Biography

John Caley (1763-1834), antiquary; Keeper of Records in the Augmentation Office, 1787-1834; Keeper of Records in the Treasury, Westminster Abbey, 1818-34; and Secretary of the first Record Commission, 1801-31. General pages: Copy opinion, Old Stratford tolls, by John Bayley, 1832; further report on Old Stratford tolls, by W. Illingworth, 1832; investigation by Caley into whether Lincoln's Inn was liable to pay Poor Rates; examination by Caley of the exemption of Harefield, Middlesex, from tolls and payments; genealogy of the Marquess of Winchester; incorporation of the Company of Apothecaries; Priory of May in Scotland, A bell to the Abbey of Reading Berks; Duke of Bedford's title to land in Clapham, Bedfordshire, by Lancelot Shadwell, 1820; queries concerning whether waste and woodland when inclosed and cultivated are liable to tithe, by John Caley, 1812; tithe taking at Chingford, Essex, by William Snell, 1808; and a copy of the will of John Burton, London, 1503. Letters and copy letters: W.H. White to John Caley (1800) on arrears of fee farm rents due to the Crown; John Caley (1805), on Ficketts Fields, Lincoln's Inn; John Caley to Rev. C.W. Ethelston (1812) on the progress of his tithe case in the Exchequer Court; and John Caley to William Leigh (1831) on the expressions 'Stock meadow' and 'shear stock meadow'. Synopsis of a play: Ruthven Castle or the maiden's leap.

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