John (Johannes) Clerk

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• Occupation: 1357, Montrose, Scotland, Great Britain; John Clerk, merchant-burgess and chief magistrate of Montrose, became one of the hostages for the rensom of King David in 1357 Source: The Scottish Nation, Or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours ..., Volum 1, p 652 Douglas graves the Clerks of Penicuik as most probably descended from John Clerk, one of the hostages for King David’s ransom in 1357 .... a merchant, and the most considerable man of that town (Montrose). And appears by their Concil books that the Clerks were the chief magistrates of that burgh for some centuries thereafter, of whom are desceded the immediate ancestor of his family....... I. William Clerk, merchant, burgers of Montrose ….. died about 1620 Ii. John Clerk, baptist. 22. Dec. 1611, merchant …… Source: Memoirs of the Life of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik: Baronet, Baron of the ..., p 3 Consilium apuid Edinburgh XXXVI die Septembris A. D. MCCCLVII ............ The obligation of the towns and burgesses of the kingdom of Scotland ancent the ransom of King David A. D. 1357 ...... et Johannes Clerk de Monros, ...... ...... Johannem and John Clerk of Monros, .... Source: The Scottish Nation, Or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours ..., Volum 1, p 652 clerk, john aut johannes. clerk fl. 1357 scottish merchant, magistrate and member of parlament for montrose