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THE CALLISES
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St. Paul's Street, Stamford.
ruin was made over as early as the sixteenth century for use as a schoolroom for Radcliffe's Grammar School. Schools, hospitals or almshouses once abounded in Stamford, where the latter are often called Callises, being the benefactions of the great wool merchants of the Staple of Calais. The chief of all these, and one which is still in use, is Browne's Hospital, founded in 1480 by a Stamford merchant who had been six times Mayor, for a Warden, a Confrater, ten poor men, and two poor
