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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
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Published	London: Printed for G. Pawlet, and are to be sold by Mat. Wotton
Date	1688
Edition	Second
Language	English
Volumes	{{{set}}} volume set
Pages	9, 918, [73]
Desc.	Folio (31 cm.)
Location	Shelf H-5
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Sir Francis Moore (1559 – 1621), a lawyer and politician, entered St. John's College, Oxford in 1574.^[1] Although he never received an undergraduate degree, he received an MA as under-steward to the University in 1612.^[2] Moore entered the New Inn, gained admittance to the Middle Temple in 1580,^[3] and was called to bar in 1587.^[4] His ascent in the political and legal fields was rapid.^[5] In 1589, Moore was elected to Parliament for Boroughbridge in Yorkshire,^[6] and was appointed to the bench of Middle Temple in 1603.^[7] In 1614, he was made a serjeant and, three years later, became a knight.^[8] Moore died in 1621 and was buried in Great Fawley, Berkshire.^[9]

Frontispiece portrait of Sir Francis Moore.

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] Dean's Memo suggests the 1663 edition.^[17] George Wythe's Library^[18] 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.

Headpiece, first page of text.

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.

Full text

• Cases Collect & Report per Sir Fra. Moore (70MB PDF)

See also

• George Wythe Room
• Jefferson Inventory
• Wythe's Library

References

1. ↑ Wilfrid Prest, "Moore, Sir Francis (b. 1559, d. 1621)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed March 11, 2014.
2. ↑ Ibid.
3. ↑ Ibid.
4. ↑ Ibid.
5. ↑ Ibid.
6. ↑ Ibid.
7. ↑ Ibid.
8. ↑ Ibid.
9. ↑ Ibid.
10. ↑ Ibid.
11. ↑ Ibid.
12. ↑ Ibid.
13. ↑ Ibid.
14. ↑ John William Wallace, The Reporters Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks 4th ed. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 122.
15. ↑ 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.
16. ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:328 [no.2031].
17. ↑ 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).
18. ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on September 16, 2013.