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Sir Richard de Preston Knight
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Sir Richard de Preston Knight

  • Born: Preston Richard, Kendal, Westmorland, England
  • Marriage: Unknown
  • Died: After 1354, England

bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. 535
Sir Richard de Preston represented the county of Westmoreland in parliament 17 Edward III.

~Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic History of Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies, p. 425

• Background Information. 859
1334-43 Richard de Preston attests various local charters during this period.

1335 Release by John de Wyndesore to Richard de Preston relating to the park of Preston. Dated 30 April, 9 Edward III. Heraldic Seal [Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. x, app. 4, p 225.]

1335 Exemption for life of Richard de Preston from being put on assize etc. or appointed sheriff etc. [Cal. Pat. R. 1335, p. 187].

1340 Richard de Preston was appointed one of the four collectors of the ninth in co. Westmorland [Cal. Pat. R. 1341, p. 151; 1340, p. 504].

1341 Richard de Preston held of William de Twenge a messuage and 40 a. land in Preston by the service of the 30th part of a knight's fee [Cal. Inq., viii, 202].

Licence granted to Richard de Preston, the elder, and John de Haveryngton of Thirneby to alienate in mortmain to the abbot and convent of Hepp two messuages, 31 a. land etc. in Bampton Cundale and Heppe [Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1341, p. 305].

1342 Richard de Preston was one of the collectors of wool in Westmorland in 1342 [Cal. of Fine R., 1342, p. 285; Cal. Pat. R. 1341, p. 151.]

1354 Richard de Preston, a confederate of William de Wyndesore, chivaler, and others in rioting at Little Stirkeland [Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1354, p. 161].

~Records Relating to the Barony of Kendale, Volume II, pp. 202-210


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