Stoneleigh abbey, thirty four years ago, containing a history of the claims to the peerage and estates, and a catalogue of the confessed and suspected crimes, &c1848 |
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... Leigh's will , his right heiress The Honourable Mary Leigh was entitled to dispose of the estates by her will . By such will dated in 1786 , the year her brother died , she did dispose of the estates to the family now in possession ...
... Leigh's will , his right heiress The Honourable Mary Leigh was entitled to dispose of the estates by her will . By such will dated in 1786 , the year her brother died , she did dispose of the estates to the family now in possession ...
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... family in the possession of Lord Combermere , the representa- tive of the Cotton family , has never been seen by him since the year 1814 , when he allowed a person employed by George Leigh to peruse it in his library , or that pedigree ...
... family in the possession of Lord Combermere , the representa- tive of the Cotton family , has never been seen by him since the year 1814 , when he allowed a person employed by George Leigh to peruse it in his library , or that pedigree ...
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... Leigh's wife ; his reason for noticing it was , his father had a servant named Cotton , and when a boy , thought it extra- ordinary one of Lord Leigh's family should have married a person so mean as a Cotton . It also stated their issue ...
... Leigh's wife ; his reason for noticing it was , his father had a servant named Cotton , and when a boy , thought it extra- ordinary one of Lord Leigh's family should have married a person so mean as a Cotton . It also stated their issue ...
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... Leigh family twenty- three years , from 1797 , remembered the two monuments to Christopher Leigh and Webster ; did farm work after Mrs. Leigh's death , when the family were away , about 1812 ; remembered being sent out once when the family ...
... Leigh family twenty- three years , from 1797 , remembered the two monuments to Christopher Leigh and Webster ; did farm work after Mrs. Leigh's death , when the family were away , about 1812 ; remembered being sent out once when the family ...
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... Leigh family . Observe - Not a word of the south wall , nor of Webster . EDWARD THORNTON TWYCROSS , farmer , states in affi- davit , he was tenant of the heirs of Webster , and often observe ed Webster's monument , but verily believed ...
... Leigh family . Observe - Not a word of the south wall , nor of Webster . EDWARD THORNTON TWYCROSS , farmer , states in affi- davit , he was tenant of the heirs of Webster , and often observe ed Webster's monument , but verily believed ...
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Adderley aged alleged Barnsley Baylis believe born at Stoneleigh bridge brother buried Canley chancel Chandos Leigh charge Christopher Lee Christopher Leigh Christopher Leigh's monument claim claimant coffin plates confession Cotton Coventry crimes Daniel Dingley Darley death decease deposed died Edward evidence father fraud George Jones George Leigh George Shaw Haigh Hall heard Higham Ilett James Henry Leigh James Leigh John Alcott John Leigh John Perks Jones's knew Lancashire Leamington Leamington Spa Leigh family letter lived at Stoneleigh living witness Lord Leigh lordship magistrates Matthew Billinge ment monument to Christopher murder never saw Palfrey parties pedigree peerage perjury person POLLOCK possessor Proud and Smith proved recollected remembered removed repairs replied Richard Barnett Roger Leigh shew Smallbone Soden south wall Sprawson steward stone Stoneleigh Abbey Stoneleigh church Stoneley sworn testimony Thomas Leigh told truth vestry Watergall Webster's monument wife Wigan Wilcox William Blissett wine cellar
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Página 82 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice ; And oft 'tis seen, the wicked prize itself Buys out the law : but 'tis not so above : There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature ; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence.
Página 82 - Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence. What then ? what rests ? Try what repentance can : what can it not ? Yet what can it, when one cannot repent ? O wretched state ! O bosom, black as death ! 0 limed soul, that, struggling to be free, Art more engaged ! Help, angels, make assay ! Bow, stubborn knees ! and, heart, with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe : All may be well ! [retires and kneels.
Página 8 - Kirby and his heirs of his body lawfully begotten; and for want of such issue, then to the use of the said John Wilkinson Junior, his heirs and assigns for ever, according to the true intent of these presents.
Página 8 - ... name' if otherwise construed" (3 Jarm. (8th ed.) 1643 etseq.). (2) In Leigh v. Leigh (15 Ves. 92), the remainder was to the "first and nearest of my kindred, being male and of my name and blood"; held (15 Ves.
Página 79 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day Big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.
Página 81 - Him, who has graciously promised that the gift of a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple shall not lose its reward.
Página 19 - ... quite into the stone, for when the cloth went over it, it went over it very rough from the right corner to the middle of it...
Página 32 - ... never saw in any part of the church, except the chancel, any monument to the memory of the Leigh family.
Página 29 - then saw also a small tablet on the south wall of the " chancel to the memory of Lord Edward Leigh : I found " fault with the size of it, considering it such a small one" for such a nobleman as he was.
Página 10 - Abbey, Cheshire, by whom he had issue, Mary, Catherine, Roger, and Ferdinand. He married secondly Constance Clent daughter of John Clent, Esqr.