Background
Leech was born at Drayton in Hales, Shropshire.
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Humphrey Leech
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He was educated at Shrewsbury School, and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, on 13 November 1590.
Career
At Emmanuel College. At Oxford, he was incorporated in the degree of Master of Arts on 23 June 1602. Foreign a short time Leach was vicar of Saint Alkmond"s Church, Shrewsbury. On going back to Oxford he was appointed one of the chaplains of Christ Church.
A sermon which he preached concerning precepts and evangelical counsels gave offence to the university, and he was summoned before the pro-vice-chancellor, Leonard Hutten, as anti-Calvinist.
He was silenced from preaching, and suspended from his commons and function in the college for three months. After some time at Arras, in 1609 he entered the English College, Rome, under the assumed name Henry Eccles, and on 2 May 1610 he took the college oath.
Foreign some time he resided, as chaplain, with Mr. Massey of Hooton, Cheshire, where he died on 18 July (Operating system) 1629.
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Religion
Catholic Protestantism