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A draper, Nailer was mayor in 1656 despite Robert Beake's opposition (see BA/H/Q/A79/230) and in that position (PA9/3) oversaw Thomas Lane's will; in 1673 he was feoffee of Wheatley's and Jesson's Charities (see PA101/138/3; PA101/140/12). See BA/H/Q/A79/287. Nailer walked St. Michael's parish bounds on Ascension Day, 1675. Nailer bequeathed (1683) a yearly 10/- rent-charge to the corporation to be divided between two poor widows for coal; the payment had lapsed by 1853, and forty years later Nailer's Charity was considered lost. Nailer swore the oath of a justice of the peace under Charles II's charter in 1683 (see PA263/3/22) and was alderman for Bayley Lane Ward in 1688 (see PA263/3/34). In 1650 he was a sheriff. Nailer acted as a corporation feoffee in 1678 and 1687 (see PA87/22,23: PA90/29). The same man might have been both an ordinary churchwarden at St. Michael's in 1639 and accountant churchwarden there in 1683. A chamberlain, 1640. See PA17/44. PA16/2 fol. 45 recto is an abridgement of his will. Qua Wheatley's Charity feoffee, see BA/D/H/7/3. Qua Jesson's Charity feoffee, see BA/D/AT/5/3. Nailer was also a feoffee of the Priory estate (PA56/99/8), St. Michael's church (1671 - PA96/71/1), Norton's Charity (BA/A/B/20/23), Caludon tithes (BA/B/F/34/6), Keresley tithes (BA/B/F/37/1: PA56/12/8), guilds lands (BA/B/P/220/1), Alderford Mill (BA/B/P/432/12), Scott's lands (BA/B/Q/9/13-15), Bond's Hospital (BA/D/D/26/10), Bablake Boys (BA/D/G/16/6), Wheate's Exhibition (BA/D/N/2/2), Swillington's Charity (BA/D/BE/9/7), Pinley manor (BA/G/D/1/5) and Bedford's lands (BA/H/H/324/10; BA/H/H/330/7,8; BA/H/H/331/2; BA/H/H/332/5,9-10: PA96/9/1); he was a trustee for corporation lands (1683 - BA/D/A/19/9) and an administrator of Lane's Charity (to 1674 - BA/D/P/10/1). Nailer occupied Norton's Charity property at Gosford Gate (BA/B/A/20/19) and part of the St. Michael's church estate there (PA96/71/1(a)), and a corporation croft adjoining Shut Lane (1648 - BA/A/D/51/1); he was a lessee of the Drapery itself (1660-81 - BA/B/P/117/17,18) and an adjacent garden (PA468/5/3/1/2) and of the "Half Moon" inn nearby (BA/A/G/2/9), though he sold property there to the Drapers' Company (see PA468/5/3/1/3), and held Stoke land (1669 - BA/D/A/57/1). Active on the city council, 1654-85, 1688-89. Qua Bond's Hospital feoffee, see PA54/18/1: PA96/42/1. Qua Lane's Charity administrator, see PA54/272/1,2. In 1673 Nailer was a Coxon's Charity feoffee - see PA54/333/11-13. [Before] 1691 he held a Fleet Street messuage - see PA54/354/6. Occupied Drapers' Doles, Stoke (PA56/139/8); Shortley land (1671 - PA194/8/32); Harborough Magna and Parva, Warwickshire property (including Cathiron), 1648 (PA194/13/6). Testified to return of city M.P.s, 1689 (PA96/59/1). See PA194/30/1 (1642). In 1641 and 1645 Nailer was a Drapers' Company warden - see PA468/2/3/55-57, 60. See 468/4/2/2. In 1642 acted as an attorney to deliver seisin from the Drapers' Company (see PA468/5/3/51/1). With George Townsend, in 1648 Nailer sold a Bayley Lane/Earl Street cornerhouse to Samuel Webster (q.v.) - see CCA/2/3/439/1. CCA/2/3/439/22 says that Nailer purchased the Stallyard, Bayley Lane from Coventry corporation at some date but implies that he was dead by 1690. Qua corporation feoffee, see CCA/2/3/162/1-2.