402 L E I 
coaft of New Ireland, a little to the fouth-eaft of Cocoa- 
Nut Ifland. 
LEIGH/LIN, a bifliopric of Ireland, in the province of 
Dublin, founded in 632, and united with Ferns in 1600. 
The united bifliopric comprifes the whole counties of 
Carlow and Wexford, with part of the Queen’s county, 
Wicklow, and Kilkenny. There are 232 pari/hes in the 
union, forming 79 benefices, in which are 71 churches 
and fix glebe-houfes. The cathedrals are finall, and ferve 
for parifli-churc'hes. The refidence of the bilhop is at 
Ferns. 
LEIGH'LIN (Old), a village of Ireland, near the river 
Barrow, and in the county of Carlow, 25: miles well by 
north from Leighlin Bridge, It was incorporated in the 
year 1216, and continued to fend members to parliament 
till the union; and is ftjll the feat of the cathedral church 
of the diocefe. 
LEIGH'LIN BRIDGE, a town of Ireland, in the 
county of Carlow, fituated on the river Barrow : feven 
miles fouth of Carlow, and eleven north-eaft of Kil¬ 
kenny. 
LE'IGIITON, a village in Iluntingdonfhire, five miles 
north of Kimbolton, which gives name to the hundred. 
It has.fairs on May 12 and 0 < 5 l. 5. 
LE'IGIITON, Leighton-Buzzard, or Beaudesert, 
a town of England, in the county of Bedford, fituated on 
the river Ouzel, on the borders of Buckinghamfhire ; with 
a weekly market on Tuefday, well ftored with cattle; and 
a great horfe-fair on Whit-Tuefday, particularly thole for 
coach anti cart; befides three others, viz. Jan. 25, July 26, 
and Oft. 24. It is eight miles welt-north-weft of Dunlta- 
ble, and forty-one north-welt of London. Lat. 51. eg-. N. 
Ion. o. 38. W. 
LE'IGIITON, or Leighton in the Mooring, a vil¬ 
lage to the fouth-eaft of Rotherham, Yorklhire ; with a 
fair on the 24th of June. 
LE'IGHTON (Alexander), a Scotch prelbyterian di¬ 
vine, was born at Edinburgh in 1587. He became noted 
for the fufierings which he endured in the reign of 
Charles I. on account of a work which he publilhed, en¬ 
titled Zion’s Plea. For this he was tried in the high- 
commiilion court, anu convifted, which, in thofe days, 
and in that court, was but another term for being ac- 
cufed ; his fentence has been given at length in the life 
of Laud, p. 287. and, excepting the imprifonment for 
life, gnd the fine, the fentence was put into execution to 
the full extent. He was releafed by the long parliament 
after an imprifonment for ten years. His confinement 
and cruel ulage had fo impaired his health, that when he 
was releafed he had fcarcely the power of walking, or fee¬ 
ing, or hearing. As a fort of remuneration for his trou¬ 
bles, the parliament appointed him keeper of Lambeth pa¬ 
lace, at that time converted into a prifon. He died in 
3644, infane. 
LE'IGHTON (Robert), a Scotch prelate in the feven- 
teenth century, was fon of the preceding. He was edu¬ 
cated in Scotland, where he diltinguilhed himfelf above 
bis contemporaries in all the branches of ufeful learning, 
particularly in the Itudy of the feriptures. Having finifhed 
bis co.urfe of academical lludies, he went to the continent 
for improvement, and fpent lome years in France. On 
his return he obtained prelbyterian ordination, and was 
chofen to a congregation at Newbottle, near Edinburgh. 
