The history of the parish of Preston in Amounderness in the county of Lancaster . Facsimile of Seal [1415]. General History. 0/ The seal of the Corporation was mentioned in a Charter of the thirteenthcentury [see p. 21]. It will be noticed that in the preceding fac-siviilc thereare three Ps which entirely refutes the idea that their meaning is PrincepsPads. There can be little doubt but that the letter P. simply stands forPreston and is repeated for ornamentation or to render the design moreartistic. In later years the third P. was disused and the remaining twowere sometimes said to stand for
The history of the parish of Preston in Amounderness in the county of Lancaster . Facsimile of Seal [1415]. General History. 0/ The seal of the Corporation was mentioned in a Charter of the thirteenthcentury [see p. 21]. It will be noticed that in the preceding fac-siviilc thereare three Ps which entirely refutes the idea that their meaning is PrincepsPads. There can be little doubt but that the letter P. simply stands forPreston and is repeated for ornamentation or to render the design moreartistic. In later years the third P. was disused and the remaining twowere sometimes said to stand for proud Preston, a joke which wasprobably justified by the fact that in the 17th century many of the tradesmenin the town were junior members of old county families and claimed theright to bear arms and entered their pedigrees at the heralds
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