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Clarke, Richard
PERSONS/3/710
1612 - 1641
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
This draper was mayor in 1627; see "CLARKE, ROGER" for his will. A feoffee of Jesson's Charity when its administration was established in 1638 (see PA101/140/3), Clarke also thus acted for Bablake School in 1635 (see PA101/147/5). He was a sheriff in 1617. Clarke was in 1613 a St. Michael's churchwarden. Clarke had land at Dead Lane (BA/A/B/12/4), Great Pudding Croft (BA/A/B/42/2; BA/A/B/45/1), Well St. Gate and Harnall Bridge (1626: BA/A/D/114/1-3), Smithford St. (1636:- BA/B/J/6/37.IV: BA/L/P/4/1), Hill St. and New St. (from 1631 to his 1641 death - see BA/D/L/12/1), Jordan Well (BA/H/H/330/1) and Much Park St. (BA/H/H/332/12: PA55/9/1). He was a feoffee of the Priory estate (BA/B/A/25/3,7: BA/H/H/27/1: PA56/99/5), Caludon tithes (BA/B/F/34/3), Keresley tithes (PA56/12/1-5), Alderford Mill (BA/B/P/423/7,8), Scott's Lands (BA/B/Q/9/8,9), Bond's Hospital (1629ff:- BA/D/D/35/1; BA/D/D/64/4: PA500/5/2) and Coxon's Charity (BA/D/AO/4/2: PA54/333/8). He leased St. Michael's tithes (1640 - BA/B/F/40/1) for whose collector's appointment he had stood surety (1612 - BA/B/F/41/3). Active in the corporation, 1627-40. He occupied a close outside Cook St. Gate (see PA54/214/2). For Hill Mill land, see PA54/232/2. See PA55/34/1. As their father Roger had died, in 1615 Richard Clarke was master of his brother, also named Roger - see PA468/2/3/44. He was a Drapers' Company warden, 1618 (PA468/2/3/46) and master, 1633-34 (PA468/2/3/50-52); Richard Clarke tenanted the Drapers' Company's Hearsall Close and a moiety of Charterhouse Leys (1637 - PA468/5/1/6(v),(w); PA468/5/3/51/1). CCA/2/3/422/7 implies that Clarke was interested in Little Park Street messuages.
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