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 Abt 1495 - 1581 (~ 86 years)
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| Name |
Lee, Nicholas |
| Born |
Abt 1495 |
Of Addington, Surrey, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
30 Jul 1581 |
Addington, Surrey, England |
| Person ID |
I09978 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
27 May 2015 |
| Family |
Carew, Anne, b. Abt 1498, Of Beddington, Surrey, England , d. Bef 1581, Addington, Buckinghamshire, England (Age ~ 83 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1514 |
England |
| Family ID |
F03167 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- History of Parliament Online:
...In a will of 16 May 1580 Leigh provided for his five surviving daughters, including Malyn, widow of Thomas Boys His only son had predeceased him and his heir was a grandson Oliph Leigh, whom he named executor. The overseers included his nephew Sir Francis Carew and Oliph Leigh’s father-in-law Sir Thomas Browne. Leigh died on so July 1581 and was buried, as he had requested, in Addington church where Sir Oliph Leigh later erected a monument recording the marriages and issue of his grandfather, father and himself.6
His will 3 is date 1 the 16th of May, A.D. 1580. He describes himself as Nicholas Leigh, of Addington, Esqueyer, desires that his body should be buried within the Chauncell of Addii s Church, bequeaths to the Vicar 20s. and towards the Reparacion of the Church 10s. To his daughter Malyn Boys he leaves "one Sylv Gobletfc pcell gilte with a cover to yt and 201. of money "; to Elizabeth lieamonde, his daughter, "one other of his sylv gobletts pcell gylt," and to her and to her daughter Anne Lusher 20Z., to be equally divided between them ; to rfrancys Moys, his daughter, " one other of his Sylver gobletts pcell gylt" and 10/.; to Mary Marshe, his daughter, his "sylver crust wch his wyf was wont to drink," and 10/. ; to Anne Brykkett, his daughter, "one other sylver Cruse and 10/." He wills his Ex°" and Overseers to have made within one year of his decease for every of then one rynge of gold of the value of 20s. with this word wrytten or graved in every of them (memento mori) ami an X and an L, and likewise a ringe of the eorte and value for all his son John Leigh his daughters, and for Nicholas Lusher' s wydowe and Nicholas her Sonne, for Mary Harrys and Bridget Bynneman his daughter Mylycent's daughters, one ringe, to every of his maidservants and menservants 0s. 8d., to Edraunde Kidermyster the fetherbedd and bolster he laid on with the coverlett, Blankctis Spanysh Blanket together with the Curtens of Sylke to the same and also two payre of good Shots "as I do use to lye in" and two pyllowes and pylloberes. To John Leigh and Charles Leigh his Sonne's younger children he bequeaths all his Stock and number of Shepe; 'sires that they shall be kept at Addington if his daughter Ownsted and her husband will thereunto agree. Ail the residue of his property he devises to his well-beloved sonne and grandchild Oliphe Leigh, whom he makes his onely and sole Executor, but desires him not to meddle with his plate goods or chatells until his acre of f. one years; mentions his houshold stuff, bedsteds, and other things in his " newe howse" in Addin. appoints Sir Francis Carewe, Esq, Sir Thomas Browne, K', Gylles Crowe, and Edmunde Eiddermister, gentle- men, his Overseers, to deale for the profytt and best bringing up of the said Oliph until ho accomplish his age of twenty-one, and from his said age to have such care toward him as they would have others do for them in like case. The will is signed Nicholas Leigh in a very feeble and illegible hand, indicative of his age, which was eighty-seven years; it has a small seal with the initials N. L., and above, the crest viz. a lion couchant. The will was proved on 20th Nov., 1581, by Walter Horsell, notary public, on behalf of Oliph Leigh. By the inqu taken at Croydon on 8th Jan., 1582, it appeared that he was seized of the manor of Addington, and divers lands in Wotton, Ockley, and Newdigate, that John his was dead, and that Olliph Leigh was his grandson and heir, and of the age of twenty-one years and upwards.
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