LEYLAND HUNDRED 



STANDISH 



President of Prior Park College, was born at Standish 

 in 1809 ; he died in 1864.^ 



In the 1 2th century, if not earlier, 

 MJNORS STJNDISH and Langtree were mem- 

 bers of the Penwortham barony, and 

 Richard Bussel, lord of Penwortham from about 

 1150 to 1 164,- gave them to Richard Spileman, 

 who had married the grantor's sister. They were 

 assessed as one plough-land each. In 1212 Thurstan 

 Banastre held them by the service of a sore hawk 

 annually.^ The Banastre lordship, which appears 

 to be that held later by William de Ferrers Earl of 

 Derby, and then by * the lords of Leylandshire,' ^ 

 was a mesne between the lord of Penwortham and 

 the immediate tenants, who adopted the local sur- 

 names — Standish and Langtree — and are supposed 

 to have descended from Richard Spileman, having 

 perhaps married his daughters and co-heirs. 



Ralph de Standish occurs in the time of Richard I,^ 

 and in 1206 agreed with Siward de Langtree as to 

 the partition of the manor and advowson of Standish.^ 

 He died in 1 2 1 9-20, and was succeeded, it is 



alleged, by a son Richard, a younger son, Alexander, 



having long held the rectory, and almost immediately 



succeeding his father in the manor.^ His son Ralph 



followed,^ and left three sons, 



who held the manor one after 



another — Edmund, Hugh and 



Jordan.^ Jordan's eldest son, 



Ralph, died without issue in 



or before 1 296, and a younger 



son, William, succeeded,^^ 



holding the manor for nearly 



thirty years. In 1 3 1 1 it was 



recorded that the barons of 



Penwortham had an ancient 



custom of zs. a year out of 



the townships of Standish and 



Langtree, the lords of which 



were bound to do suit to the court of Penwortham 



from three weeks to three weeks.^^ 



William was, about 1322, succeeded by his son 

 John, who lived till about 1350,^^ and whose eldest 

 son William appears to have died before his father 



Standish of Standish. 

 Sable three standing 

 dhhes argent. 



^ Diet. Nat. Biog, 

 2 V.C.H. Lanes, i, 337. 

 ^ Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 31. Nothing is 

 known of Richard Spileman. A contem- 

 porary Hugh Spileman was one of the 

 Abbot of Shrewsbury's 'men of Wools- 

 ton ' ; Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 287. 



■* Some indications of it will be found 

 in subsequent notes. It is possible that 

 the Banastre holding was conveyed to the 

 Marsey family, who already held five 

 plough-lands in the parish, for at the sale 

 about 1230 to Randle Earl of Chester (to 

 whom Ferrers succeeded) Standish, Lang- 

 tree, Shevington, Charnock, Heath Char- 

 nock, Duxbury, Adlington and Whittle 

 are named ; Ormerod, Cheshire (ed. 

 Helsby), i, 37. This might account for 

 the double lordship which appears in 

 several of the townships. See also Inq. 

 and Extents, i, 29. 



^ Lanes. Fipi R, 378. He may be 

 the Ralph de Standish son of Leising 

 mentioned in the ancient note to a Lang- 

 tree charter ; Cockersand Chartul. (Chet. 

 Soc), ii, 514. 



^ Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 24. Ralph retained the plough- 

 land in Standish, a moiety of the ad- 

 vowson of the church, common of wood 

 and other easements, and 16 acres of 

 assarted land on the south side of Stan- 

 dish Church. See Braeton*s Note Bk. 

 no. 1386. 



There are a large number of Standish 

 charters in Kuerden's MSS., but many of 

 tbem are but brief notes. Abstracts of 

 nearly 400 — in some cases the full deed is 

 given — are printed in Loeal Glean, Lanes, 

 and Ches, ii. Mrs. Tempest has made 

 abstracts of others and has kindly placed 

 them at the editors' service. 



^ This appears from disputes as to the 

 advowson. Ralph de Standish was the 

 defendant in 12 19 and Alexander, as * son 

 and heir,' in 1220; Curia Regis R. 70, 

 m. 16 ; 74, m. 8, 



The descent in the text is derived from 

 the pedigree set forth by William de 

 Standish in 1310 in support of his claim 

 to the advowson of Wigan, to which, as 

 he alleged, his ancestor Ralph de Standish 

 had presented a clerk in the time of 

 Richard I; De Banco R. 180, m. 218. 

 Apart from this nothing seems known of 



the Richard son of Ralph who has the 

 second place in the descent. 



