COLLINS'S Peerage of England; GENEALOGICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, AND HISTORICAL. GREATLY AUGMENTED, AND CONTINUED TO THE PRESENT TIME, PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, OTRIDGE AND SON, J. NICHOLS AND CO. T. PAYNE, WILKIE AND ROBINSON, J. WALKER, CLARKE AND SONS, W. LOWNDES, R. LEA, J. CUTHELL, LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND CO. WHITE, COCHRANE, AND CO. C. LAW, CADELL AND DAVIES, J. BOOTH, CROSBY AND CO. J. MURRAY, J. MAWMAN, J. BOOKER, R. SCHOLEY, J. HATCHARD, R. BALDWIN, CRADOCK AND JOY, J. FAULDER, GALE, CURTIS AND CO. JOHNSON AND CO, AND G. ROBINSON. CONTENTS OF VOL. IX. BARONS FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE Extinct Peerages from 1682 to the present time. .. 393 441 Extinct Peerages from the accession of the House of Tudor to 1682.... The Reader is requested to turn also to the Addenda at the end of THIS noble family is of French extraction, from which kingdom they came very early after the Conquest into England; and acquiring a good estate in the county of Kent, made the manor of Moore-Court their residence, until they removed to Moore-Place, in Benenden, in the said county, which they held for many gene rations. Mr. John Philipot, Somerset Herald, who drew the pedigree of this family in 1612, tells us, that their surname was assumed from the lands which they originally possessed at More-Place, in Rolvinden and Benenden, in Kent. But he should have said More-Court, in Iviechurch, in the same county. He begins with THOMAS DE LA MORE, Esq. who held the manor of More-Place, whence the name was variously written De More, De la More, Atte-More, until the general relinquishing of such prepositions before names was practised, when it determined also in this family, which was about the time of Henry VI. a They were seated here as early as King Henry II's reign; and John de More de Iviechurch, was possessed of it in King Edward I's reign, as appears by a fine levied in the 9th year of it, between John, the son of Thomas de Iden, and the abovementioned John de More, by which the said John passes away land to John de More, of Rolvenden. Hasted's Kent, III. 498. |