MORE, Richard (c.1576-1643), of Linley Hall, More, Salop.

Family and Education

b. c.1576, 1st s. of Robert More (bur. 20 Mar. 1604) of Linley and Susan Davenport of Weston-in-Arden, Bulkington, Warws.C142/284/71; Salop Par. Regs. More, 7; Oxford DNB. m. 22 May 1592 Sarah (bur. 10 Nov. 1643), da. of Roger Harris of Shrewsbury, 4s. (?1 d.v.p.), 1da.St Julian, Shrewsbury par. reg.; Salop Par. Regs. More, 23; PROB11/157/433; Salop Archives, 1037/12/19; H. Hardwick, The Saints Gain by Death (1644), Sig. A3 iii; PROB11/199/620. suc. fa. Mar. 1604.Salop Par. Regs. More, 7. d. 6 Dec. 1643.Frag. Gen. xiii. 134.

Offices Held

Civic: burgess, Bishop’s Castle 13 Dec. 1610; rater by 16 Nov. 1630; head burgess, 3 July 1632 – d.; bailiff, 1637–8.Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, corporation order bk. ff. 4, 174, 185, 192v.

Local: treas. maimed soldiers, Salop 1619.Salop Archives, WB/B3/1/1 p. 482. Commr. subsidy, 1621, 1624;C212/22/21, 23. Forced Loan, 1627;C193/12/2, f. 49. sewers, Worcs. and Glos. 1 Mar. 1631.C181/4 f. 79v. J.p. Salop c.1635–?d.C193/13/2. Commr. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385b. loans on Propositions, 23 July 1642;LJ v. 233b. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; commr. west midlands cos. 10 Apr. 1643; levying of money, Salop 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643.Northants. RO, FH133, unfol.; A. and O.

Central: member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 9 Jan. 1643.CJ ii. 920a; Add. 15669 f. 1v.

: More, Salop.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

MORE, Richard (c.1576-1643), of Linley Hall, More, Salop.

Will

6 Apr. 1643, pr. 4 Mar. 1647.PROB11/199/620.

Estates

held 10 shares in Somers Island Company, 1618.J. Smith, Generall Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles (1644), 188-9.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

presented George Lawson to rectory of More, Apr. 1637.C. Condren, George Lawson’s Politica and the English Revolution (Cambridge, 1989), 12.

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