Sir
Arthur
Cayley
aka Caley, Caly, Cailey
Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Son of Edward Cayley
and Anne (Walters) Cayley
Brother of
Elizabeth (Cayley) Colthurst, Mary Cayley, Catherine (Cayley) Ingram, William Cayley Bt, Thomas Cayley, Anne (Cayley) Davile and Thomas Cayley
Husband of
Mary (Oldfield) Cayley
— married
before 1643 [location unknown]
Husband of
Ester (Simonds) Cayley
— married
16 Feb 1644 in Exhall, Warwickshire, England
Descendants 
Father of
Mary (Cayley) Fisher
Died after
after about age 68
[location unknown]
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Contents |
Biography
Birth and Parents
Arthur Cayley was the son of Edward Cayley and Anne Walters.[1] He was baptised at Brompton by Sawdon, Yorkshire, England on 9 February 1614-5.[2]
Life
He was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1632, and to Gray's Inn on 12 November 1634.[3][4]
He lived at Newland, Coventry, Warwickshire.[2]
During the English Civil War he captained a Royalist troop of horse. The Yorkshire Royalist Composition Papers show him a "delinquent": in his petition he said that his estates had been sequestered and all his personal property plundered to the extent of £1500, and he could not pay his sister's portion as provided in his father's will, which was charged upon the rectory of Snainton, Yorkshire worth £55 a year. On 6 July 1649 his fine was remitted in return for his undertaking to pay £20 a year out of the revenue from the rectory to the Minister of Snainton and his successors.[5][6]
He was knighted on 13 June 1660 for services to the Royalist cause.[2][7] That year he was made a captain of the volunteer company (a militia) of Coventry, Warwickshire.[8]
State Papers show him as one of the leading Warwickshire gentry responsible for ensuring payment of various taxes in the county and record deductions from the sums due in years of plague or when there were other special factors.[9][10][11] He seems to have given up some or all of this responsibility in 1671: on 11 May 1671 Sir George Downing told the Commissioners of Excise that, on application from "Arthur Cailey", "the lease of the Excise of Warwickshire is to be in Mr. Purefoy's name only".[12]
In 1665 Arthur was called to the bar.[3]
In 1683 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Warwickshire.[13]
Marriages and Child
Arthur married twice. His first wife was Mary Oldfied, who was widow of Barnabas Holbech, and whose father lived at Spalding, Lincolnshire. They had no children.[2]
His second wife was Ester Simonds (called Hesther in Clay's edition of Dugdale's Yorkshire Visitation[2] and Esther in Foster's Yorkshire Pedigrees[1]). They had one child:
Death
He may be the 'Arthur Cale' whose burial is recorded at Exhall on 18 June 1698.[14]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Joseph Foster. Yorkshire Pedigrees, Vol. III (North and East Riding), palsied for the author, 1874, Cayley pedigree, Internet Archive
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 J W Clay. Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions, Vol. III, William Pollard, 1917, p. 297, Internet Archive
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J A Venn. Alumni Cantabrigienses from the earliest times to 1751, Vol. I, Cambridge University Press, 1922, p. 282, Internet Archive
- ↑ Joseph Foster. The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889, Hansard Publishing Union, 1889, p. 206, Internet Archive
- ↑ J W Clay. Yorkshire Royalist Composition Papers, Vol. II, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1893, pp. 42-45, Hathi Trust
- ↑ Cited in Colonel Sir James Digby Legard KCB, The Legards of Anlaby and Ganton, p.171 (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co 1926)
- ↑ W A Shaw. The Knights of England, Vol. II, Sherratt and Hughes, 1906, p. 228, Internet Archive
- ↑ The History and Antiquities of the City of Coventry, Roll-on and Reader, 1810, p. 76, Google Books
- ↑ 'Minute Book: December 1661', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 1, 1660-1667, ed. William A Shaw (London, 1904), pp. 174-180, British History Online, accessed 14 July 2022
- ↑ 'Minute Book: September 1665', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 1, 1660-1667, ed. William A Shaw (London, 1904), pp. 639-641, British History Online, accessed 14 July 2022
- ↑ 'Entry Book: October 1667', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 2, 1667-1668, ed. William A Shaw (London, 1905), pp. 189-200, British History Online, accessed 14 July 2022
- ↑ 'Entry Book: May 1671, 11-20', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 3, 1669-1672, ed. William A Shaw (London, 1908), pp. 826-841, British History Online, accessed 14 July 2022
- ↑ The Manuscripts of Shrewsbury and Coventry Corporations [etc], Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1899, p. 152, Internet Archive
- ↑ Warwickshire burials, FindMyPast
- Alumni Cantabrigienses 1922, ed Venn (CUP 1922)
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