or **CLAEK**, in Metallurgy, bone-ashes perfectly calcined, and finely powdered, kept purposely for covering the insides of **Cupels**.

**CLARAMONT Powder**, a kind of earth, called *terra de Bairia*, 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 inflicting the heir of his former vassal, without the interposition of an inquest.

**Nuns of St Clare**, were founded at Assisa in Italy, about the year 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 Minorese; and their house, without Aldgate, the Minores, where they were settled when first brought over into England, about the year 1293. They had only three houses besides this.

**Clare**, a market-town of Suffolk, 13 miles south of Bury, with 1170 inhabitants in 1811. E. Long. 0. 35. N. Lat. 52. 15.