A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Inmtutcd 

 c. 1 250 . . . 

 c. 1260 . . . 

 oc. 1275 . . 



25 May I 301 

 22 Dec. 1339 



?i357. . 

 I June 1358. , 

 24 Nov. 1396 



I 2 Apr. 1424 



? 1442-3 . 



oc. 1451 . 

 22 June 1478 

 17 Feb. 1481-2 . 



26 Feb. 1482-3 . 



DC. I 5 2 2 . 



OC. 1535 • • • 



27 July 1535 ■ 



Name Patron 



? Richard ^ 



Hugh 2 



Robert de Haydock ^ . . * . . 



Henry le Waleys** William de Standlsh 



William de Burlegh ^ John de Standish . 



Gilbert de Standish ^ Henry de Standish 



Alexander de Standish ' .... Ralph de Standish 



John Spink ^ 



Roger Standish ^ Lawr. Standish 



Gilbert Worthington ^^ . , . . 



Roger Standish ^^ 



Alexander Fairclough, S.T.P.^- . Alex. Standish . . 



Henry Pendlebury ^^ „ . . 



Thomas RadclifFe, M.A.^^ ... Sir Alex. Standish 



Roger Standish ^^ Ralph Standish 



Henry Standish, D.D.^^ .... 



Peter Bradshaw, D.Dccr.^^ . . . Ralph Standish 



Cauie of Vacancy 



d. H. le Waleys 

 (res. Gilb. de Standish 



d. J. Spink 



d. Roger Standish 

 d. A. Fairclough 

 res. H. Pendlebury 



d. last rector 



^ Richard, *dean of Standish,' attested 

 •ome Burscough charters 5 Dep. Keeper*! 

 Rep. xxxvi, App. 201. He was Dean of 

 Warrington J the ' dc Standish' probably 

 implies that he was rector here. 



^ Hugh, rector of Standish, attested 

 Shevington and Lanrtrcc charters about 

 1260 ; Standish deeds {Local GUjn. 

 Land, and Ches,\ no. ,'>2 ; ibid. (Mr«. 

 Tempest's abstracts of Mr. Stand ish's 

 deeds), nn. ^. William son of Hugh 

 rector of Standish was sued for debt in 

 i2')2 i Asfsrc R. 4.;S, m. 69, ~4. 



•* Robert, rector of the church of 

 Standish, was defendant in two suits of 

 I 292 ; A-M/c R. 40S, m. 92, loi d. He 

 was rector as early as i 275 ; Dep. Keeper t 

 Rep. xliv, App. 246. He is named again 

 in 1284; Kuerdcn MSS. iv, S 21. Maud 

 mother of Robert de Haydock., rector of 

 Standish, is named in one of the Standish 

 deeds (Mrs. Tempest's abstracts, no. 5). 

 Hugh son of Robert dc Haydock, rector 

 of Standish, is also mentioned \ Kuerdcn 

 MSS. ni, W26. 



Rr.Lcri de Haydock was still rector in 

 1294; Cal. Pat. 1292-1^01, r* *^3* 

 Also in 1298 ; Lich. Epis. Ki\:. \, fol. i. 



* Lich. i-pi«. Reg. i, fol. 9 ; he w.is a 

 priest. He lounded a chantry ; ecc Fsn^l 

 Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.}, li, -^i, 

 where he is calici * ion of John le 

 W.ileys.' John le Walcys was lord of 

 Uplithcrland and Welch Whittle, and 

 Henry was at one time rector of Aughton. 

 He was a benefactor of Cockersand 

 Abbey, and the canons were bound to 

 provide food and lodging f<'r a poor man 

 for him, and undertook also to set apart 

 one of their number to celebrate daily for 

 Henry f r ever ; Hornby Chapel deeds, 

 Simon le Waicys son of Henr>-, rector of 

 Standish, occurs in 132"; Norris deeds 

 (B.M.), no. 423. 



* Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, foL 113^; a 

 priest. In 1350 licence of absence for a 

 year was granted to William de Burlegh ; 

 ibid. fol. 12". The family was a local 

 one; in 1350 William dc Blain-cough 

 complained that live years earlier William 

 de Burlegh, rector of Standish, William 

 his son and W.lliam son of Robert de 

 Burlegh (or BjTlegh) had at a place 

 called LeiTischegh taken his house, &c., 

 but a verdict of not guil:y was returned ; 

 A» ;zc R. 444, m. 14 ; see also Assize R. 

 443, m. 7 d. Burlegh was *t.ll rector in 

 1356 (Duchy of Lane. Assize R- 5, m. 

 25 d.), but may have resigned soon after- 

 wirds ; see ibid. 6, m. 5. 



^ Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. 135. There 

 had probably been some error in an 

 earlier presentation leading to Gilbert's 

 being presented ' on the resignation of 

 Gilbert de Standish.' One of the Stan- 

 dish deeds (Mrs. Tempest's abstracts, no. 

