CLEMENT, Gregory (1594-1660), of St George’s Botolph Lane, London.

Family and Education

bap. 21 Nov. 1594,Plymouth St Andrew’s Par. Reg. (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc. 1954), 57. 2nd but 1st surv. s. of John Clement of Plymouth and Judith. da. of John Sparke of Up Plymouth, Devon.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 193. m. (1) 25 June 1630, Christian Barter of Stepney, Mdx. ?s.p.;LMA, St Dunstan, Stepney par regs. (2) 19 Sept. 1659, Frances, da. of Sir John Sedley of St Clere, Kent, s.p.LMA, St Peter, Paul’s Wharf par. regs.; CTB i. 217. exec. 17 Oct. 1660.

Offices Held

Mercantile: factor, E.I. Co. 10 Dec. 1627-Mar. 1630.CSP Col. E.I. 1622–4, p. 190; W. Foster, The English Factories in India, 1624–9 (Oxford, 1909), 10.

Local: commr. militia, Kent 2 Dec. 1648; London militia, 17 Jan. 1649; assessment, London 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650; Kent 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Mdx. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650; Devon 26 Nov. 1650. 1650 – 18 Dec. 1652A. and O. J.p. Kent by Feb.; Cornw., Wilts. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C231/6, p. 248; C193/13/3, ff. 10, 33v, 69v; C193/13/4, ff. 13v, 110.

Central: commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112b. cttee. for the army, 6 Jan., 17 Apr. 1649, 2 Jan. 1652;CJ vi. 113b; A. and O. cttee. for advance of money, 6 Jan. 1649. Commr. for compounding, 6 Jan. 1649.CJ vi. 113b. Member, cttee. of navy and customs by 15 Jan. 1649;Bodl. Rawl. A.224, f. 1. cttee. regulating universities, 29 Mar. 1650.CJ vi. 388b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 10 Apr. 1651.CJ vi. 558a.

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Commons 1640-1660

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CLEMENT, Gregory (1594-1660), of St George’s Botolph Lane, London.

Will

attainted.

Estates

said to have had a ‘very considerable estate, supposed to the value of forty thousand pounds sterling’;Ludlow, Voyce, 245. purchased lordship of Gt. Potterne, Wilts. 12 July 1648, for £8,226;Bodl. Rawl. B.239, p. 14. by 1650 was one of 26 ‘proprietors’ of the Bahamas plantation;J.T. Hassam, ‘The Bahama Islands: Notes on an early attempt at Colonization’, Procs. Mass. Hist. Soc. ser. 2, xiii. 5. 7-year lease of Sir Andrew Coggan’s house, Greenwich, 19 July 1650 (purchased after July 1651);CCC 2378; CJ vi. 597b. allocated 8,332 Irish acres, King’s Co., and £50-worth of houses in Waterford City, 1653-4;Bottigheimer, Eng. Money and Irish Land, 156. purchase of Chingham’s Farm, Farmingham, Kent, Nov. 1654 (leased by July 1651).CCC 2141; CJ vi. 597b.

Oxford 1644

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