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LEIGH, EDWARD (1602–1671)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 396 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEIGH, See also:EDWARD (1602–1671) , See also:English Puritan and theologian, was See also:born at Shawell, See also:Leicestershire. He was educated at Magdalen See also:Hall, See also:Oxford, from 1616, and subsequently became a member of the See also:Middle See also:Temple. In 1636 he entered See also:parliament as member for See also:Stafford, and during the See also:Civil See also:War held a colonelcy in the See also:parliamentary See also:army. He has sometimes been confounded with See also:John Ley (1583–1662), and so represented as having sat in the See also:Westminster See also:Assembly. The public career of Leigh terminated with his See also:expulsion from parliament with the See also:rest of the Presbyterian party in 1648. From an See also:early See also:age he had studied See also:theology and produced numerous compilations, the most important being the Critica Sacra, containing Observations on all the Radices of the See also:Hebrew Words of the Old and the See also:Greek of the New Testament (1639–1644; new ed., with supplement, 1662), for which the author received the thanks of the Westminster Assembly, to whom it was dedicated. His other See also:works include Select and Choice Observations concerning the First Twelve Caesars (1635); A See also:Treatise of Divinity (1646–1651); Annotations upon the New Testament (165o), of which a Latin See also:translation by See also:Arnold was published at See also:Leipzig in 1732; A See also:Body of Divinity (1654); A Treatise of See also:Religion and Learning (1656) ; Annotations of the Five Poetical Books of the Old Testament (1657). Leigh died in See also:Staffordshire in See also:June 1671.

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