Arms of John Leke, husband of Margaret Paston (died 1583). Detail from illustrated pedigree of the Paston family of Paston Hall, Norfolk, drawn in 1573 by Robert Cooke (c.1535-1592–3) Clarenceux King of Arms. Leeke/Leke (of Sutton in the Dale, Derbyshire; Leke, Earl of Scarsdale): Argent, on a saltire engrailed sable nine annulets of the field impaling Paston - John Leeke married Margaret Paston (1500-1583), a daughter of William Paston of Paston and Bridgett Heydon. His elder brother Sir Francis Leeke/Leke (1510-1480), MP, of Sutton in the Dale (now w:Sutton Scarsdale), married her sister Elizabeth Paston. John Leke and his elder brother Francis Leke were sons of Sir John Leke of Sutton in the Dale by his first wife Jane Foljambe, a daughter of Henry Foljambe of Walton, Derbyshire (Source: LEKE, Francis (by 1510-80), of Sutton in the Dale, Derbys., Elkering, Notts. and London. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982[1]).

w:Sutton Scarsdale Hall, per Wikipedia: The original Hall formed part of a Saxon estate owned by Wulfric Spott, who died in 1002 and left the estate to Burton-on-Trent Abbey. In the Domesday Book the estate was owned by Roger de Poitou. In 1225 the Lordship of Sutton-in-the-Dale had been given by King Henry III to Peter de Hareston, but by 1401 it had been purchased by John Leke of w:Gotham, Nottinghamshire. A later John Leke was made a knight by King Henry VIII. His son Francis Leke was created a Baronet by King James I in 1611, and elevated to Earl of Scarsdale by King Charles I in 1640.

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• 1&4: Leke (of Leke in the parish of Gotham, Nottinghamshire)
• 2: Grey (of Sandiacre, Derbyshire): Grey of Grey's Thurrock, Essex, differenced by a label of three points gules charged with nine bezants (See Visitation of Derbyshire, re Leke[2]): Text from: Robert Thoroton, 'Parishes: Leke', in Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 1, Republished With Large Additions By John Throsby, ed. John Throsby (Nottingham, 1790), pp. 44-54. [3]

Richard de Leek, and Elizabeth his Wife, Deforc. of five Mess. four Tofts, eleven Bovats of Land, sixteen Acres of Meadow, and 11d. Rent, with the Appurtenances in Saxendale, Byngham, Wireton, Carcoston, and Aslacton, settled on the said John and Simon, and the Heirs of John. Simon was his eldest Son, and married Joan the Daughter and Heir of Sir John Talbot, of Swannington, in Leicestershire, the Relict of Sir Thomas Malory, Knt. as in Kilvington is noted, by whom he had only four Daughters. John Leek, his second Son, married Alice, the Daughter and Heir of John Grey, named in Hicling, who brought a great Increase of Lands to this Family, and was Mother of William Leek, (fn. 37) who about 37 H. 6. died, seized of of Leek's Manor here (in Gotham) and Lands in Saxendale, &c. leaving John, his Son and Heir, whose Posterity is mentioned in Landforth: But Thomas Leek, of Haslond, second Son of the said William; and his Posterity, were usually stiled Leek, of Leek; and inherited here, though the other Line of Sutton, in the Dale of Darbishire, had to do here also, as in Landforth, and other Places may be observed. His Son was John Leek of Hasland, who died 21 June, 37 H. 8. (fn. 38) leaving Raph Leek, his Son and Heir, twenty-one Years of Age the third of May then past. Raph was Father of Thomas, and Gertrud first married to Anthony Serleby, then to George Chaworth, who claimed to be Heir of her Brother, slain about 41 Eliz. by — Samon, without Issue; but he had a natural Son, called Thomas Leek, who bangled away his Estate, and died an old Man in Prison, 2 Car. 2. having been brought over from Ireland in the Beginning of the long Parliament, to Witness against Thomas Earl of Strafford; he is said to have left a Daughter, married to one — Bull

• 3: Sable, three leopard's faces jessant-de-lis argent between nine crosses crosslet fitchée of the last (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.491) Hillary/St Hillary of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire (Sir Edward Hillary of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire (son and heir of Henry Hillary, of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire, by his 1st wife Joan Marmion - Sir Henry Hillary appears to have twice exercised the right of patronage to the Rectory of Scrivelsby, once in 1324, in concert with his wife, who is stiled the