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235:"The demeanour of him (Anderson, a zealous high churchman) and the other judge, as they sit by turns upon the gaol (with reverence I speak it) in these matters is flat opposite; and they which are maliciously affected, when Mr. Justice Clinch sitteth upon the gaol, do labour to adjourn their complaints (though they be before upon the file) to the next assize; and the gentlemen in the several shires are endangered by this means to be cast into a faction." 1279: 22: 83:, for £100 less than its annual value, upon condition that he did not assign it elsewhere. Accordingly Clench resided at Crowfield. His eldest son Thomas was born around 1557, so he was by that time married to Katheryn, daughter of Thomas Almott of Creeting All Saints (one of the manors in the Creetings parishes of 156:), during the later 1580s. Having purchased lands "late Kinderslewes" at Holbrook, which lay intermingled with lands belonging to the town of Ipswich, in 1587 he offered them to the town in exchange for others, but on consideration the town did not like them. Instead, the town sold its own Holbrook lands (part of 299:, in front of which the hair is drawn up or stiffened on supports in a sort of puff. The gown is well extended at the hips, and the sleeves set in with a puff at the shoulder." Four sons and eight daughters are shown as kneeling mourners beside the judge: beside his wife only two boys and three girls appear. 247:
released certain indicted men on bail against the queen's direct command, the monarch was careful to express her displeasure towards Walmsley alone. Nevertheless, Clench was not knighted, nor in such ways honoured. In 1598 he was named (as assignor to the wardens of the Tooley Foundation) in the will
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The wall panel above the monument displays heraldry for Clench, and two impalements showing Clench impaling quarterly arms for Barker (of Ipswich). This probably denotes that the monument was set up by Thomas Clench, the judge's eldest son and heir, to whose first marriage this impalement refers. It
208:, as justices of assize at Carlisle, set down orders for the maintenance of peace in disputes arising from the estates of the late Lord Dacre. A letter from the same judges dated 1588/89 instructs the deputy lieutenants of Lancashire to investigate and suppress the surplus alehouses of Manchester. 102:
in 1566, was continued to 1568 to supply the invalid election of his successor: his readings concerning testamentary matters survive in manuscript. Called to the bar in 1568, he became bencher in 1570 following the expulsion of several members for failure to conform to religious statutes, whereupon
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The figure of the judge in scarlet robe and ermine-lined mantle supports himself as if in life, with open eyes, on his left elbow. He wears the coif, and a square cap, and (formerly) had a scroll in his hand. In front of the tomb-chest, at a lower level, reposes the figure of Katheryn Clench, the
160:'s charitable gift of 1515) to Clench for £600 in September 1588 by bargain, sale and feoffment, and in May 1589 the fine, concord and conveyance were issued by the bailiffs, burgesses and commonalty of the town under the common seal, and the Clench deeds were ordered to be kept with the deeds of 171:
and his wife Elizabeth, and in that year and in 1591 fines were levied between Southwell and Thomas Clench, son and heir of the judge, to whom the Holbrook estate in due course descended. Thenceforth the judge resided at Holbrook. It is stated that Holbrook Park, described as a detached pleasure
363:(1666). A miniature possibly representing John Clench was sold from the Merchiston Collection at Bonhams in 2009. A full-length portrait of him is said to have hung at Wilbraham Temple, Cambridgeshire, while it was in the possession of the Clench family. 252:
to be among the agents of his gifts and legacies. In 1600, while retaining the emoluments of his juridical office, he was released from daily attendance at court on account of age and infirmities, and three years later he was pensioned.
