A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



and in 1564 he made a settlement of his manor i^i" 

 Duxbury and various lands. H j died within a tew 

 y»tars,' for in 1570 Thomas Standish was in posses- 

 sion. The manor-house at that time seems to have 

 been known as the Peel.* He also made a settlement 

 of the manor, ^c, In 1581 and died in 1599, leaving 

 a son and heir Alexander, twentj'-nine years of age.' 

 The manor was stated to be held of the queen, as of 

 the lat^ priory of St. John of Jerusalem, in socage by 

 a rent of 1 2 c/.* 



Alexander Standish appears to have had the family 

 manors granted to him as early as I 5 S3.* He died 

 in 1622, leaving a son Thomas, twenty-nine years of 

 age.® The family had become Protestant, and Thomas 

 Stindish ^vas a zealous Parliamentarian, representing 

 Preston from 1 640 till his death in October 1642.' 

 His eldest son, however, espoused the king's side and 

 was killed in September 1642 while taking part in 

 the attack on Manchester.^ The eHer Thomas was 

 eventually succeeded by a younger son Richard,^ 

 whose son and heir Richard Standish was created 

 a baronet in 1677.*" Sir Richard was followed by 

 his son, grandson and great-grandson — Thomas,'^ 



Thomas '* and Frank — but on the death of the last- 

 named in 1S12 without issue " the manor and other 

 estates went to a distant cousin, Frank Hall, who 

 assumed the name of Standish and died in 1840 

 without issue.** He was suc- 

 ceeded by a second cousin, 

 William Standish Carr, who 

 assumed Standish'* as a sur- 

 name, and dying in i8f;6 was 

 followed by his son William. 

 On the latter's death in 1878 

 the inheritance passed to his 

 three sisters, and in 1 891-8 

 the manor of Duxbury and 

 the estates were sold by the 

 trustees.'® Mr. Perceval 

 Sumner Mayhew is the pre- 

 sent owner of the hall and 

 estate and lord of the manor, and resides there." 



DUXBVRr HJLL stands in a well-wooded park 

 about the middle of the township, i J miles to the 

 south of Chorley, and externally is a plain modern- 

 looking house of two stories faced with hard mill- 



Standish. 



three standing 

 argent. 



Sable 

 dishes 



Elizabeth daughter of Sir Richard Hogh- 

 toa ; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 44. He 

 must have died before 1^33. 



In 1^21 it was complained that James 

 Standish in the common way at Duxbury 

 between Wipnn and Preston, viz. at 

 Yarrow Bridge, levied a toll of zd. for 

 every twenty oxen or every twenty sheep 

 there driven, by what right was unknown ; 

 Duchy of Lane Inq. p.m. v, no. 6. 



'A pedigree was recnrJcd in 1567; 

 Visit. (CheL Soc\ 90. 



* Thomas Standish of the Peel in 1 508 

 demised to Matthew Standish a close 

 called Peelford in Duxbury fnr a term of 

 seven years; Standish D. (Mrs. Tem- 

 pest's abstract}, no. 195. See aho Add. 

 MS. 32106, no. 844, 1329; Miic. (Rec 

 Soc Lanes, and Chcs.), i, 244. 



^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvii, no. 

 54 \ Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 43, 

 m. 35. The will of Thomas Standish, 

 made in 1593 and proved in 1600, is in 

 Piccopc MSS. (Chet Lib.), ix, 295. 



* This agrees with the Hospitallers* 

 rental, made about 1540, where James 

 Standi-^h is stated to hold a messuage in 

 Duxbury by a rent of \zJ, \ Kuerden 

 MSS. V, fol. 83^. The inq. p.m. is pro- 

 bably defective, the Hospitallers" lands 

 having become merged in the manor. 



* Pal. of Lane Feet of F. bdle. 45, m. 

 15. A pedigree was recorded in 161 3 ; 

 Visit, (Chet. Soc), 70. 



^ Lanes. In^. p.m. (Rec Soc Lanes, 

 and Ches.), iii, 397. His will was proved 

 in 1622 ^ to his 'grandchild little Thorn 13 

 Standish' he left 'two of the best pieces 

 of plate, viz. a crystal cup and his best 

 salt.* The will of Captain Ralph Standish, 

 younger son of Alexander, is printed in 

 Piccope's ^T/Z/i (Chet. Soc), ii, 141. 



' Pink and Beaven, Pari, Repre, of 

 Lanes. 151, 11; 2. He was buried at 

 Chorley 29 Oct. 1642. 



A settlement of the manors of Duxbury, 

 Heapey, &c., was made by Thomas 

 Standish in 1623 ; Pal. of Lane Feet of 

 F. bdle, 104, no. 10. 



- * Captain Standish, a captain of the 

 trained band of Leyland Hundred, eldest 

 son to Mr. Standish of Duxbury (who was 

 then a burgess in the Parliament for the 

 town of Preston), quartered in a house 

 upon the north side of Salford, well up 



towards the chapel, wnshing his hands in 

 the morning at the do"-, was by a bullet 

 ■hot from the top of Manchester steeple 

 slain'; IVar in Lanes. (Chet. Soc), 7; 

 Ci-vil fVar Tracts (Chet. Soc), 46, 55. 

