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who died in March, 1589, was of Brampton. One of his sons, 

 Godfrey Clarke, Esquire, married Margaret, daughter of Oliver 

 Bond, of Mansfield, and died 21st March, 1634, aged 80 years. 

 His son Gilbert, who died in 1650, aged 60, married Ellen, 

 daughter and heiress of John Clarke, of Codnor, gent., and 

 she was also eventually the heiress of the Kirkeland family, her 

 mother having been Mary, daughter of John Kirkeland, of 

 Wheatcroft, in the parish of Crich. This John Clarke, son of 

 John Clarke of Codnor, died in 1641, aged 88 years, and had 

 a brass plate with a long inscription placed on a stone in the 

 nave of Heanor church. The stone was much decayed, and 

 when the church was rebuilt the rector had the brass removed 

 and erected in the tower, where it now is.f 



Godfrey Clarke, the son of Gilbert and Ellen, was High Sheriff 

 for Derbyshire in 1652 : he resided a good deal at Codnor and is 

 said to have planted an avenue of walnut trees, which were cut 

 down by Mr. Samuel Woolley about 1843. He added very much 

 to the wealth of the family by his marriage with Elizabeth, 

 daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Milward, Lord of the Manors 

 of Eaton, Dovedale, and Chilcote, and after her death, in 1645, 

 he married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Nicholas Frevile, 

 of Hardwick, Co. Durham, and died in 1652, aged 52 years. 

 By his first wife he had two sons ; the eldest — Godfrey of Somer- 

 sall, &c., M.P. — married Catherine, daughter of Philip, Earl of 

 Stanhope; she died, 25th December, 1728. His will is dated 

 Sept. 7th, 1773, and he mentions his estate at Codnor Castle; he 

 left his property to his nephew Godfrey, son of his brother, Sir 

 Gilbert Clarke, Kt., M.P,, and died s.p. 25th March, i734.t 



Godfrey Clarke, Esq., of Codnor, Chilcote, Sutton, &c., High 

 Sheriff for Derbyshire in 1740, married Ann, only daughter of 

 German Pole, Esq., of Radborne Hall, by Sarah, his wife, daughter 



* It is within the memory of the writer to have seen on the old 

 gallery in Heanor church the following inscription, written upon a blue board 

 with a gold edge : — " This loft was built at ye sole cost of John Clarke, of 

 Codnor, gent., in the year 1633, who died Ann° Dom' 1641, et Ano /Etates 88. 



t Godfrey Clarke, Esq., purchased the manors of Normanton and 

 .Sutton about 1742, from the heirs of the last Earl of Scarsdale. 



