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345, 379 ; 4 S. vi. 547 ; 8 S. xi. 328, 433 ; 10 S. ii. 448, 512; 12 S. v. 261). At any rate Robert Moore, upon becoming a Win- chester Scholar, was set down in our Register as of Southampton :

" Robertus Moore, de Southampton., 10 annorum Micha. preterit., admissus 14 Februarii [1579/80]. fDiocesis] Winton. [Marginal note : ] recessit Oxonise."

It was in his boyhood at Winchester that his acquaintance, which MB. TURNER men- tions, with Bilson, the future Bishop, began ; for Bilson was Headmaster of the College (1571-79), and afterwards Warden (1580-96). The "Dr. John Harris," who preached the sermon at Moore's funeral at West Meon in February, 1640/1, was not only Rector of the neighbouring parish of Meonstoke : he was Warden of the College (1630-58). MR. TURNER'S statements concerning Moore's Church preferments need a slight revision : for in 1603 Moore, who was then rector both at West Meon and at Chilcomb, parted with Chilcomb and took the vicarage of Hamble- don (Hants), under an exchange with Arthur Lake, afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells. In 1612 he gave up Hambledon, in order to hold, in conjunction with West-Meon, the vicarage of East-Meon. (See the Com- position Books at the Public Record Office.) At Winchester he was installed prebendary (4th stall) on June 4, 1613, but resigned before Jan. 9, 1631, the date when Dr. Edward Meetkirke, his son-in-law, succeeded him ('Hardy's Le Neve'). He was also prebendary of Exceit, one of the Wyke- hamical prebends in Chichester Cathedral being installed there on Feb. 11, 1611/12, but vacated in or before 1625, the year in which Dr. Edward Stanley (Headmaster at Winchester, 1627-42) obtained Exceit (' Hen- nessey ').

Moore apparently bequeathed his library or a part of it to Winchester College, for our Accounts of 1640-1 contain these entries :

"Sol. in regardiis in Domo Domini More per socium evolventem Libroa Doctoris More nuper defuncti, - 2 - 0." ('Custus Necessariorum cum Donis,' 2nd quarter).

"Sol. pro carriagio Librorum Doctoria Moore ad Collegium, - 14 - " (' Custus Capellse et Librariffi,' 3rd quarter).

The legacy is not recorded in our parch- ment book of ' Donations to the Library,' which, though it records several gifts of an earlier date (one of them, William Moryn's, being as early as 1543), was not actually started until 1651-2 (as appears from the Accounts of that year under ' Custus Capellae et Librariae ' ). It mentions, however,

Moore's gift in 1602 of ' Theodori Bezae> Vezelii volumen Tractationum Theo- logicarum ' (Anchora Eustathii Vignon, MDLXXVI.), a book which remains in the Library, and which has, pasted on to the title page, an old note of its being Moore's gift. The beauty of the book was not im- proved when it was re-bound (long ago) and. the margins were cut down.

According to Foster's ' Alumni Oxon.,' Dr. Moore's son Robert matriculated at Oxford, as of Exeter College, on Nov. 21,, 1634, aged 16, but I cannot trace him in Boase's ' Registrum Collegii Exoniensis ' (Oxford Hist. Soc., 1894), and he does not seem to have graduated. Curiously enough, Foster omits to mention Robert Moore, the Wykehamist, who migrated from Winchester to New College in 1635 and is described in our Register as :

" Robertus Moore, consanguineus Domini Fun- datoris.de parochia Stoke-Rivers in comit. Devon., 12 annornm Fest. Michael, preterit., et admissus Julii 28, 1629. [Dice.] Exon."

This Robert Moore appears in the 'Liber Successionis ' under date Oct. 15, 1635, next after William Twisse (Dr. Robert Moore's grandson), but the book ascribes to him a birth-place quite different from that just stated :

" Rob. More, de par. Wichingham Parvse. com. Norfolk, dioe. Norwich : [receasit] 1637 : Consan- guineus fundatoris : Non Graduatus. CSvilist. Resignavit."

The foregoing entries do not relate to- Dr. Moore's son Robert, but to a contem- porary of the same names. This contem- porary seems to have been son of William Moore of Stoke-Rivers, Devon (Winchester Scholar, 1601), who resigned his Fellowship at New College in 1613, upon accepting the college living of Witchingham, Norfolk. William Moore held Witchingham for two years only: "postea" (runs our note) " Rector de Stoke, com. Devon., et Bishops Lydiard, com. Somerset." He had certainly been rector of Bishop's Lydiard for fifty years when he died in 1665 (see Collinson's 'Somerset,' ii. 496). I should be glad to learn whom he married and how his son Robert came to be Founder's kin. This family of Moore does not occur in our College book of C.F. pedigrees.

MR. TURNER states that the Moores of Milton Place, Egham, were armigerous. If he would kindly tell us what their arms were, that might possibly help to throw light upon Dr. Moore's ancestry. The epitaph at West- Meon described him as " Ortus stirpe bona " (see Wood, loc. cit.). H. C.

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