English: Arms of Preston of Upottery, Devon: Argent, two bars gules pn a canton of the last a cinquefoil or (Source: Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.613) The Preston family of Devon was a junior branch of the de Preston family which during the reign of King Henry II (1154-1189) was seated at Preston Richard and Preston Patrick in Westmorland. On 1 April 1644 George Preston (of same ancient descent, same arms) was created a baronet "of Furness in the County of Lancaster". (Burke, Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies ..., 2nd ed, 1844, pp.424 et seq[1])
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