It was also pointed out in N&Q in 1884 p.254 that Browne was a merchant of Calais.
There must be a connection, but we still don't know exactly how his hospital came to be called a callis-house.
Keith
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On activities of the Staple in Stamford, there is an article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on William Browne (merchant), who was the son of a Stamford draper. The DNB says that he
"was engaged in the wool and cloth trades both as middleman and exporter, ranging as far afield as Coventry (where he, his brother, and his sister had interests). He was a member of the Calais staple from at least 1449, serving as its mayor in 1478, and with a number of trading partners he exported wool and cloth through Boston, Bishop's Lynn, Ipswich, and London. Second, he built up a large portfolio of properties in Stamford... ..While William Browne was generous to his daughter's family, his wealth was mainly used to finance works of charity in Stamford—a new hall for the Guild of St Katherine, the extensive rebuilding of the parish church of All Saints in the Market, and the building and endowment between 1475 and 1492 of the foundation that he instructed should be called 'the hospital of William Browne', an almshouse that still survives, as a fitting monument to one of Stamford's most important residents." (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-94940)
Keith's original enquiry was about All Saints, which William Browne extensively rebuilt. It says on http://www.lilfordhall.com/ElmesFamily/William-Browne.asp that "
Only members of the Browne family were buried in the Church at that time, William and his wife Margaret being buried in the South Chapel, under brass memorials on blue marble on the floor. The brass memorials are presently on the wall of the Chapel."
Trevor Ogden
Dereham, Norfolk, UK
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 08:54, Richard Coates <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
The Historic England website says:
It is thought to originally have been an establishment of the Merchants of the Staple of Calais, hence the name of the almshouse, although nothing is known to survive from the medieval building.
https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/st-peters-callis-almshouses-all-saints-street-stamford-8930
Is there any evidence for activities of the Staple at Stamford?
England famously lost control of Calais in 1558, an event regarded as a national disgrace, so the application of the name to a poorhouse, if so late, might alternatively have been ironic.
Richard
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As in the quoted old text, after Calais in France? Getting to Calais in France from England needed a ship or boat, long before motors were heard of, and it was likely used as a "distance name", like Babylon and Botany Bay and Egypt etc which I have come across used for allegedly remote places in Britain.
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