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| Category: | People |
| Type: | Disambiguation |
Wharton's letters mention a parliamentarian Colonel Clarke, who was with Sir William Balfour around the time of Powick Bridge. There was no colonel of this name in Essex's army, but there was a captain of horse called Edward Clarke or Clerke.[1] Wharton may have meant this officer and got his rank wrong, or may have meant a different officer and got his name wrong.
The letters also mention a royalist Captain Clarke, who is clearly meant to be a different person.
- ^ Alan Turton, Chief Strength of the Army: Essex’s Horse (1642–1645) (Leigh-on-Sea: Partizan Press, 1992), p. 25; TNA, SP 28/143, Account of Francis Vernon, ff. 13v, 21r, 23v, 32r, 35r (transcript).