Cases Collect & Report per Sir Fra. Moore, Chivalier
by Sir Francis Moore
Cases Collect & Report per Sir Fra. Moore, Chivalier | |
Title page from Cases Collect & Report per Sir Fra. Moore, Chivalier, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
Author | Sir Francis Moore |
Editor | Sir Geoffrey Palmer |
Published | London: Printed for G. Pawlet, and are to be sold by Mat. Wotton |
Date | 1688 |
Edition | Second |
Language | English |
Pages | 9, 918, [73] |
Desc. | Folio (31 cm.) |
Location | Shelf H-5 |
Moore amassed great wealth, spending nearly £10,000 on property alone.[10] As a member of Parliament he was loyal supporter of his constituents, and remained an active opponent of monopolies.[11] He was particularly adept with the law of uses, drafting the statute of charitable uses and inventing the conveyance of lease and release.[12] Religiously, Moore may have remained a Catholic. Although Moore supported anti-recusant legislation in 1601, his will, marriage of a daughter into a Catholic family, and the allegations of his wife of being a recusant after his death indicate that he may have remained loyal to the Church.[13]
After his death, Moore's manuscripts were highly regarded, being circulated widely for nearly forty years before their publication by his son-in-law, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, in 1663.[14]
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as "Moore's rep. fol." and given by Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr. The Brown Bibliography[15] includes the 1688 edition which Thomas Jefferson also owned.[16] George Wythe's Library[17] on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. Folio editions were published at London in 1663, 1675 and 1688." The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the 1688 edition, as suggested by Brown.
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Backed in modern leather with cloth-covered boards.
Images of the library's copy of this book are available on Flickr. View the record for this book in William & Mary's online catalog.
See also
References
- ↑ Wilfrid Prest, "Moore, Sir Francis (b. 1559, d. 1621)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed March 11, 2014.
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- ↑ John William Wallace, The Reporters Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks 4th ed. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 122.
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.
- ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:328 [no.2031].
- ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on September 16, 2013.