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of Seckford Hall manor. His former benefactor Henry Crane of Chilton (who predeceased his father Robert Crane) appointed Clench sole supervisor of his will in 1586, leaving him a gelding. Clench developed his estate at
95:. Almott had acquired that manor after 1560 from the Jermy family, and it passed into the Clench family by this union. In 1565 Clench raised a fine on the manor against John Almott. There were to be thirteen children. 107:
of all men, and the best studdye". He was elected Reader at Lincoln's Inn in Lent 1574, Keeper of the Black Book in 1576-1577, and Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn in 1578-1579. In 1573/74 he was appointed
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in the following year (27 November), being assigned to the northern circuit, and on 29 May 1584 was translated to the court of Queen's Bench. Many of his judgements there can be read in the
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relates that, when young, Clench was steward of the manors of Henry Crane (died 1586, of Chilton, near Sudbury, Suffolk). For his good services, Crane gave him the lease of an estate at
347:) in Cheshire, but appears to have been among the works of art dispersed in 1815. An engraved portrait of Clench is one of the composite panel of images forming the frontispiece of 295:
judge's wife, in a similar position to her husband, her elbow on an embroidered cushion to support her head, and a book in the right hand. "She wears a 'French hood', with pendant
383:, merchant and M.P., of Ipswich: she was the mother of his children. Margery died in 1597, and he next married (2), in 1601, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Revesby (Risby) of 1289: 281:("A memorial of the most worshipful and (in his time) the most Auncient Judge, John Clenche, who died on the 19th day of August in the year of Salvation 1607. 619:
M.C. Mirow, 'Monks and married women: the use of the yearbooks in defining testamentary capacity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readings on wills',
334:, impaling Quarterly 1 and 4, Argent on a bend cotised Sable 3 escallops of the first: 2 and 3, Argent, a chevron between three mullets of 6 points Gules. 196:, one of the four justices appointed to hear causes in Chancery in the six months which intervened between the death of the Lord Chancellor, Sir 351:, a seventeenth-century book of precedents. A portrait of the judge was in the keeping of the town clerk of Ipswich in 1831: the engraving by 115:, the county town of Suffolk, as a freeman to solicit the town's causes in London, the first known holder of that office. He was appointed 788:, Vol. III: The Hundreds of Carlford and Colneis, Cosford and Hartismere (Taylor, Garnett, Enams, & Co., Ltd., Manchester 1909), 69:
and Joan, daughter of John Amias of the same county, and grandson of John Clench of Leeds, Yorkshire. He was admitted a student at
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J.P. Ferris, 'Clench, Thomas (c.1557-1624), of Holbrooke, Suff. and Lincoln's Inn, London', in A. Thrush and J.P. Ferris (eds),
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is recorded that in November 1624, on the very day that the judge's son Thomas died, the right arm fell off the judge's effigy.
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John Clench' in Sale: The Merchiston Collection of fine portrait miniatures, Bonhams 25 November 2009, Knightsbridge, London.
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and was buried in Holbrook Church, where his extensive monument with life-sized recumbent effigies is inscribed to his memory:
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nearby, originated in the late 16th century as an independent park or garden surrounding John Clench's residence at Holbrook.
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A half-length portrait of Clench in his robes was long preserved at Harden Hall (the seat in the nineteenth century of
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Rulers, Religion and Rhetoric in Early Modern England: A Festschrift for Geoffrey Elton from his Australasian Friends
395:. He was sheriff of Suffolk in 1616, and junior M.P. for the same county in 1621. His will is dated 5 November 1624. 1294: 1185:
J.C.H., Wingfield, Anthony I (c.1554-1605), of Letheringham, Suff. and Goodwins Hoo, Suff.', in P.W. Hasler (ed.),
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An Account of the Gifts and Legacies that have been Given and Bequeathed to Charitable Uses in the Town of Ipswich
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Observations of Tom Williamson and Edward Martin, cited by S. Podd, 'Helmingham Hall - a complex development',
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A Topographical and Genealogical History of the County of Suffolk: A Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller
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in Suffolk. His will is dated 3 April 1628. One John Clench of Creeting was sheriff of Suffolk in 1630.
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Will of Thomas Clench of Holbrook, Esquire (P.C.C. 1625, Clarke quire). Abstract in F.A. Crisp (ed.),
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Will of Henry Crane of Chilton (P.C.C. 1586). Abstract in 'Crane' in J.J. Howard and W.H. Hart (eds),
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Gules, six annulets Or, conjoined in pairs, two pairs in chief and one in base, a chief of the second.
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on 11 February 1555/56, and was chamber-fellow with Thomas Weekes, 'a learned gospeller', in 1558-59.
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in 1586, and sought to help her to avoid her sufferings. In 1596 he took the Lincoln assizes with
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Joanne Clench, married (1) John Walker of Brundon, Essex, and (2) Walter Merser of Oxfordshire
1156: 1054: 1050: 931: 738: 406:), by whom he had four sons. John and Joan have a mural monument with bust-length figures at 219:, the bulk of the criminal business consisting, as it would seem, of cases of ecclesiastical 494:'Visitation of Suffolk, 1612: Clenche, of Thiseldon Hall in Burgh', in W.C. Metcalfe (ed.), 398:
The judge's second son, John Clench of Bealings, married Joan, daughter of Robert Holmes of
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His heir, Thomas Clench of Holbrook, M.P. (c. 1557-1624), married (1) Margery, daughter of
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A Series of the Lords Chancellors, Keepers of the Great Seal, Masters of the Rolls (etc.)
