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===by Sir Francis Moore===
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}}Sir [[wikipedia:Francis Moore (barrister)|Francis Moore]] (1559 &ndash; 1621), a lawyer and politician, entered St. John's College, Oxford in 1574.<ref>Wilfrid Prest, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19107 Moore, Sir Francis (b. 1559, d. 1621)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed March 11, 2014.</ref> Although he never received an undergraduate degree, he received an MA as under-steward to the University in 1612.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Moore entered the New Inn, gained admittance to the Middle Temple in 1580,<ref>Ibid.</ref> and was called to bar in 1587.<ref>Ibid.</ref> His ascent in the political and legal fields was rapid.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1589, Moore was elected to Parliament for Boroughbridge in Yorkshire,<ref>Ibid.</ref> and was appointed to the bench of Middle Temple in 1603.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1614, he was made a serjeant and, three years later, became a knight.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Moore died in 1621 and was buried in Great Fawley, Berkshire.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

[[File:MooreCasesCollectReport1688Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece portrait of Sir Francis Moore.</center>]]
Moore amassed great wealth, spending nearly £10,000 on property alone.<ref>Ibid.</ref> As a member of Parliament he was loyal supporter of his constituents, and remained an active opponent of monopolies.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He was particularly adept with the law of uses, drafting the statute of charitable uses and inventing the conveyance of lease and release.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 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.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

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.<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'' 4th ed. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 122.</ref>

==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 [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>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.</ref> includes the 1688 edition which Thomas Jefferson also owned.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:328 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=346 [no.2031]].</ref> [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]] suggests the 1663 edition.<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 13 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on September 16, 2013.</ref> 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.

[[File:MooreCasesCollectReport1688Headpiece.jpg|center|thumb|450px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]

==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 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157658664258015 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991025606599703196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/MooreCasesCollectAndReport1688.pdf ''Cases Collect &amp; Report per Sir Fra. Moore''] (70MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
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[[Category:Case Reports]]
[[Category:Chancery Reports]]
[[Category:Common Pleas Reports]]
[[Category:Dabney Carr's Books]]
[[Category:Exchequer Reports]]
[[Category:Francis Moore]]
[[Category:Geoffrey Palmer]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:King's Bench Reports]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

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