LEYLAND HUNDRED 



STANDISH 



Instituted 

 19 May 1 541 . 

 1552 . 

 1552 . 



3 Jan. 1558-9 . 

 17 Nov. 1586 . 

 27 Nov. 1639 . 

 27 Aug. 1640 . 

 19 Jan. 1644-5 . 

 22 Dec. 1649 

 rest. 1660 . . 



14 Oct. 1678 . 



15 Sept. 1680 . 



16 May 171 3 



4 Feb. 1722-3 . 



17 Mar. 1723-4 



Name Patron 



Richard Standish, M.A.i .... John AlifF, &c. , 



Thomas Thornton ^ 



William Cliffe, LL.D.^ .... 



Richard Moody * Edw. Standish . 



William Leigh, B.D.^ „ 



}johnChadwick,M.A.e . . . • t^^^^r 1 



Ralph Brideoaic' Ralph Standish 



Paul Lathom, M.A.* election . . . 



Ralph Brideoak, D.D." 



Cause of Vacancy 

 d. P. Bradshaw 

 d. R. Standish 



[williamHaydock, M.A.io 



jEdw. Standish ) 

 • • IThe King I • 



William Turton, B.A." .... Ralph Standish . 



John Johnson, B.D.^^ Univ. Cambridge . 



Thomas Pilgrim, B.D.^' .... „ 



d. W. Cliffe 

 d. R. Moody 



d. W. Leigh 



d. Bp. Brideoak 



d. W. Haydock 

 d. W. Turton 

 d. J. Johnson 



stead in Kent. In 1492-3 Sir Peter 

 Bradshaw was allowed to enter in the 

 canon law at the University of Cam- 

 bridge ; Grace Bk. B (Luard Memorial), 



^ Lich. Epia. Reg. xiii-xiv, fol. 38^; 

 the patrons, John Aliff and Thomas 

 Standish, presented in virtue of a grant 

 from the king, owing to the minority of 

 Ralph Standish, the patron. From a 

 pleading of 1534 it appears that Richard 

 Standish was the son of a Ralph (son of 

 Lawrence) Standish by Margaret daughter 

 of Alexander Street ; he claimed lands in 

 Heath Charnock in right of his mother ; 

 Duchy Plead. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 ii, 67. He was a prebendary of St. 

 Asaph, holding the rectory of Llannefydd 

 and other benefices ; Valor Eccl. iv, 435. 

 He paid his first-fruits 14 May 1541 ; 

 Lanes, and Ches. Rec* (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), H, 407. He died at his 

 lodgings near Paternoster Row, London, 

 in 1552 ; Wood, Atken. Oxon. 



2 Paid first-fruits 18 June 1552. 



^ Paid first-fruits 15 Sept. 1552. He 

 is probably the William Cliffe, dean of 

 Chester, who died in Dec. 1558. He 

 was rector in 1554. For an account of 

 him see Cheshire Sheaf (Ser. 3), ii, 24, 

 30, alsoi)/V^ Nat. Biog,\ Cooper's A then. 

 Cantab, i, 187. 



* Act Bks, at Chester. Somewhat 

 later Richard Moody, * chaplain of the 

 church of Standish,' undertook, in case 

 he should be instituted rector, to lease all 

 the tithes to a certain Robert Shaw ; 

 Standish deeds, no. 313. The lease was 

 accordingly made, and Robert Shaw, who 

 had no doubt been acting for Edward 

 Standish, at once transferred his interest 

 to the patron ; ibid. no. 314. The dates 

 in these abstracts are probably inexact, 



Richard Moody was acting as curate of 

 Standish as early as 1 54Z ; Clergy List 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 17. 



» Act Bks. at Chester. He paid first- 

 fruits 15 Dec. 1586. William Leigh was 

 of Lancashire birth and educated at Brase- 

 nose Coll., Oxf., becoming fellow ; M.A. 

 1578, B.D. 1586. He was tutor to 

 Henry Prince of Wales and chaplain to 

 the Earl of Derby. He was * a preacher ' 

 but not resident at Standish in 1590; 

 S. P- Dom. Eliz, xxxi, no, 47. Soon 

 afterwards he became one of the leading 

 Puritan clergy in Lancashire. In 1598 

 it was found that the curate at Standish 

 wore the surplice, which was not fit for 

 the rector ; Visit. Papers. He published 

 several sermons, including a eulogy of 

 Mrs. Kathcrine Brettargh of Woolton 

 (1601). At a later time he seems to 

 have conseated to wear the surplice while 



ministering the sacrament, for Nicholas 

 Assheton records that hJs action caused a 

 quarrel between Assheton's father and his 

 son-in-law; Journal (Chet. Soc), 87. 



He is no doubt the * parson Lee . . . 

 best preacher in the land,' who argued 

 with the Ven. John Thulis at Lancaster, 

 in the endeavourto induce him to renounce 

 his religion and save his life in 1616 ; 

 Pollen, Acts of Engl. Martyrs^ 195. He 

 appears less favourably in the account 

 of the trial of the Ven. Edmund Arrow- 

 smith in 1628, for he sat on the bench 

 as a justice, and after whispering in the 

 judge's ear, 'began to revile the prisoner 

 aloud, declaring what a seducer he was, 

 and that if some order were not taken 

 with him he would make half Lancashire 

 Papists ' ; Challoner, Miss, Priests, no. 

