account of his handsome person was nicknamed 'the beauty of holiness,'
was the author of _Origines Britannicae, or Antiquities of the British
Churches_, and many controversial works. His collected works were
printed in 1710 in six volumes folio, and a volume of his miscellaneous
works was published in 1735 by his son, the Rev. James Stillingfleet,
Canon of Worcester.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 49: John Moore, Bishop of Ely, whose library was purchased by
King George I., and presented by him to the University of Cambridge.]

[Footnote 50: '_April 29, 1699._--I dined with the Archbishop, but my
business was to get him to persuade the King to purchase the late Bishop
of Worcester's library, and build a place, for his own library at St.
James's, in the Parke, the present one being too small.'

'_May 3, 1699._--At a meeting of the Royal Society I was nominated to be
of the Committee to wait on the Lord Chancellor to move the King to
purchase Bp. of Worcester's library.']

JOHN MOORE, BISHOP OF ELY, 1646-1714

John Moore, Bishop successively of Norwich and Ely, who was born at
Sutton-juxta-Broughton, Leicestershire, in 1646, was the eldest son of
Thomas Moore, an ironmonger at Market Harborough. He was educated at the
Free School, Market Harborough, and at Clare College, Cambridge, where
he obtained a fellowship in 1667. Having taken holy orders, he was
collated in 1676 to the rectory of Blaby in Leicestershire; and in 1679,
through the influence of Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham, who, in
1670, had appointed him his chaplain, he was installed canon in Ely
Cathedral. In 1687 he was presented by the dean and chapter of St.
Paul's to the rectory of St. Austin, London, and in 1689 he obtained the
rectory of St. Andrew's, Holborn, which he held with his canonry at Ely
until 1691, when he was consecrated Bishop of Norwich. He remained in
that see until 1707, in which year he was translated to the more
valuable bishopric of Ely. Moore died on the 31st of July 1714, from the
effects of a cold which he caught while presiding at the trial of Dr.
Bentley, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, who was charged with
encroaching on the privileges of the fellows of that institution. He
was buried in Ely Cathedral, where a monument was erected to his memory.

[Illustration: BOOK-PLATE PLACED IN BOOKS FROM BISHOP MOORE'S LIBRARY
GIVEN BY GEORGE I. TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.]

Bishop Moore, who is called by Dibdin 'the fat