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In his will, dated 24 September 1548 and proved 15 January 1550/1 at Besthorpe, Robert Clarke of Banham referred to his father, John Clarke, indicating that he had held land in the same parish. After the customary preamble, Robert bequeathed “my soule to god ailmyghtie our Ladye sainte Marie & all the holye companye of heaven and my body to be buryed in the churche yarde” of Banham. He made bequests as follows:
for the sustentation of the poore . . . xijd . . . to Thomas Clarke my sonne & to his heires my free tenement sometyme John Clarke my ffather with all the lands free & bonde that to the said ten[emen}tte belonge except twoo acres & a [half] in hooke upon thys condicion that the said Thomas shall paye unto Katherine my daughter [33s 4d] at the daye of her marriage.. . to Rowlande my son, twoo acres & a [half] of land free lyeinge in the hooke [upon the condition] that the said Rowlande paie to Katherine my daughter at the daye of her marriage [33s 4d]
to the saide Rowlande my sonne xl acres & a halfe and a half a rode of lande & medowe bonde wt a tent[emen]te called Silverns in westgate the whyche I pur­sheased of John Plowman to hold to the sayde Rowlande & to his heyres for ever after the decease of Alyce my wyffe . to Alyce my wyffe my close that I per­cheased of Rycharde Leye terme of her lyef/And after her decease I will the said close to remayne to Thomas my son and to his heirs for ever/Itm. to Rowlande my son half an acre of land bonde, lyeinge at the [illegible] plane ende in the valeye & one rode & a halfe lyeinge in the same fairlonge and abbutt upon the lande of John Clarke towards the sowthe... /Itm. . . to Thomas Clarke my son one roode & a half of lande lyeing in Swete hyll medowe & half an acre lyeinge in the same medowe . ./I wyll yf I chance to dye seised in the twoo acres & a half of free lande lyeing in the hooke, that Thomas my sonn after the decease of Alyce my wyff shall gyve estate to Rowlande my sonne of the twoo acres & a half of lande in the hooke aforesayde . . And yf the sayde Thomas my sonne will not gyve to Rowlande my sonne estate of the twoo acres and a half of lande lyeing in the hooke That then I wyll & gyve to Rowlande my sonne that close whyche I pur­cheased of Richarde Leye of Banham /I gyve to Johane Huntinge my daughter [40s] the whyche I wyll that Thomas & Rowlande my sonnes shall paye unto her after my decease . . . Itm I gyve to Isabell Sharpynye [20s] to be payde to her at the day of her maryage/Itm I gyve to Robert Rowse my godson [12d] /And I gyve Alyce Rowse [12d]/Itm I gyve to John Huntynge my daughters sonne [12d] And to Johan Huntynge, Margaret Huntynge, Elizabeth Huntynge the chyldren of Johanne my daughter. I give to evrye of them [12~] /ltm I give & bequeath to evry godchyld of myne iiijd/The Residue. . . I give them to Alyce my wyfe whome I ordayne & make myne executrixe...
Witnesses were “Rycharde Lee and Thomas Blaxstone of Banham and John Collyns of Wilbye.”
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Source:Christopher Gleason Clark, "The English Ancestry of Joseph Clark (1613-1683) of Dedham and Medfield, Massachusetts," in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 152(Jan 1998):3-23
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Robert Alice 1519North Wootton, Norfolk, England. 1490 Banham, Norfolk, England; 31 Aug 1554Banham, Norfolk, England; Feb 1555St Lawrence Jewry and St Mary Magdalene Milk St, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Christina Clarke 1515 London, London, England; 1560London, England.
2. Katherine Clarke 1534 Norfolk, England; England.
3. Alice Clarke 1500 Biddenden, Kent, England; 31 Aug 1554St Dunstan in the East, London, England; Feb 1555St Lawrence Jewry and St Mary Magdalene Milk St, London, England.
4. Margaret Clarke 1522 Banham, Norfolk, England; 31 Aug 1554England.
5. Rowland Clarke before 1530 Banham, Norfolk, England; 05 Mar 1580Banham, Norfolk, England; 05 Mar 1580Banham, Norfolk, England.
6. Sir Thomas Clarke 1526 Banham, Norfolk, England; 19 Jan 1559Banham, Norfolk, England.
7. Johanne Clarke 1520 Banham, Norfolk, England; 1582Banham, Norfolk, England.

John Rebecca Godfrey 1485Kent, England. Rebecca (daughter of Thomas Godfrey and Alice Williamson) 1470 Aldington, Kent, England; 1537Aldington, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert Katherina Edingham 01 Jun 1460Woodchurch, Kent, England. Katherina (daughter of Richard Edingham and Joane Picot) 1435 Woodchurch, Kent, England; 1460Woodchurch, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Age: 65

Thomas Alice Williamson. Alice 1449 Aldington, Kent, England; Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry Matilda Echingham 1425England. Matilda (daughter of Thomas "Sir Knight" Echingham and Margaret Knyvett) about 1407 Etchingham, Sussex, England; 19 Jul 1464Luton, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard Joane Picot. Joane 1409 Suffolk, England; 1464Hailsham, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]