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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cooper, Thompson (1887). "Clark, William (d.1603)". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 408–409.
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