(b London; fl c. 1605; d London, bur 6 Aug 1632). Son of (2) Cornelius Cure. He joined his father as Master Mason in 1605 and became the sole holder of the office after the latter's death, completing the monument to Mary, Queen of Scots (c. 1613). He repaired and re-erected two fountains in coloured marble for Hampton Court Palace in 1607-9 (destr.) and made two more, each embellished with eight leopard's heads, for the same palace in 1615-16 (destr.). From June 1619 until the end of February 1621 Cure's wages were suspended because he had failed to undertake the mason's work on the King's new Banqueting House in Whitehall, London, and in 1622 it was said that he had continued to be 'careless and negligent' about the royal works elsewhere. He probably neglected Whitehall because he was late in completing three tombs for Francis Russell, the future 4th Earl of Bedford, for which he had contracted in 1618; the tombs were almost certainly those of the 4th Earl himself, the 2nd Earl and Anne, Countess of Warwick (Chenies, St Michael, Bedford Chapel). He was also responsible for the memorial to Sir Roger Aston and his Two Wives (1612-13, Cranford, Middx, St Dunstan), which has kneeling effigies in a setting derived from the canopy of the Mary, Queen of Scots memorial. With Nicolas Johnson he executed the monument to Bishop Montagu (1618-19, Bath Abbey), with its unusual columns bearing heraldic devices at the four corners. His least creditable works are the statues (1614-15) of Henry VIII, Anne of Denmark (wife of James I) and Charles, Prince of Wales (later Charles I) on the Great Gate of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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