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Family and Education
bap. 21 Oct. 1621, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Thomas Standish* and 1st w. Anne.Chorley Par. Regs. ed. E. McKnight, H. Brierley (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. xxxiii), 40; Foster, Lancs. Peds. m. 23 Nov. 1647, Elizabeth (bur. 6 Mar. 1662), da. of Piers Legh of Lyme, Cheshire, 7s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. (1 d.v.p.).Farnham, Yorks. par reg.; Chorley par. reg.; Chorley Par. Regs. ed. McKnight, Brierley, 105; Foster, Lancs. Peds.; Vis. Lancs. 1613 ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxxxii), 71. bur. 14 Mar. 1662 14 Mar. 1662.Chorley par. reg.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Preston 1622–?d.;Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 78. Wigan by Mar. 1640–?d.Sinclair, Wigan, i. 217; ii. 53.

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) by Apr. 1643 – ?; col. by Nov. 1644-aft. June 1648.E121/4/8/43; Lancs. Civil War Tracts, 85, 252; Rushworth, Hist. Collns. vii. 1148; J.M. Gratton, ‘The Parliamentarian and Royalist War Effort in Lancs. 1642–51’ (Manchester Univ. PhD thesis, 1998), 411, 560. Col. militia ft. Lancs. 16 Aug. 1650-c.July 1651.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 509.

Local: j.p. Lancs. 4 Oct. 1647–d.Lancs. RO, QSC/42–62; Craven, ‘Lancs.’, 39. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 16v. assessment, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. maintenance of ministers, 29 Mar. 1650;Lancs. and Cheshire Church Surveys ed. H. Fishwick (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. i), i. 1–3. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35). Capt. militia horse, 19 Apr. 1660–?Parliamentary Intelligencer no. 17 (16–23 Apr. 1660), 270 (E.183.5). Commr. poll tax, 1660;SR. sewers, 22 Aug. 1660.C181/7, p. 34.

: of Duxbury Hall, Lancs., Chorley.
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Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

STANDISH, Richard (1621-62), of Duxbury Hall, Chorley, Lancs.

Will
29 Sept. 1657, cod. 10 Mar. 1662, pr. 13 July 1663.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 45, f. 562.
Estates
in June 1647, wid. of Standish’s elder bro. Alexander assigned to Standish her ‘dower right’ to the family estate (properties as below).C7/277/54; Lancs. RO, DP/397/21/16. That month, he borrowed £1,000 by statute staple – probably to help pay off his brother’s and father’s debts.LC4/203, f. 2; C7/277/54. In 1657, estate inc. manors of Anlezargh, Chorley, Duxbury, Heapey, Heath Charnock and Whittle-le-Woods, the capital messuage of Bradley Hall and lands and tenements in Charnock, Chorley, Standish, Langtree and Worthington, Lancs.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 45, ff. 562-3.
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