Ralph Standish and the King
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Ralph Standish, a notable native, was the fourth son of John Standish. Ralph had a general pardon from the King in 1353; no one was to reproach him for what he had done on April 10th of the previous year. Soon afterwards he acquired Gathurst in Shevington and Bromilegh (Brimelow) on the boundary of Standish. Later (1366) he served the King as a member of the retinue of the Black Prince of Acquitaine; at this time he had acquired Scholes in Eccleston, parish of Prescot. With others, including his nephew and namesake, the Lord of Standish, he was accused in 1372 of the death of Roger de Hulton of Shevington. John of Gaunt, as arbitrator, ordered them to pay the widow 120 marks at Wigan Church. For the same offence and any subsequent outlawry, Ralph was pardoned by the King two years later; he was then in the King's suite.[1]
In recognition of his services in the field the Black Prince granted Ralph de Standish an annuity of £20 from tenements in Sutton in the Hundred of Macclesfield, the Prince's own property. When the Black Prince died, however, it was found that Sutton was part of the dower of his widow, Joan of Kent, and reverted to her. The young king, Richard II, made up the loss to Ralph by decreeing that the annuity should be paid from the royal estate at Shotwick in County Chester, from the date of his fathers death. An indenture of 1367 made by “Rauf de Stanedich of Stanedich Manor” gives the conditions of a trust for the benefit of his family in the following terms:
“to the use of John my son and his heirs - on condition that they arrange the marriage of my daughter Jonette, to a substantial man of £40 annually in land or money. In default of issue, the reversion to my brother Robert and his heirs - in default a reversion to my brother, John.”This was signed at Counake (Cognac) in Guyenne.[2]
