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though a Kugonot, many years after the fatal feaft: of St. 
Bartholomew, particularly in 1581, when the wonders 
which he is faid to have performed by his tnufical art at 
the wedding of the duke de Joyeufe are recorded. The 
■works of Lejeune confided chiefly of mifcellaneous fongs 
and pfalms; of which he pnblifhed many books. His 
Melanges confill of fongs and motets, in French, Italian, 
and Latin. His fongs are chiefly French, and in many 
parts like the madrigals of Italy. Of his pfalms in Ample 
counterparts of three and four parts, Dr. Burney pro¬ 
nounces them admirable. Few of the melodies probably 
were of his own invention, but were the produftions of 
the Aril German reformers ; they however went through 
more editions perhaps than any muflcal work Ance the 
invention of printing. 
LEFFERS, a town of the county of Tyrol: three miles 
fouth of Bolzano. 
LEIGH, f. An old word fora meadow. 
LEIGH, a market-town in Lancalhire. It is divided 
into Ax townftiips, which are, Bedford, Aftley, Tidfley 
with Shakerley, Leigh and Pennington, Chaw-Bent, and 
■WeA - Leigh ; containing together about 13,000 inhabi¬ 
tants. It is diflant from London 189 miles, ten from 
Warrington, fourteen from Manchefter, (even from Wi¬ 
gan, five from Newton, and eight from Boulton. The mar¬ 
ket-day is Saturday; and there is a fair the 26th of April. 
The manufactures are chiefly of fuftians. The church 
is a noble ftruCture, with a fquare tower containing eight 
bells, and a handfome organ ; the body of the church is 
fupported by two rows of pillars, twelve in number; it 
x>ias repaired in 1779. Lat. 53. 28. N. Ion. 2. 27. W. 
The townfhip of Aflley lies on the road from Leigh to 
Manchefter. 
Chaw-Bent has greatly increafed in houfes and popu¬ 
lation within the laft twenty years. Its chapel, though 
regularly confecrated by the bifliop of Sodor and Man, 
is exempt from epifcopal jurifdiftion, and the patronage 
is veiled in the proprietor of Atherton-hall, which for¬ 
merly was the feat of a family of that name, but is now the 
property of the H011. T. Powis. The houfe, which was 
built by Gibbs, is large, and has a fpacious cubical en¬ 
trance-hall. A plan of this manfion is given.in the Vi¬ 
truvius Britannicus. 
Tyldefley has grown up with the manufactures of the 
county. A family of that name was leafed here fo early 
as the reign of Flenry III. Of this family was ftr Tho¬ 
mas Tyldefley, who fignalized himfelf during the troubles 
of Charles I’s reign, and fell in the battle of Wigan-lane, 
Augult 25, 1650. He was buried in Leigh-church; and 
on a pillar near Wigan is fixed a bra is plate, with an in- 
feription to perpetuate his memory. Beauties of England. 
Britijk DircElory. 
LEIGH, a village about feven miles from Worcefter. 
The parilh is large, having rich meadows towaixis the 
north, adjoining Teme; in which is a place called the 
Caftle, though no traces of any building remains. In its 
church are feveral ancient monuments. Southward it 
extends to Maivern-hills ; on whofe Ade lies Cowleigh, a 
maofion-houfe-which feparates the counties of Worcelter 
and Hereford. Within this parilh is Braunsford and 
Braces Leigh ; the former has a bridge over the Teme, 
with a lhutf-mill adjoining; the latter formerly belonged 
to the Braces, a family in this county almolt from tiie 
conquelt, from whom it took its name. In 1776 an a£t 
of parliament paffed for incloAng this parilh ; but, fome 
difficulties arifiag in refpeft of its being within the chafe 
of Malvern, it was not completed till 1778. The church, 
dedicated to St. Edburgli, has ancient monuments of Sir 
Walter Devereux and his lady, W. Coiles and G. Freke, 
cicjrs. &c. 
LEIGH, or Lea, a village in the county of Efiex, on 
the fide of the river Thames, with a cuftom-houfe and of- 
cers : twenty-one miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Billericay, and 
thirty-nine eaft of London. 'Lat. 51. 34. N. lost, o. 37. E. 
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LEIGH (Charles), a phyfician and naturalift, was 
born in the feventeenth century, at Grange in Lancafhire. 
