The Leigh Peerage: Being a Full and Complete History of the Claim of George Leigh, Esq. to the Dormant Title of Baron Leigh, of Stoneley, in the County of Warwick: Comprising a Report of the Evidence Taken Before the Lords' Committee for Privileges, with Notes, Analytical and Explanatory: and Certain Additional Evidence, Forming the Ultimatum to this Very Mysterious Case ...H. K. Causton, 1832 |
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... body lawfully begotten , and for want of such issue to my own right heirs for ever . " * Because he was aware that they would inhent the Stoneleigh Estates ! ... Scarcely any thing is more perplexing than a laborious endeavor xii ...
... body lawfully begotten , and for want of such issue to my own right heirs for ever . " * Because he was aware that they would inhent the Stoneleigh Estates ! ... Scarcely any thing is more perplexing than a laborious endeavor xii ...
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... devisee , in these words " the heirs of his body lawfully begotten , " and presents a difficulty , we augur , might be of fatal consequence even in the very hour of victory , and when other points of apparently greater magni- xiii.
... devisee , in these words " the heirs of his body lawfully begotten , " and presents a difficulty , we augur , might be of fatal consequence even in the very hour of victory , and when other points of apparently greater magni- xiii.
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... for want of such issue , to the daughter or daughters of his sister Mary Leigh , and the heirs of her or their body or bodies lawfully issuing , to take , 1 . d XXXV The desired end however was obtained:-its effects were ...
... for want of such issue , to the daughter or daughters of his sister Mary Leigh , and the heirs of her or their body or bodies lawfully issuing , to take , 1 . d XXXV The desired end however was obtained:-its effects were ...
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... body or bodies lawfully issuing , to take , if more than one , as tenants in common , and not as joint tenants ; and , for default of such issue , he gave , devised and bequeathed the same heredita- ments , subject as aforesaid , unto ...
... body or bodies lawfully issuing , to take , if more than one , as tenants in common , and not as joint tenants ; and , for default of such issue , he gave , devised and bequeathed the same heredita- ments , subject as aforesaid , unto ...
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... body of the said James Henry Leigh , and the heirs male of the body of such first son , and , for want of such issue , to the use of the second , third , and fourth , and all and every other the son and sons of the body of the said ...
... body of the said James Henry Leigh , and the heirs male of the body of such first son , and , for want of such issue , to the use of the second , third , and fourth , and all and every other the son and sons of the body of the said ...
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affidavit appeared asked attend Attorney baptism baron Leigh believe Blackrod Causton chancel Chandos Leigh churchwarden claim claimant Combermere Combermere Abbey committee county of Warwick Darley defendant deponent descended devised directed to withdraw duchess of Dudley Edward lord Leigh entry evidence examined copy father George Leigh Haigh Handley heard heirs male honorable Christopher Leigh house of lords inscription issue James Henry Leigh James Leigh John Leigh Joseph Hill knew Lancashire latin Leigh family letters lord Chancellor lordships marriage Mary Leigh ment mentioned monu name of Christopher name of Cotton name of Leigh never parish of Stoneley person petitioner plaintiff Pyot remember repairs Robert Roger Leigh seen shew sir Thomas Leigh South wall stone Stoneley Abbey Stoneley church suppose swear taken tell testator Thomas Leigh Thomas lord Leigh told vestry Webster's monument wife Wigan window witness was directed Wrenbury
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Page 36 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named testator, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Page 21 - Princess, during their lives and the life of the survivor of them, and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange...
Page 19 - Good repute and well known for his knowledge piety and morality be employed by the said trustees or the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs of such survivor or their or his assigns...
Page 19 - New-Jersey, upon trust and confidence that they, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs and...
Page 34 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the testator as and for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who in his presence, and at his request, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Page vi - Claudian's order to place his statue in their temple, Philo places in harvest, Josephus in seed-time ; both contemporary writers. No reader is led by this inconsistency to doubt, whether such an embassy was sent, or whether such an order was given. Our own history supplies examples of the same kind. In the account of the Marquis of Argyle's death, in the reign of Charles the Second, we have a very remarkable contradiction.
Page xli - ... upon and for such trusts, intents and purposes, and with, under and subject to such powers, provisoes and declarations, as...
Page 28 - Barwick and her assigns, for and during the term of her natural life, in augmentation of her jointure ; and from and immediately after the decease of the survivor of them, the said J.
Page vi - Second, we have a very remarkable contradiction. Lord Clarendon relates that he was condemned to be hanged, which was performed the same day ; on the contrary, Burnet, Woodrow, Heath, Echard, concur In stating that he was beheaded; and that he was condemned upon the Saturday, and executed upon the Monday...
Page v - KNOW not a more rash or unphilosophical conduct of the understanding, than to reject the substance of a story, by reason of some diversity in the circumstances with which it is related. The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth undercircumstantial variety.