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bankments are high in Tome places; and the remains of two 
fquare towers, a porch, and great hall, are (till confider- 
able. In the church arc foirtg curious ancient monu¬ 
ments, with effigies, &c, to the memories of the Rithers’s 
and the.Bedmans, who were lords of the caftle; alfo of 
the Gafcoigns of Gawthorp. One of this family, fir Wil¬ 
liam Gafcoigne, committed Henry V. when prince of 
Wales, to prifon for affronting him whilft he fat in the 
judge’s chair. He was chief juftice in the reigns of Hen¬ 
ry IV. and V..and a fine monument, with his ftatue in 
alabafter, is preferved in Harewood church. 
LEEDS, a village of England, in the county of Kent. 
Here is a manfion called Leeds Caftle, which, in 1321, be¬ 
longed to Bartholomew lord Badiefmeer. Isabella, queen 
of Edward II. being refufed admittance into the caftle, it 
Was befieged and taken by the king. Lord Badiefmeer 
was abfent; but his wife and child were carried prifoners 
to the tower; and the reft concerned in the defence of 
the caftle were hanged. The lord himfelf was taken the 
year following at Boroughbridge, and beheaded. It was 
then granted to archbithop Arundel, on whofe death it 
reverted to the crown, and was rebuilt by Henry VII. 
In the reign of Edward VI. it was granted to fir Anthony 
St. Le-ger, and at prefent belongs to the family of Fairfax. 
It has generally been afferted that Richard II. was im- 
prifoned in this caftle ; but the place of that prince’s con¬ 
finement was Leeds in Yorkfhire, not Leeds in Kent. In 
1406, Henry IV. refded here during the plague. It is fix 
miles eaft of Maidftone. 
LEEDS, a county of Upper Canada, bounded on the 
eaft by the county of Grenville, on the fouth by the river 
St. Laurence, and on the weft by the boundary-line of the 
late townftiip of Pittfburg, running north until it inter- 
fefts the Ottawa or Grand River, and thence defeending 
until it meets the north-wefternmoft boundary of the 
county of Grenville. This county comprehends all the 
Blands in the river St. Laurence that are near it. The 
greater part of it lies fronting the St. Laurence. 
LEEDS, a townftiip in the county of Leeds, being the 
twelfth townftiip in afeending the river St. Laurence. It 
is watered by the Gananoque river, which has a good har¬ 
bour at its entrance. There is a port of entry on the weft 
bank of the Gananoque, near its mouth in the St. Laurence. 
LEEDS, a town of North America, in the eaftern part 
of Gloucefter county, New Jerfey: four miles weft of the 
mouth of Mullicus river. 
LEEDS, a town in Kennebeck county, on the eaft bank 
of Amerefkoggin river, oppofite to the mouth of Twenty- 
miles ft ream, in the town of Turner, in Cumberland 
county. 
LEEDS, a town, or rather village, of Richmond county, 
Virginia, on the north bank of Rappahannock river: fe- 
venty miles north-eaft of Richmond ; near which is a fa¬ 
mous courfe for liorfe-racing. 
LEED'STON, a poft-town of North America, in Weft- 
moreland county, Virginia : 105 miles from Waftiington. 
LEEF, adj. [lieve, leve, Dut.J Kind; fond: 
Whilome all thefe were low and leef. 
And lov’d their flocks to feed ; 
They never drove to be the chief. 
And Ample was their weed. Spenfer’s Pajlorals. 
LEE'FANG, f. A fea term ; a rope reeved into the 
courfe to haul in the fail. 
LEEGET'TAN, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
near the eaft coaft of the ifland of Borneo. Lat.4. 10. N. 
Ion. 118. 40. E. 
LEEHEE'M, a fmall ifland near the north-eaft of Bor¬ 
neo. L3t. 6. 9. N. Ion. 118.16. E. 
LEEK,/, [leac, Sax. loock, Dut. keckk, Erfe.] A plant. 
See Allium, vol. i. p. 349.—We ufe acid plants in¬ 
wardly and outwardly in gangrenes; in the feurvy, water- 
creffes, iiorfe-radift), garlic, or leek pottage. Flayer. 
