A Debt Paid with Ties to Myles Standish Alchemy and the Hundred Years War: Lancashire Indenture in Latin Dated 1422
14222599612/04/1422. <div class=""gs""><div class=""""><div id="":2pv"" class=""ii gt""><div id="":2pu"" class=""a3s aiL ""><blockquote><div dir=""ltr"">Part of an important professors collection the majority of which was assembled and last offered for sale 25 years ago</div></blockquote><div class=""adL""></div></div></div></div></div><p>Myles Standish was an English military officer hired to accompany the Pilgrims in 1620 on the ship Mayflower as their military adviser. He played a leading role in the administration and defense of Plymouth Colony. He was one of the first settlers and founders of the town of Duxbury Massachusetts. He died on October 3 1656 in the New World in Duxbury-- a town the Pilgrims had named after his likely ancestral home in Lancashire England and an estate that occupied by these very men. what does this mean On February 17 1621 the Plymouth Colony militia elected him as its first commander and continued to re-elect him to that position for the remainder of his life. Standish served at various times as an agent of Plymouth Colony on a return trip to England as assistant governor of the colony and as its treasurer.</p><p>Taking the Standish Family back to their home in the Greater Manchester towns of Standish Chorley and Duxbury we see this important family’s expansion in terms of land and power. Since the 1200s the Standish Family had been the Lords of the Standish Manor.</p><p>Ralph de Standish was the Lord of the Manor from 1396-1415; in 1406 he acquired the estates of his uncle Sir Ralph de Standish of Scholes. As the Lord of the Manor he supplemented the family’s landholdings through purchases in nearby Wigan Shevington and Winstanley. In 1415 John de Standysshe likely Ralph’s brother was recorded at the Battle of Agincourt. Other Standishes at this important turning point in the Hundred Years War included Thomas Sir Rowland Sir Hugh and Christopher the latter two of which were of the Duxbury Branch of the Standishes. Christopher would become Lord of the Manor of Duxbury from 1421 to 1437 and die shortly thereafter.</p><p>Ralph’s death passed the Lordship of the Manor to his eldest son Lawerence; however he had two other sons Robert and Gilbert. Records about Gilbert only give few details. He was “living in 1423/4†and “in 1400 he was mentioned in a deed and entered into covenants with John Smith chaplain and Henry Matthew chaplain 1411/2 authorized by his mother and father.â€</p><p>Though the records remain inconclusive The Families of Standish states that “Sir Ralph de Standish of Scholes is considered to be the ancestor of the Standishes of Ormskirk and through them the ancestor of Captain Myles Standish of Plymouth and Duxbury Massachusetts who came in the ‘Mayflower’ 1620†p. 51.</p><p>Lancashire England 1422 <strong>Small indenture in Latin</strong> with two seals attached 103mm by 180mm approximately 12 April 1422 10th year of the reign of Henry V affirming a debt of 40 pounds by Gilbert de Standyssh Esq. of Blakerode i.e. Blackrod Lancs. Roger de Molyneux Esq. of Pemberton Lancs. and William son of Roger de Assheton Esq. of Abram Lancs. to Christopher de Standyssh. With original seals attached.</p><p>Through a small document the consolidation of Standish wealth is demonstrated. Further the exchange of £40 equivalent to approximately £34572 or $41700 in modern currency between Gilbert Standish Roger de Molyneux and William de Assheton son of Roger to Christopher Standish demonstrates the intimate ties between important families. Roger Ashton’s father was a soldier under King Henry IV and Henry V; his father before him was Sir John de Ashton who served with John of Gaunt in 1369 and whose part in the siege of Noyon in 1370 is mentioned by name by Froissart’s Chronicles in French.</p><p>Roger’s brother and William’s uncle was the famed alchemist given permission by Henry IV for his experiments.</p><p>See also:</p><p>Weis Frederick Lewis. The Families of Standish of Standish Lancashire England and Standish of Duxbury Arley Ormskirk Gathurst Croston Park Brook and Wantage… 1959.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown
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