The son of the same name, was born at Warwick in 1625. at a suitable age he was placed under the care of Mr Thomas Dugard, the learned master of the King’s School of that borough. On the completion of his school education he was entered at Merton College Oxford, having for his tutor, Mr Ralph Button, Fellow of that College, a good Scholar, but a rigid Presbyterian.

When Oxford was garrisoned for the King, Murcot, in order to avoid bearing arms on behalf of his Sovereign’s behalf, went away in disguise to a house of Mr John Ley, Vicar of Budworth in Cheshire, where he worked hard at his books and made great progress in Divinity.

At the close of the rebellion, he returned to "Alma Mater," pursued his studies and took a degree. He then once more became a guest of his friend in Cheshire, and continued to be so for many years, assisting him in parochial work. After being ordained at Manchester, according to the Presbyterian mode, he settled at Astbury in Cheshire, whence he removed, about 1650, to Eastham in the same county. On the death of his father-in-law, who was Minister of West Kirby in Cheshire, he consented to fill the vacancy caused by his death, but soon after soon removed to Chester, where according to Anthony Wood, (who, however, shewed little mercy the Puritans,) "By his severe carriage, he became ridiculous to the wicked,"

Weary of this place, he accepted an invitation from Dublin, and moved thither with his family. The Lord Deputy Fleetwood and his Council appointed him one of their preachers in ordinary, and his prayers and pulpit-addresses soon gained him great reputation in that city.

Several of his sermons and treatises were published after his death, together with his life, "cantingly written" observes Wood, entitled "Moses in the Mount; or the beloved disciple leaning on Jesus’ bosom, being a narrative of the life and death of Mr Murcot, Minister of the Gospel and Teacher of the Church of Dublin." This life was written by Murcot’s friends, one of whom was Dr Samuel Winter, a native of Warwickshire, and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. "From all which " continues Wood, who seems to lose all patience with Murcot, as he proceeds to the close of his memoir, "a common reader may easily perceive that our author Murcot was a forward, prating, and pragmatical precisian. He gave up the ghost very unwillingly at Dublin in 1664" (although his Biographers, already referred to, say that "he longed for his dissolution and expressed the greatest joy when it approached"), "and was buried with great lamentation of the brethren (who always held him to be a precious young man) in S. Marie’s Chappel, joining to the choire of Christ Church, in the said city of Dublin, where, as I have been informed, is a monument set up to his memory.

Dr. Winter preached his funeral sermon, and refers to him as "an earthly angel" and a "heavenly mortal," "Great" write his biographers, "was the confluence of the people who attended the corpse to the grave. The Lord Deputy Fleetwood followed the body: after him the Council, then the Lord Mayor, &c. Upon the face of the whole congregation sat a black cloud of sorrow and disconsolation. The body being brought into the place of burial, the saddened spectators and standers-by sighed him into his grave, and mingling his dust with their tears, departed and left him in his bed of rest."

Mr. Murcot published several Sermons and Treatises