LEE 
• LEE-LAR'CHE, or Lee-Latch,/ The tendency of 
a (hip to leeward. 
LEE-PENNY, or Lee-Stone, f A curious piece of 
antiquity belonging to the family of Lee in Scotland, and 
of which tire following account has been given in the 
Gentleman’s Magazine for December 1787. 
It is a ftone of a dark red colour and triangular {hape, 
and its fize about half an inch each fide. It is fet in a 
piece of filver coin, which, though much defaced, by 
fome letters dill remaining is fuppofed to be a {hilling of 
Edward I. the crofs being very plain, as it is on his {hil¬ 
lings. It has been, hy tradition, in the Lee-family fince 
the year 1310; that is, a little after the death of king 
Robert Bruce, who, having ordered his heart to be car¬ 
ried to the Holy Land, there to be buried, one of the no¬ 
ble family of Douglas was fent with it, and it is faid got 
the crowned heart in his arms from that circumftance; 
but the perfon who carried the heart was Simon Locard, 
of Lee, who juft about this time borrowed a large fum 
of money from fir William de Lendfay, prior of Air, for 
which he granted a bond of annuity often pounds of fil¬ 
ver, during the life of the (aid fir William de Lendfay, 
out of his lands of Lee and Cartland. The original bond, 
dated 1323, and witnefled by the principal nobility of the 
country, is ftill remaining among the family-papers. 
As this was a great fum in thofe days, it is thought it 
was borrowed for that expedition ; and, from his being 
the perfon who carried the royal heart, he changed his 
name from Locard to Lockheart, as it is fometimes fpelled, 
or Lockhart, and got a heart within a lock for part of his 
arms, with the motto Corda /errata pando. This Simon 
Lockhart having taken prifoner a Saracen prince or chief, 
his wife came to ranfom him; and, on counting out the 
money or jewels, this ftone fell out of her purfe, which 
fhe haftily {hatched up; which Simon Lockhart obferv- 
ing, infilled to have it, elfe he would not give up his pri¬ 
foner. Upon this the lady gave it him, and told him its 
many virtues, viz. that it cured all difeafes in cattle, 
and the bite of a mad dog both in man and beaft. It is 
ufed by dipping the ftone in water, which is given to the 
dileafed cattle to drink; and the perfon who has been bit, 
and the wound or part infe&ed, is walhed with the wa¬ 
ter. There are no words ufed in the dipping of the ftone, 
nor any money taken by the fervants, without incurring 
the owner’s difpleafure. Many are the cures faid to be 
performed by it; and people come from all parts of Scot¬ 
land, and even as far up in England as Yorklhire, to get 
the water in which the ftone is dipped, to give their cat¬ 
tle, when ill of the murrain efpecially, and black-leg. A 
great many years ago, a complaint was made to the eccle- 
fiaftical courts againft the laird of Lee, then fir James 
Lockhart, for uiing witchcraft. It is faid, when the 
plague was laft at Newcaftle, the inhabitants fent for the 
Lee-penny, and gave a bond for a large fum in truft for 
the loan ; and, that they thought it did fo much good, 
that they offered to pay the money, and keep the"Lee- 
penny; but the gentleman would not part with it. A 
copy of this bond is very wellattefted to have been among 
the family-papers, but fuppofed to have been fpoiled, 
along with many more valuable ones, about fifty years 
ago, by rain getting into the charter-room during a long 
minority, and while no family refided at Lee. 
We have given this hifiory, not on account of the uti¬ 
lity of the information, but as a proof of the fuperitition 
of the times. None of the virtues which the ftone was 
formerly fuppofed to poffefs are now aferibed to it, ex¬ 
cepting, we believe, in the cafe of fome of the difeafes of 
cattle; and even thefe in more enlightened times will be¬ 
come daily lefs numerous and lefs powerful. 
LEE-WA'Y. See the article Navigation. 
