CLERKE, Richard (by 1476-1530), of Lincoln’s Inn, London; Lincoln and Washingborough, Lincs.

Pensioner, L. Inn 1510 – 11, Autumn reader 1514, treasurer 1514 – 15, gov. 1515 – 16, 1519 – 20, 1521 – 22, 1523 – 24, 1525 – 26, 1527 – 28, dean of the chapel 1518–19.

J.p. Lincs. (Kesteven) 1507, 1510 (Lindsey) 1510 – d., Lincoln 1511 – 15; recorder, Lincoln by 1511 – d.; commr. subsidy, Lincs. (Kesteven, Lindsey), Lincoln 1512, 1514, for searches, Chancery Lane 1525, piracy 1527; steward, Thomas Lord Darcy of Templehurst’s manor of ‘Stretton’, ?Lincs. c.1524.CPR, 1494–1509, p. 648; LP Hen. VIII, i, iii, iv, add.; Lincoln min. bk. 1511–42, ff. 1, 1v, 10, 21v, 32v, 46v, 216v; LJ, i. 50, 51, 66, 72, 73.