MORE, John II (c.1578-1638), of St. Martin’s Lane, Westminster and Micheldever, Hants; formerly of the Old Bailey, London.

Family and Education

b. c. 1578, s. of Thomas Moore of Faringdon, Berks. (d. by 1616). PROB 6/9, f. 96. educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 1596, aged 18. Al. Ox. m. (1) by May 1607, HMC Downshire, ii. 26. Martha (bur. 21 May 1620), St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Harl. Soc. Reg. lxvi), 158. ‘a wench about Canterbury’, Kent, 1da.; Ibid. 21; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, i. 281. (2) Barbara, 1s. d.v.p.; PROB 11/179, f. 278. (3) 14 Nov. 1622, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 134. Elizabeth (d.1639), PROB 11/181, f. 362v. da. of John Lambert of Buckingham, Bucks., wid. of William Moore of Maids Moreton, Bucks. and John Every of Oxford, Oxon., s.p. VCH Bucks. iv. 200; C78/394/4. d. 21 Aug. 1638. C142/603/86.

Offices Held

Servant to (Sir) Ralph Winwood* 1598–1617; SP14/145/53. clerk of the signet 1623–d. C66/2068.

Member, Virg. Co. 1609. HMC Downshire, ii. 126; Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, i. 497, iii. 42–43, iv. 157.

Commr. piracy, Southampton 1618; C181/2, f. 309. freeman, Lymington, Hants 1620. Hants RO, 27M74A/DBC1, p. 122.

Parlimentarian

MORE, John II (c.1578-1638), of St. Martin’s Lane, Westminster and Micheldever, Hants; formerly of the Old Bailey, London.

Main residences: St. Martin's Lane, Westminster; Micheldever, Hants.; the Old Bailey, London.

Author

V.C.D.M.

R.C.L.S.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

MORE, John II (c.1578-1638)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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