History and genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and ...

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nto England. In gratitude to him for his kindness, I, who heretoore
served only at the baptism of the children of Kings, do now
nost willingly offer the same service even to the meanest of the
English nation. Lee, the conqueror hath so commanded. Adieu
\. D. 1543 in the 36th year of King Henry VIII." Camden men-
ions Lee, in Co. Chester, near the Mersey river "from whence is a
amily of the same name famous not only for its gentile race, but for
he number of its branches."
In a Parochial chapel at Maclesfield in Co. Chester, on a brass
jlate, is the following
" Here lyeth the body of Perkin A. Lee
That for King Richard, the death did dye
Betrayed for righteousness.
And the bones of Sir Peers his sonne
That with King Henry the fifth did wonne
In Paris."
"This Perkin served King Edward III. and the Black Prince his
Ion, in all their wars in France, and was at the battle of Cressie, and
lad Lyme given him for that service. And after their deaths, served
King Richard II. and left him not in his troubles, but was taken
A'ith him and beheaded at Chester, by King Henry IV. And the
>aid Sir Peers his sonne, served King Henry V. and was slain at the
battle of Agencourt. In their memory Sir Peter Lee of Lyme,
Knight, descended from them, finding the said old verses written
upon a stone in this chapel did re-edifie this place An. Dom. 1626."
Sir Thomas Lee, mayor of London 1588, was descended from this
Perkin A. Lee ;
and
the father of Perkin, who was Robert Lee of
Adlington, Co. Chester, A. D. 1369, bore on his shield, "a bend,
cheque, compony, gules and or," very similar to the fess, as shown
3n the arms of Col. Richard Lee of Va. Near Westbury in Wiltshire
is the village of Lee, which Camden says is the place where King
Alfred encamped the night before he set upon the Danes at Edding-
ton. In the Vale of Alesbury in Co. Buckingham, was Quarendon,
die seat of Sir Robert Lee, Baronet.
Sir Edward Henry Lee, who was created Earl of Litchfield in 1674,
had his chief seat at Ditchley in Oxfordshire. He derived his pedi-
gree from Sir Walter Lee of Wyburnbury, Co. Chester, who derived
liis name from the lordship of Lee in the said parish, where they
resided in the reign of Edward III. [1327, 1377]- Sir Henry Lee, a