MOORE, John (c.1599-1650), of Bank Hall, Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancs.

Family and Education

b. c.1599, 1st s. of Edward Moore† of Bank Hall, and Katherine (bur. 14 June 1641), da. of John Hockenhull of Prenton, Wirral, Cheshire.R. Stewart-Brown, ‘Moore of Bank Hall’, Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. and Cheshire, lxiii. 112. educ. L. Inn. 17 Aug. 1638.LI Admiss. i. 236. m. 17 Nov. 1633 (with £1,200), Mary, da. of Alexander Rigby of Layton Hall, Bispham, Lancs., 3s. 2da. (1 d.v.p.).All Hallows, Bispham par. reg.; Liverpool RO, 920 MOO/2179; Stewart-Brown, ‘Moore of Bank Hall’, 114-15. suc. fa. 28 Nov. 1632;Stewart-Brown, ‘Moore of Bank Hall’, 112. d. 7 June 1650.GL, Sir John Moore’s Pprs. Ms 507; R.D. Watts, ‘The Moore Fam. of Bank Hall Liverpool: Progress and Decline 1606 to 1730’ (Univ. of Wales, Bangor PhD thesis, 2004), 563.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Lancs. by Apr. 1624–d.Lancs. RO, QSR/21; Watts, ‘Moore Fam.’, 46, 69. Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, (posth.) 26 Nov. 1650.SR; A. and O. Dep. lt. by June 1642–?CJ ii. 615a; Cal. of Deeds and Pprs. of the Moore Fam. ed. J. Brownbill (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lxvii), 167. Commr. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643. V.-adm. Lancs., Westmld. 12 Apr. 1644–?d.V.-Adms. (L. and I. cccxxi), 33, 49; CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 203. Commr. Northern Assoc. Lancs. 20 June 1645; defence of Lancs. 29 Aug. 1645.A. and O. Steward, wapentake of West Derby, Lancs. 31 Jan. 1646–?d.CSP Dom. 1645–7, p. 330; HMC 10th Rep. IV, 81. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. Westminster militia, 19 Mar. 1649, 7 June 1650;A. and O.; Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). (posth.) maintenance of ministers, Lancs. 29 Mar. 1650.Lancs. and Cheshire Church Surveys ed. H. Fishwick (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. i), i. 1–3.

Civic: freeman, Wigan by Feb. 1628–d.;Sinclair, Wigan, i. 197, 215; ii. 7, 53. Liverpool by 1630 – d.; steward of the hall, 25 Oct. 1630–1; common cllr. c. 1632; mayor, 18 Oct. 1632–3; alderman, 1633–d.Chandler, Liverpool, 131, 168, 177.

Military: col. of ‘guards horse and ft.’ (parlian.) 6 Aug. 1642 – 25 July 1643; capt. of horse, 18 Aug. 1643 – 24 July 1645; col. of ft. 18 Aug. 1643–24 July 1645,T.N. Morton, ‘The fam. of Moore of Liverpool’, Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. and Cheshire, xxxviii. 154. 15 July 1646–d.Liverpool Univ. Lib. GB 141, MS.23.2A(2); Watts, ‘Moore Fam.’, 227; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 650, 651. Gov. Liverpool 18 Aug. 1643–16 May 1645;Liverpool RO, 920 MOO/331, 776, 846, 847; LJ vii. 376b; Watts, ‘Moore Fam.’, 152, 223. Dundalk, Newry, Carlingford and co. Louth [I] 25 July 1647–10 July 1648.Liverpool Univ. Lib. GB 141, MS.23.2A(2); Watts, ‘Moore Fam.’, 227.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations, 20 Aug. 1642;CJ ii. 728b. cttee. of navy and customs by 3 May 1645;SP16/509, f. 89; Bodl. Rawl. A.224, f. 9. Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 1 July 1645; cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 4 Oct. 1645.A. and O. Commr. to Dublin, 22 Mar. 1647;Bodl. Carte 20, f. 517. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for advance of money, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 112a. cttee. for the army, 6 Jan.,CJ vi. 113b. 17 Apr. 1649;A. and O. cttee. for excise, 10 Feb. 1649.CJ vi. 137b. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O.

Religious: elder, fifth Lancs. classis, 1646.LJ viii. 510. Presented Robert Seddon to vicarage of Altcar, Lancs. by 1650.Lancs. and Cheshire Church Surveys ed. Fishwick, 95.

Parlimentarian

MOORE, John (c.1599-1650), of Bank Hall, Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancs.

: Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancs.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

MOORE, John (c.1599-1650), of Bank Hall, Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancs.

Will

20 July 1649;,Liverpool RO, 920 MOO/844; Watts, ‘Moore Fam.’, 219. admon. 1 Nov. 1650.PROB6/25, f. 177.

Estates

c.1634, appears to have bought out his mo.’s interest in family estate for £10,000.Moore Fam. Pprs. ed. Brownbill, 49. By 1640, estate consisted of mansion house and demesne property of Bank Hall; mansion house of Moore Hall (or ‘the Old Hall’); manor of Bootle, with windmill; manor of Kirkdale; 56 burgage tenements in Liverpool; lease of a horse mill and windmill, Liverpool; and lands and tenements in Bootle, Ditton, Fazakerly, Kirkby, Kirkdale, Linacre, Litherland, Little Crosby, Moorhouses, Preston, West Derby and Windle, Lancs.Liverpool RO, 920 MOO/808; Lancs. RO, DDK/471/67; Watts, ‘Moore Fam.’, 2, 24-5, 33, 76, 77. In 1640, his estate was estimated to be worth £750-£1,000 p.a.Long, ‘Lancs.’, 33. At his d. estate was estimated to be worth £400 p.a.LR2/266, f. 1v.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

house nr. Charing Cross, London (by Nov. 1646-?d.).Belvoir, QZ.26, f. 22v; WCA, STM/F/2/3631, unfol.

Religion

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