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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, …
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 Topographical Dictionary of England
… 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 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the royal forest of Wychwood and some, notably North Leigh, had the dispersed settlement pattern typical of forest … inclosure, chiefly for sheep farming, at Cogges and South Leigh in the west and Begbroke, Water Eaton, and Yarnton in … include those of Stanton Harcourt, North and South Leigh, and Kidlington; Freeland church was a centre of high …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the good behavour against hir majestie and all hir highnes leigh people, and especially against Johane Watson widowe …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… fyt that he contynue The inhabitants of the parish of Leigh. Ref.110 BA1/1/7/75 (1610) To the honourable Sir David …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… overseers for the poor and inhabitants of Bransford and Leigh. Ref.110 BA1/1/46/76 (1623) To the honourable and right … of the poore and of the inhabitantes of Braunsford and Leigh in the countye aforesaid. Humbly sheweth, that John Cox … said village and hamlett of Braunsford in the parishe of Leigh hath placed there in his said cottage a man and a woman …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Tyrer The constable, churchwardens and overseers of Leigh. Ref.110 BA1/1/185/3 (1661) Leigh. To the right worshippfull justices for the peace …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of the treasary xx shillings per curiam Thomas Harvey of Leigh, mason. Ref.110 BA1/1/128/75 (1677) To the right … 1677 The humble petition of Thomas Harvey of the parish of Leigh in the county of Worcester mason. Humbly sheweth that … the said Thomas Harvy a poore inhabitant of the parish of Leigh liveing in a cottage upon the wast land, hath for many …