William Nichols was a seventeenth-century English priest.
[1] Mawdesley was born in London and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
[2] He was a Fellow of Caius from 1592 to 1600.
He was Rector of Cheadle from 1624 to 1644; and was appointed Dean of Chester in 1644.
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