Lexicographical Neighbors of Leeses
Literary usage of Leeses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham: Being Grassmen's Accounts and Other Parish by Durham (England). St. Giles (Parish), Durham (England). Kepier Hospital, James Barmby (1896)
"... the leeses, 5-r. To Mr Tempest for a years rent, i6s. 1666. To Wm Hall for a
Pate's head, 6d. ..."
2. The Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"... at theire owne will & pleasure And to make seale & accomplishe any deed or
deeds leese or leeses evidences ..."
3. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1895)
"... the leeses han a freehold 'according to some'; but the question seems still
an open one. 3 Note Book. pi. 280, 1217 ; Stat. Merton, c. 8 ; Stat. West. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1887)
"Our best Cheddar, Cheshire, Stilton, and Leicester leeses are almost untouched
by foreign competition ; whereas in cheese of the second and third qualities ..."
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