[Illustration] Efward de Lega, who appears from his name to have
been of Saxon origin, and who lived at or near the period of the
Conquest, was the patriarch of this ancient family, of which the
principal male line failed in the time of Edward IV. Thomas Legh, of
Northwood, in the same parish of High-Legh, the ancestor of the
present family, succeeded after a long litigation as the next heir
male in the reign of Henry VIII. See Ormerod, i. 358.
ARMS.--Allowed 1566. _Argent, a lion rampant gules, armed and
langued azure_.
Present Representative, George Cornwall Legh, Esq. M.P. for North
Cheshire.