Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire / faithfully collected out of authentick histories, old deeds, records, and evidences, by Sir Peter Leycester, Baronet ; whereunto is annexed a transcript of Doomsday-book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the original record.

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Title: Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire / faithfully collected out of authentick histories, old deeds, records, and evidences, by Sir Peter Leycester, Baronet ; whereunto is annexed a transcript of Doomsday-book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the original record.
Author: Leycester, Peter, Sir, 1614-1678.
Publication: London :: Printed by W.L. for Robert Clavell ...,; M.DC.LXXIII [1673]
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Subject terms: Cheshire (England) -- Genealogy.; Great Britain -- History.
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The Wife and Issue of Randle the Second.

HE Married Maude, Daughter of Robert Earl of Glocester, Bastard Son of King Henry the First, by whom he had Issue Hugh Earl of Chester, and Richard. Ge∣meticensis, lib. 8. cap. 38. Ordericus, pag. 921.

Powell in his Notes on the Welsh History, pag. 295. calls this Countess Alice, for Maud; and so doth Ferne in his Lacy's Nobility, pag. 43. in his most absurd Pedegree of the Earls of Chester there. Both these Authors are grosly mistaken herein. See her Name proved by the Deed infra, pag. 130, & 131.