B35406-Leycester

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Name of the family:

Leycester

Blason:

Sa. on a fesse engr. betw. three falcons vulantar. beaked and legged or, a lion's fate az. Ian cued and eared betw. two covered cups gu.

Crest(s):

A roebuck trippant per pale or and gu. horned of the second, holding in his mouth an acorn branch vert. N.B.-Sir Peter Leycester, the Cheshire antiquary, writing of this coat, says: " I wonder that he should seek for a coat, as being ignorant of the one due to him."

Info about the family:

Toft, co. Chester; descended from Ualph Leycester {a younger brother of Leycester, of Tabley}, living temp. Richard II., by Joan, his wife, dau. and heir of Robert Toft, Esq., of Toft; as granted by Sir Gilbert Dethick, Norroy, to Sir Rafe Leicester, Knt., of Toft, 15 May, 2 Edward VI.

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607

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