LEE'A,/ [fo named by Linmeus, at the fuggeftion of 
profeffor David Van Royen of Leyden, in honour of the 
late Mr. James Lee, of the Vineyard at Hammerfmith, au¬ 
thor of an Introduction to Botany, of which the firft edi¬ 
tion appeared in 1760, the fourth in 1810, This book, 
LEE 43(? 
whofe principles are borrowed from Linnaeus, but which 
is particularly valuable for its gloflaries and tables of fy- 
nonyms, has been of primary ufe in making the Linnaean 
fyftem popular here. Its author was one of the beft prac¬ 
tical botanifts, and molt experienced and fuccefsful cul¬ 
tivators. He loved to encourage and affift all who had a 
tafte for natural hiltory ; and died generally efteemed, at an 
advanced age, in July 1795, leaving a fon in every refpeCfc 
worthy to fultain and extend his reputation.] In botany r 
a genus of the clafs pentandria, order monogynia, natural 
order of trihilatae, (fapotae, JuJJ.) The generic characters 
are—Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, bell-fhaped, coria¬ 
ceous, five-toothed, permanent. Corolla: one-petalled; 
tube the length of the calyx ; border five-cleft; divifions 
ovate, acute. NeCtary placed on the tube of the corolla,, 
and {horter than it, upright, pitcher-fhaped, five-cleft;, 
lobes emarginate. Stamina: filaments five, inferted be¬ 
low, within the neCtary, between the lobes, incurved ; 
antherse ovate, verfatile, before impregnation converging 
and covering the ftigma. Piftillum: germ fubglobofe, 
fuperior; ftyle fimple, {horter than the neftary; ftigma 
headed. Pericarpium: berry orbiculate, deprefled, quin- 
que-torulofe, one-celled. Seeds five, on one fide gibbofe, 
on the other cornered.— EJfential Character. Corolla one- 
petalled ; neCtary on the tub$ of the corolla, upright,, 
five-cleft; berry five-feeded. 
Species. 1. Leea fambucina, or elder-leaved leea ; (lem, 
peduncles, and leaves, fmooth. This is a fmall tree re- 
fembling the elder. Leaves like thofe of Sambucus Cana- 
denfis. Berry marked with from three to fix fwellings,. 
black, aromatic, containing from three to fix feeds. Na¬ 
tive of the Eaft Indies, Africa, and New South Wales. 
Gmrtner has another fpecies, (vol. i. 275.) which lie- 
calls Aquilicia otillis, and fufpeCts to be the fame with 
Leea requata, N° 2. It differs, according to him, from 
Leea fambucina in the number of feeds, the pale colour 
of the berry, and the entire want of any aromatic flavour. 
2. Leea aequata, or (hrubby leea : leaves fmooth; (tern 
and peduncles feurfy. Native of the Eaft Indies; intro¬ 
duced, before 1777, by Mr. James Lee. 
3. Leea crifpa, or fringe-ltalked leea: Hem angular, 
fringed, curled. Stem lomewhat woody, but annual, 
jointed, three feet high, with curled membranaceous an¬ 
gles. Flowers fnowy-white, very fmall. Native of the 
Cape of Good Hope; introduced in 1767 by Mr. William. 
Malcolm ; flowers in October. 
LEEBYRAN', a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
near the north-eaft coaft of Borneo. Lat. 6. i.N. Ion. 
118. 12. E. 
LEECH, or Leach, f . [laec, Sax.] A phyfician ; a pro- 
felfor of the art of healing : whence we {till ufe cow-leech .* 
A leech, the which had great infight 
In that difeafe of grieved confcience. 
And well could cure the fame; his name was Patience. 
Spen/er’s Fairy Queen, 
The hoary-wrinkled leech has watch’d and toil’d. 
Tried every health-reftoring herb and gum, 
And wearied out his painful {kill in vain. Rowe, 
A fkilful leach, 
They fay, had wrought this bleffed deed ; 
This leach Arbuthnot was yclept. Gays Pa/orals. 
A long and {lender worm, which fattens on animals, and 
fucks the blood : it is ufed to draw blood where the lan¬ 
cet is lefs fife, whence perhaps the name. See Hirudo. 
—I drew blood by leeches behind his ear. IV/ernan, 
Sticking like leeches, till they burlt with blood. 
Without remorfe infatiably. Rofcommon.- 
To LEECH, v. a. To treat with medicaments. 
LEE'CH-CRAFT ,/ The art of healing: 
We ftudy fpeech, but others we perfuade: 
We leech-craft learn, but others cure with it. Davies . 
LEE'CHES, f. The borders or edges of a fail, which 
are either Hoping or perpendicular." The leeches of all 
fail^ 
