The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... erected over his remains, which perished in the Great Fire. John Standish, educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and afterwards Fellow of Whittington College, London--one of the bitterest writers against the Reformation, to which he had at first inclined--was also born here. He died in 1556, canon of Worcester. In 1654, in the period of the Commonwealth, Robert Standish was a member of Parliament,1 and Thomas Standish, of the Duxbury line, a captain in the Royalist army, was killed in the civil wars of these times, at Manchester. Coming nearer to our times, Ralph Standish, of Standish, formed a matrimonial alliance with Lady Philippa Howard, daughter of Henry, Duke of Norfolk, and had his estates forfeited for participation in the rebellion of 1715. He was taken prisoner with James Blundell, churchwarden of Standish, at the Preston fight. Blundell was tried by a Lancashire jury, and executed in Wigan on February 10, 1716. Ralph Standish was tried in London, June 16, 1716, and convicted of high treason. The sentence was not carried out, and on the same day of 1717 he was let out of Newgate, being, with other Lancashire gentlemen, "put into messengers' hands." His estates were, however, afterwards restored. Cecilia, his daughter and heir, married William Towneley, of Towneley, by whom were Charles, Ralph, Edward, and Cecilia. Charles, the eminent antiquary, devised the Standish and Borwick estates to his brother, Edward Towneley, who took the additional name of Standish. He died 28th March, 1807, devising the property alluded to to Thomas Strickland, the son of his sistei Cecilia, by marriage with Charles Strickland, of Sizergh, in Westmoreland. She married, secondly, Gerard Edward Strickland, and died in 1814. Thomas Strickland, Esq., took the ad...