Location: Cartmel, Lancashire, England
INSCRIPTION ON THE TOMB
Near this place lyeth interred ye bodies of
Christopher Preston late of Howlker in ye county
of Lancaster Esquire who deceased ye 24th of May
Ano 1594 and of John Preston Esquire Sonne and
Heire of ye said Christopher who departed this
lyfe ye 11th of September 1579 who by Anne his
Wife Daughter and Heire of William Benson of Hugh-
gill in ye County of Westmorland Esqre had issue
George Preston Esquire here likewise interred ye 5th
Day of Aprill Anno 1640 who by his first wife Elizabeth
Daughter of Ralf Ashton of Leaver in ye County of
Lancaster Enquire had issue three children, viz., Thomas
Christopher and Frances— Thomas Preston his eldest Son married
Katherine eldest daughter of Sir Gilbert Houghton of Houghton Tower
Kt. & Bart and hath issue George Preston —Christopher ye
2nd Son never married and Frances married to Robert Douck-
enfield of Douckenfield in the County of Chester Esqre. The said
George by his second wife Margaret daughter of Sir Thomas
Strickland of Syser in the County of Westmorland Knt. of ye
Bath had issue George who died without Issue— Anne who
married Sir George Middleton of Lighton in the county of
Lancaster Kt and Bart. — Elizabeth wife of John Seyer of
Wirksell in the County of Yorkshire Esquire and Margaret
married to Francis Biddulph of Biddulph in ye County of
Stafford Esqre. The said George out of his zeal to God at his
great charge repaired this Church being in great decay with
a new roofe of timber and beautifyed it within very
decently with frett plaister work and adorn’d ye chancell with
curiously carved wood-work and placed therein a pair of organs of
great value: he bequeathed further by his will £100 towards
ye binding of poor men's sonns of this parish apprentices be-
sides divers other acts of charity and pyety through the whole
course of his life, to whose pious memory Thomas Preston his
sonne and heir caused this to be made Anno 1640.
Citation: Stockdale, James. Annales Caermoelenses, Or Annals of Cartmel. United Kingdom, William Kitchin, printer. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1872. (Scanned book : Accessed 1 October 2022)
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