• General Notes

  Sir Nicholas Leycester, Knight, was sometime Seneschal to Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and Constable of Cheshire. He married about 1276 Margaret de Dutton, the widow of Robert de Denbigh, and daughter of Geoffrey Dutton, ancestor of Warburtons of Arley, who changed their name from Dutton to Warburton, the name of their estate. The village of Nether Tabley is sometimes in the old deeds styled Little Tabley. Geoffrey Dutton, son of Geoffrey, son of Adam Dutton, gave this township to Margaret, his daughter, and her heirs about the very end of the reign of Henry III, 1272. Nicholas Leycester, to whose succeeding progeny the manor of Nether Tabley still belongeth at this day (1660), had also by Margaret Dutton the manors of Wethale and Heild, both situate in Aston nigh Great Budworth, which his heirs also enjoy to the present day. He was afterwards Sir Nicholas Leycester, Knight, so styled in 1292, the 20th year of Edward I. He died 23rd of Edward I, 1295. He and Margaret had issue Roger, son and heir, and John, Vicar of Walleysey in Wirrall, Cheshire.
  (Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 313)

Details of Nicholas' family with Margaret Dutton