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Hatchments:

• Right: Gules, a fess dancetée erminois between three garbs or (Leeves) with inescutcheon of pretence Or, two wings conjoined gules on a chief of the second three martlets argent (Seymer of Hanford, Dorset) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.914). For funeral of William Leeves (d.1710) of Tortington Place, Sussex, who married Anne Seymour, daughter and heiress of ... Seymour of Halford, Devon. Possibly some connection with the prominent family of Seymour, Dukes of Somerset, whose arms were: Gules, two wings conjoined in lure or.
• Left: Leeves quartering Seymer, impaling: Or, three hurts each charged with a fret of the field (unknown family of a wife), for a descendant of William Leeves (d.1710) and Anne Seymer, as the arms of Seymer are quartered.

From Wikipedia:

In 1706 Tortington manor came into the possession of William Leeves whose family remained lords of the manor until they sold it in 1790. With the title came the right to appoint clergy to the parish church and the Leeves family's close relationship with this office is reflected in several memorial plaques in the church. The demesne lands in the Rape of Arundel had been separated from Tortington manor in 1710 and although the Leeves family retained an interest in each of them, by 1790 the Duke of Norfolk, a descendant of the FitzAlan family, had acquired the manor his family had first become lords of more than 500 years earlier. The Leeves family eventually sold the demesne land in 1839 to John Smith of Madehurst and following several further transfers of ownership, in 1879 the Duke of Norfolk added the Tortington land to his Arundel Estate.

From: A P Baggs and H M Warne, 'Tortington', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 5 Part 1, Arundel Rape: South-Western Part, Including Arundel, ed. T P Hudson (London, 1997), pp. 214-224 [1]

Carew Weekes, M.P. for Arundel, and his wife Catherine sold the manor in 1706 to William Leeves of Arundel. At William's death in 1710 the lordship passed to his eldest son Robert Leeves (d. 1743), who was succeeded by his son, also Robert Leeves (d.s.p. 1744). In 1790 the younger Robert's brothers-in-law and heirs Robert Edwards, Robert Lamport, and Henry Johnson conveyed Tortington to the Duke of Norfolk, after which it again descended with the rape. The demesne lands of the manor were separated from the lordship in 1710, passing successively to William Leeves's younger sons William (d. 1717 × 1724) and Richard (d. 1738), Richard's son and heir William (d. 1764) being succeeded by his son William Mill Leeves (d. 1788). (fn. 110) In 1738 there were c. 400 a. in Tortington besides land in Binsted. After the death of William Mill Leeves's widow Elizabeth in 1809 the estate passed to his cousin William Fowler, who took the surname Leeves and died in 1837. By 1819 it comprised 1,054 a. William Leeves's son and heir William sold it in 1839 to the banker John Smith of Dale Park in Madehurst (d. by 1842), whose son John Abel Smith, with James Hamilton, Marquess of Abercorn, and others conveyed it in 1853 to Joseph M. Montefiore. He and the Duke of Norfolk were the two chief landowners in the parish in 1870. After the Duke's purchase of the Tortington estate, then comprising 965 a., in 1879, virtually all the parish belonged to the Norfolk estate

• William Leeves (d.1710) of Tortington Place, Sussex, purchased Tortington in 1706. He married Anne Seymour of Halford, Devon. His son and heir was:
  • Robert Leeves I (c.1685-1743), of Steyning, Sussex, MP for Steyning. "Leeves’s ancestors came from Wimborne, Dorset, but his grandfather had moved to Sussex where Leeves inherited two manors and bought another. His estates also included property in Steyning." (History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 2002). Married a certain "Elizabeth" (Smith ?[2]). Succeeded by his son:
    • Robert Leeves II (d.1744), died without issue.