1645 "Abigall daughter of Tho: Bernardiston baptized 16th of Aprill 1645" at St Stephen, Coleman Street. [1]
1668/9 Jan 16, Marriage Settlement, between 1. Thomas Barnardiston of Hackney, merchant, and 2. Josiah Clerke of London, doctor of physic. 2 is to marry 1's daughter Abigail, and is to receive a marriage portion of £800. He is bound to 1 in the sum of £1005, which bond will become void if he leaves an income of £80 p.a. to his wife after his death. [2]
1668/9 February 9 "Josiah Clerke, of Mark Lane, London, Dr in Physic, Widr, abt 30, & Mrs Abigail Barnardiston, of Hackney, Midx., Spr, abt 23; consent of father Thomas Barnardiston, Merchant; at All Hallows Stayning, London" [3]
1714 "September 15 Dr. Josiah Clark buried in the old Vault" at St Olave, Hart Street, London. [4]
1724 Apr 11 Admission of Abigail Clerke, widow, to Lillingstones Lands, on the death of Josiah Clerke of London, doctor in physic, her husband. [5]
Research Notes:
Frederick Arthur Crisp states, [6]
Josiah Clerke of Mark Lane, London, M.D.; of Peterhouse, Cambridge, M.B. 1661, M.D. 1666, F.R.C.P. 29 July 1675, elected President 13 September 1708, but resigned 18 December following; died, aged 74, bur. at St. Olave's, Hart Street, London. Portrait at College of Physicians. Will dated 23 April 1709, and resigned 17 August 1710, proved 14 October 1714 (P.C.C. 188 Aston.)" and "Abigail [Barnardiston], married at All Hallows Staining, London, 18 February 1668/9, marriage licence (Vicar-General) dated 9 Frebruary 1668/9, then aged 23; mentioned in her brother Nathaniel's will 1 August 1777; executrix to her husband's will 14 October 1714.
The biography of Josiah Clerke in the Oxford DNB states, [7]
Clerk [Clarke], Josiah [Josias] (bap. 1639?, died 1714), physician, may have been the son of Josias Clerk baptized at Romford, Essex, on 4 January 1639. He was educated at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and was admitted as a pensioner of Peterhouse, Cambridge, on 1 May 1656, and took the two degrees in medicine, MB in 1661, MD on 3 July 1666. He was admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians on 26 June 1671, a fellow on 29 July 1675, and was appointed censor in 1677 and 1692. On the death of Sir Thomas Witherley he was named elect on 16 April 1694, delivered the Harveian oration in 1708, was consiliarius in 1707, 1709, 1710, 1711, and 1712, and was elected to the presidentship, void by the death of Dr Edward Browne, on 13 September 1708, being re-elected at the general election of officers on the 30th of the same month. Clerk 'being indisposed by many bodyly infirmityes, and also aged', was unable to act; he accordingly resigned on 18 December, and Charles Goodall was appointed on 23 December 1708. Clerk had been chosen treasurer on 16 April 1708, and retained that office as long as he lived. Clerk died at his house in Fenchurch Street, London, in the autumn of 1714, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. In the annals of the college cited by Munk the date of Clerk's death is given as 8 December, which is erroneous. His will (TNA: PRO, PROB 11/542/188) was proved on 14 October. He desired 'to be decently, tho' very privately, buried by night in the vault in St. Olave Hart Street Church, where my honoured mother and my children lye, if it may be done with conveniency'. He was survived by his wife, Abigail, and their daughter, Elizabeth, who was married to Richard Wilshaw.
A biography of Josiah Clerk was published in the Stephen's Dictionary of National Biography in 1897. [8]
[1] London Metropolitan Archives, St Stephen Coleman Street, Composite register: baptisms and marriages 1636-1717, burials 1636-1689, P69/STE1/A/002/MS04449, Item 002, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, image 7, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[2] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, M2580, Hackney Archives Department (Former reference: AR: E28), [UKNationalArchives].
[3] George G. Armytage, ed. and Joseph Lemuel Chester, Allegations for marriage licences issued by the dean and chapter of Westminster, 1558 to 1699 : also, for those issued by the vicar-general of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1660 to 1679 (London: 1886), 161, [HathiTrust].
[4] London Metropolitan Archives, St Olave Hart Street, Register of burials, 1684 - 1805, P69/OLA1/A/009/MS28870, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, image 29, [AncestryImage].
[5] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Copy of Court Roll DE/HL/13208, Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, [UKNationalArchives].
[6] Frederick Arthur Crisp, ed., Visitation of England and Wales, Notes, Vol. 7 (Privately Printed, 1907), 190, [GoogleBooks].
[7] Gordon Goodwin, rev. Michael Bevan, "Clerk, Josiah (bap. 1639?, died 1714)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004, online edition, rev. Michael Bevan, Jan 2008), [Oxford_Dictionary_National_Biography], [OxfordDNB(UM)].
[8] Leslie Stephen, ed., Dictionary of National Biography, Clater-Condell, Vol. 11 (London: Smith Elder & Co, 1887), 43, [HathiTrust].