_Family of Clench._--Can any of your readers supply me with the parentage
and family of _Bruin Clench_ of St. Martin's in the Fields, citizen of
London? He married Catharine, daughter of William Hippesley, Esq., of
Throughley, in Edburton, co. Sussex; and was living in 1686. His christian
name does not appear in the pedigrees of the Clinche or Clench family of
Bealings and Holbrook, co. Suffolk, in the _Heralds' Visitations_, in the
British Museum. His daughter married Roger Donne, Esq., of Ludham, co.
Norfolk, and was the maternal grandmother of the poet Cowper.