Box L.b.626-L.b.670
Contains 39 Results:
Davenport, Sir Humphre. Legal opinion concerning the right of a Lieutenant of the Tower to the goods of an attainted prisoner in his care., 1566-1645., 1620.
Davenport answers affirmatively the question asked by Sir George More: whether the Lieutenant who held office at the time of the attaineder could later seize the goods, though he had resigned the office and left the goods for the prisoner's use. In the autographs of More and Davenport.
Great Britain. Sovereigns, etc., (James I). Warrant to Sir George More, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter. Westminster., 1603-1625, May 8, 1618.
Permitting More to be absent from court except on the feast of the Order, and other special occasions. With the royal sign manual and a fragment of a seal.
Merlin's prophecy. A transcript of a medieval poem in the autograph of Sir George More., ca. 1620.
Contains 50 lines, beginning, "A prince out of the North shall come."
Caesar, Sir Julius. Letter signed. To Sir George More. Strand., 1558-1636., March 29, 1610.
More is to make a friendly settlement between the present occupier of the Castle garden in Guildford and the new tenant, or to report back to Caesar or the Lord Treasurer.
2 fols
More, Sir George. Brief on claims to the rectory of Thorpe., 1553-1632., ca. 1611.
Lady Elizabeth (More) Egerton (d. 1600) and her son, Sir Francis Wolley (d. 1611) were seized of the rectory, and the question is to whom it next should lawfully descend. Not in More's autograph.
1 fol.
More, Sir George. Petition to James I, signed by More., 1553-1632., December 8, 1612.
A request for permission to retire to a more private life, since the King has twice passed him over for the Office of the Wards.
Moore, Adrian. A statement correcting the amount of the rent of certain lands in Ulster from ¥500 to ¥376.13.4 yearly., August 9, 1616.
An agreement between Sir Robert Mackellan and Moore, in respect to the Haberdashers' part of lands in Ulster had been in error from calculating in Irish instead of English acres. Kept by Sir George More and endorsed by him.
Dale, Sir Thomas. Letter. To Sir William Throckmorton. From Jacatra in Java maior., d. 1619., March 15, 1618/19.
Letter (copy). An account of Dale's adventures in the South Seas from July 1618 to the date of the letter: sea-fighting with the Portuguese and the Dutch, and negotiations with them and with the king of Jacatra and the Pengram of Bantam.
Yelverton, Sir Henry. Opinion that simony was involved in the contract between William Oughtred and John Tichborne for presentation to the church of Compton in Surrey., 1566-1629., July 1619.
Sir George More is the original patron of the living. The initials of all the persons mentioned have been identified and the names supplied in the autograph of Lady Reinsford (see Kempe, 1836).