Tell him I’ll knock his leek about his pate 
Upon St. David’s day. ' Skakefpeare, 
LEE 
The Juice of leeks has been ufed with fuccefs in fome 
cafes'of drcpfy. See Dr. D. Monro on Medical Chemiftry. 
vol. iv. 
^ LEEK, adj. Made of leeks; impregnated with leeks. 
Flayer. 
LEEK, a market-town in Stafford(hire, diftant from 
London, by way of Afliborn, 154 miles ; thirty-three from 
Wolverhampton, thirty-one from Manchefter, twenty- 
four from Stockport, twelve from Macclesfield, and four¬ 
teen from Afliborn. The market is on Wednefday ; fairs, 
Feb. 10, March 30, May 18, July 4 and 18, Off. 12, and 
Nov. 14. The manufactures carried on in this town are 
for ribbons, filk-twift, and buttons. The church has a 
fquare tower, fix bells with chimes, and a dock. In the 
church-yard, at the fouth-eaft corner of the chancel, are 
the remains of a Danifli crofs, (landing, and ten feet high 
from the ground, beneath which are three Heps. Here 
are eight almfhoufes, endowed 1696, by Elizabeth Afn, 
widow, eldelt daughter of William Joliiffe, efq. for eight 
widows; they are allowed two (hillings per week, arnffe- 
ven (hillings and five-pence three-farthings twice a-year 
for coals; and a new gown once in two years. 
At Blue-hills, in the neighbouthood,are coal-mines; and 
a fait ft ream comes from thence, which tinges the (tones 
and earth through which it runs with a "nifty colour, 
and, with the infufion of galls, turns as black as ink. 
Here are rocks of a molt furprifing height, without any 
turf or mould upon them. 
The village of Heracles is north-Aveft of Leek.— Grin- 
don is on the fouth-eaft fide of Leek. Dr. Plot fays this 
pari(li produces great quantities of excellent marble, of a 
white, hard, (liining grit, ftriped red, which takes fo good 
a polifti, that it is fit for chimney-pieces, monumeilts, &cc, 
LEEK, a fmall ifland of Pennlylvania, in Delaware river. 
LEER,/ in glafs-making, a fort of furnace, or oven, 
intended to anneal and cool by proper degrees the veffels 
when made. This properly comprehends two parts, the 
tower and leer. The tower is that part which lies direCtly 
above the melting-furnace, with a partition between them 
of a foot thick, in the mid ft whereof there is a round 
hole, placed exactly over the furnace, through which the 
flame and heat pafs into the tower ; on the floor of this 
tower the veffels are fet to anneal. There are two open¬ 
ings by which the veffels are put into this tower; and, af¬ 
ter handing there fome time, they are put into iron pans, 
which by degrees are drawn out all along that part of this 
furnace, AA’hich is properly called the leer, and is five or 
fix yards long, that the veffels may cool by degrees. 
LEER,/, [hleapie. Sax.] An oblique view.—I fpy 
entertainment in her; (he gives the leer of invitation. 
Shakcjpeare's Merry Wives of Windfor. 
Afide the devil turn’d 
For envy, yet with zealous leer malign 
Ey’d them aikance. Milton. 
A laboured eaft of countenance.-—Damn with faint praife, 
concede with civil leer. Pope. 
I place a ftatefman full before my fight; 
A bloated minifter in all his geer, 
With (hamelefs vifage, and perfidious leer. Swift. 
[Jjleoji, Sax. face.] The countenance itfelf.—He hath a 1 
Rofalind of a better leer than you. Skakejpeare's Asyou like it , 
—Here’s a young lad fram’d of another leer. Titus Andro- 
nicits. —A hunting-term : the place where a deer lies to 
dry himfelf; properly lair. 
To LEER, v. n. To look obliquely ; to look archly.— 
I wonder whether you tafte the pleafure of independency, 
or whether you do not fometimes leer upon the court. Swift, 
■—To look with a forced countenance : 
Bertran has been thught the arts of courts, 
To gild a face with (miles, and leer a man to ruin. Dry-dsn, 
LEER, a river of Eaft Friefland, which rifes from a, 
lake three miles north-weft of Oldenburg, and runs into 
the Eins near Oft. 
LEER* 
