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1610 Ralph Standish (Lord of the Manor 1610-1656)	1611	1620 Captain Myles Standish

Arthur Standish, the writer on agriculture, was possibly a native of Standish. In 1611 he published "The Commons Complaint," dealing with waste of woods and dearth of food. He dedicated it as "the fruits of my old age and travell" to the King.

He gives an instance of the training of mallards from an occurrence at Standish Hall,

"...the house from whence I descended; where wild Duckes did breed about a mote, which at the first were bred under a Henne, and both those and the breed of them for many years continued so tame by use, as they would have followed through the court belonging to the house into the hall, and so wild as upon any offence they would have flowne to the river or ponds thereabout."^[1]

1. ↑ The Rev. Thomas Cruddas Porteus, A History of the Parish of Standish, Lancashire (Published by J. Starr & Son Ltd, Wigan, 1927)