Old Sir Henry Lee, knight of the Garter, and was supposed brother of queen Elizabeth. He ordered that all his family should be christned Harry's.
This account I take from my lady Elizabeth viscountesse Purbec, the eldest daughter of Sir John Danvers, sister to the lady Anne Lee.
[108]One-eied Lee[109] m. <Anne> St. John m. <Henry>, lord Wilmot.
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... m. <Sir Henry> Lee m. Anne Danvers
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earl of Litchfield[110]. +-----+--------+
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Lady Norris. Lady Wharton.
William Lee (15— -1610).
[111]Mr. William Lee, A.M., was of Oxon[112] (I thinke, Magdalen Hall[Q]). He was the first inventor of the weaving of stockings by an engine of his contrivance. He was a Sussex man borne, or els lived there. He was a poor curate, and, observing how much paines his wife tooke in knitting a payre of stockings, he bought a stocking and a halfe, and observed the contrivance of the stitch, which he designed in his loome, which (though some of the appendent instruments of the engine be altered) keepes the same to this day. He went into France, and there dyed before his loome was made there. So the art was, not long since, in no part of the world but England. Oliver Protector made an act that it should be felonie to transport this engine. Vide Stowe's Chronicle and Baker's Chronicle, if any mention of it. This information I tooke from a weaver (by this engine) in Pear-poole lane, 1656. Sir John Hoskyns, Mr. Stafford Tyndale, and I, went purposely to see it.
Note.
[Q] In MS. Aubr. 8. fol. 4, Anthony Wood notes:—'11 Nov. 1681:—"John Lee, Surrey, son of Thomas Lee, of London, gent., aet. 17, 1624" <matriculated at> "Aul. Magd."—this I set here because one Lee is mentioned in this book,—see page [18],' i.e. fol. 32 as above.