Henry Clitherow

Master of the Ironmongers' Company, 1592, 1603, 1606. Financed privateering voyages, and was one of the financial backers of the 1590 relief expedition to the Roanoke colony.

Arms: Argent on a chevron gules between three eagles displayed sable five annulets or.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jhmjr&id=... : Birth: ABT 1540 Burial: 03 MAR 1608 St. Andrew Undershaft Parish, London, England Probate: Public Record Office, London, Probate 11/111, Folio.11, 25 Sept. 1606 Death: 20 FEB 1608 in London, England 1 Note: Master of the Ironmongers' Company of London in 1592, 1603 and again in 1606. He died testate Feb 20, 1608 in London, and bequeathed a piece of plate to the Ironmongers' Comany, which was sold in 1644 to meet the financial demands of a parliamentary committee. The Cletherow family was of considerable antiquity in England with records dating back to one Ralph de Cliderau, whose grandson, Hugh de Clitherau was mentioned in deeds during the eighth year of the reign of Edward I. Hugh de Clitherau, William de Cletherow, Richard Cletherow and William Cletherow were successive members of Parliament, the latter having died in 1469. Henry's son, Sir Christopher Cletherow, Knt., was Lord Mayor of London in 1635, Sir Christopher died testate Nov 11, 1641 and mentioned his house at Pinner in the Parish of Harrow-on-the-Hill. His will, dated Apr 14, 1640 and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in London Nov 22, 1641, he named each of his sisters: Mrs. Abigail Abdy, Mrs Judith Meggs, Mrs Elizabeth Scott, Margaret Garraway and Anne Offley, deceased. He also devised forty shillings and a ring to "Mrs Catherine Edlin and to all her brothers and sisters the children of the deceased sister Mrs Anne Offley." The above information is from "Genealogical History of Our Ancestors" by Rutherford, 1977.

He was a clothworker, citizen and Ironmonger of London. In his will he gave: 'To Children of Dau. Anne Offley, wife of Thomas Offley, To Children of son Cristopher.' Witnesses: Richard Ball Edward Warner Henry Sutor Roger Henninge Proved 22 Feb. 1607/8 Inquisition Post Mortem - 18