Sir Richard de Preston Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ³³⁸
Sir Richard de Preston was witness to divers grants of lands in Lancashire by Sir John le Flemings, with Sir William Furness and others: he was alwo witness to a grant and confirmation of lands in Preston, Home, and Hutton by William de Lancaster the third to Patric, grandson of Gospatric, temp. Henry III.

~Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic History of Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies, p. 424

• Background Information. ⁶¹⁷
The children of Walter Strickland and Christian Letherham were Robert, William, daughter Amabel, wife of Sir Richard de Preston, and an elder son Adam, presumably named after his paternal grandfather, Adam de Castle Carrock.

~The Early History of the Stricklands, pp. 26-29

• Background Information. ⁸⁵⁹
1220-46 Walter de Strikland confirms to the monks of St. Bees, 2 a. land in Stirkland, which Richard de Preston and his wife, Amabel, his (the grantor's) daughter, had given [Wilson, Reg. of St. Bees. 412-14].

1230 Richard de Preston, a justice at Appleby [Pat. R. 1230, p. 354].

1246-72 Richard de Preston appears as a juror on various inquests during the period 1246 to 1272 [Lancs. Inq. (Rec. Soc.), pt. i, passim.]

1256 Henry de Notingham granted to Richard de Preston and Alice his wife two bovates, except a mill and 25 a. land, in Preston [Feet of F., file 4, n. 30].

Grant by Richard de Preston to Richard his son and Amabilla, wife of the said Richard the son, of lands etc. at Preston [Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. x, app. 4, p. 225].

1277 Order for the election of a coroner for Westmorland in place of Richard de Preston, who is incapacitated by infirmity [Cal. Close R. 1277, p. 405].

1277-1307 John Gudeberd of Burnham (Bruham ?) and Margery his wife grant to Richard de Preston, son of Sir Richard de Preston, and to Amabill his wife and the heirs of Richard a messuage lying between Latuneland and Richard's land in Great Stirkeland [D. at Sizergh.]

Grant by Roger de Barton to the same Richard and Amabill of a messuage and lands in various places (named) in Great Stirkeland [ib].

The same Richard and Amabill purchased land in Great Stirkeland of Adam the Hunter, clerk, and Joan his wife [ib.].

Henry de Lynacre of Great Stirkelaund and Christiana daughter of the same Henry granted a messuage and lands in Great Stirkelaund to the said Richard, son of Sir Richard, and to Amabill his wife [ib.].

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