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A History of the County of Gloucester
… the parish dates from the purchase of the manor by William Leigh, a convert to catholicism. Leigh brought Passionist fathers to Northfield House, …
The Environs of London
… Mrs. Elizabeth Elwes, 5l. per annum, Poor. 1659. Sir Henry Lee, 2l. per annum, Poor. 1731. William Prescott, Interest of … Arg. impaling, Arg. a fesse between three crescents S.Lee. Inscription" H.S.E. David Bosanquet, D. F. natu maximus, …
A History of the County of Essex
… but was subsequently redeemed for 200 stock. 55 Sir Henry Lee, some time before 1658, gave for the poor an annual rent … E.R.O., D/P 167/1/1, f. 63. This was probably Sir Henry Lee who died in 1620: Genealogist, N.S. xii. 155; E.A.T. N.S. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 67 A Crown lease of 1609 seems to have passed to Thomas Leigh of Shipton-on-Cher-well, who in 1610 sold the house 68 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… market; there may have been pressure, too, from Sir Henry Lee, steward of the manor and sheep farmer on a large scale. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… fee farm he embarrassed both the corporation and Sir Henry Lee, steward of the manor, to whom the farm was then paid and … common, and the introduction of peers such as Edward Henry Lee, earl of Lichfield, and James Bertie, Lord Norreys, … the town clerk's house by the mayor, aided by Cromwell Lee, the high steward's brother, and George Whitton, a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as steward, Thomas Peniston and from 1573 Sir Henry Lee (d. 1611), continued to control the seat; both were … park; Lawrence Tanfield, M.P. from 1584, was married to Lee's niece, and Sir Henry Unton and Sir Francis Stonor, … in 1584 and 1586, were presumably nominees of Knollys or Lee. 98 Whitton's election perhaps owed less to his park …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in a level vale. There is a good redsandstone quarry. Lee Hall is a large old edifice in the township. A copyhold …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… built. Another school was endowed by the Rev. Lancelot C. Lee, for clothing and teaching six girls. Numerous vestiges … 300, with a glebe-house; patron and impropriator, Lord Leigh. The tithes have been commuted for land under an act of … was erected in 1792, at the sole expense of the Hon. Mary Leigh, and was enlarged and beautified in 1843, at a cost of …