George More (recusant)

George More (born 1542) was an English supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a participant in the Throckmorton Plot.

He had negotiated a £200 credit deal for Mary with the Earl of Shrewsbury for carrying her letters to Paget.

[12] For Walsingham, a key piece of evidence for Mary's involvement in plots against Elizabeth I was a confession made by a servant of George More.

He lived for a time at Liège, and in August 1597 wrote a lengthy letter to William Cecil, seeking religious toleration and the rehabilitation of Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland.

[16] Richard Topcliffe described More in June 1595 as a friend of Edmund Thurland from Gamston near Tuxford and Bawtry, who had lived near Long Longnedham (Leadenham) between Grantham and Lincoln.

Thurland had been brought up in, or spent time in Spain with Isabel de Cárdenas, Duchess of Feria.

Topcliffe wrote that More and Nicholas Williamson had fled to the enemy, that More was a pensioner of Spain, and the three were in cahoots.

[17] Thurland's house at Gamston on Idle had been a convenient location for traffic with Scotland on the North Road and the lodgings of Mary, Queen of Scots.

[24] Nicholson heard that James VI thought George More was only seeking letters of recommendation to help him return to England.

More claimed to have refused Spanish offers to work against Queen Elizabeth and was now impoverished, without "one penny to buy his dinner".

[29] More wrote to Sir Robert Cecil from his lodging in Leith on 14 January 1599, professing his service to Queen Elizabeth, and giving some news of Spanish invasion scares.

Disenchanted with Scotland, he criticised James VI's habits and his relationship with Anne of Denmark.