Stanley Clerics

Reference sources -
1. John Le Neve - Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541 Vol. I - Lincoln Diocese - compiled by H. P. F. King
2. John Le Neve - Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541 Vol. III - Salisbury Diocese - compiled by Joyce M. Horn
3. John Le Neve - Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541 Vol. IV - Monastic Cathedrals - compiled by Joyce M. Horn
4. John Le Neve - Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541 Vol. V - St Paul's, London - compiled by Joyce M. Horn
5. John Le Neve - Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541 Vol. VI - Northern Province (York, Carlisle and Durham) - compiled by B Jones
6. John Le Neve - Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541 Vol. VIII - Bath and Wells Diocese - compiled by Joyce B Jones
7. John Le Neve - Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541 Vol. X - Coventry and Lichfield Diocese - compiled by B Jones
8 Winwick: Its History and Antiquities by William Beaumont
9 Nottinghamshire Archives: Foljambe of Osberton: Deeds and Estate Papers - DD/FJ/1/243/34
10 Thornton Society Transactions Volume XXIX - Nottinghamshire
11 1514 will of - Jane Stanley Le Strange - Public Record Office - Prob 11/17
12 1524 will of - Edward Stanley, Lord Mounteagle - Public Record Office - Prob 11/21
13 Public Record Office - manuscript - C 143/430/16
14 Public Record Office - manuscript - E 326/6203 and LR 14/330
15 Public Record Office - manuscript - E 41/352
16 Public Record Office - manuscript - STAC 2/28/78
17 Public Record Office - manuscript - C 142/78/129 and E 150/473/1
18 History Gazeter of the County of Derby Vol 1, by Stephen glover and Thomas Noble, 1831

Thomas de Stanley -

1376 - Vicar of King's Norton (Norton by Galby) - Ref. 14
1382 - York Diocese - Prebendaries of Ampleforth - Ref. 5
1385 - 1399 Coventry and Lichfield Diocese - Pebendaries of Eccleshall - Ref. 7
1400 - Dean of St. Martin's-le-Grand, parson of St. Botolph, Aldersgate - Ref 13
1401 - Bath and Wells Diocese - Prebendaries of Henstridge - Ref. 6
1402 - York Diocese - Prebendaries of Masham - Ref. 5
1402 - 1403 - Bath and Wells Diocese - Dean - Ref. 6

Thomas Stanley -

to 1393 - Prebendarie in chapel of Hastings - Ref. 1
1393 to 1399 - Lincoln Diocese - Prebendaries of Langford Ecclesia - Ref. 1
1399 - Dean of St. Martin's Le Grand, London - Ref. 1
1401 - 1402 - Salisbury Diocese - Prebendaries of Netherbury in Ecclesia - Ref. 2
1406 - Salisbury Diocese - Prebendaries of Charminster and Bere - Ref. 2

Richard Stanley - (second son of Sir John Stanley) Family page

1420 - Rector of Winwick - Ref. 8
to 1425 - Coventry and Lichfield Diocese - Prebendaries of Flixton - Ref. 7
1425 - 1433 Archdeacon of Chester - Ref. 7
Died Archdeacon of Chester and Rector of Winwick on 5th November 1467 - Ref. 8

Edward Stanley - (third son of Sir John Stanley) Family page

1453 - Rector of Winwick - Ref. 8
1454 - 1462 Archdeacon of Chester - Ref. 7
27th July 1481, Warden of the collegiate church of Manchester, and died as warden and probably Rector of Winwick and Warrington, on 22nd July, 1485. - Ref. 8

Sir John Stanley - (This may be Sir John Stanley of Weever)

1484 - Priest of Mekesburgh (Mexborough) - Ref. 9

James Stanley - (4th son of Sir Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley) - Family page