^ Ralph de Standish was in possession 

 in 1246, when he with Henry de Standish 

 and others in the parish brought a writ 

 against William de Ferrers Earl of Derby, 

 alleging that he should acquit them of the 

 services demanded for Standish, &c., by 

 the guardians of the lands of John 

 formerly Earl of Lincoln j Assize R. 404, 

 m, 14 d. It seems clear from this that 

 Ferrers occupied the place of Banastre in 

 1212. Hugh son of Gerard de Duleys 

 granted land in Shevington to Ralph de 

 Standish, Hugh, rector of Standish, being 

 one of the witnesses ; Standish D. {Loeal 

 Glean.)^ no. 362. 



^ In 1288 it was found that Jordan de 

 Standish held Standish, with the advow- 

 son of the church, of William de Ferrers 

 by homage and the service of 55. %d. 

 yearly 5 Lanes, Inq. and Extents, i, 269. 

 He and the other tenants provided 

 puture for the Serjeants. He died in 

 1290 ; ibid. 274. 



Jordan son of Ralph de Standish 

 granted lands in Langtree and Standish to 

 Alan de Burlegh ; Standish D. {Loeal 

 Glean.), no. 4. Jordan de Standish de- 

 mised for twenty years to Nicholas (son) 

 of Hugh and Maud mother of Robert de 

 Haydock, rector of Standish, land within 

 these bounds : Beginning at the land of 

 John son of HuUe, ascending to Robert 

 de Worthington's land called Hatchacre, 

 round the outside of the Hut Lane, pro- 

 ceeding to the church land to the west as 

 far as *le walle' of the church, descending 

 the Walle Lane to South Brook as far as 

 the acre held by Siward and so to the 

 start; Standish D. (Mrs. Tempest's ab- 

 stract), no. 5. The seal is appended ; it 

 bears a conventional flower, surrounded 

 by the legend * s' iordani d* stan.' 



Jordan de Standish granted a messuage 

 to William de Burlegh, whose son Roger 

 dying without issue, the tenement was 

 unsuccessfully claimed In 1 341 by 

 William's daughter Goditha and her 

 husband Richard de Newton, miller. The 

 possessors were John de Burlegh and 

 Ellen his wife ; De Banco R. 328, m. 

 366. 



Edmund son of Jordan de Standish in 

 1346 gave to Richard his son lands in 

 Standish and Langtree, with remainders 



193 



to his other sons — Robert, Edmund and 

 Henry 5 Kuerden MSS. v, fol. 145. 

 There are some other deeds referring to 

 him in the same volume. Robert son of 

 Edmund de Standish frequently occurs 

 in the Standish deeds and acquired Arley 

 in Blackrod, the Standishes of Arley being 

 apparently his descendants. See Standish 

 D. {Local Glean.), no. 36, 51, &c. 



^'^ Thomas le Waleys In 1298 com- 

 plained that whereas the wardship and 

 marriage of William brother and heir of 

 Ralph son of Jordan de Standish belonged 

 to him, one Robert the Serjeant and Alice 

 his wife had abducted the heir ; De Banco 

 R. 123, m. 30. 



Cecily the widow of Ralph son of 

 Jordan de Standish in 131 3-14 had com- 

 mon of pasture in Standish ; Assize R, 

 424, m. 6 d. 



Mabel and Alice daughters of Jordan 

 de Standish occur in the deeds ; Standish 

 D, {Loeal Glean.), no. 9-13. Some of the 

 deeds (as printed) are dated Edward I 

 instead of Edward II. 



In 1318-19 a settlement was made of 

 the moiety of the manors of Standish and 

 Langtree and the advowson of Standish 

 Church on William son of Jordan de 

 Standish and his heirs; ibid. no. 16, 

 About the same time William and Eleanor 

 his wife made a settlement of the eighth 

 part of the manor of Shevington ; ibid, 

 no. 8. 



" De Laey Inquest (Chet. Soc), 22, 

 In the Compotus of 1296 the farm of 

 Standish and Langtree is similarly re- 

 turned as zs., and the same in 1305 } 

 Compoti (Chet. Soc), 10, 97. 



^2 In 1329 John son of William, lord 

 of Standish, granted to Henry son of 

 Henry son of Anabil de Shevinley a piece 

 of land In Standish bounded by land of 

 John de Burlegh, the Cock^croft, Standish 

 Moor and the Kirk Brook, and another 

 piece in Shevington, in exchange for 

 Shevinley, which lay on the west side of 

 the manor of Standish ; Standish D, 

 {Local Glean.), no. 17. Henry had been 

 accustomed to pay a pig as rent ; ibid, 

 no. 18. 



John de Standish and Thomas de Lang- 

 tree in 1336 came to an agreement re- 

 garding the approvements of the waste ; 

 ibid. no. 27. John de Standish attested 

 a charter in May 1351 ; ibid. no. 37. 



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