William Clerk, LL.D. (died 1655) was an English civil lawyer.

Life

He received his education at

Trinity Hall, Cambridge Trinity Hall (formally The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is the fifth-oldest surviving college of the university, having been founded in 1350 by ...

( LL.B. 1609, LL.D. 1629). He was admitted an advocate at Doctors' Commons on 23 October 1629, and in 1639 he occurs as official of the

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. He was appointed one of the judges of the admiralty in 1651. Anthony Wood, ''Fasti Oxon.'' ed. Philip Bliss, i. 389 His death occurred about August 1655. He was author of ''An Epitome of certaine late Aspersions cast at Civilians, the Civil and Ecclesiastical Lawes, the Courts Christian, and at Bishops and their Chancellors, wherein the Authors thereof are refuted and repelled'', Dublin, 1631. This treatise is chiefly in answer to the preface of Sir John Davies's ''Reports'', and to some parts of the case of '' præmunire'' reported by him.

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