Sir Walter Clopton (died 1400) was an English lawyer, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1388 until his death in 1400.
This happened after the execution of Sir Robert Tresilian, who was charged with treason by the baronial faction known as the Lords Appellant.
[2] It then fell on Clopton – in what has become known as the Merciless Parliament – to pronounce death sentences on others of Richard II's closest advisers, including the King's former tutor Simon de Burley.
Clopton presided when the Earl of Arundel, one of the King's main antagonists, was arraigned on a charge of treason, and executed.
[4] The next year he was asked for an opinion on a set of legal rulings that had been pronounced in 1387 on Richard's prompting, and that had contributed to the problems of that period.