He took the degree of doctor of phyfic at Cambridge, and 
was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society in 1685. No 
particulars are recorded of his life, which was continued 
to the early part of the next century. From his writings, 
he appears to have refided and praftifed a confiderable 
time in his native county. He publifhed, 1. Phthifiolo- 
gia Lancaftrienfis, Load. 1694, 8vo. This is an account 
of the different fpecies of conl'umptions reigning in Lan- 
caftiire, efpecially of that which he conliders as endemial, 
and Calls the fcorbutic, attributing it to chemical caufes. 
2. Exercitationes Quinque de Aqnis medicatis, Morbis 
acutis, Morbis intermittentibus, Hydrope, Lond. 1697, 8vo. 
This contains an account of an epidemic fever prevailing 
in Lancafhire from 1693 to 1696, and of his p raft ice in. 
that and other difeafes. 3. Natural Hillory of Lancafhire, 
Chefhire, and Derby (hire, Lond. 1700, folio. This is 
formed upon the plan of Dr. Plot’s county-hiftories, and 
is molt full with refpeit to mineral productions and medi¬ 
cinal waters. It alfo contains an account of indigenous 
plants with their virtues, and fome philofophical obferva- 
tions on vegetation. 
LEIGH (Sir Edward), a very learned Englifhman, was 
born at Shawell, in Leicefterfliire, in the year 1602. He 
was inflrufted in grammar-learning at Waliiil in Stafford- 
ftiire; and, in 1616, Was entered a commoner of Magdaiera- 
hall, Oxford. He proceeded in arts in 1623; but, before 
his regency expired, removed to the Middle Temple, 
where he made confiderable progrefs in the Itudy of the com¬ 
mon law. When the plague broke out in 1625, he went 
into France, and fpent Ax months in that country with 
great improvement; after which he returned to the Tem¬ 
ple, where he feduloufiy devoted feveral years to the Andy, 
not only cf the law, but alfo of divinity, hiltory, and the 
learned languages. Soon after the commencement of the 
civil war, he took his feat in parliament, as member for 
the town of Stafford ; and was one of the commons who 
were appointed to fit in the aflembly of divines. When, 
.in 1648, the prefbyterian party was excluded from the 
houfe by the army, he was in the number of the pro- 
feribed members, and was for fome time kept in confine¬ 
ment. From that period till the refioration, he chiefly- 
employed himfelf in profecuting his literary Undies, and 
in publifhing various works, which difeover profound, 
erudition, an intimate acquaintance with the learned 
languages, extenfive knowledge, and much critical faga- 
city. He died at his houfe called Rufhall-hall, in Staf- 
fordfhire, in 1671, about the age of Axty-nine. He was 
the author of, 1. Selected and choice Obfervations con¬ 
cerning the Twelve firft Csefars, See. 1635, 8vo. to which 
lie added, in another edition, obfervations on fix more ; 
and, in 1670, his eldeft Ion, Henry Leigh, republiflied the 
work, with obfervations on the Greek emperors, illuftra- 
tive engravings, &c. under the title of AnaltEla Cesfarum 
Romanornm. 2. A Treatife of Divine Promifes, 1633, 
8vo. 3. Critica Sacra, on the Hebrew words of the Old, 
and on the Greek of the New Teftament, in 2 vols. 4to„ 
1639 and 1646, and afterwards in a vols. folio; and a fup- 
plement in 1662, folio.- 4. A Treatiie of Divinity, in 
three Books, 1646, 4to. 5. The Saint’s Encouragement 
in Evil-Times, or Obfervations concerning the Martyrs 
in general, 1648, 8vo. 6. Annotations on all the New 
Teftament, 1650, folio. 7. A philological Commentary, 
or an Illuftration of the molt obvious and ufeful Words 
in the Law, See. 1652, Svo. 8. A Syftem or Body of Di¬ 
vinity, in ten Books, 1654, folio. 9. A Treatife of Re¬ 
ligion and Learning, in fix Books, 1656, folio. 10. An¬ 
notations on the five poetical Books of the Old Telra- 
ment, viz. Job, Pfalms, Proverbs, Ecclefiaftes, and Can¬ 
ticles, 1657, folio, it. Choice Obfervations on all the 
Kings cf England, from the Saxons to the Death of King 
Charles I. 1661, Svo. Ac. V/ood's Athen. Oxon. 
LEIGH’S ISLAND, a final! ifland on the fouth-eifi 
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