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 12 s. viii. MAY 7, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 363 hostilities were begun in 1621 by the rebel- Sussex, but gives no further notice of him. lion of the Protestants there ; the town was He records, however, that Mr. John Willis not taken until 1628, long after the marriage, (son of Mr. John Willis of Pinner and It is interesting to note that at the Walloon brother of Mr. Thomas Willis, ejected from church on February 10, 1621/2, Peter Legay Heathfield, near Taunton), having been and Martha Delamotte were godparents ejected from West Lavington, in Sussex, lived of a child named Pierre Behot. Further, with Peter Legay at West Stoke and it seems certain that they were related by preached in his house to others besides blood, for in the registers it is found that the family. Willis's first wife died a little Baltasar des Mestres and Martine le Gai, before his ejection, and he then married his wife, were admitted to the Lord's Supper a daughter of Peter Legay ; on her death he in 1574, and they were apparently the married again, and moving from his father- parents of Judith des Mestres, born at in-law's house had a meeting in Chichester, Armentieres, the home of the original Peter where he was licensed in 1672. He died Le Gay, who was second wife of Philip about that time, however, being 40 years of Delamotte and mother of Martha (see age (Calamy, iii. 336). Peter Legay's Note-book under 1615, and Register of nonconformity appears at the outset of his same date). Baltasar des Mestres was god- will, of which the following is an abstract father of Peter Legay in 1602. In the Note- ; (P.C.C., 39 Bath) book under 1641-42 a minor detail is entered, November 7? 1679 d March 27 1680< indicating the connexion of the families : T o pious necessitous ministers, 10. To sister This year, about October and November Hester Toldervey, alias Ingpen, distracted in mind, were very dangerously sick Peter Legay and 18 a year for life. The manors of West Stoke, Martha his wife and myself Joseph Delamott. Funtington and Lavant to son Isaac Legay of Philip Delamott was so likewise in Lincolnshire. London, merchant. To son Jacob Legay 10, to AIL of us recovered, God be praised, but our be paid after my wife's decease. To executors sister Elizabeth. . . died. 250 in trust for daughter Dorothy Phillips Peter;Legay in 1651 purchased the manor (whose husband, William Phillips, is to have of West' WelU and in conjunction with .?% jSdS' *^j%^ his son Isaac sold it in 1662 to Richard f or life, with remainder to son Isaac. Executors : Biggs (V.C.H., Hants, iv. 537). According Wife, son Isaac and grandson Samuel (son of to Dallaway's ' West Sussex ' (I., pt. ii., Isaac). Witnesses : John Ridge, Thomas Horne, 110, 111), Peter Legay the elder was lord of John Browne - West Stoke, near Chichester, in 1659, and It will be noticed that Peter and Martha at the death of Peter Legay the younger, had a married life of fifty -six years. Their an eighth part passed to Randolph Tutte, known children were three sons, Peter, gent. The manor of West Stoke had in Isaac, and Jacob, and two daughters, one 1626 become divisible among the six sisters the wife of John Willis and the other Dorothy and coheirs of Thomas Stoughton or their Phillips. The second son, Isaac, carried on representatives. How one-eighth came to the male line. The eldest son, Peter, was a the younger Peter does not appear, but the London merchant, who prospered like his elder Peter (of whom we are treating) father. In 1654 he purchased from the finally secured his seven-eighths in 1664 Trustees for the Sale of Forfeited Estates and 1665 by purchases from Thomas the manor of Pilkington, with extensive Germon and Thomas Phillips, to whom lands there and in Manchester, Bury, and portions had descended (Sussex Rec. Soc., the neighbourhood, for 3,302. The then Inquisitions p.m. and Fines ; Close Roll 4187, Earl of Derby concurred in the sale (Close Nos. 31,31.) Chancery proceedings in 1658/9 Roll 3796, No. 35; the deed occupies 18 give some information as to how the Legays membranes). In 1658, in conjunction with obtained their entry on the Manor (Reynard- his brother Isaac, he purchased from the son, 243/121. where deeds are cited). Earl the manors of Much and Little Woolton, After the Restoration the Legays became and Childwall, but shortly afterwards re- Nonconformists. During the temporary In- leased his right to Isaac (V.C.H., Lan- dulgence of 1672, a licence was granted j cashire, iii. 110). The younger. Peter was for John Abbot, a Congregationalist, to twice married. First, about 1654, to Eliza- minister at Peter Legay's house at West ! beth, daughter of William Edwards, of Al- Stoke (Cal. S.P., Dom., 1672, pp. 199, ! veston in Gloucestershire, and Mary his 203, 222). Calamy states that Abbot wife. Elizabeth died soon after the mar- was ejected in 1662 from Fishborne in'riige, without issue, for on November 13,