CLERKE, Henry (d.1652), of Crow Lane, Rochester, Leybourne, Kent and the Middle Temple; later of Ulcombe, Kent and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London

Family and Education

2nd s. of Edward Clerke of Willoughby, Warws. educ. M. Temple 1604, called 1611. m. by 1607, Grace (bur. 23 Mar. 1645), da. and h. of George Morgan of Rochester, 2s.Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. liv), 36; Arch. Cant. xv. 112; P. Parson, Monuments and Painted Glass in Kent (1794), p. 393; M. Temple Admiss.; Soc. Gen. transcript St. Margaret’s, Rochester par. reg. bur. 25 Apr. 1652 25 Apr. 1652. Order of Sjts.-at-Law ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. v), 505. sig. Henr[y] Clerke.

Offices Held

Recorder, Rochester by ?1616-at least 1637, Medway Archives, ‘Customal’, ff. 79r-v, 81; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 22; CSP Dom. 1635, p. 246; Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments, Chas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 299. town clerk c.1617; REQ 2/423/127. reader, M. Temple 1629; sjt.-at-law 1637; treas. Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane 1642–4. MTR, 743; A.R. Ingpen, M. Temple Bench Bk. 186; Order of Sjts.-at-Law, 505.

Commr. charitable uses, Kent by 1616 – 33, 1637 – at least40, Rochester 1635; C93/7/7; 93/9/11; 93/10/25; 93/14/17; C192/1, unfol. gov. Sir John Hawkins’ hosp. Rochester by 1617-at least 1646; Hawkins’ Hosp. Rochester, min. bk. 50, 159. commr. bankruptcy, Rochester 1618; C66/2133, m. 14d. j.p. Kent 1621–?d.; C231/4, f. 119; Cal. Kent Indictments, Chas. I, 537. commr. inquiry, lands of Elizabeth Highwood, Kent 1621, C181/3, f. 44v. recusants’ lands 1622/3, CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 449 (misdated). subsidy, Rochester 1621, 1624, Kent 1621, 1624, 1641, C212/22/20, 23; SR, v. 152. Forced Loan 1626, Medway Archives, RCA/N5/72. oyer and terminer, Kent, Canterbury and the Cinque Ports 1627, Home circ. 1637, Kent 1644, C181/5, ff. 65, 236. sewers, Kent 1628, C181/3, f. 248. inquiry, Chatham Chest 1635–7, CSP Dom. 1635, p. 543; 1636–7, p. 568. piracy, Cinque Ports 1639; C181/5, p. 262. asst. bridge warden, Rochester 1639–40; Traffic and Pols. ed. N. Yates and J.M. Gibson, 295. commr. array, Kent 1642, Northants. RO, FH133. gaol delivery 1644. C181/5, f. 236v.

Parlimentarian

CLERKE, Henry (d.1652), of Crow Lane, Rochester, Leybourne, Kent and the Middle Temple; later of Ulcombe, Kent and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London

Main residences: Crow Lane, Rochester; Leybourne, Kent; the Middle Temple; Ulcombe, Kent; Serjeants' Inn, Chancery Lane, London.

Author

A.D.T.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

CLERKE, Henry (-d.1652)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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