CLARE, Ralph (c.1587-1670), of Caldwell and Kidderminster, Worcs. and St. James’s, Westminster

Kpr. Tickenhill House and Bewdley Park, Worcs. 1608–d.; SO3/4, unfol. (July 1608). j.p. Worcs. by 1621 – at least44, 1660–d.; C193/13/1, f. 104v ; Diary of Henry Townshend ed. J.W. Willis Bond (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 1920), ii. 184, 276. dep. lt. Worcs. 1625 – 42, 1660–d.; Charles by the Grace of God King of England (1625), STC 8766; HEHL, EL 7443; SP29/11/321; SP44/35A, f. 4v commr. oyer and terminer, Wales and the Marches 1625–40, C181/3, f. 154; C181/2, f. 184v. Forced Loan, Worcs. 1627; C193/12/2, f. 62. member, Council of the Marches of Wales 1633; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 4, p. 7. high steward, Kidderminster 1636–d.; J.R. Burton, Hist. Kidderminster, 74. commr. charitable uses, Worcs. 1640, C192/1, unfol. array 1642, Northants. RO, FH133. raising vols. (roy.) 1642, R.H. Silcock, ‘County Govt. in Worcs.’ (London Ph.D. thesis, 1974), p. 327. safety (roy.) 1643 – 46, accts. (roy.) 1644, Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6 ed. W.H. Black, 14, 219; Diary of Henry Townshend, iii. 265. Sir Jacob Astley’s army, Glos., Worcs. and Warws. 1645–6, Diary of Henry Townshend, iii. 244 Poll Tax, Worcs. 1660, assessment, 1660, 1662, 1664 – 68, Worcester 1660, indigent roy. officers, Worcs. 1662, subsidy, Worcs. 1663. SR, v. 220, 273, 274, 341, 384, 468, 542, 572, 582, 586, 619.

Gent. privy chamber, Prince Henry’s Household by 1610 – 12, Prince Charles’s Household 1613 – 25, Charles I, 1625 – 28, Charles II by 1664. Harl. 7009, f. 5; LC2/4/6, f. 35v; T. Birch, Ct. and Times of Jas. I, i. 257; LC2/6, f. 69; SP16/2/118; T. Birch, Ct. and Times of Chas. I, i. 419; CSP Dom. 1663–4, p. 675