James Leche of Newtown,J.P., Receiver, Newtown,Montgomeryshire

A Welsh Politician.

The son of an esquire of the body to Henry VII, James Leche was described as ‘of the new town of Cydewain’ in one of the two chancery cases in which he was engaged in the period 1538-44. He was almost certainly the Shropshire justice of the peace of his name, for he married into that shire, but is to be distinguished from a namesake of Llawhaden, Pembrokeshire, who was both an esquire of the body and had Shropshire connexions. One of the original justices for Montgomeryshire, the shire’s first Member and its fourth sheriff (an office he was discharging during the third session of the Parliament), Leche made little mark in the closing years of his life.

Leche, of Carden. (Harl. MS. 1535.)

I finde one Sr Robert Stanford knight Lorde of the fourthe parte of the manor of Cawaredon had yssue James Leiche of Carden esqr. of the body to H. 7 who had James Leiche who had anne his daughter & heire first maried to Andrew Willsonne & after to Richard Price in Shropshire. http://cheshire-heraldry.org.uk/visitations1613/1613.pdf