Henry Clerke was an

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lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1626. Clerke was recorder of Rochester. ''Parishes: Ulcombe'', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5 (1798), pp. 385-396. Date accessed: 19 November 2010.
/ref> He was elected

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for Rochester in 1621 until 1622 under the reign of King James I. He was re-elected MP for Rochester in 1625 for both parliaments in that year under King Charles I. His political seat was the house in Rochester later named

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which he created from some existing buildings.Restoration House
/ref> In 1637, Clerke was made a serjeant-at law and some time before 1642, he acquired the manor of Ulcomb from Sir William St Leger. As Clerke supported King Charles in the

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, Restoration House was sequestered and used by Colonel Gibbon as a headquarters in southeast England. Clerke married Grace Morgan, daughter of George Morgan of Crow Lane House, Rochester. His sons

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and John were also MPs for Rochester.Basil Duke Henning,
The House of Commons, 1660–1690
', Volume 1.

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