Guildford Surrey
Loseley mausoleum chapel of the Moore / More family.
Lying on an altar tomb - Sir William More / Moore of Loseley House, Surrey (30 January 1520 – 20 July 1600) & 2nd wife Margaret Daniell with their son & 2 daughters kneeling behind
His epitaph describes him as ‘evermore a zealous professor of true religion, and a favourer of all those ... truly ... religious, spending his days in the service of our late sovereign of blessed memory, Queen Elizabeth, in whose favour he lived and died ...’.
William More was the son of Sir Christopher More, King's Remembrancer of the Exchequer 1549 & 1st wife Margaret daughter of Joan & Walter Mugge / Mudge 1495 of Guildford (His father m2 Constance daughter of Richard Sackville & widow of William Heneage)
He was the grandson of a London fishmonger John More & wife Elizabeth.
William m1 1545 Mabel daughter of Mark / Marchion Dingley of Wolverton IOW having no issue.
He m2 1551 Margaret heiress of Ralph Daniell of Swaffham, Norfolk, by Katherine Marrowe,
Children - 1 son & 2 daughters
1. Sir George More m1 Anne 1590 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Re6U74 daughter of Sir Adrian Poynings of Burngate, Dorset, having 3 sons & 5 daughters. m2 Constance daughter of John Michell of Stammerham, Sussex.
1. Elizabeth More 1552-1600 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4TdY2X m1 Richard Polstead 1576 m2 Sir John Wolley, m3 Lord Chancellor Egerton.
2. Anne More 1624 m Sir George Mainwaring 1628 of Ightfield, Shropshire 3 x flic.kr/p/ebUaACgreat grandson of William Mainwaring 1497
In his will of January 1597 he begins - "Having assured hope, through the death, merits and passion of my only Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, not only to have free pardon and remission of all my sins, but also to enjoy with Him His everlasting kingdom, utterly rejecting all other ways and means to attain thereunto than only by my said Saviour Jesus Christ ... "
His to funeral to avoid ‘all pomp and vain glory’ and ends:
‘and thus our Lord God have mercy upon me and receive my soul into His hands’. He left almost everything to his only son George and his heirs. His youngest daughter Anne Mainwaring was to have a cup worth £6 13s.4d., and a cousin, Gillian Cowper, a coach. There were generous bequests to servants, and the executor was asked to ‘consider’ the poor of Guildford, Godalming, Compton and Shalford". As well as property in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, William owned houses in Blackfriars, one of which he leased to James Burbage in 1596 which became the Blackfriars theatre.
Over the cornice above are 3 shields with coats of arms ; the middle one is quarterly I and 4, Azure a cross argent with 5
martlets sable thereon, for More ; 2 and 3, Argent a chevron
between 3 cockatrices gules, for Mudge ; the north shield has More impaling Dingley, Argent a fesse with a molet between 2 roundels sable in the chief, the south shield has More and Mudge quartered impaling a coat of 7 quarters.
- Church of St Nicholas Guildford Surrey
wikivisually.com/wiki/William_More_(died_1600)
Picture with thanks copyright Christopher Reynolds historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1029291
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member...
Guildford Surrey
Loseley mausoleum chapel of the Moore / More family.
Lying on an altar tomb - Sir William More / Moore of Loseley House, Surrey (30 January 1520 – 20 July 1600) & 2nd wife Margaret Daniell with their son & 2 daughters kneeling behind
His epitaph describes him as ‘evermore a zealous professor of true religion, and a favourer of all those ... truly ... religious, spending his days in the service of our late sovereign of blessed memory, Queen Elizabeth, in whose favour he lived and died ...’.
William More was the son of Sir Christopher More, King's Remembrancer of the Exchequer 1549 & 1st wife Margaret daughter of Joan & Walter Mugge / Mudge 1495 of Guildford (His father m2 Constance daughter of Richard Sackville & widow of William Heneage)
He was the grandson of a London fishmonger John More & wife Elizabeth.
William m1 1545 Mabel daughter of Mark / Marchion Dingley of Wolverton IOW having no issue.
He m2 1551 Margaret heiress of Ralph Daniell of Swaffham, Norfolk, by Katherine Marrowe,
Children - 1 son & 2 daughters
1. Sir George More m1 Anne 1590 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Re6U74 daughter of Sir Adrian Poynings of Burngate, Dorset, having 3 sons & 5 daughters. m2 Constance daughter of John Michell of Stammerham, Sussex.
1. Elizabeth More 1552-1600 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4TdY2X m1 Richard Polstead 1576 m2 Sir John Wolley, m3 Lord Chancellor Egerton.
2. Anne More 1624 m Sir George Mainwaring 1628 of Ightfield, Shropshire 3 x flic.kr/p/ebUaACgreat grandson of William Mainwaring 1497
In his will of January 1597 he begins - "Having assured hope, through the death, merits and passion of my only Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, not only to have free pardon and remission of all my sins, but also to enjoy with Him His everlasting kingdom, utterly rejecting all other ways and means to attain thereunto than only by my said Saviour Jesus Christ ... "
His to funeral to avoid ‘all pomp and vain glory’ and ends:
‘and thus our Lord God have mercy upon me and receive my soul into His hands’. He left almost everything to his only son George and his heirs. His youngest daughter Anne Mainwaring was to have a cup worth £6 13s.4d., and a cousin, Gillian Cowper, a coach. There were generous bequests to servants, and the executor was asked to ‘consider’ the poor of Guildford, Godalming, Compton and Shalford". As well as property in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, William owned houses in Blackfriars, one of which he leased to James Burbage in 1596 which became the Blackfriars theatre.
Over the cornice above are 3 shields with coats of arms ; the middle one is quarterly I and 4, Azure a cross argent with 5
martlets sable thereon, for More ; 2 and 3, Argent a chevron
between 3 cockatrices gules, for Mudge ; the north shield has More impaling Dingley, Argent a fesse with a molet between 2 roundels sable in the chief, the south shield has More and Mudge quartered impaling a coat of 7 quarters.
- Church of St Nicholas Guildford Surrey
wikivisually.com/wiki/William_More_(died_1600)
Picture with thanks copyright Christopher Reynolds historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1029291
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member...