stowe, Roger de, 10.
Stripe, Rev. Mr., 59.
Style, Anthony, 18.
Surrey, Lord, 36.
Swan, Mr., 7.
Sydall, Robert, 48.
Tait, , 61.
Tankerville, Earl of, 61.
Taylor, Silas, 57.
Thetford, John, S'-
Thomond, Earl of, 5.
Thompson, Jane, 61.
,, John, 41.
,, Thomas, 42.
,, William, 19.
Thornton, Mrs. Bate, 88.
Threscher, John, 31.
Thwait, Griffin de, 24.
,, Osbern, 24.
Tillington, Susan, 40.
,, William, 40.
ToUemache, Anne, 19
Sir Lionell, Kt. and Bart.
Tomlinson, Elizabeth, 15.
,, Gabriel, 15.
Tompson, Thos., 43-
Touneshend, Eleanor, 39. 40-
,, Elizabeth, 39-
Townesend, Richard, 39.
, Sir Robert, Kt., 39.
Sir Roger, 39.
Townsend, Lady Anne, 37.
,, Sir Roger, 37.
Townshend, Sir Thomas, 36.
Trollop, Andrew, 88.
,, Margery, 88.
Trollope, Alice, 33.
,, Andrew, 33.
„ Jan«. 33-
1 ,, Margaret, 33, 38.
,, Nicholas, 33.
Thomas, 33.
Tudeer, Capt., 87.
Tvllineton, Susan, 88.
,, William, 88.
INDEX OF PERSONS
103
Underwood, Bp. John, 35
Urquhart, , 37.
,, Thomas, 38.
Valens, Brother, 74.
Waldie, Capt., 80.
Walsam, |ohn, 25.
Ward, Joseph, 44.
Warmer, Francis, 20.
Watts, Richard, 57.
Webb, Helena, 53.
Weddell, Bradley, 62.
,, Frances, 62.
,, James Call, 61, 62.
,, Jane, 62.
,, Lucy, 62.
,, Lucy Ann, 87.
,, Robert, 62.
Well, , 15.
,, Elizabeth, 23.
Wetwang (or Witwang), John, 34.
,, ,, William, 21, 34.
Whitmore, Martha, 40.
Wilby, Lawrence de, 38.
,, Thomas de, 38.
Wilkyns, Thomas, 34.
Willaers, Abraham, 43.
,, Rebecca, 43.
Williamson, Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph, 5, 8, 57,
59-
Willson, Christopher, 53.
Wilson, General Alexander, 81, 84, 85.
,, Richard, 46.
Winchilsea, Earl of, 6, 8.
Wodhouse, Sir Thomas, 39.
Wortes (or Worth), Ann, 40.
,, ,, William, 40, 41.
Worttes, Anne, 89.
,, William, 89.
Woyarde, William, 51.
Wright, Ann, 56.
,, Sir Robert, 56.
Wylkinson, John, 17.
Wyndham, Mary, 26.
,, Sir Thomas, 26.
Wyngfeld, Dame Elizabeth, 23.
Wystan, Edmund, 24.
,, Margaret, 24.
William, 24.
Wyston, Robert de, 24.
Yarham, Robert, 17.
Yarmouth, Countess of, 47.
,, Countess Dowager of, 48.
,, Earl of, 2.
,, Earls of, 24, 26.
William, Earl of, 26.
William Paston, Earl of, 38.
,, Viscount, 26.
Yelverton, Sir William, 34.
,, William, 26.
York, Duke of, 33.
Zimmermann, 79.
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