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'.
On another occasion he writes: 'By your letter you avise me for to buy wool in Cotswold, for which I shall have of John Cely his gathering 30 sack, and of Will Midwinter of Northleach 40 sack.
Sometimes they quarrelled over terms, as when William Cely writes home one day to Richard and George in London: Item.
This same day your brother Richard Cely is rid to Northleach for to see and cast a sort of fell for me and another sort of fell for you.
The 'Cely Letters' give a mass of information about the wool buying at Northleach.
Side by side with George or Richard Cely he must often have strained his eyes from the quay, with the salt wind blowing out the feather in his cap, and breathed a thanksgiving to God when the ships hove in sight.
Thus we find William Celywriting to his masters: [Illustration: VIII.
They ain't a week passes sca'cely but he fetches in some hurted critter an' works with it.
Mary Elizabeth'll set th'oo a whole meal, an' sca'cely look up from her plate.
The ashes uv your last camp fire weren't sca'cely cold when I passed by.
You sca'cely can corrupt the morals of a soprano man," observed the Virginian.
And thanne Robyn, thecely poure Reeve, Fynde noone amendes of harome ne damage But leene growell, and soupethe cold potage, And of his wyf hathe noone other cheer But cokkrowortes vn to his souper.
For there stood the funniest old woman that Cely or Miss Melville had ever seen.
Cely gave a little scream, and ran behind the door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
