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"Humfry Clarke Esquyer & Margaret his Wyffe were maryed togyther forty Nyne Yeres VI Moneths & the sayd Humfrey dyed in hys LXXIX Yeres of hys Age, & had Issue John, John, & Humfrey, Edward, John, & Walter. Johne Margaret, Elizabeth, Jhane & Letyce. Humfrey was the son of John Clark and Rabege / Rebecca daughter of John Godfrey of Aldington Margaret was the daughter of John and Lettice Mayne / Mayney of Biddenden." [1]
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"...Humphry Clarke, son of John Clarke, of Woodchurch, was afterwards of King's-North, in Kent (a,); and, by Margaret, his wife, daughter of John Maney, of Biddenden, in Kent, Esq; had. (a) £ Coll.TJw. Jekyll, Arm, had issue four daughters that were married, viz. Margaret, to William Brockman, of Newington: Elizabeth, to Richard Tucker, of Aldington: Joan, first married to Reginald Knight, secondly, to Thomas Graunt, and thirdly, to Sir Walter Afcough, Knt. and Lettice, first married to Martyn Culpeper, M. D. and secondly, to Robert Purflow: and two sons; i. Humphry Clarke, of Buckford, in Great-Chart, who sold the Woodchurch estate: 2. Walter Clarke, of Ratcliffe, in com. Bucks, Esq; who married Elizabeth, daughter of Simon Edolph, of St. Radigans, in Kent, E(q; and had issue, four sons; Simon, Martin, who died S. P. John, who married Mary, daughter of Randall, of Dunkirk, and Humphry, who married Cicely, daughter of Nicholk: and a daughter, Anne, the wife of Abel Barnard." [5]
Simon Clarke,Esq; the eldest son, married i.Margaret,daughter and coheir of John Alderford, of Abbots-Salford, inco. War.Esq; (by Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Dormer, of Newbottel, Eli,) which induced him to purchase, in that county, several manors, and a good estate, particularly the manor of Salford-Priors (a)y where he resided, and was created a baronet, 1617. He was a great encourager of Sir Wm. Dugdale, in his writing the Antiquities of Warwickshire; and on the importunity of this Sir Simon, and his lady, he came first to London (i), accompanying them in their journey, in Easter-term, 1638, who afterwards introduced him to Sir Henry Spelman. This Sir Simon, paid 8001. on account of his loyalty, temp. Car. I. to the sequestrators, for his estate: He had issue, by the said Margaret, five sons; Sir John, Walter, Thomas, Peter, a captain in the Low-countries, and Woodchurch, (who married the daughter of Thomas D'Abitot, of Ridmarfley-'Abitot, in com. Wig. and left issue, Simon,) also a daughter, Elizabeth. His second lady was Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Hobson, of Cambridge, Gent, relict of William Hay, Gent, by whom he had no issue.'" [6]
"Humphry Clarke, son of John Clarke, of Woodchurch, by Margaret, his wife, daughter of John Maney, of Biddenden, in Kent, Esq; had issue four daughters that were married, viz. Margaret, to William Brockman, of Newington ; Elizabeth, to Richard Tucke, of Aldington ; Joan, first married to Regi nald Knight, secondly, to Thomas Giaunt, and thirdly, to Sir Walter Ascough, Knt. and Lettice, first married to Martyn Culpeper, M. D. and secondly, to Robert Purflow : and 2 sons ; I. Humphry Clarke, of Buckford, in Great-Chart ; 2. Walter Clarke, of Ratcliffe, in Bucks, Esq; who married Elizabeth, daughter of Simon Edolph, of St. Radigans, in Kent, Esq; and had issue four sons ; Simon, Martin, who died without issue, John." [7], [8]
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