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Sir Francis Moore (1558 – 20 November 1621) was a prominent Jacobean barrister and Member of Parliament. ==Life== He was born the posthumous son of Edward Moore, a yeoman of East Ilsley in Berkshire and educated at Reading Grammar School and St John's College, Oxford. He became an eminent barrister, working in the Middle Temple, but spent his family life at South Fawley Manor in Berkshire. One of the ablest lawyers of his day, Moore was appointed counsel and under-steward to Oxford University, of which he was created M.A. on 30 Oct. 1612. In parliament he was a frequent speaker, and is supposed to have drawn the well-known statute of Charitable Uses which was passed in 1601. The conveyance known as lease and release was his invention which remains one of two main ways to extend a lease, each with financial and physical demise advantages and disadvantages. He began the famous sheep market at East Ilsley and was Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge, Yorkshire in 1589 and then four times for local town of Reading (1597, 1601, 1604, 1614).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= History of Parliament )〕 He was knighted in 1616, soon after being appointed Under Steward of Oxford University. Sir Francis had several legal reference works published and died at South Fawley on 20 November 1621. Moore died on 20 November 1621, and was buried at Great Fawley, Berkshire, where he resided. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francis Moore (barrister)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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