. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. 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 12 c/.* Alexander Standish
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. 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 12 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 1640 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-grandsonâThomas,'^ Thomas '* and Frankâbut 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 1891-8 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 ; DUXBVRr HJLL stands in a well-wooded park about the middle of the township, i J miles to the south of Ch
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