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clerk of the pipe and remembrancer, (hall be fworn to 
fchedule of pcrfons cufcharged in their offices. Stat. 5 R. II. 
c. 1 3. 
Clerk of the Rolls. —An officer of the chancery, that 
makes fearch for, and copies, deeds, offices, &c. 
Clerk of the Rules. —In the court of King’s-bench, is he 
who draws up and enters all the rules and orders made 
in court; and gives rules of courfe on divers writs. Stat. 
22 & 23 Car. II. c. 22. 
Clerk of the Sewers. —An officer belonging to the com- 
miffioners of fewers, who writes and records their proceeds 
ings, which they t ran fa ft by virtue of their commiflions, 
and the authority given them by (fat. 13 Eliz. c. 9. 
Clerk of the Signet. —An officer continually'- attendant on 
his majdry’s principal lecretary, who hath the cultody of 
the privy (ignet, as well for fealing bis majefty’s private 
letters, as Inch grants as pals the king’s hand by bill lign- 
ed ; and of thefe clerks or officers there are four that at¬ 
tend in their courfe, and have their diet at the lecretary’s 
table. The fees of the clerk of the fignet and privy feal, 
are limited particularly by lfatute, with a penalty annexed 
for taking any thing more. 27 Ii. VIII. c. n. 
Clerk of the King's Silver. —An officer belonging to the 
court of common pleas, to whom every fine is brought 
after it hath palled the office of the cujios brevium, and by 
whom the eft’eft of the writ of covenant is entered into a 
paper-book ; according to which all the fines of that term 
are recorded in the rolls of the court. After the king’s 
iilver is entered, it is accounted a fine in law, and not 
before. 
Clerk of the Superfedeas. —An officer belonging to the 
court of common pleas, who makes out writs of fuperfe- 
deas, upon a defendant’s appearing to the exigent on an 
outlawry, whereby the (heriff is forbidden to return the 
exigent. 
Clerk of the Treafury. —An officer of the common pleas, 
who hath the charge of keeping the records of the court, 
and makes put all the records of nifi prius; alfo he makes 
all exemplifications of records being in the treafury ; and 
he hath the fees due for all fearches. He is the fervant of 
the chief juftice, and removeable at plealure; whereas all 
other officers of the court are for life: there is a fecondary, 
or under clerk of the treafury, for affiitance, who hath fome 
fees and allowances : and likewife an under-keeper, that 
always keeps one key of the treafury door, and the chief 
clerk of the fecondary, another; fo that the one cannot 
come in without the other. 
Clerk of the King's Great Wardrobe. —An officer of the 
king’s houffiold, that keeps an account or inventory 
of all things belonging to the royal wardrobe. Stat. 
j E. IV. c. 1. 
Clerk of the Warrants. —An officer belonging to the com¬ 
mon pleas’ court, who enters ail warrants of attorney for 
plaintiffs and defendants in fuits ; and inrolls deeds of 
indentures of bargain and (ale, which are acknowledged 
in the court or before any judges out of the court. And 
it is his office to eftreat into the exchequer all ififues, fines, 
and amerciaments, which grow due to the king in that 
court, for which he hath a Handing fee or allowance. 
“ The clerk forgets that ever he was fexton." Honores 
■mutant mores, Lat. Anderer Jland andre firren, High Ger. 
i. e. “Honours change manners.” People raifed from me¬ 
nial employments to a high Ration, are apt to forget their 
former condition, as well as their former friends. They 
think grandeur confilts in a haughty carriage, and feve- 
xityover thole who, perhaps, before were their fuperiors. 
Unhappy is the condition of a man of feeling who is un¬ 
der a necelfity of having dependence on fuch defpicable 
beings, who, having no merit of themfelves, but what 
their riches and power give them, are blind to real merit 
in others. 
CLERK-LIKE, adj. learned.—You are certainly a gen¬ 
tleman thereto clerklike , experienced. Shakefpeare. 
CLERK'LY, adj. in a fcholar-like manner.—’Tis very 
sleekly done, Shakefpeare. 
