Thanks for the abstracts from the will .. much appreciated. It doesn't provide any direct answers to my questions, other than the will date, but indirectly it helps. There's no provision for Lucy or Cecile which supports the idea that neither were his daughters (conflicting with the will abstract of Sir Richard's mother which mentions a Cecile, d/o my son Richard). From a deed it is known Lucy was definitely his niece. if Cecile was his daughter one would have expected she'd be mentioned in the will, perhaps to the extent that her husband would have been one of the executors. So by omission, that question has been answered (both Cecile & Lucy were sisters and d/o Marcell).
There's no mention of Marcel, which seems odd unless he had predeceased his brother. As far as I've been able to tell Marcel was still living in or adjacent to Sheldwich, where Sir Richard lived and he & Richard appear jointly in deeds & as witnesses from the 1360s to 1391/2, so they were not estranged. Marcel was alive 1391/2, so he possibly died just before his brother, so c.1392/1393. Possibly.
Sadly, there's no help at all with my mystery Richard who appears in deeds from 1392 up to the 1420s. Since the earliest atte Leese seems to be Richard's grandfather, Sampson Sr, my chap may be from a younger son of Sampson Sr, but with no evidence, that'll alas remain speculation.
