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But for our purposes the most interesting are two other collections, to wit, the correspondence of the Stonors, whose estates lay chiefly in Oxfordshire and the neighbouring counties; and the Cely papers, kept by a family of Merchants of the Staple. These two collections give us a vivid picture of wool staplers in their public and private lives.
Ibid., II, p. 64. He was a well-known wool merchant of York, at different times member of the town council of twelve, sheriff and mayor, who died in 1435. I and II, passim. Cely Papers, pp. 30-1. Ibid., p. 64. See his will in Test.
By the time I come to /93, however, one begins to hesitate, but I rejoice most heartily the old times are not restored, and hope Louis means to be sincere and consistent with his good beginning. I return the "Conte de Cely," which is very entertaining and interesting, as no doubt speaking the sentiments of all the old nobility. I do not think France has seen the end of her troubles entirely.
About ten minutes after, some one knocked at the school-room door. Miss Melville laid down her geography. "Cape Ann, Cape Hatteras, Cape may I go to the door?" piped little Cely Hunt, holding up her hand. Miss Melville nodded and Cely went. She opened the door and jumped. "What's the matter, Cely? Oh!" For there stood the funniest old woman that Cely or Miss Melville had ever seen.
Often at Northleach Betson must have encountered his brethren of the Staple, the staid old merchant Richard Cely among the rest, and son George who rides with 'Meg', his hawk, on his wrist, and has a horse called 'Bayard' and another called 'Py'; and perhaps also John Barton of Holme beside Newark, the proud stapler who set as a 'posy' in the stained glass windows of his house this motto: I thank God and ever shall It is the sheepe hath payed for all;
'I have not as yet packed my wool in London, writes old Richard Cely on October 29, 1480; 'nor have I not bought this year a lock of wool, for the wool of Cotswold is bought by Lombards, wherefore I have the less haste for to pack my wool at London'; and his son writes to him on November 16 from Calais: 'There is but little Cotswold wool at Calais and I understand Lombards has bought it up in England. It is true that the Celys, other English merchants too, are not unwilling to conclude private bargains from time to time with foreign buyers in England.
Since she could not grasp the idea, the distance was as good as infinite to her. This, you see, is not exactly coquetry. But events drifted her. When supper was over, and Dinah had gone to sleep, and Cely to visit the neighbors, as usual, Dorcas shyly approached the subject which occupied her thoughts, by getting the little box of jewelry, and looking at it.
As to the Celys, Thomas Betson was wont to say that their talk was of nothing but sport and buying hawks, save on one gloomy occasion, when George Cely rode for ten miles in silence and then confided to him that over in England his grey bitch had whelped and had fourteen pups, and then died and the pups with her.
Ibid., II, p. 69. Ibid., II, pp. 87-8. Ibid., II, pp. 88-9. Ibid., II, p. 89. Ibid., II, pp. 102-3, 117. See Richard Cely's amusing account of the affair in a letter to his brother George, written on May 13, 1482, Cely Papers, pp. 101-4. For other references to the wool dealer William Midwinter see ibid., pp. 11, 21, 28, 30, 32, 64, 87, 89, 90, 105, 124, 128, 157, 158. Stonor Letters, II, p. 3.
In the May of the same year in which Betson's partnership with Stonor would seem to have ended, old Richard Cely was up there doing business and reporting it to his son, 'Jorge Cely at Caleys'.
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