Orate pro anima Roberti Clere Militis, qui obiit decimo die Mensis Augusti, Anno Domini Millessimo Quingentissimo Uices simo Nono, cuius anime propicietur Deus Amen. Orate pro anima Domine Anne Clere, nuper Uroris Domini Roberti Clere Militis, de Ormesby, que obiit rriiio die Mensis Januarii, Anno Domini Mcccccv, cuius anime propicietur Deus. Hic iaret Robeertus Clere, qui obiit iio. Hic requiescit Henricus Clere Baronettus, qui Thalamo sibi Conjunxit, Merielem, Filiam Edmundi Domini Mondeford, Equitis Aurati, ex quâ habuit prolem Filiam unicam, Abigalem, obijt xxii. There may be an altar-tomb in Ormesby chancel, with his arms, impaling Mondeford, gul. Then comes the well-known kicker: “With great energy there should additionally come – nice accountability! James Hobart, the youthful son of Thomas, born at Monks Illegh in Suffolk, was the first of the family that settled in Norfolk, and by his prudent management left a advantageous property to his posterity, and with it, this excellent character, that he was, a proper good man, of great learning and wisdom; he was introduced up to the law, which he studied in Lincoln’s-Inn with great success, and became of such status, that he transacted the affairs of most of the principal families on this county, when he was very young; being reader in LincolnsInn, in Lent-Term, 1447, and in Edward the Fourth’s time in 1472, Walter Le-Hert, or Lyhert, Bishop of Norwich, made him one among his executors, and it appears that evidently he had married his niece, (who was then lifeless,) for his first wife, by whom he had no concern; for the Bishop gave him 20l. as an executor, and 100l. and a cup of silver gilt, together with his arms at the underside, on condition that he claimed nothing extra of his goods.
They’d problem two daughters; Elizabeth, 1st spouse of Walter Heronden, Esq. They were headed by the two most succesful politicians and soldiers then alive in England, the two Richards, father and son, who held the earldoms of Salisbury and Warwick, and were respectively brother-in-regulation and nephew to York. Ormesby, Snecke, Westlesse, Wichingham, Somerton, Owydale, and his two quarterings of the de-lises, and Rusteyn, impaling Boleyn. Dame Alice, daughter of Sir William Boleyn of Blickling, Knt. 17, Edward Clere, was knighted at Norwich by Queen Elizabeth in her progress in these parts, and in 1580 was excessive-sheriff of Norfolk; he first married Margaret, daughter of William Yaxley of Yaxley in Suffolk, Esq by whom he had Henry his son and heir; and afterwards Agnes, relict of Sir Christopher Heydon of Baconsthorp, daughter of Robert Crane of Chilton in Suffolk, by whom he had only Robert, who died younger; he travelled into international elements, was in such esteem at the French court, that he was elected one of many knights of the Gullick Order of St. Michael; however affecting much grandeur, and conserving an enormous retinue, he contracted a large debt, and was pressured to promote a terrific a part of his property, and among others, this manor and advowson, to Sir Henry Hobart, Knt.
Sir John, in 1549, was treasurer of the King’s military in France; in 1556 was employed to hire ships for the King’s service against Scotland; in 1557 was made vice admiral, and despatched to sea with a fleet underneath his command, to alarm the northern coasts of Scotland; upon his touchdown upon one of many Orkney Islands called Kirkway, the Scots fell upon his males, and killed and drowned eighty of them, in addition to himself, who was drowned there in Aug. 1557, and died seized of the manor of Ormesby, the advowson of Winterton, and chapel of East Somerton, Northall in Freethorp, the advowson of St. Edmund’s in Norwich, Somerton manor, advowson and manor of Vauxhall in Burgh in Fleg, Stalham-hall, Limpenhoe, Tacolneston, Vuedales, Tharston, Gonviles and Rusteyns in Wimondham, Blickling, Morehall, and Hawes, in Salle, Stratton Streless, and the advowson, Scrateby, Fundenhall rectory, &c. John Hobart is talked about as dwelling there in 1389, 12 Richard II.; his son. 15, Sir John Clere, Knt. Arigail Clere, his daughter and sole heiress, married John Cromwell of London, Esq. 14, Sir Robart his heir, married Ales, daughter of Sir William Boleyn of Blicklinge, Knt.
