Richard More (Archdeacon of Exeter)

[1] Richard Moore or More DCnL (after 1459 – 20 February 1516) was an English cleric who served as Archdeacon of Exeter from 1505 to 1515 and then as Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral.

Arms of Moore of Moorehays: Ermine, on a chevron azure three cinquefoils or

Life

A younger son of John Moore (d. 1509/10) who lived at Moorhayes in the parish of Cullompton in Devon, and his wife Elizabeth Clivedon (d. 1515), daughter and co-heiress of John Clivedon who lived at Willand in Devon, his elder brother Maurice (or Morris) Moore (1459-1500) inherited the family estate while he entered the church.[1] At an untraced university he earned a doctorate in canon law. He was appointed Archdeacon of Exeter on 13 January 1505,[2] and as Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral on 24 May 1515.[3] He died on 20 February 1516 and a monument to him was erected in the cathedral.[1]

References
  1. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.572, Pedigree of "Moore of Moorhays" https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002002213917&view=1up&seq=586&skin=2021
  2. 'Archdeacons: Exeter', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 9, Exeter Diocese, ed. Joyce M Horn (London, 1964), pp. 12-15. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1300-1541/vol9/pp12-15 [accessed 26 August 2021]
  3. 'Treasurers', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 9, Exeter Diocese, ed. Joyce M Horn (London, 1964), pp. 10-12. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1300-1541/vol9/pp10-12 [accessed 26 August 2021].
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