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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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