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    Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet (also known as Sir Peter Leicester) (3 March 1614 – 11 October 1678) was an English antiquarian and historian. He was...
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    office. It is now home to the Lost & Found pub and cocktail bar. Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet (1614 in Nether Tabley – 1678), an English antiquarian...
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    16th century Adam de Leycester made alterations to the hall, and built a half-timbered gatehouse to the bridge crossing the mere. Peter Leycester (1588–1647) installed...
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    (1737–1794) Richard Holmes (1946–2011), military historian and author Sir Peter Leycester (1614–1678), historian and antiquarian George Ormerod (1785–1873),...
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    celebration of the centennial of Lewis Carroll's birth. References Leycester, Peter (December 2011). Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating...
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  • Elder founded a city here and called it Thelwall". According to Sir Peter Leycester it was "so called from the stakes and stumps, cut from the trees, wherewith...
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    2 February 1759: Samuel Harrison, of Cranage 1 February 1760: Sir Peter Leycester Bt, of Tabley 28 January 1761: John Hoghton, of Burgh Hall 16 February...
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    Christopher Merret, English physician and scientist (d. 1695) March 3 – Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet, British historian (d. 1678) March 8 – Hendrik van der...
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    the Most Noble Order of the Garter, p. 278 (Internet Archive). (Sir Peter Leycester), 'Bucklow Hundred: Tatton', in G. Ormerod, The History of the County...
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    estate. At the 2011 census, the population was 339. According to Sir Peter Leycester, the name Great Budworth comes from the Old Saxon words bode ("dwelling")...
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  • Christian IV of Denmark and Kirsten Munk (b. 1626) October 11 – Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet, British historian (b. 1614) October 12 Pieter Codde,...
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    Christian IV of Denmark and Kirsten Munk (b. 1626) October 11 – Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet, British historian (b. 1614) October 12 Pieter Codde,...
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    Christopher Merret, English physician and scientist (d. 1695) March 3 – Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet, British historian (d. 1678) March 8 – Hendrik van der...
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    is mentioned as younger brother of Stephen, Count of Blois by Sir Peter Leycester). He was also a kinsman of Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester and fought...
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  • medical writer Anne Ley (c. 1599–1641), writer, teacher, and polemicist Peter Leycester (1614–1678), antiquary and historian Nell Leyshon (living), dramatist...
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    Kilmorey. Elizabeth (d. 1679), who married, on 6 November 1642, Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet of Nether Tablery, Cheshire. William. John. Elizabeth...
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    Leicester (redirect from Leycester)
    ceremonial post. The first mayor of Leicester was a Norman knight, Peter fitz Roger ("Peter, son of Roger") in 1251. Following the restoration of city status...
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    1985) (ISBN 0-19-858178-5) Daniel King, William Smith, William Webb, Peter Leycester, Samuel Lee, Thomas Pennant, Francis Grose. The History of Cheshire:...
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  • Cambridge University Press 1986 p.443, quoting the address by Sir Peter Leycester to a Cheshire grand jury in 1677 Ball p.338 Geoghegan p.150 O'Carroll...
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  • History of the County of Cambridge (1753) Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet, Historical antiquities (1673) Peter Perez Burdett, Survey of the County Palatine...
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    tourn was held for Bucklow Hundred in Hale. Hundreds of Cheshire Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet Dunn 1987, p. 7. Mortimer 1847, p. 51. Clayton 1990, pp...
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    lower mere called The Moat in 1675–78 beside Tabley Old Hall by Sir Peter Leycester. The tower was added around 1720. In 1927 the chapel was moved to its...
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    of Henry II to the Canons of Norton, and states in note i that Sir Peter Leycester, Historical Antiquities p.198, considers this to have been the parish...
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    Joseph Leycester Lyne, known by his religious name as Father Ignatius of Jesus: 7  ((1837-11-23)23 November 1837 – (1908-10-16)16 October 1908), was an...
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    Elizabeth, Amy Robsart and the Earl of Leicester, being a Reprint of "Leycesters Commonwealth" 1641, Longmans, p. 255 Jenkins 2002 p. 202 Wilson 1981 pp...
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    woodland garden and parkland. The Toft estate came into the Leycester family when Ralph Leycester of Tabley married heiress Joan Toft of Toft in the late...
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    Chester, was created in the Baronetage of England on 10 August 1660 for Peter Leicester. The third Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Newton. The...
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    Crofton General John ffolliott Crofton (1800—1885) Major-General Sir Henry Leycester Croker CB Brigadier William Pennefather Croker Major General Darren Crook...
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    16th century Adam de Leycester made alterations to the house, and built a half-timbered gatehouse to the bridge crossing the moat. His descendant Peter Leicester...
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  • Enthusiast; An Enquiry into the Life Beliefs and Character of the Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne alias Fr. Ignatius, O.S.B., Abbot of Elm Hill, Norwich and Llanthony...
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