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}}Samuel Clarke or Clark (1626–1701) was an English Nonconformist clergyman born in Shotwick,<ref>Alexander Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel (1626-1701),” in Dictionary of National Biography (London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900).[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Clarke,_Samuel_(1626-1701).] </ref> whose father (also named Samuel Clarke) was a prominent Puritan biographer.<ref>Cambridge University, <i>ACAD: A Cambridge Alumni Database,</i> accessed January 12th, 2026, https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=Clarke&suro=w&fir=Samuel&firo=c&cit=Shotwick&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 (searching for surname = CLARKE; forename = SAMUEL).</ref> Clarke was educated at Cambridge, but when he was appointed fellow by the Earl of Manchester on March 13th, 1644, he refused to take the engagement of fidelity to the Commonwealth, so he was ejected.<ref>See Cambridge <i>ACAD</i>.</ref> Afterwards he held the rectory of Grendon Underwood, Buckinghamshire (from which he was also ejected), finally settling in High Wycombe, where he would remain until his death.<ref>Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."</ref> He was known as an assiduous annotator of the Bible, and published a number of works along with <i>A Brief Concordance</i>. His annotated version of the Bible, which he had planned to write as an undergraduate, was described as “the work of his life.”<ref>Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."</ref> | }}Samuel Clarke or Clark (1626–1701) was an English Nonconformist clergyman born in Shotwick,<ref>Alexander Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel (1626-1701),” in Dictionary of National Biography (London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900).[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Clarke,_Samuel_(1626-1701).] </ref> whose father (also named Samuel Clarke) was a prominent Puritan biographer.<ref>Cambridge University, <i>ACAD: A Cambridge Alumni Database,</i> accessed January 12th, 2026, [https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=Clarke&suro=w&fir=Samuel&firo=c&cit=Shotwick&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50] (searching for surname = CLARKE; forename = SAMUEL).</ref> Clarke was educated at Cambridge, but when he was appointed fellow by the Earl of Manchester on March 13th, 1644, he refused to take the engagement of fidelity to the Commonwealth, so he was ejected.<ref>See Cambridge <i>ACAD</i>.</ref> Afterwards he held the rectory of Grendon Underwood, Buckinghamshire (from which he was also ejected), finally settling in High Wycombe, where he would remain until his death.<ref>Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."</ref> He was known as an assiduous annotator of the Bible, and published a number of works along with <i>A Brief Concordance</i>. His annotated version of the Bible, which he had planned to write as an undergraduate, was described as “the work of his life.”<ref>Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."</ref> | ||
A Bible concordance is an alphabetical listing of words and phrases found in the Holy Bible and shows where the terms occur throughout all books of Scripture.<ref> Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."</ref> With cross-references for verses, concordances make it easy to understand the meaning of terms and the context in which those words are used.<ref>Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."</ref> Clarke’s concordance was published in 1696 by Thomas Parkhurst<ref>Samuel Clarke, <i>A Brief Concordance to the Holy Bible of the Most Usual and Useful Places which One May Have Occasion to Seek For,</i> In a New Method (London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1696), accessed via Google Books.[https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Brief_Concordance_to_the_Holy_Bible_of.html?id=nOiPhuN2_X8C.]</ref> and was praised for its brevity and soundness of judgment.<ref>Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."</ref> | A Bible concordance is an alphabetical listing of words and phrases found in the Holy Bible and shows where the terms occur throughout all books of Scripture.<ref> Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."</ref> With cross-references for verses, concordances make it easy to understand the meaning of terms and the context in which those words are used.<ref>Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."</ref> Clarke’s concordance was published in 1696 by Thomas Parkhurst<ref>Samuel Clarke, <i>A Brief Concordance to the Holy Bible of the Most Usual and Useful Places which One May Have Occasion to Seek For,</i> In a New Method (London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1696), accessed via Google Books.[https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Brief_Concordance_to_the_Holy_Bible_of.html?id=nOiPhuN2_X8C.]</ref> and was praised for its brevity and soundness of judgment.<ref>Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."</ref> | ||
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| Date | 1696 | |
Samuel Clarke or Clark (1626–1701) was an English Nonconformist clergyman born in Shotwick,[1] whose father (also named Samuel Clarke) was a prominent Puritan biographer.[2] Clarke was educated at Cambridge, but when he was appointed fellow by the Earl of Manchester on March 13th, 1644, he refused to take the engagement of fidelity to the Commonwealth, so he was ejected.[3] Afterwards he held the rectory of Grendon Underwood, Buckinghamshire (from which he was also ejected), finally settling in High Wycombe, where he would remain until his death.[4] He was known as an assiduous annotator of the Bible, and published a number of works along with A Brief Concordance. His annotated version of the Bible, which he had planned to write as an undergraduate, was described as “the work of his life.”[5]
A Bible concordance is an alphabetical listing of words and phrases found in the Holy Bible and shows where the terms occur throughout all books of Scripture.[6] With cross-references for verses, concordances make it easy to understand the meaning of terms and the context in which those words are used.[7] Clarke’s concordance was published in 1696 by Thomas Parkhurst[8] and was praised for its brevity and soundness of judgment.[9]
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as "Clarke’s Concordance. 12mo." This was one of the titles kept by Thomas Jefferson and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. All of the Wythe Collection sources (Goodwin's Study[10], Dean's Memo[11], Brown's Bibliography[12] and George Wythe's Library[13] on LibraryThing) list the 1696 edition as the probable one owned by Wythe. The copy owned by the Library of Congress was rebound for Jefferson with his shelfmark and contains writings that Sowerby notes may be attributable to Wythe. As of yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of Brief Concordance to the Holy Bible.
See also
References
- ↑ Alexander Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel (1626-1701),” in Dictionary of National Biography (London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900).[1]
- ↑ Cambridge University, ACAD: A Cambridge Alumni Database, accessed January 12th, 2026, [2] (searching for surname = CLARKE; forename = SAMUEL).
- ↑ See Cambridge ACAD.
- ↑ Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."
- ↑ Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."
- ↑ Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."
- ↑ Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."
- ↑ Samuel Clarke, A Brief Concordance to the Holy Bible of the Most Usual and Useful Places which One May Have Occasion to Seek For, In a New Method (London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1696), accessed via Google Books.[3]
- ↑ Gordon, "Clarke, Samuel."
- ↑ Mary R. M. Goodwin, The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), XLVII.
- ↑ Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean, Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 3 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.
- ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 28, 2013.