C- L E 
CLERKE (captain Charles), a celebrated Engliffi na¬ 
vigator, was bred up in the navy from his youth, and 
was prefent in feveral aftions during the war of 1755. 
In that between the Bellona and Courageux he was in 
great danger; for having been Rationed in the mizen-top 
on board the former, the mall was carried overboard by a 
(hot, and he fell into the fea along with it; but was taken 
up without injury. When commodore Byron made his 
firft voyage round the world, Mr. Clerke lerved on board 
his (hip in quality of a midlhipman; and was afterwards 
on the American ffation. In 1768 he failed round the 
world a fecond time in the Endeavour, on board of which 
he lerved in the ffation of mailer’s mate ; but, during the 
voyage, fucceeded to a lieutenancy. He returned in 
1775, and was l° on after appointed mailer and com¬ 
mander. When captain Cook undertook his lad voyage. 
Mi-. Clerke was appointed captain of the Difcovery ; and 
in conlequence of the death of captain Cook, fucceeded to 
the fupreme command. He did not, however, long fur- 
vive his new dignity. Before his departure from Eng¬ 
land, he had manifeff fymptoms of a confumption. Of 
this difeafe he lingered during the whole of the voyage 3 
2nd his long refidence in the cold northern climates cut 
off all hopes of a recovery : but though fenfible that the 
only chance he had of prolonging his life was by a fpeedy 
return to a warmer climate, his attention to his duty was 
fo great, that he perfevered in fearch of a pallage between 
the Afiatic and American continents until every one of 
the officers was of opinion that it was imprafticable. He 
bore his diftemper with great firmnefs and equanimity to 
the laft; and died on the 22d of Auguft 1778, in the 38th 
year of his age, the (hip being then within view of Kamt- 
fchatka. 
CLERKE’s ISLANDS, in the North Pacific Ocean, are 
two illands of conliderable extent, containing feveral hills*, 
all of which are connefted by low land, fo as to occafion 
the looking at a dillance like a groupe of illands. They 
have their name in honour of that able navigator captain 
Clerke, the comuanion of captain Cook. In fome old 
maps they are called St. Andrea Illes. Near the eaft 
point is a fmall illand, which is remarkable for having 
on it three elevated rocks. Lat. 63. 15. N. Ion. 169. 30- 
W. Greenwich. 
CLERK'SHIP, f. [from clerk.~\ Scholarlhip. The office 
of a clerk of any kind.—He fold the clerkjlnp of his pa- 
rilh, when it became vacant. Swift. 
CLER'MONT, a poll town of the American Hates, in. 
Columbia county, New-York, fix miles from Red Hook, 
fifteen from Hudlon, 117 miles north of New-York, and 
212 from Philadelphia. 
CLER'MONT, a town of the American Hates, thir¬ 
teen miles from Camden, South Carolina. In the late 
war, here was a ftrong fort encompafled by an abbatis. 
It was taken from colonel Rugely, of the Britilh, Decem¬ 
ber 1781, by an ingenious llratagem of lieutenant-colonel 
Wafhington. 
CLER'MONT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lot and Garonne : three leagues well of Agen. 
CLER'MONT en ARGONNE, a town of France, and 
chief place of a diftrift, in the department of the Meufe, 
fituated on an eminence, furrounded with woods and 
paftures: four leagues weft-fouth-weft of Verdun, and two 
and a quarter eall of St. Menehould. This town was 
taken by the Pruffians in 1792, but was evacuated foon 
after. Lat. 49. 7. N. Ion. 22. 46. E. Ferro. 
CLER'MONT, or Clermont en Beauvaisis, a 
town of France, and principal place of a diftrift, in the de¬ 
partment of the Oife ; fituated on an eminence, near the 
Brefche: eight pods fouth of Amiens, andfeven and a half 
north of Paris. 
CLER'MONT FF.RRAND, a city of France, and capi¬ 
tal of the department of the Puy-de-Dome ; before the re¬ 
volution, the capital of Auvergne, and the. fee of a bilhop, 
luffrngan of Bourges : fituated on a fmall eminence, at 
the foot of a lofty mountain, and contains about 16,000 
a inhabitants. 
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