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ing his dissent " to the vote of Dec. 6 which originated the " Purge," he was placed on the Commission for the trial of the King, and was present at eighteen out of the twenty- three meetings of the Commissioners, in- cluding the three days of the actual trial and at the sentence ; he also signed the warrant for execution. After the King's death he followed Cromwell to Ireland, and assisted at the siege of Tecroghan in Meath, where, or shortly afterwards, he fell a victim to the plague which then raged in the country, dying early in June, 1650.

When not employed on military service he was indefatigable in the discharge of his Parliamentary duties. Between Dec. 5, 1640, and Oct. 4, 1649, his name appears on 72 committees, but, as might be expected, the majority of these were after 1643, and very few were standing committees. The more important were the Committee for Irish Affairs, July 1, 1645 ; Classical Pres- byteries, July 25, 1645 ; complaints against Delinquents, July 23, 1646 ; for slighting Castles, Nov. 25, 1648 ; and was added to the Committee of the Army, Jan. 1, 1649.

At his death he left his estates in a very disordered condition and heavily in debt. On Mar. 2, 1651/2, on petition of Richard Worsley, administrator with the will an- nexed of Col. John Moore, deceased, on behalf of the four children of the said colonel, it was resolved by the House

'* that in full satisfaction of the monies certified by the Committee of Accounts, and in full of all other demands of said Col. John Moore, lands of inheritance of 1201, per annum out of estates of delinquents be settled on Edward Moore, son of Col. John Moore, and his heirs " ;

but it is doubtful if this was done. On June 27, 1669, Bank Hall was sold to Sir William Fenwick, his father-in-law, who had advanced money on the same. This was done to save Edward Moore from the pro- bable consequences of the Restoration.

Col. Moore married in 1633 Mary, dau. and coheiress of Alexander Rigby, M.P. for Wigan, and had two sons and a daughter. His eldest son Edward inherited his estates, or what was left of them, and married Dorothy, dau. and coheiress of Sir William Fenwick of Meldon, Northumberland, a Royalist. After the Restoration the estates of Col. Moore as a dead regicide were excepted out of the Act of Oblivion of 1661, and ordered to be confiscated, but (owing, doubtless, to the Royalist influence of Edward Moore's wife's family) were dealt leniently with, and allowed to pass to the son, who in 1675 was created a baronet, a

title which became extinct with the fifth baronet in 1810.

4. Luke Robinson, M.P. for Scarborough, October, 1645, till the Cromwellian dis- solution in 1653. Very little can be added to the notes upon this M.P. which appear in 11 S. xi. Robinson was a strong Parlia- mentarian and extreme republican. In 1643 he was appointed by ordinance on the Sequestration Committee for the East Riding ; in 1644 on that for the General Assessment of East and West, and in 1645 on the Committee for the Northern Associa- tion. In July, 1646, he was one of the Commissioners to present to the King at Newcastle the Parliament's propositions for peace, for which on Aug. 12 he, with his colleagues, received the special thanks of the House ; in June of the same year was one of the large Committee of Lords and Commons for adjudging Scandalous Offences ; and on Nov. 28, 1648, one of four Yorkshire M.P.s appointed to collect the Army Assessment. He subscribed to the Engage- ment on Feb. 5, 1649, and was at once nominated on the Committee to take Dissents. On July 16, 1651, was appointed one of the Commissioners to remove ob- structions to the sale of forfeited estates.

Between Dec. 13, 1645, and July 27, 1652, he is named on 109 Parliamentary com- mittees, among the more important being in 1646 the Committee of the Navy and that for settling a Preaching Ministry ; in 1647 to examine complaints against M.P.s ; in 1649 on Petitions, on the Act for Abolition of Kingship, for taking the Engagement by all, against Sabbath-breaking, and on the Goldsmiths' Hall Committee of Compound- ing ; in 1650, that on the Act of Pardon and Oblivion ; in 1651, for the sale of the late King's goods, and to consider the sale of delinquents' estates. He served on the first Council of State of the Commonwealth, 1649-50, and on the second Council, 1650-51. Was returned for the North Riding ^of Yorkshire to the second Cromwellian Parlia- ment of 1656-8, in which he is named on 66 committees. Was elected for Malton to the Parliament of Richard Cromwell, but unseated on petition. He returned with the Rumpers in May, 1659, and sat on 72 committees between May, 1659, and Feb. 18, 1660. Was one of two messengers sent to Monck on Feb. 11 with the thanks of the House, and answer to his letter for refilling the House with the secluded mem- bers. To the Convention Parliament of 1660 he was returned for his old seat at Scarborough, but was expelled the House