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 stone are his arms quarterly, 1 and 4 Legh, 2 and 3 Payne, and crest, a lion couchant; and below are the same arms impaling Harvey quarterly ; 1 and 4 gu. on a bend arg., three trefoils sa. for Harvey ; 2 and 3 sa. within a bordure gobony arg. and sa. ; a lion rampant ar. for Nernuit, as also her arms in a lozenge. At each corner is a small brass plate, whereon, says Aubrey, are engraved an eagle, angel, ox, and lion, as types of the four Evan- gelists. The inscription round the stone on a verge of brass runs

"Here Liethe John Leigh Esquyer and Isabel his Wyfe Dowghter of John Harvy of Thurley in Befordeshyre Esquyer and Sole Syster of S r . George Harvy e Knight which John deceased the xxiiii day of Aprill in the yere of oure Lorde God Mcccccix and the sayd Isabell deceassed the viii daye of January in the yere of Christes Incarnacion Mcccccxliiii on whos. Soules I pray God have Marcy."

It was through this marriage with Harvy that the Leighs claimed founder's kin with Archbishop Chicheley, as will be seen by the Pedigree from Lambeth Library, given in the Appendix. 1 Of the children of John Legh and Isabell, Henry, the second son, was of Parham, in the county of Sussex, and Avenor to King Henry VIII. He died without issue, and was buried at Addington on 8th May, 1571, as appears by the parish register. Anne, the eldest daughter, married Thomas Hatte- clyff or Atcliff, who died on 30th Aug., 1540. 2 Aubrey states that near the communion-table lies a grey marble, inlaid with brass, whereon is the effigies of a gentleman in complete armour, over which is a shield bearing his arms: 1. Three counterfoils. 2. Two bars over all a lion rampant, impaling Leigh and Payne quarterly, with the inscription 1 Appendix, No. 3. Thomas Harvy, the grandfather of Isabel Leigh, married Christian, daughter of John Chicheley, Chamberlain of London. 2 He was one of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the revenues of the Priory of St. Mary, Dartford, and his name is appended to the return made to the Crown of those revenues. G 2