regicide Gregory CLEMENT

1594 - 1660  (66 years)

• Name	Gregory CLEMENT
  Title	regicide
  Born	1594	Plymouth, England   [1]
  	"Gregory Clement, first of the line of whom there is information, was born in Plymouth, England, in the early part of 1600. His birth place and the record of baptism are found in the parish register near Plymouth, England, He was noted in the colonial series of the state papers of Columbia as a factor in the East India Company stationed at Agra, and at the Ahmedabad in the year 1632. He was a knight of Kent, companion of Oliver Cromwell. He was from Kent, but afterward of London; a member of the Long Parliament; mayor of Plymouth, England about 1640; judge regicide of Charles I, and executed by Charles II. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 4 - William Richard Cutter
  Christened	21 Nov 1594	St. Andrew's, Plymouth, Devon, Engalnd
  Gender	Male
  Died	1660
  Person ID	I547349748	Primary
  Last Modified	16 Aug 2013

  
  

  Father	John CLEMENT,   b. Abt 1570,   d. 12 Mar 1643  (Age ~ 73 years)
  Mother	Judith SPARKE,   b. Abt 1570,   d. 2 Jan 1612, Plymouth, Devon, England  (Age ~ 42 years)
  Married	Abt 1590
  Family ID	F518394761	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Christian BARTER,   b. 1610
  Married	25 Jun 1630	St. Dunstan, Stepney, London, England
  Children	+ 1. James CLEMENT,   b. Abt 1638,   d. 1724  (Age ~ 86 years)   2. Jacob CLEMENT,   b. Abt 1650   3. Gregory CLEMENT
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2017
  Family ID	F518394757	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Petition to the King of "Francis" Clement, one of the daughters of Sir John Sedley , Kt., showing that: Petitioner "being young was drawn without consulting her parents into a rash marriage with the eldest son of Gregory Clement," whose estate, including L1,000 personal estate, he being one of the late King's unjust judges, is confiscated; and he himself both condemned and executed. Petitioner's husband, being desperate under his burthens, left petitioned and her poor infant without maintenance or provision. Her father, who is well known for his loyalty in his country, "for her inconsiderate marriage into a traitorous family denies her all relief and succor." Calendar of the State Papers, Relating tp Ireland preserved in the Public Record Office, 1660-1670

  
  

• Sources

  [S523890182] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Clements, Gregory (bap. 1594, d. 1660), politician and regicide, was baptized at St Andrew's, Plymouth, on 21 November 1594, the son of John Clement, a local merchant who became mayor of the town in 1614, and his wife, Judith Sparke. Clements's formal education may have been minimal and he followed his father into trade, but although he ?had no good elocution, yet [he] was of a good apprehension and judgement? (Ludlow, 245). By 1616 he was a factor for the East India Company; he subsequently worked in India, where he remained, on a salary of £100, until he was dismissed in 1630, having been fined for engaging in illegal interloping trade. After his return to England and his marriage to Christian Barter at St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, on 25 June 1630, Clements emerged as a prominent ?new merchant? alongside Maurice Thompson, trading with the New England colonies.