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family's long association with
Ireland fitted him for the task. St Leger himself did not share this belief: he went to Ireland under protest, made regular visits home and petitioned for English offices such as Master of the
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makes generous provisions for his widow, and contains legacies to his
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in 1627, and died in 1661. After Mary's death in childbirth in 1603 St Leger married Aphra Wotton, who outlived him by many years.
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in Kent through his second marriage to Mary
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of the later Tudor and Stuart eras. He held the office of
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