. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. ashed and cutfed, or, holding in the handppr. a faulchion arg. embriied with blood inthree places, hilt and pomel —Fide, sed cui, —In —Weston Coyney, in that county. LEGH, OF NORBURY BOOTHS HALL. LEGH, PETER, esq. of Norbuiy Booths Hall and Torkington Lodge, both in thecounty of Chester, b. in 1794, succeeded his father in 1826. Mr. Legh is deputylieutenant for Cheshire, and has
. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. ashed and cutfed, or, holding in the handppr. a faulchion arg. embriied with blood inthree places, hilt and pomel —Fide, sed cui, —In —Weston Coyney, in that county. LEGH, OF NORBURY BOOTHS HALL. LEGH, PETER, esq. of Norbuiy Booths Hall and Torkington Lodge, both in thecounty of Chester, b. in 1794, succeeded his father in 1826. Mr. Legh is deputylieutenant for Cheshire, and has served the office of high sheriff. The Leghs derived their name from thetown of High Legh, in Cheshire, wherethey were seated before the Conquest. Hamon, Lord of the Mediety of HighLegh, in the time of Henry II. was fatherof William de Legh, of West Hall, in HighLegh, whose grandson, Richard de Legh, left an only daughterand heiress, Agnes de Legh, who espoused, first,Richard de Lymme, and had a son, I. Thomas, who took the name of Legh,and had half of the said mediety ofHigh Legh. He left a son, Thomas Legh, who was patriarchof the Legh, of West Legh, inHigh LRGTl, OF NORBURY BOOTHS HALL. 45 Agnes wedded, secondly, William de Ha-wardyn, and had a son by him, II. KaliH dk Hawardyn, who had theother half of the mediety of HighLegh, and sold it to Sir RichardMassey, of Tatton, in m. thirdly. Sir William Venables, son of Sir William Venables, Baronof Kinderton, by whom she had another son,m. John, who assumed the name youngest son, John Legh, became proprietor, by pur-chase, of Knutsford Booth, before the 28th of Edward I. He wedded, first. , and had a son, John (Sir). He espoused,secondly, Ellen, daughter of Thomas de Co-rona, of Adlington, and was father of Robert, from whom sprang the Leghs,of Adlington, Annesley, Lyme,Ridge, Stonelegh, Stockwell, &, (Sir), ancestor of the Leghs,of Isall. Peter, progenitor of the Leghs, of B
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