Individual Details

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Richard Clopton, Gentleman was of Fore Hall, Long Melford. Born in Long Melford, County Suffolk, probably, about 3 miles northwest of Sudbury and 10 miles south of Bury St. Edmunds, and probably baptized at Holy Trinity Church, and died Bef. November 28, 1615 in Fore Hall, Long Melford, probably, and buried Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford.
He married (1) Margaret Bozun, of County Lincolnshire, daughter of Richard Bozun, Knt., of County Lincolnshire. They had one daughter.

He married (2) Margaret Playters, of Sotterley, Suffolk, daughter of William Playters and Jane Jenney. She was born in Sotterley, County Suffolk, probably, about 5 miles southeast of Beccles and about 24 miles northeast of Clopton, Suffolk, and probably baptized at St. Margaret, Sotterley, and died in Fore Hall, Long Melford, probably, and possibly buried Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford.


Margaret Playters' ancestral church, St. Margaret, features a fifteenth century glass in the east window, one panel showing Sir William Playters, a Yorkist, in complete armor with his seven sons. Her father, William's effigy was stolen in 1843. The brass kneeling effigy of his second wife remains. The inscription on the tomb reads: "Here lieth buried the bodie of William Playters esquier, sonne and heire of Thomas and Ann his wife, who married Ann [sic. Jane], daughter to Sir Edmond Jenny of Knotshall, Knight, by whom he had issue. . ." His first wife, and Margaret's mother, is buried at St. Mary, Henstead, County Suffolk, about five miles southeast of Beccles. There are a number of other brasses and monuments dedicated to various Playters.

Death	Aft 1556	Long Melford, Suffolk, England
Marriage		Margaret Playters

Spouse	Margaret Playters ( - )
Child	WILLIAM CLOPTON ( - 1616)

Father	William Clopton (1450 - )
Mother	Thomasine Knyvet (1467 - 1536)