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 Dsvcn Notes and Queries. 35 Grenvile, writing to her husband under date July 4th, 1654, says : — *' I am glad to see thy lettar datted from that good house of Cadleigh '* {Granville History). Simon* bears out his character of ^^assertor strenuus" of the Royalist cause, for we find he presented to his Bridford rectory Dr. John Gandy, ejected as a "popishly affected malignant*' hrom South Brent Vicarage in 1644. Gandy-street, Exeter, was named after Dr. Gaudy's father, thrice Mayor of that City whose house was in that street. (Prince). Simon died, a young man of 28, a few days after Charles Ilnd's return in 1660, leaving two children, a boy named Simon, who succeeded him, and a little girl, Bridget. This third little Simon was almost immediately made a Knight of the Bath — on the 23rd April, in the year following, at the King's Coronation, presumably by a grateful King for his father's " strenuitas^'' but probably not so much as a Leach as a Grenvile, for three days before his K.B. was granted, the uncle who had *' datted his lettar from Cadleigh " was created Earl of Bath, and his cousin George Monk, Duke of Albemarle, so that he may have shared the good fortune of his mother's relations. Bridget Leach married for her second husband Sir Thomas Higgons, a friend of Lord Bath, and she lies buried in Cadeleigh Church under a monument adjoining her husband's. With the second Sir Simon the family reached their zenith and disappeared from Cadeleigh, for he married Mary, the daughter of the first Lord Clifford, of Chudleigh, Treasurer of of the King's Household and died childless in 1708. The third Lady Leach died in 171 5. There is a monument to her memory in Mamhead Church. The Leach tomb, therefore, commemorates four generations who lived during the reigns of James I., Charles L, the Commonwealth, Charles IL, James II., William 111., and Anne, being the whole period of the Leach connection with Cadeleigh, and begins with the *' blackesmith's " son and ends with Lady Mary Clifford, of Chudieigh. During the whole of this time they lived in the** good house at Cadleigh," then the Court, but now only farm buildings to the present house. There is, however, sufficient of the old buildings left to ten years.
 * Not Sir Simon as Prince has it : Sir Simon had been dead then some