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Moore was elected for Ilchester as a government supporter1Sunderland (Blenheim) mss. with William Burroughs, who in 1732 included money owing by Moore among ‘debts due to me, which I look upon to be desperate, or at least doubtful’.2A True and Exact Particular and Inventory of all ... the lands ... of William Burroughs (London 1732), p. 69. He did not stand again.