CLARKE, John (d. 1681), of Bury St Edmunds, Suff.

Family and Education

?s. of John Clarke of Bocking, Essex.Burke Dorm. And Extinct Baronetcies, 117. m. by 1637, Margaret, da. of Edward Bourne of Bury St Edmunds, 4s. (3 d.v.p.) 1da.CB iv. 174; Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury 1636-1638 ed. N. Evans (Suff. Rec. Soc. xxxv.), 98-100; Biog. List of Boys educated at King Edward VI Free Grammar Sch. Bury St Edmunds (Suff. Green Bks. xiii. 1908), 73. bur. 5 Dec. 1681 5 Dec. 1681.St James’s, Bury St Edmunds par. reg.

Offices Held

Local: high collector, assessment, W. Suff. by 1644-aft. Mar. 1648.Suff. RO (Bury), Acc. 613/681; Acc. 613/769. Commr. assessment, Bury St Edmunds 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657; Suff. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659; Bury St Edmunds 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 15v. J.p. Suff. Mar. 1650-Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 180, 185; CSP Dom. 1650, p. 143; Names of the Justices of the Peace (1650), 54 (E.1238.4); Suff. RO (Ipswich), B105/2/4, f. 114; B105/2/5, f. 30v. Commr. high ct. of justice, E. Anglia 20 Dec. 1650; ejecting scandalous ministers, Suff. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. gaol delivery, Thetford town and borough 16 Nov. 1654;C181/6, p. 71. securing peace of commonwealth, Suff. by 20 Nov. 1655;TSP iv. 225, 272, 427–8. to survey ‘surrounded grounds’, Norf. and Suff. 13 May 1656;C181/6, p. 158. for public faith, Suff. 24 Oct. 1657;Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–29 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35). sewers, Norf. and Suff. 26 June 1658-aft. June 1659.C181/6, pp. 293, 362. Sheriff, Suff. 1670–1.Suff. RO (Bury), Acc. 613/691; List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 132.

Religious: elder, Bury St Edmunds classis, Nov. 1645.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 428.

Civic: chief burgess, Bury St Edmunds by 1648 – aft.28 Feb. 1661; alderman, 1648, 1652.Suff. RO (Bury), D4/1/2, ff. 1–29, 44; LJ x. 302a. Trustee, Almoners’ Barns by 1660-Sept. 1669.Suff. RO (Bury), D7/1/4. Feoffee, Guildhall feoffment trust by 1657–d.; recvr. by Aug. 1657-c.Mar. 1658, c.Mar. 1668-c.Mar. 1669, c.Mar. 1676-c.Mar. 1677.Suff. RO (Bury), H2/6/2/1, pp. 73–157. J.p. High Ward, Bury St Edmunds Jan. 1658.Suff. RO (Bury), D4/1/2, f. 17.

Parlimentarian

CLARKE, John I (d.1681), of Bury St. Edmunds, Suff.

: of Bury St Edmunds, Suff.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

CLARKE, John (d. 1681), of Bury St Edmunds, Suff.

Will

6 May 1679, cod. 2 June 1679, pr. 20 Dec. 1681.PROB11/368/474.

Estates

owned house in Westgate Street, Bury St Edmunds 1667;Suff. RO (Bury), D6/2/1, unfol. bought lands at Cavenham and Icklingham, Suff. from (Sir) Francis Russell*; owned lands at Worlington and Freckenham, Suff. and Chippenham, Cambs.PROB11/368/474.

Oxford 1644

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