Very foon after his fettlement at this place he conceived 
a diflike to the prelbyterian form and manner of church- 
difcipline, and chofe rather a life of retirement than to at¬ 
tend at the p.-efbytery. In the year 1648, he declared 
liimfelf for the engagement for the king, on account of 
•which he would have expofed himfelf to much trouble, 
had not the earl of Lothian, who lived in his parifli, prpved 
his friend, and prevailed with the men in power not to 
moleft him. At length, finding that he could no longer 
fulimit to the ecclefialtical impofitions of the prelbyterians, 
and being unwilling to live in llrife and contention, he 
Kfigned his ptuiUv in filence, and withdrew into retire- 
L E I 
merit. Shortly after, he was chofen principal of the col¬ 
lege of Edinburgh, the duties of which office he performed 
with great reputation during ten years. Upon the reilo- 
ration, when it was determined to eftablifh epifcopacy in 
Scotland, Leighton was fixed on as a proper perfon for 
the rnitre. He was confecrated,- with other bifltops, at 
Weftminfter ; he would now gladly have promoted forne 
plan for uniting the prelbyterians and episcopalians, but 
was thwarted in all views on this fubjefl. When lie 
found that the government was determined to enforce 
conformity on the prelbyterians by the molt rigorous mea- 
fures, he laboured with all zeal to ffiow the impolicy of 
fucli proceedings; but he ftruggled ineffectually againtt 
the current, and all that he could do was to praclife, in 
his own diocefe, the moderation which lie had recom¬ 
mended generally, and to fet an edifying example to the 
reft of his dignified brethren. They however profited 
very little, either from his advice or from the exemplary 
conduct which he manifefted. He remonftrnted with the 
king refpeCling the arbitrary proceedings of the ecclefi- 
aftical high-commiflion court; and more lenient meafures 
were promifed to be purfued with refpeft to Scotland, 
He begged permiflion to refign his fee ; but the king, fo 
far from liltening to the prayer of his petition, urged him 
to accept of the diocefe of Glafgow, which was a more 
important bifliopric, and one in Which he might be more 
ufetul. To induce him to accept of this preferment, he 
was promifed the afliftance of the court in bringing aboue 
his favourite fcheme of a comprehenfion of the prelby¬ 
terians. He accepted the fee ; but after a fliort time found 
himfelf wholly unable to carry on his great defigns of 
healing the divifions, and reforming the abufes, in the 
church, and begged permiflion to retire into private life, 
which was at length granted him. He went to live in 
Suflex, where he occupied himfelf in doing all the good 
in his power. He died in 1684, at about the age of eighty. 
He was the author of, 1. Prxlefliones Theologicas. 2. 
A Commentary on the firft and iecond Chapters of the 
Firll Epiftle of St. Peter. 3. Sermons, including other 
pieces. To the volume of fermons, publilhed in 1758, is 
prefixed a life of the author, to which the reader is re¬ 
ferred for farther particulars. 
LEI'GNE, a river of France, which runs into the Seine 
a little to theTouth of Bar fur Seine. 
LEI'LAM, orLEY'LAM, a town of the Arabian Irak, 
Near it, in 1733, the Turks were defeated by the Perflans 
under Kouli Khan; the Turks were commanded by the 
feralkier Topal Ofman, who was killed in the field ; they 
loft all their baggage and artillery,- with the military cheft, 
and not lefs than 40,000 men, including many balhaws 
and perfons of diftinttion : thirty miles north of Bagdad. 
LEI'MA, a river of Ruffia, which runs into the Irtifch 
twenty-four miles north of Tobollk. 
LEIM'BACII, a town of Weftphalia, in the county of 
Mansfeld : one mile north-eaft of Mansfeld.—A town of 
the duchy of Wurzburg : three miles fouth-fouth-well of 
Eltman. 
LEI'MBURG, a town of Germany, in the territory of 
Nuremberg: four miles fouth of Lauf. 
LEIN, a river of Wurtemberg, which rifes three miles 
fouth-fouth-ealt of Murhart, and runs into the Kocher 
at Abtlgmund. <r 
LEI'NA, a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Gotha: four miles fouth-fouth-weft of Gotha. 
LEI'NA, or Leine, a river of Weftphalia, which rifes 
two miles louth-well of Worbis, in the territory of Eich- 
feld; paffes by Heiligenftadt, Gottingen, Hanover, &c 0 
and joins the Aller about two miles below Zelle. 
LEI'NACII, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg: four 
miles north-eail of Lauringen.—Another, fix miles fouth 
of Cafliladt. 
LEI'NBACH, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Schwarzenburg 1 two miles fouth of Schainfeld. 
LEI'NE, a river of Germany, which runs into the Neflh 
four miles north of Gotha. 
LEFNENf 
