. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. described some years before a&u a prominent recusant. Ben Beard, an informerwrites to Lord Keeper Puckering in 1594,25 that Butleia priest keeps with Thomas Leedes . . and that he ancBamford who has a son a priest, commonly hunt anchawk together with such persons in their he reports that Thomas Leedes keeps Norton £priest in Thorne House near Sir Thomas Shirleys, neaito which lies Washington House where Nicholas Wolfe;a gentleman and great companion of Leedes, lives; thesehouses are recepta
. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. described some years before a&u a prominent recusant. Ben Beard, an informerwrites to Lord Keeper Puckering in 1594,25 that Butleia priest keeps with Thomas Leedes . . and that he ancBamford who has a son a priest, commonly hunt anchawk together with such persons in their he reports that Thomas Leedes keeps Norton £priest in Thorne House near Sir Thomas Shirleys, neaito which lies Washington House where Nicholas Wolfe;a gentleman and great companion of Leedes, lives; thesehouses are receptacles for priests and have great conveniences for hiding them. ... In Wolfes in a littlegallery there is a place for an altar and other massing;stuff, a cover of boards over a great cupboard which caibe taken off. Thomas Leedes had married, probably about 1588Marie, only daughter and heiress of Thomas Leedes, oNorth Milford, in Yorkshire, who had endured also as i 2* Acts of the Privy Council, 31st Dec, State Papers Dom., Eliz., 1594, Vol. 248. LEEDES OF WAPPINGTHOENE. 47. Leedej Papist and harbourer of priests,tines and imprisonment, and, dyingat York, was buried at KirkbyWharfe, April 23rd, 1603, bynight being a recusant. There isa very pretty little engraved tabletin the church to his memory. Byhis will he left his estate to hisgrandson Robert (baptised atKirkby Wharfe,. 4th December,1596), fourth son of his daughterMarie, and, failing him, to thebrothers Thomas, Edward and John in also left a legacy of £3. 6s. 8d. yearly for theCatholic prisoners which shall remain from time to timein the Castle of York for the Catholic religion andtheir conscience, so long as any such persons shall liethere, and if it shall please God to restore the Catholicfaith as it was in the days of King Henry VIII. and inthe four last years of Queen Maries days, a like sum tobe paid between two honest and vertuous Catholicpriests for ever in the parishes of Kirby and Kippax toc
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