[Illustration] The pedigree commences in the reign of Henry IV. with
John Leche, (said to be a younger brother of the house of Leche of
Chatsworth, in Derbyshire,) who married the heiress of Cawarthyn, or
Carden, and settled there about the year 1475. Some pedigrees,
however, seat the Leches at Carden as early as the twentieth of
Edward III.; and there is also a tradition that the family is
descended from the leche, or chirurgeon, of that monarch himself. It
is remarkable that Nolan has been the family christian name, with
one exception, during thirteen generations.
Younger branch, extinct in 1694, Leche of Mollington, in this
county.
See Harl. MS. 2119, 50, quoted by Ormerod, ii. 385.
ARMS.--_Ermine, on a chief indented gules three crowns or_.
Present Representative, John Hurleston Leche, Esq.