Nicholas Leycester of Nether Tabley

✓ as named: Nicholas Leycester (of Nether Tabley), father of Elizabeth Mainwaring and of John Leycester of Nether Tabley. TOP - nothing further wired. Source: Ormerod, History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (1819), vol. I, pp.369-371 'the descent of the Mainwarings of Over Peover' (Sir Peter Leycester from the Peover evidences, with Sir Thomas Mainwaring's corrections), read 2 Nov 2026 (archive.org djvu text). [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 2 Nov 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.] ||2 Nov 2026 (w82) IDENTIFIED|| Leycester's own genealogy (Ormerod I p.457): Nicolas Leycester, son and heir of Roger; m. c.1322 Mary, da. of William Mobberley; d. 1349 (23 Edw. III), surviving his father very little. Sons John (heir; served under John of Gaunt 1373) and Raufe (Leycesters of Toft); daughter Elizabeth (widow of William Mainwaring 1364, living 1404). TOP removed. Source: Ormerod, History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (1819), vol. I, pp.456-457 'the genealogie of the Leycesters of Tabley, exactly proved out of the evidences of this family' (Sir Peter Leycester), read 2 Nov 2026 (archive.org djvu text).