The Herald and genealogist . Lee, of Lee, Lee, in dau. of {sic), in Quaren- Aston, sixt Che- Stafford- Bagot. don, in .... in Staf- sone. shire, Cotton, shire, com. Woode, ford- eldest seconde Buck. ofWar- shire, son of sone. fifte sone. wicke- fourth John. shire. sone. William Lee, of Essex, thirde .. .. dau. of John Harleton. Thus much, then, with regard to the descents as far downas Benedict Lee, the founder of the Lees of Quarrendon. Thequestion now arises, what arms were borneby him? The ancient arms of Lee of LeeHall were, Argent, a chevron (ov a/esse, forboth appear,
The Herald and genealogist . Lee, of Lee, Lee, in dau. of {sic), in Quaren- Aston, sixt Che- Stafford- Bagot. don, in .... in Staf- sone. shire, Cotton, shire, com. Woode, ford- eldest seconde Buck. ofWar- shire, son of sone. fifte sone. wicke- fourth John. shire. sone. William Lee, of Essex, thirde .. .. dau. of John Harleton. Thus much, then, with regard to the descents as far downas Benedict Lee, the founder of the Lees of Quarrendon. Thequestion now arises, what arms were borneby him? The ancient arms of Lee of LeeHall were, Argent, a chevron (ov a/esse, forboth appear,) between three leopards headssable *. The folio win or arms were also The Leghs of East Hall, in High Lee, co, Chester,bear the following arms, allowed in 1566: Argent, a lion,rampant gules, arvied and langued azure. The Leighs ofWest Hall, in High Leigh, now bear the following arms,allowed in 1563: Or, a lion rampant gules, arraed andlangued azure. Originally this branch of the Leghsbore. Gules, a pale fusille argent. I 2. ORIGINAL ARMS OFLEE OF CHESHIRE. 116 TTIK LEES OF QUAURENDON. borne by the Lees ofWybunbiuy: Gules, a lion rampant or}These arms are found agahi and again repeated in eitherthe second or third quartering of the Lees of Quarrendon,in the MS. description, now in the British Museum, of thearmorial bearings at (formerly existing in) St. Peters Quarren-don, the family burying-place, by Nicholas Charles, LancasterHerald. In one shield of the Lees, for example, containing eightquarterings—in the first of which appears the annulet, as amark of cadency—the arms, Gules, a lion rampant or, standsecond. ^ It appears, however, tolerably certain that Benedict Lee, whosettled at Quarrendon 1438, and who, as is learnt from adeed in the possession of Lord Viscount Dillon, was made Con-stable of Quarrendon in 1441, continuedto use the arms, as already given, whichthe family had borne in Cheshire. Hemarried, as one of the above pedigreesstates, Elizabeth, daughter an
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