Family and Education
bap. 12 May 1612, 4th s. of Thomas Caley (d. 1618) of Little Waldingfield, Suff. and Thomasine, da. of Thomas Gosse of Little Waldingfield.Little Waldingfield par. reg.; Vis. Suff. 1664-1668 (Harl. Soc. lxi.), 150. m. (1) 11 Oct. 1636, Mary (d. 1635), da. and h. of John Reynolds of Ipswich, 1da.;St. Stephen, Ipswich par. reg., p. 56; Add. 15520, f. 9. (2) by 1649, Elizabeth Bence of London, 3s. 5da.Vis. Suff. 1664-1668, 150; St. Stephen, Ipswich par. reg., p. 72. d. betw. 8 May and 20 Aug. 1680.PROB11/363/525.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Ipswich 1633 – 43; chamberlain, 1640 – 41; constable, 20 Mar. 1643 – 3 Sept. 1649; claviger, 1643 – 49; portman, 3 Sept. 1649 – 13 Apr. 1660; bailiff, Mich. 1649-Mich. 1650; j.p. 1649–50.Suff. RO (Ipswich), C5/14/3, f. 256v; C5/14/4, ff. 3, 42v, 43v, 128v; D. Heavens, ‘“To be Doers of what you have been Hearers”: The politics and religion of the town governors of Ipswich, c.1635-c.1665’, University of Essex PhD thesis, 2012, 293.

Religious: churchwarden, St Mary le Tower, Ipswich 1638.St Mary le Tower par. reg., f. 37v. Elder, Ipswich classis, 1645.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 424.

Local: commr. additional ord. for levying of money, Ipswich 1 June 1643; assessment, 17 Mar. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Suff. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). high ct. of justice, East Anglia 10 Dec. 1650.A. and O. J.p. Suff. July 1652-bef. Oct. 1653.C231/6, p. 240; C193/13/4, f. 95v. Commr. gaol delivery, Ipswich 16 Nov. 1654-July 1660.C181/6, pp. 72, 330.

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) Ipswich by May 1645-aft. June 1648.Suff. RO (Ipswich), HD36/2672/81; The Earl of Norwich, Lord Capel, & Sir Charls Lucas, their Peremptory Answer (1648), 14, E.449.30. Capt. militia ft. Ipswich Oct. 1650.SP25/119, p. 66.

: of Ipswich, Suff.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

CALEY, Jacob (1612-80), of Ipswich, Suff.

Will
20 May 1679, cod. 8 May 1680, pr. 20 Aug. 1680.PROB11/263/525.
Estates
owned various properties in Ipswich and lands at Badingham, Falkenham and Trimley, Suff.PROB11/263/525.
Oxford 1644
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