Passed time at Oxford and Cambridge, and graduated at the latter University in or about 1458 - Ref. 8
1458 - 1481 - St Paul's London - Prebendaries of Finsbury - Ref. 4
1460 - 1485 - York Diocese - Prebendaries of Driffield - Died before 20th July 1485 - Ref. 5
1464 - Rector of St. Peter's in Chester, resigned in 1466 - Ref. 8
1467 - 22nd November, presented to the living of Winwick , by Henry Byrom, gentleman - Ref. 8
1476 - 7th September, presented to the rectory of Warrington - Ref. 8
1478 - 1485 Archdeacon of Chester - died before 5th June 1485 - Ref. 7
1481 - Wardenship of Manchester College - Ref. 4
1483 - Archdeacon of Chester - Ref. 15

James Stanley - (6th son of Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby) - Family page

1485 - 1506 - Salisbury Diocese - Precentor - installed 10th September 1505 - Ref. 2
1492 - 1493 - Salisbury Diocese - Prebendaries of Yetminster Prima - Ref. 2
1493 - 1506 - Salisbury Diocese - Prebendaries of Beminster Prima - Ref. 2
1493 - 28th February - presented to the living of Winwick - Ref. 8
1493 - Dean of the Royal Chapel of St. Martin's-le-Grand, London - Ref. 8
1500 - 1506 - Archdeacon of Richmond - York Diocese - Ref. 5
1506 - 1515 - Bishop of Ely - Ref. 2 & 3
1509 - James Stanley, Warden of Manchester - Ref. 16 (PLAINTIFF: Edmund Mathewe DEFENDANT: James Stanley, Warden of
.......... Manchester, George Stanley, Ralph Holme, Thomas Tournour, and William Lever - PLACE OR SUBJECT: Assaults near
.......... Manchester
Died 22nd March 1515 - Ref. 2, 3 & 8
1516 - James Stanley, Bishop of Ely: Middlesex - Ref. 17

From Ref. 8 are the following -

  • 1491 - Installed in the prebend of Yatminster Prima of the Church of Salisbury,
  • 1492 - Installed in the prebend of Beaminster in the same church.
  • 1493 - 28th February - presented to the living of Winwick
  • 1493 - Dean of the Royal Chapel of St. Martin's-le-Grand in London.
  • 1500 - Archdeacon of Richmond
  • 1505 - Precentor of Salisbury.
  • 1506 - July17th Pope Julius II signed his bull of provision constituting him Bishop of Ely
  • 1507 - University of Oxford granted and decreed that he might be created a doctor of decrees by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London.
  • 1507 - About this time he resigned the living of Winwick.
  • He succeeded his uncle in the valuable wardenship of the Collegiate Church at Manchester.
  • After promotion to the See of Ely, he resided at the Episcopal Palace at Somersham, but was often at Manchester and at Lathom.
  • The Bishop appropriated the rectory of Great Shelford to Jesus College, in Cambridge, compiled the statutes of that college and obtained the confirmation of them from Pope Julius II.
  • He added largely to and improved the Episcopal Palace of Somersham.
  • In conjunction with Sir John Stanley of Honford, he undertook to build the large chapel of St. John the Baptist on the north side of the Collegiate Church of Manchester.
  • He died at Manchester, 22nd March, 1514-15, and buried in the above chapel under a marble tomb, on which there was a figure of him in brass with this inscription:-" Of your charity pray for the soul of James Stanley, sometime Bishop of Ely, and Warden of Manchester, who deceased out of this transitory world the 22nd day of March 1515, upon whose soul and all Christian souls Jesu have mercy".

Thomas Stanley of Flint -

1514 - old Priest - named in the will of Jone Stanley le Strange - Ref. 11

William Stanley -

1525 - Rector of St Anne's Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire - Ref. 10
1536 - Rector of St Michael's Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire - Ref. 10
1541 - died - Ref. 10

Thomas Stanley -

1536 - Rector of St Anne's, Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire - Ref. 10

Thomas Stanley -

1528 - Lincoln Diocese - Prebendaries of Thorngate - Ref. 1

Thomas Stanley - illegitimate son of Edward Stanley Lord Mounteagle

1524 - Parson of Badsworth (West Yorkshire) - Ref 12

Rev Thomas Stanley -
 
1670 - Died - nonconformist, of Duckmanton, Derbyshire - Ref. 18

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