 71) shows that Gilbert was rector at the 

 beginning of 1358. This rector had a 

 licence for an oratory in his manor of 

 Holmes -J Lich. Epis. Reg. v, fol. 22, 

 27^. In 1369 tlie office of penitentiary 

 to absolve the parishioners of Standish 

 until Easter was granted to Brother 

 Edmund de Standish of the Black Friars 

 of Chester ; ibid, ii, foL 22. 



Sir Ralph de Standish in i 382 calls the 

 rector *his dearest brother'; Standish 

 deeds (Mrs. Tempest), 00. 102. Gi'bcrt 

 de Standish was still rector in 1390 and 

 1396; Pal. of Lane. Chan. Misc. bdle. 

 I, lile 2, no. ~4 \ Standish deeds {Local 

 Glejn.)^ no. S:. 



^ Lich. Epis. Reg. vi, fol. 61A; in the 

 first tonsure. Soon after institution he 

 had leave to study at Oxford for a year, 

 and was ordained subdeacon in Sept. i 397 ; 

 ibid. fol. 135, 1 5 7. He occurs as rector 

 of Standish from 1398 to 1415 } Standith 

 deeds, no. 8;, 106. 



* John Spink, rector of Freshwater, 

 became rector of A iphton near Ormskirk 

 In 141 S, and held Aughton with Standish 

 till his death in 14-4. This rector is 

 probably the *John Smith' of Kuerden's 

 abstracts. 



^ Lich. Fpis. Reg. ix, fol. 1 1 3^ ^ a clerk. 



In 1444 Roger Standish, rector of 

 Standi'h, was * in mercy for defaults,' and 

 was also attached to answer Nicholas 

 BiUinge for maltreating him at Ecclcston ; 

 Pal. of Lane Plea R. 6, m. 14. 



Roger Standish was a feofFcc in 1429- 

 30, but the inquisition made in 1478 

 docs not state whether he was still living ; 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 104. 



'** Th^s rector's name occurs in one of 

 Kuerden's abstracts dated 21 Hen. VI ; It 

 is not clear from it that Gilbert was then 

 living. 



" He may have been the Roger pre- 

 sented in 1424, who had been obliged to 

 resign the benefice for a time. Roger 

 appears as rector from 1451-2 onward ; 

 Standish deeds, no. 135, &c Roger 

 Stand sh, parson of Standish, gave an 

 ariiwcr m 1473 ; PaL of Lane. Chan. 

 Rec. Answers. He was also rector of 

 Eccleston. 



'- Lich. Epis. Reg. xii, foL 112A, He 

 founded a chantry. 



188 



'* Ibid. fol. 113/'. He was perhaps a 

 •warming pan,* holding the rectory for a 

 year only, 



^^ Ibid, fol, 1 1 5/' ; a clerk. He seems 

 to have been connected with the Bishop 

 of Winchester in 1506, when he leased 

 the parsonage to Ralph Standish for ,^50 

 a year, the lessee to find a competent 

 priest to minister in the church and to 

 keep the chancel in repair \ Standish 

 deeds (ut sup.), no. 193, 197, 225, and 

 Mrs. Tempest's abstracts, no. 193. In 

 1^16 the rector gave to Ralph Standish a 

 release of all actions ; Standish deeds, 

 no. 229. By this time the rector had 

 long been incapable, for at an inquiry 

 made in 1521, when the rector was fifty 

 years old or more, it was stated that he 

 had lost his reason about eighteen years 

 before, and had been since 151 6 in the 

 keeping of Ralph Standish, the patron of 

 the church. The benefice was worth 

 £60 clear ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 V, no. 35. (The abstract in the Standish 

 deeds, no. 262, gives * eight' instead of 

 ' eighteen ' years.) The Bishop of Lich- 

 field in consequence gave the rectory in 

 charge to the rectors of Sefton and Bury ; 

 Stnndish deeds, no. 263. The rector 

 probably died soon afterwards. One of 

 his leases is dated at Winchester. 



'* He is named in Standish deed, no. 

 267. A return made in 1527 states that 

 Roger Standish had been rector for seven 

 years ; he had been nominated by Ralph 

 Standish, and the value of the rectory was 

 ^40 ; Duchy of Lane. Rentals, bdle. 5, 

 no. I 5. 



^^ Henry Standish, Bishopof St. Asaph, 

 a near kinsman of the lord of Standish, 

 held the rectory about 15355 y^lor EccL 

 V, 232. He was a Franciscan, and 

 studied at Oxford and Cambridge, being 

 made a bishop in partibuSy and then (15 1 8) 

 of St. Asaph. He died 9 July 1535, soon 

 after which the next rector was appointed. 

 Sec Diet. Nat. Biog, ; Cooper's Atken, 

 Cantab, i, 5 5 ; Wood's Athen. Oxon, It 

 appears from a dispute in 1534-5 that the 

 bishop, who occasionally resided at Stan- 

 dish rectory, had held the benefice for 

 some years \ he had repaired the parsonage 

 house, and given money for * good works 

 of charity such as making of ways and 

 giving of alms to poor people . . . and 

 in hospitality*; see Duchy Plead. (Rec 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 54-9. 



" Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv, fol. 34A. 

 He was also rector of Eccleston. In 1 506 

 a Peter Bradshaw was rector of Plum- 



