He was born in 1586 in Essex, according to the majority of the provincial catalogues, though a few of them give Cambridgeshire as the county of his birth.
[1] More made his humanity studies in the college of the English Jesuits at St. Omer, and entered the novitiate of St. John's, Louvain, 19 November 1607.
[1] In 1642, More was vice-provincial of the order, residing in London, and acting for Matthew Wilson, the provincial, who was absent in Belgium.
[1] During these latter years he wrote his history of the English Jesuits: Historia Missionis Anglicanæ, ab anno MDLXXX ad MDCXXXV (St. Omer, 1660, fol.).
Besides translating Jerome Platus's Happiness of the Religious State (1632), and the Manual of Meditations by Thomas de Villa Castin (1618), he wrote Vita et Doctrina Christi Domini in meditationes quotidianas per annum digesta (Antwerp, 1649), followed by an English version, entitled, Life and Doctrines of our Saviour Jesus Christ (Ghent, 1656, in two parts; London, 1880).