a market-town of Suffolk, thirteen miles south of Bury: E. long. 35', N. lat. 52° 15'. It gives the title of earl to the duke of Newcastle.

CLARE is also the capital of a county of the same name in the province of Connaught, in Ireland, situated about seventeen miles north-west of Limerick: W. long. 9°, N. lat. 52° 40'.