Sir Richard de Preston Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁵³⁵
Sir Richard de Preston, had the honor of being knight of the shire for Westmoreland 27 Edward III, his father ten still living. In the year 1308, he obtained a license to impark five hundred acres of land.

~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