Finding Aid
George Clarke fonds. – 1690-1812; predominant 1690-1691. - 50 items.
Secretary at War correspondence:
Correspondence consists of letters of introduction, requests for appointment and for standing orders concerning pay, newsletters on disposition of English troops and ships throughout Europe and the Caribbean, and other matters of concern for the office of the Secretary at War.
Capt. D. Barrow
Samuel Blount (1, with abstract of a second letter)
Henry Booth
John Butler
Col. Richard Brewer (2) (Brewer's Regiment was the 12th Regiment of Foot, later the Suffolk Regiment)
Conisby, MP
Capt. Culliford, certificate re
Mr. Curtis
George Edisburn[?d]
Dr. John Edisbury of Erddig (2) (ca. 1646-1713), Master in Chancery (misappropriated funds)
J. Ellis
Capt. Harry Gilman
George Hamilton
Col. W. Hastings (Hastings’ Regiment of Foot later became the Somerset Light Infantry)
Capt. Toby Molloy to Robert Clarke
John Morgan of Chester Castle (2)
Solomon de Mediná (later to be the first Jewish man knighted in England)
[Henry Muddiman] (a journalist, newsletters on military matters, unsigned, perhaps copies only) (3)
W. Townes, addressed to Lord Charlemont
Abraham Yarner
petition to King of gunners in train of artillery for payment of arrears
petition to Baron de Genckel, commander of Williamite army in Ireland, of Irish prisoners at Newgate for release
Illegible or faint signatures (5
Political correspondence:
Correspondence concerns the movements of King William III.
Adam Cardonnel
Personal correspondence:
Correspondence concerns Clarke’s personal affairs and those of his family, including his estate in Kilkenny.
Elizabeth Carey Clarke’s cousin
John LeCaan (ie Dr. John Polus Lecaan[?], botanist and English army doctor)
DC alias Lady Dorothy Clarke alias the Lady Clerk, Clarke’s mother (8)
Elizabeth Hawksworth, Clarke’s household
Anne Maude, manager of Clarke’s household at Kilkenny (3)
Map
“A map of part of the estate of the Rt. Hon. John Percival Earl of Egmont, in the Baronies of Duhallow, Orrery & Kilmore, Ibaund & Fermoy in the County of Corke … according to a Exact Survey Taken A.D. 1702”; printed
Other
There are included two items not addressed to Clarke. The first one may not pertain to him; the second does not. These come from the following correspondents: Dr. Egan; Molly Watters (paper watermark, 1812)
