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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... devise to them must have irremediably excluded any supposed intermediate branch , in whose favor , it is contended ... devised , and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten , and for want of such issue to my own right heirs for ever ...
... devise to them must have irremediably excluded any supposed intermediate branch , in whose favor , it is contended ... devised , and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten , and for want of such issue to my own right heirs for ever ...
Page xiii
... devise might have become void , by reason of no one of them being able to answer to the whole of the description ... devised , " and referring as before for illustration , John Leigh , the elder brother of the claimant , being then ...
... devise might have become void , by reason of no one of them being able to answer to the whole of the description ... devised , " and referring as before for illustration , John Leigh , the elder brother of the claimant , being then ...
Page xiv
... devise to the position in which he is placed , that the very proof of his presumed right would at the same time be a negation to his success . Like Macbeth's ' juggling fiends " it 66 -speaks the word of promise to the ear , And breaks ...
... devise to the position in which he is placed , that the very proof of his presumed right would at the same time be a negation to his success . Like Macbeth's ' juggling fiends " it 66 -speaks the word of promise to the ear , And breaks ...
Page xvi
... devise to the next of his name , it was held , that a married daughter could not take . Jobson's case , is to the ... devised to his son , but , if he die without issue , " to my right heirs of my name and posterity : " the son being ...
... devise to the next of his name , it was held , that a married daughter could not take . Jobson's case , is to the ... devised to his son , but , if he die without issue , " to my right heirs of my name and posterity : " the son being ...
Page xvii
... devise the testator certainly does not affect any care about the name of Leigh . He passes by the daughters of his second sister ; and pre- 3 P. Wil . 65. 4 Bro . P. C. 194 . Morris v . Underdown , Dy 333 , b . с b Willes , 297 , Doe ...
... devise the testator certainly does not affect any care about the name of Leigh . He passes by the daughters of his second sister ; and pre- 3 P. Wil . 65. 4 Bro . P. C. 194 . Morris v . Underdown , Dy 333 , b . с b Willes , 297 , Doe ...
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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.