CLARAMONT-POWDER, a kind of earth, called terra de Baira, from the place where it is found; it is famous at Venice, for its efficacy in stopping hemorrhages of all kinds, and in curing malignant fevers.
PRECEPT of CLARE CONSTAT, in Scots law, the warrant of a superior for entering and infecting the heir of his former vassal, without the interposition of an inquest.
NAME of St CLARE, were founded at Assisa in Italy,
about the 1212. These nuns observed the rule of St. Francis, and wore habits of the same colour with those of the Franciscan friars: and hence were called Minorites; and their house, without Aldgate, the Minorites, where they were settled when first brought over into England, about the year 1293. They had only three houses besides this.