The history of the parish of Preston in Amounderness in the county of Lancaster . PRESTON ARMS FROM A SEVENTEENTHCENTURY PRINT. PRESTON CORPORATION SEALAS NOW USED. There is no record of any other Guild having been held in the fifteenthcentury. The town was now and had for several centuries been grantedto the mayor and burgesses in fee farm subject to an annual paymentof ^40. In the time of Edward IV. the king only had (besides the^40) three half burgages which had long time laien in decay. Lancaster was again visited with the plague in 1466 and in conse-quence Letters Patent were sent to the
The history of the parish of Preston in Amounderness in the county of Lancaster . PRESTON ARMS FROM A SEVENTEENTHCENTURY PRINT. PRESTON CORPORATION SEALAS NOW USED. There is no record of any other Guild having been held in the fifteenthcentury. The town was now and had for several centuries been grantedto the mayor and burgesses in fee farm subject to an annual paymentof ^40. In the time of Edward IV. the king only had (besides the^40) three half burgages which had long time laien in decay. Lancaster was again visited with the plague in 1466 and in conse-quence Letters Patent were sent to the Justices that the Sessions werefor this time only to be adjourned to Preston.^ The Roll of the Guild held on the Monday in the Feast of theDecollation of St. John the Baptist [31st August], 16 Henry VII. [1500]has not been preserved but Kuerden has recorded a list of the officials,3viz., W. Marshall, mayor; H. Preston, W. Ergharn, Laur. Houghton, and Duchy Decrees and Orders, Lib. Edward IV., f. 142a.^ Letters Patent 2nd June, 6 Edward IV. Kuerdens >S Hl^TC>i^Y or
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