The History Of The Parish Of Preston In Amounderness In The County Of Lancashire PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...and attendant" upon Sir Richard Houghton for seven or eight years and desired to marry the plaintiff, but Sir Richard refused, saying he would not marry his daughter to a " dysser and gamener;" further, he said that Sir Richard had for three years received the rents of his (Preston's) lands in Preston and Ribchester, of the yearly value of 15; also 20 from William Preston, Esq., due to him (the defendant.) To this the plaintiff rejoins that Henry Preston was not attendant upon his father, and that it is not true that he desired to marry her and Sir Richard refused his consent. This Henry Preston was the defendant in the case before the Duchy Court in 28 Henry VIII. 1536-37, from which it appears that Richard Pole of Preston held a certain tenement in Preston, which he had let to "Sysle" (Cicely) Preston, widow, who not only refused to quit on due notice given but allowed the tenement to fall into ruin and decay, and (as the plaintiff alleged) being " evilly disposed" she called to her aid her nephew, Henry Preston, gentleman, "a man of great lands and power" in these parts, who daily threatened "to murder and slee" the plaintiff, and who on one occasion met him (the plaintiff) at the house of Rawlyn Dawson, an alderman of the borough, and there "dyd poke a quarell upon him and would have murdered him if he had been letten by divers honest persons," but nevertheless he is in "jeopardy of his life." Henry and Cicely Preston were ordered to appear before the court.1 In 154o Henry Preston was still unmarried, but not long afterwards he took to wife Isabella Ergham,2 a widow, upon whom by indenture, dated 26th January, 1 Edward VI. 1548, he settled (for her life...