LEAKE, a parish in the wapentake of SKIRBECK, parts of HOLLAND, county of LINCOLN, 7 miles (N. E.) from Boston, containing 1417 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 13. 6. 8., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Governors of Oakham school. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The Rev. Thomas Allenson, in 1555, bequeathed land for the support of a school, and for the maintenance of five poor people of the parish. i LEAKE (EAST), a parish in the southern division of the wapentake of RUSHCLIFFE, county of NOTTINGHAM, 4 miles (E.) from Kegworth, containing 783 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with that of West Leake, not rated in the king's books, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, exhibits a fine specimen of the later style of English architecture. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. A free school was founded and endowed with lands, about 1731, by John Blay, citizen of London, and a native of this place; the income is about £48 per annum; forty boys are instructed. He likewise bequeathed £ 10 to every farmer, and £5 to every cottager, in the village. Many of the inhabitants are employed in frame-work knitting. This parish is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s.