George Clarke, 1661-1736
George Clarke fonds. 1690-1812; predominant 1690-1691. - 50 items.
Secretary at War correspondence:
Correspondence consists of letters of introduction, requests for appointment
and for standing orders concerning pay, newsletters on disposition of
English troops and ships throughout Europe and the Caribbean, and other
matters of concern for the office of the Secretary at War.
Capt. D. Barrow
Samuel Blount (1, with abstract of a second letter)
Henry Booth
John Butler
Col. Richard Brewer (2) (Brewer's Regiment was the 12th
Regiment of Foot, later the Suffolk Regiment)
Conisby, MP
Capt. Culliford, certificate re
Mr. Curtis
George Edisburn[?d]
Dr. John Edisbury of Erddig (2) (ca. 1646-1713), Master in Chancery
(misappropriated funds)
J. Ellis
Capt. Harry Gilman
George Hamilton
Col. W. Hastings (Hastings Regiment of Foot later became the Somerset
Light Infantry)
Capt. Toby Molloy to Robert Clarke
John Morgan of Chester Castle (2)
Solomon de Mediná (later to be the first Jewish man knighted in England)
[Henry Muddiman] (a journalist, newsletters on military matters, unsigned,
perhaps copies only) (3)
W. Townes, addressed to Lord Charlemont
Abraham Yarner
petition to King of gunners in train of artillery for payment of arrears
petition to Baron de Genckel, commander of Williamite army in Ireland,
of Irish prisoners at Newgate for release
Illegible or faint signatures (5
Political correspondence:
Correspondence concerns the movements of King William III.
Adam Cardonnel
Personal correspondence:
Correspondence concerns Clarkes personal affairs and those
of his family, including his estate in Kilkenny.
Elizabeth Carey Clarkes cousin
John LeCaan (ie Dr. John Polus Lecaan[?], botanist and English
army doctor)
DC alias Lady Dorothy Clarke alias the Lady Clerk, Clarkes mother
(8)
Elizabeth Hawksworth, Clarkes household
Anne Maude, manager of Clarkes household at Kilkenny (3)
Map
A map of part of the estate of the Rt. Hon. John Percival
Earl of Egmont, in the Baronies of Duhallow, Orrery & Kilmore, Ibaund
& Fermoy in the County of Corke
according to a Exact Survey
Taken A.D. 1702; printed
Other
There are included two items not addressed to Clarke. The first
one may not pertain to him; the second does not. These come from the
following correspondents: Dr. Egan; Molly Watters (paper watermark,
1812)