SOME FURTHER NOTES ON STANDISH

CHURCH AND ITS CHANTRIES

By Mrs. Arthur Cecil Tempest
Read 13th December 1906

HROUGH the kindness and courtesy of Henry N. W. Standish of Standish, Esq., who has permitted me to calendar his ancient deeds, I am enabled to add somewhat to Mr. W. F. Price's valuable article on Standish Parish Church in the last volume of our Journal.

By an undated indenture tripartite, to which Sir William Bradeshagh, William de Worthington, John de Cophull, William de Anderton, William del Burgh, John de Chisenhale, and Thomas de Adelington are witnesses, Henry, son of John le Waleys, chaplain, commencing by stating that, "whereas there is praise and glorious remuneration in the future for the souls of those who during life serve God with love and devotion with all their might, to the praise and honour of our Redeemer and the Blessed Virgin, His Mother,-know ye that I have ordained and constituted in the Church of Standish hereafter mentioned, a certain free Chantry to last forever, in the manner following, namely, that there be a certain chaplain resident and perpetual, who shall celebrate Divine service daily at the Altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Parish Church of St. Wilfrid of Standissh, for the soul of the said Henry and the souls of his father and mother and his ancestors and all the faithful deceased. In such

SOME FURTHER NOTES ON STANDISH

CHURCH AND ITS CHANTRIES

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By Mrs. Arthur Cecil Tempest

Read 13th December 1906

HROUGH the kindness and courtesy of Henry N. W. Standish of Standish, Esq., who has permitted me to calendar his ancient deeds, I am enabled to add somewhat to Mr. W. F. Price's valuable article on Standish Parish Church in the last volume of our Journal.

By an undated indenture tripartite, to which Sir William Bradeshagh, William de Worthington, John de Cophull, William de Anderton, William del Burgh, John de Chisenhale, and Thomas de Adelington are witnesses, Henry, son of John le Waleys, chaplain, commencing by stating that, "whereas there is praise and glorious remuneration in the future for the souls of those who during life serve God with love and devotion with all their might, to the praise and honour of our Redeemer and the Blessed Virgin, His Mother,-know ye that I have ordained and constituted in the Church of Standish hereafter mentioned, a certain free Chantry to last forever, in the manner following, namely, that there be a certain chaplain resident and perpetual, who shall celebrate Divine service daily at the Altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Parish Church of St. Wilfrid of Standissh, for the soul of the said Henry and the souls of his father and mother and his ancestors and all the faithful deceased. In such

manner that on the death of one chaplain, another shall be appointed to do the aforesaid duties, and thus in succession, when and as often as any chaplain deputed to the said Chantry shall die or chance to vacate the same." He then proceeds to state that he will in his lifetime choose the chaplain, and that after his death Richard le Waleys and his heirs are to have the presentation, on condition that, within a month of the Chantry becoming void, the vacancy shall be filled and its lands and tenements handed over to the new chaplain. Should they fail to collate, then "John de Standissh" patron of Standish Church and his heirs shall have the right to present, but they are only given fifteen days in which to find the requisite priest; the Prior of Burscough and his successors are to have the presentation if the Standishes fail to appoint. The collators are enjoined to find "in the spirit of charity" a suitable and good chaplain, and to take nothing from him they may so appoint; so that he may with happy issues perform the above recited offices for the Chantry.

For the support and maintenance of the chaplain and his successors, Henry le Waleys gives two messuages and sixty acres of land with appurtenances in "Standissh and Longetre" in free, pure, and perpetual alms, quit and absolved from all services for ever. He seals with a man's head turned to the right, surrounded by Gothic tracery; issuing from his lips are two quatrefoils. The legend appears to read, Vail: o: (?) DE: FLOVR DE: LAMOVR. (Standish Deeds, No. 38).

The licence to alienate the above messuages and lands in mortmain, for the support of the Chantry, was granted by letters patent dated at York, 12th February, 2 Edward III. (1327-8) to Henry, son of John le Waleys, chaplain, for which he paid forty

shillings (ibid., No. 37, and Cal. Pat. Ro., 1327, 30, p. 236).

Amongst the Standish deeds are two which probably refer to Henry le Waleys's acquisition of the land with which he endowed his Chantry, viz. in July 1315, William, son of William Smith (Fabre), released to "Henry le Walsh," rector of the Church of Standish, all these lands, &c., in "Standissh and Longetre" which he had of " William my father," and in December 1316, Hugh de Standish released to "Henry, son of John le Waleys' chaplain" these lands and buildings to the west of Cimberbrok in the same vills, which had been the heritage of William Smith (Standish Deeds, Nos. 27 and 29).

In November 1332, Henry le Waleys, rector of Standish Church, further enriches the Chantry by delivering to Master Simon, son of Thomas le Waleys, chaplain, six oxen and four cows, worth a hundred shillings, as an increased provision to him and his successors, the chaplains of the Chantry of Blessed Mary the Virgin in Standish Church. Whereupon the said Simon swears, with his hand upon the Holy Gospels, that, on his death, he will deliver the same number of animals or their value to the chaplains, his successors, so that they may be passed on to the use of each successive priest who shall be in possession of the said vicarage; the successors are also to be bound by oath to pass on the cattle or their value. Simon undertakes for himself and his successors that every day after the death of the said Sir Henry, his memory shall be honoured in the celebration of the Mass, and in alms to the poor. The seal Henry le Waleys uses is the same as the former one (ibid., No. 45).

By March 1337-8 it is probable Richard le Waleys was dead, for at this date John de Standish and his heirs, the patrons of Standish Church, are appointed patrons of the Chantry by Henry le