John Leycester

, was born in Cheshire of Plebeian parents, but originally descended from a gentile family in that County, became a Student in Brasenose coll. 1618. aged 20, took one degree in Arts, and afterwards followed the employment of teaching a School, which, I think, he exercised to his dying day. He hath written,

Enchiridion, seu fasciculus Adagiorum selectissimorum. Or, a manual of the choicest Adagies, &c. Lond. 1623. oct. in Lat. and Engl. besides other things which I have not seen. He also translated from Lat. into Engl. An excellent oration of Dr. Joh. Rainolds, Clar. 1638. &c. Lond. 1638. oct. very useful for all such as affect the studies of Logick and Philosophy, and admire prophane learning. See more in John Rainolds under the year 1607.