MOONE, or MOON (RICHARD), bookseller in Bristol; Winn Street, 1661-3. In 1663 he was imprisoned for selling seditious literature. Letters were found on his premises from Thomas Brewster and S. M., probably Simon Miller, with whom he admitted having dealings, as well as with Eliz. Calvert, and other London booksellers. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 81, No. 73, 73 i., ii., iii.] He may be identical with the Richard Moone, bookseller in London, 1653-5.
MOORE (JOSEPH), bookseller in London; Little Britain, 1657-67. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Killing is Murder … London. Printed for Joseph Moor … 1657. [Hazlitt, ii. 150.] There are several stationers of the name of Moore mentioned in the Transcripts [Arber, v. 254.]
MOORE (SUSANNA), bookseller in Bristol, 1667. Is mentioned in an information laid by the Mayor of Bristol as having received certain books relating to the Fire of London from Elizabeth Calvert. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 209 (75).]
MORDEN (WILLIAM), bookseller in Cambridge, 1652-79. Buried March 9th, 16789, in St. Michael's Parish [Venn's St. Michael Registers, p. 127; Bowes' Catalogue of Cambridge Books.]
MORE (JOHN), Assigns of [i.e., Miles Fletcher, John Haviland, and Robert Young], 1629-61. On January 19th, 15 James I [1618], letters patent were granted to John More or Moore, Esquire, for the sole printing of all books of the Common Law, Statutes, as well as Rastell's and Poulton's Abridgements, for a term of forty years, on the expiration of the patent previously held by Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, which expired on March 10th, 16289. Whether or not More himself actually printed is uncertain, but he provided a stock of type. On May 1st, 1629, he assigned over all his printing rights to Miles Fletcher and his partners John Haviland and Robert Young, for an annual payment of £60 and a third of the profits. John More died on August 17th, 1638, leaving this annuity to his daughter Martha, the wife of Richard Atkyns, q.v. This legacy was the subject of a law suit which ended disastrously for Fletcher, who, after the death of his partners, had made a verbal assignment of his
