Difference between revisions of "William Morice 1602-1676"

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Sir William MORICE 1602-76

Biographical Note

Of Werrington, Devon; MP, Secretary of State.

Books

When he retired to his country seat in 1668 “he erected a fair library, valued at £1200, being choice books, richly bound”. In his will, he bequeathed "all my library books globes mapps silver utensills and cabinets in my studies" to his son William.

Sources

Will of Sir William Morice, The National Archives PROB 11/354/351.
Cliffe, J. The world of the country house in seventeenth-century England, 1999, 168-9.
Seaward, Paul. "Morice, Sir William (1602–1676), politician." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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+When he retired to his country seat in 1668 “he erected a fair library, valued at £[[monetary value::1200]], being choice books, richly bound”. In his will, he [[bequest::bequeathed]] "all my library books globes mapps silver utensills and cabinets in my studies" to his [[beneficiary::son]]  [[family::William Morice|William]].
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