Sir John Preston Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁸²¹
Sir John de Preston, knight of West-Monchard, had a daughter who became the wife of Sir Thomas de Roos, Knight of Kirkby-Kendal, Westmorland.

~Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 643

• Background Information. ⁵³⁵
Sir John de Preston was one of the judges of the court of Common Please during the reign of Henry IV and Henry V. He retired from the bench in 1427 due to his great age and infirmityl. He left issue of:

John, a priest who had a grant in 2 Henry V of the church of Sandal from the prior of St. Pancras.

Richard, his heir.

________, a daughter who married Thomas de Ros of Kendal Castle.

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

• Background Information. ⁸⁵⁹
1360 John de Preston in Kendale party to a recognizance [Cal. Close R., 1360, p. 110; 1359, p. 625].

1362 William de Wyndesore, chivaler, going to Ireland on the king's service, nominates John de Preston of Kendale and Roger de Levenes, his attorneys, for one year [Cal. Pat. R. 1362, p. 217].

1363 The same William de Wyndesore, going to Ireland, nominates Richard de Preston and John de Preston, his attorneys in England for one year [ib. 416].

1377 John de Preston demands against Robert de Cliburn that he render to him 43s. 4d. which are in arrears of a yearly rent of 13s. 4d. [De Banco R., Mich., 468, m. 334].

1378 The abbot of Heppe demands against John de Preston that he render an account of the time that he was his receiver [ib., Trin., 471, m. 172 d.].

1 May, 1368. Order for the payment to John de Preston, knight of the shire for Westmorland of £7 for 25 days at the Parliament summoned at Westminster on 1 May last [Cal. Close R. 1368, p. 480].

29 March, 1371. Order to pay Hugh de Louthre and John de Preston, knights of the shire of Westmorland £19 12s. for 49 days at the Parliament summoned at Westminster on the feast of St. Matthias last [Cal. Pat. R. 1371, p. 289]. In 1380 John de Preston was on the commission of the peace for Westmorland [ib., 1380, p. 515]. He occurs as justice as "the elder," for many years down to 1390, and as John de Preston simply for many later years. In 1398 a commission was appointed to inquire about dissensions between John de Preston and John son of Thomas de Middleton and others, who lay in wait to kill the said John de Preston and his friends [ib. 1398, p. 503]. In 1405 John de Preston and the sheriff of Westmorland were commissioned to inquire about the failure of the prior and convent of Watton to find three canons to dwell in a cell of the priory at Ravenstandale to celebrate for the good estate of the king and the souls of his progenitors and to do alms and other works of piety there according to the original foundation of the priory [ib. 1405, p. 63.]

1394\endash 1428 John de Preston, was a justice of the king's bench; recorder of London in 1406; sergeant-at-law in 1411; raised to the bench of the Common Pleas in 1415; retired in 1428 [Foss, The Judges of England (ed. 1870), 538].

1404 John de Preston of Kendale held of William de Parr, chivaler, the manor of Preston Richard by knight's service, worth 100s. [Chan. Inq. p.m., 6 Henry IV, n. 37].

1404 Commission to Simon Blakeburn, serjeant at arms, to receive John de Preston and Robert his son, Matthew del Grene, and John de Sygilswyk, detained in the prison within the king's castle of Pevensey, with the cause of their seizure and bring them before the king [Cal. Pat. R. 1404, p. 364].

1420 John de Penyngton, knt., appoints Richard de Preston, his attorney to deliver seisin to John de Preston of Bygynges of all his lands etc. in co. Westmorland. Dated at Mulcaster, on Wednesday after St. John of Beverley, 8 Henry v (8 May, 1420). Heraldic seal broken [Orig. at Sizergh.]

1404 John de Preston of Kendale held of William de Parr, chivaler, the manor of Preston Richard by knight's service, worth 100s. [Chan. Inq. p.m., 6 Henry IV, n. 37].

1404 Commission to Simon Blakeburn, serjeant at arms, to receive John de Preston and Robert his son, Matthew del Grene, and John de Sygilswyk, detained in the prison within the king's castle of Pevensey, with the cause of their seizure and bring them before the king [Cal. Pat. R. 1404, p. 364.]

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