 160. 



In the church the carved oak pulpit 

 which he gave in 1616 commemorates 

 him, and he was a benefactor to the 

 grammar school. For further notices see 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. 5 Assheton^s Diary (Chet. 

 Soc), 57-8 ; Stanley Papers (Chet. Soc), 

 ii, 117, where his will is printed; and 

 there are references in the wills of rela- 

 tives in Wills (Rec Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 113, 126. For his descendants 

 see the account of Singleton. 



^ Act Bks. at Chester. From this 

 time the institutions have been compared 

 with those printed in Lanes, and Ches. 

 Antiq. Notes from the Inst. Bks. P.R.O. 



John Chadwick paid first-fruits 7 Nov. 

 1640. His first presentation (by Ralph 

 Standish) was objected to by the bishop, 

 and the king endeavoured to claim the 

 presentation * by lapse,' Samuel Hinde 

 being instituted 30 Dec. 1639. The 

 claim was not sustained, and Chadwick 

 was presented a second time by * Robert 

 Wiseman and Edward Harries ' (Inst. 

 Bks.). Ralph Standish in 162 1 agreed 

 with Charles Chadwick of Woodham 

 Ferris in Essex touching the next presen- 

 tation to Standish ; Standish deeds, no. 



343- 



Rector Chadwick probably died in 

 1644; an inventory of his goods was 

 filed in 1647 at Chester. For pedigree 

 see Dugdale's Visit. (Chet. Soc), 74. 



' Some notice of him will be found in 

 the account of Cheetham, near Manchester, 

 also Diet, Nat. Biog. He was a strong 

 Royalist and chaplain to the Earl of 

 Derby. 



Brideoak was pursuing his claim to the 

 rectory in 1653 ; his presentation had 

 been confirmed by the Lords Commis- 

 sioners of the Great Seal and allowed by 

 the Committee of Plundered Ministers, 

 and he had actually entered on possession 



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and preached twice on the Sabbath when 

 during the night one Lathom broke in ; 

 Cal. Com.for Comp. iv, 2812. 



s He paid his first-fruits at the same 

 time. He * came in by the election of 

 the parishioners of Standish that met at 

 Standish the day appointed, and all there 

 present, save one, voted for' him, but the 

 legal right of Brideoak delayed his actual 

 possession for some time, probably from 

 1645 to 1649, though he signed the 



* Harmonious Consent* in 1648 as 



* pastor of Standish.' Paul Lathom son 

 of Henry Lathom of Whiston was edu- 

 cated at All Souls' Coll., Oxf. ; M.A. 

 1636; Foster^s Alumni. In 1650 he was 

 described as a * godly, orthodox and pain- 

 ful divine,' who served the cure every 

 Lord's day, but, like other Presbyterians, 

 had not observed the recent fast ; Com- 

 moniv. Ch, Sur'u. 98, and letter printed 

 in Biiines* Lanes, (ed. Croston), iv, 234. 

 He died in 1663. 



^ On the Restoration Lathom'a Insti- 

 tution was of course regarded as null, and 

 Dr. Brideoak obtained possession. He 

 became Dean of Salisbury In 1667 and 

 Bishop of Chichester In 1674, and died in 

 Oct. 1678 holding Standish, which was 

 served by curates. 



10 Act Bks. at Chester. The presenta- 

 tion by E. Standish (dated 8 Oct. 1678) 

 appears to have been annulled for simony, 

 but as the king presented the same person 

 ' by lapse ' (Pat. 30 Chas. II, pt. v, m. 1 3) 

 the offence could not have been a grave 

 one. William Haydock of Standish was 

 admitted to St. John's Coll., Camb., as a 

 sizar in 1665; M.A. 1672; St. John's 

 Coll. Admissions, I, 169. He * beautified ' 

 the church by an altar-piece, removed 

 in 1835, and erected a singers' gallery; 

 according to his epitaph it was his strenu- 

 ous endeavour *that the doctrines of the 

 catholic faith and the harmony of evan- 

 gelical truth should resound' through his 

 church. He died, * equally lamented by 

 his flock and by his widow,' 13 Apr, 1713. 

 His will was proved at Chester. 



^^ His will was proved at Chester In 

 1722. For disputes as to the tithes in 

 his Incumbency see Dep. Keeper's Rep. 

 xll, App. 561, 596. 



12 Educated at Corpus Chrlsti Coll., 

 Camb.; M.A. 1712; and migrated in 

 171 5 to St. John's Coll., of which he was 

 made a fellow; B.D. 1719 ; Baker, St. 

 John's Coll. (ed. Mayor), I, 302, 304 ; 

 Admissions St. John's Coll. ii, 218. 



1* He was educated at Trin. Coll., 

 Camb., becoming fellow and also Professor 

 of Greek; M.A. 1707, B.D. 1716. He 

 'mostly resided ' in his parish and died at 

 the parsonage-house, 'greatly respected.* 



