Person:John Clarke (50)

. JOHN2 CLARKE (John1). He was baptized 11 February 1541/1542 in Finningham, Suffolk, England. He was buried 8 April 1598 in Finningham, Suffolk, England. Residence: Finningham and Westhorpe, Suffolk, England.

   John Clarke inherited lands in Westhorpe, Finningham, and Gislingham, co. Suffolk, from his father in the will of the latter, dated 26 February 1558/9. He probably gave up some of the lands in Finningham and Gislingham to his brother, Thomas Clarke (see below). John Clarke was taxed 7s. 8d. in lands valued at £5 in Finningham in the subsidy of 1565/6, and was taxed 2s. 8d. in lands worth 20s. at Finningham and 13s. 8d. in lands worth £5 at Westhorpe in 1575/6. In both subsidies, his mother, Margaret Clarke, widow, was also taxed in lands in Westhorpe. John Clarke "the younger," a customary tenant of the manor of Finningham, is mentioned in a suit brought against Richard Mulliner by Nicholas Raynberd on 20 February 1587/8, as having surrendered lands of Thomas Cooke to the Lady of the Manor for the use of Raynberd on or about 1 September 1587. He may have been the John Clarke who, along with Christopher Clarke, was taxed 16d. in lands valued at £4 in Finningham in the subsidy of 1596/7, and who was taxed in a second subsidy that year 8d. in lands worth 40s. in Finningham. However, this may have been his son.

   Sources:
       G. A. Moriarty, "Clarke-Cooke (alias Carewe)-Kerrich," NEHGR, Vol. 75 (1921), pp. 273-301. 
       G. A. Morrison, "The 'Clarke' Families of Rhode Island." Evening Post Printing House, New York, 1902, p. 13. \

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1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Clarke Family Bible, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   75:274, 276.