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A. Musson, 'Visualising legal history' in D. Ibbetson, N. Jones and N. Ramsay (eds),
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Will of John Clench of Greate Bealings (P.C.C. 1628, Barrington quire). Abstract in
1002:(Continuum International Publishing, London and New York 2011), pp. 83-125, passim. 108: 84: 70: 49: 135:
In 1585 (soon after his appointment as Justice in 1584) he purchased the manor of
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The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Bottisham and the Priory of Anglesey
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The Records of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, I: Admissions 1420-1799
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The Revett Pedigree represents the marriage of John Clench to Katheryn Almott:
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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Elizabeth and James I, 1580-1625. Addenda
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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Elizabeth and James I, 1580-1625. Addenda
901: 205: 185: 164:'s Foundation (a principal benefaction of the town's) in the Borough Chest. 157: 92: 771:, Fourth Edition, 3 vols (E. and R. Brooke, and T. Whieldon, London 1790), 518:
Suffolk Manorial Families, Being the County Visitations and Other Pedigrees
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The Annalls of Ipswche. The Lawes, Customes and Governmt of the Same, 1654
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English Legal History and its Sources: Essays in Honour of Sir John Baker
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Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History
399: 1245:'The Visitation of Suffolk, 1612: Clenche of Bealings', in Metcalfe, 562:'Hundred of Bosmere and Claydon: Crowfield or Crofelda', in A. Page, 220: 104: 1168:'The Visitation of Suffolk, 1612: Clenche of Stanton', in Metcalfe, 1282: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the 964:'Orders set down by Baron J. Clench, etc.', in M.A.E. Green (ed.), 391:, Suffolk, and relict of Sir Anthony Wingfield of Goodwin's Place, 384: 296: 388: 355:, said to be based on the Ipswich portrait, was published by Sir 112: 45: 805:, 2 volumes (Samuel Tymms, Lowestoft 1866-1868), I, pp. 137-64, 885:
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History
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The History and Description of the Town and Borough of Ipswich
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Clench was married to Katheryn, daughter of Thomas Almott of
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Lore Clench, married Thomas Bacon of Bramford, Suffolk, Gent.
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Katherin Clench, married John Truelove of Harkstead, Suffolk
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Reports of Sir George Croke, Knight, of Select Cases (etc.)
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The Blois Manuscripts give the Clench heraldry as follows:
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The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603
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The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629
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Elizabeth Clench, married Thomas Hall of Clopton, Suffolk
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Margery Clench, married Edmund Dameron of Henley, Suffolk
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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Elizabeth, 1591-1594
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Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis/Legal History Review
516:'Clench pedigree from the Revett MSS', in J.J. Muskett, 437:
Anne Clench, married John Geffray of Chevington, Suffolk
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Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion
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The Lancashire Lieutenancy Under the Tudors and Stuarts
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Clench is said to have been an especial favourite with
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Monument and inscription at Great Bealings, Suffolk.
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Biographical Register of Christ's College, 1505-1905
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In 1589 he purchased the manor of Holbrook from Sir
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Monumental inscription in Holbrook church, Suffolk.
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Copinger, 402:, Suffolk (and relict of John Pretyman of 91:), a little north from Ipswich beside the 60: 646: 606:(from Cambridge University Press, 2010), 271:Ecce iacet secto venerandus Marmore ivdex 211:Clench took part in the hearings against 32:(c. 1535 - 1607) was an English judge, a 985:, Chetham Society, Volume L (1859), II, 817: 815: 598: 596: 323:Gules, three gimmel rings and a chief Or 275:Ast anima ad superos sumiq palatia caeli 273:Terram terra petit, puluere corpus inest 20: 1092:Farrer, 'The Blois MSS', at pp. 170-71. 900: 578: 576: 462:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 289:The soul lives ever in God's citadel.") 48:, where for many years he was the Town 1304: 862: 860: 858: 856: 854: 852: 512: 510: 508: 490: 812: 593: 488: 486: 484: 482: 480: 478: 476: 474: 472: 470: 130: 65:Clench was the son of John Clench of 1287: 1101:E. Farrer, 'The Blois Manuscripts', 573: 319:The Suffolk Visitation of 1577 has: 277:Fertum et æterni viuit in arce Dei." 930:(J. and W.T. 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Index


Serjeant-at-Law
Baron of the Exchequer
Justice of the Queen's Bench
Ipswich
Recorder
Wethersfield, Essex
Lincoln's Inn
Walter Copinger
Crowfield, Suffolk
St Mary
St Peter
river Gipping
Furnival's Inn
auncientye
Recorder
Ipswich
Serjeant-at-Law
baron of the exchequer
Great Bealings
Woodbridge
the Seckfords
Holbrook, Suffolk
river Orwell
Edmund Daundy
Tooley
Robert Southwell
Woolverstone Hall
Francis Gawdy
Francis Wyndham

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