Family and Education
b. bef. 6 Sept. 1621, 2nd s. of Sir Henry Clarke of Avington, Hants, being 1st s. by 2nd w. Margaret, da. of Richard Percey of Lee Court, Greatham, Hants. m. settlement 7 June 1639 (with £1,000), Isabella, da. of Thomas Warwick, organist of Westminster Abbey, Mdx., at least 5s. 5 other ch. suc. fa. at Enford 1654.Wilts. Arch. Mag. xxiii. 336; Vis. Hants. (Harl. Soc. lxiv), 189; CSP Dom. 1656-7, p. 2; 1671-2, p. 53; Wilts. N. and Q. ii. 534; Al. Ox. 282, 284, 285.
Offices Held
Major of horse (royalist) by 1646.
J.p. Wilts. July 1660 – d., commr. for assessment Aug. 1660–74, corporations 1662 – 63, loyal and indigent officers 1662, capt. of militia 1661 – ?71; freeman, Winchester by 1663, Portsmouth 1675; sub-commr. of prizes, Bristol 1672 – 73; commr. for recusants, Wilts. 1675; receiver of recusant forfeitures, Norf., Suff., Cambs. and Hunts. 1680–d.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Enford, Wilts.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
CLERKE, (CLARKE), Henry I (1621-81)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
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