upon-Tyne, who died on 22 April 1754 (Gent. Mag. xxiv. 243), he was the friend and correspondent of John Horsley, and upon Horsley's death in January 1732, the brothers were indefatigable in their endeavours to promote the sale and collect the proceeds of the ‘Britannia Romana’ for Mrs. Horsley's benefit (Stukeley, Diaries and Letters, Surtees Soc. ii. 143 n.) Cay died at his house in Essex Street, Strand, on 11 April 1757 (Gent. Mag. xxvii. 189; Will reg. in P. C. C. 114, Herring). By his wife Sarah, daughter of Henry Boult of Gray's Inn and Reading, he left a son, Henry, and two daughters. The year following his death there appeared ‘The Statutes at Large, from Magna Charta to the 30th Geo. II,’ 6 vols. folio, London, 1758. This edition, which has been justly praised for its learning and accuracy, was continued by Owen Ruffhead to 13 Geo. III, 3 vols. folio, London, 1769–73. Cay had previously published ‘Abridgment of the Publick Statutes, in force and use, from Magna Charta to the 11th Geo. II,’ 2 vols. folio, London, 1739, which was continued by supplements by his son, Henry Boult Cay. In 1762 a second edition in two volumes was published, and in 1766 a supplemental volume, containing the statutes from 11 Geo. II to 1 Geo. III. Cay's ‘Abridgment’ used to be continued by the abstracts of acts to 35 Geo. III, after which period they were not printed.
Henry Boult Cay, who completed his father's labours, was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1752 as second wrangler, and obtained a fellowship, which he vacated by his marriage, in August 1770, to Miss Stawel Piggot of Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire. Called to the bar at the Middle Temple, he afterwards filled several minor legal offices, and died at his residence in Cursitor Street on 24 Jan. 1795, leaving two daughters (Gent. Mag. xl. 392, lxv. i. 171, lxvi. i. 166.
[Manuscript note by H. B. Cay in J. Cay's annotated copy of Rolle's Abridgment in Brit. Mus.; Burke's Commoners, i. 384–5; Hodgson's Northumberland, pt. ii. vol. ii. 442; Hutchinson's Northumberland, i. 148–9, 173, 199; Marvin's Legal Bibliography, p. 180.]
CAYLEY, ARTHUR (d. 1848), biographer, was the son of Arthur Cayley, third son of Sir George Cayley, bart., of Brompton, Yorkshire, by his wife Anne Eleanor Shultz (Foster, Pedigrees of Yorkshire Families, ii.) He received his academical education at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1796 as fourth wrangler, but is said to have been refused a fellowship on account of his political opinions (Biog. Dict. of Living Authors, 1816, p. 59). When the ‘Anti-Jacobin Review’ was started in 1798, Cayley became an occasional contributor; he also attempted some satire in the manner of the ‘New Bath Guide.’ He subsequently took orders, and in 1814 was presented to the rectory of Normanby, Yorkshire. He died at York on 22 April 1848, aged 72 (Gent. Mag. 1848, xxx. 101). Cayley married Lucy, eldest daughter of his uncle, the Rev. Digby Cayley, rector of Thormanby. He was the author of: 1. ‘The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, Knt.,’ 2 vols. 4to, London, 1805 (second edition, 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1806), a work not distinguished either for depth of research or grace of style. The same must be said of 2. ‘Memoirs of Sir Thomas More, with a new Translation of his Utopia, also his History of King Richard III, and his Latin Poems,’ 2 vols. 4to, London, 1808.
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CAYLEY, CHARLES BAGOT (1823–1883), translator, son of Henry Cayley, a Russia merchant, and younger brother of Arthur Cayley, Sadleirian professor at Cambridge, was born on 9 July 1823 in the neighbourhood of St. Petersburg. He was educated at Mr. Pollecary's school, Blackheath, King's College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1845, taking a second class in the classical tripos. He led the quiet and unpretentious life of a scholar, passed much of his time in the reading-room of the British Museum, and died suddenly of heart disease in the night of 5–6 Dec. 1883 at his lodgings in South Crescent, Bedford Square. He was buried at Hastings. His works are: 1. ‘Dante's Divine Comedy. Translated in the original ternary rhyme,’ 3 vols. Lond. 1851–4, 8vo, with a fourth vol. of notes, 1855. Mr. W. M. Rossetti remarks that ‘when all imperfections have been allowed for, Cayley's version must be pronounced to be very considerably the best and most thorough rendering into English of the “Commedia,” the one which, attempting most and aiming highest, reaches also furthest.’ 2. ‘Psyche's Interludes,’ a small volume of poems, Lond. 1857, 8vo. 3. ‘The Psalms in Metre,’ Lond. 1860, 8vo. 4. ‘Filippo Malincontri, or Student Life in Venetia. An autobiography,’ translated from the Italian, 2 vols. Lond. 1861, 8vo. 5. ‘Introduction to the Grammar of the Romance Languages, by Friedrich Diez,’ translated, Lond. 1863, 8vo. 6. ‘The Prometheus Bound of Æschylus. Translated in the original metres,’ Lond. 1867, 8vo. 7. ‘History of
