Sir Robert Clere, Kt.

Sir Robert Clere, son and heir, was knighted on All-Saints eve, 1494, sheriff of Norfolk 1501; attended King Henry VIII. at the famous interview between him and the French king in 1520; his testament is dated August 1, 1529, therein orders 100 masses of the five wounds to be said for him as soon as could be; and that there should be a priest to pray for his soul, those of Dame Anne, daughter of Sir William Hopton, and of Dame Alice, daughter of Sir William Boleyn of Blicking his second wife, &c. and that this service should be kept for five years in the church he was buried in; and if he died at Ormesby, or in any part of Norfolk, to be buried in St. Margaret's church of Ormesby, and the priest to have 5 marks per ann.

By his first wife, he had William, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Paston the younger, who died s. p. 1501, and his widow married Sir John Fineaux, chief justice of the King's Bench; by his second lady he had 3 sons, John, Richard, and Thomas, and 4 daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Sir Robert Peyton of Iselham in Cambridgeshire; Anne, a nun at Denny abbey in Cambridgeshire; Dorothy, wife of Robert Cotton, and Audrey, wife of William Jenney. Thomas, the youngest son, who was buried at Lambeth in Surry, 1545, a great favourite of the learned Henry Howard Earl of Northampton.

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