Note 626 — LIII.—SITE OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. GILES.
Reading edition
Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to the City of London, ed. Geo. S. Fry, Part I., p. 62. Legh was buried in the old church of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and an illustration of his effigy is given in Ellis’s Antiquities of Shoreditch. The following inscription was underneath (Hatton’s New View of London, 1908):—
“Here under lye the Ashes and the Bones
Of Sir Tho. Leigh, that good and learned Knight,
Whose hasty Death, alas, the Godly still bemoan,
Tho his Soul always rejoice in God’s sight,
Great was his Wisdom, and greater was his Wit,
His Visage comely, with no sad Change dismay’d,
A Man in all Affairs a King to serve most fit,
Had not Death so soon his mortal Life betray’d.”