 He was buried at Chorley 30 Si-pt. Ad- 

 ministration of his estate was in 1642 

 granted to his brother Alexander and 

 Edward Farnworth. 



^ The details in the text are taken 

 mainly from a ped.trrec in the Piccope 

 MS. Fed. (Chet. Lib.), i, 167 j see also 

 Burke's Commoners^ iv, 642. 



Alexander Standish succeeded his tHher 

 Thomas, and died in or before 1 648, when 

 administration was granted. 



Richard Standish was a colonel in the 

 Parliamentary array ; Civil (far Tracts^ 

 2'^z ; Cal. Com. for Comp. 1, 392, where 

 there is a curious stnry of him. His 

 will, made in 1657 (codicil 1662) and 

 proved at York, recites the settlement of 

 Duxb.iry and his other manors in favour 

 of his eldest son Richard, &c. The fine 

 of 165^ probably relates to this settle- 

 ment ; Pal. of Lane Feet of F. bdle. 155, 

 m. 16^. 



'^Sir Richard Standish, as a Whig, 

 represented Wigan in the first Parliament 

 of William HI, 1690, till his death in 

 1693 ; Pink and Beaven, op. cit. 230. 



" Sir Thomas Standish was high sheriff 

 in 1711 ; P.R.O. List^ 74. He made a 

 settlement of his manors in 1700; Pal. 

 of Lane Feet of F. bdle. 244, m. 50 ; 

 and again in 1730 in conjunction with 

 Thomas his son ; ibid. bdle. 306, m. 77. 

 He was buried at Chorley 26 Mar. 1746 ; 

 administration was granted to his son, the 

 second Sir Thomas, in the same year. 

 The former Thomas left among other 

 issue a daughter Margaret, who died in 

 1-76, leaving by her second husband, 

 Anthony Hall of Flass (see Surtecs, 

 Durham^ iv, i ^4), a son Anthony and a 

 daughter Anne. Anthony was the father 

 of another Anthony, whose son Frank 

 Hall succeeded to Standish 1812-40. 

 Anne married the Rev. Ralph Carr, 

 rector of Alderley in Cheshire, and her 

 son Ralph Carr of Cocken Hall, Durham, 

 was father of the William Standish Carr 

 who was the next lord of Duxbury. 



" The settlement on the marriage of 

 Thomas, son and heir-apparent of Sir 



210 



Thomas Standish, with Katherine Smith, 

 widow, was made in 1739. The younger 

 Sir Thomas died in 1756 ; M.L in 

 Chorley Church. 



'^ Sir Frank Standish represented 

 Preston as a Tory in 1768-74 ; Pink and 

 Beaven, op. cit. 165. He was high 

 shcrirf of the county in 1782 ; P.R.O. 

 List, 74. 



After the death of Sir Frank, with 

 whom the baronetcy expired, a collier 

 named Thomas Standish made a claim to 

 the estate and took forcible possession of 

 the hall, which he barricaded against 

 attack. For a long time disorderly scenes 

 took place in the house and park, but at 

 last the claimant was arrested and im- 

 prisoned ; Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Notes^ 

 ii, 197. 



'■* He lived chiefly at Seville and was 

 unmarried. Piqued at the English 

 ministry's refusal to revive the baronetcy, 

 he gave his collection of pictures and 

 works of art to Louis Philippe for France, 

 and it was for a time in the Standish 

 gallery in the Louvre. 



After the revolution of 1848 Louis 

 Philippe claimed it as his private property 

 and the whole was sold in 1852-3, the 

 drawings, &c., in Paris and the pictures 

 in London. F. H. Standish published 

 Timony a poem, in 1833, and a book on 

 Seville in 1 840. See Diet. Nat. Biog. j 

 C. W. Sutton in Chorley Lib. J. 1900. 

 ^* He was high sheriff in 1845 -6. 

 '^ The contents of the mansion had 

 been sold in 1881 ; Pal. Note-book, i, 147. 

 On the occasion of the sales in 1891 

 there was a second 'siege of Duxbury,' a 

 claimant appearing professing to be son 

 and heir of Frank Hall Standish who 

 died in 1840. He was quickly ejected. 



The sisters of the last William Standish 

 were Emma Isabella Harriet, who married 

 Sir J. G. T, Sinclair, barL, Susan 

 Amelia Georgina, who married Charles 

 William Paulet, and Margaret Laura 

 Mulgrave, who married Edmund Berke- 

 ley Lucy. These or their representatives 

 are still landowners in the district. 



*' This and much other information 

 about the township is due to Mr. Walter 

 Mayhew of Duxbury Hall. See Burke't 

 Landed Gentry and Fox-Daviet' Armoritd 

 Families. 



