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.