DERBY 205 X. 1485. I. Thomas (Stanley), Lord Stanley, ist s. and h. of Thomas, Lord Stanley (so cr. by writ dat. 1456), by Joan, da. and coh. ofSir Robert Goushill, of Hoveringham, Notts, was i. about 1435; ■'"^- his father, 20 Feb. 1458/9, being then aged 24, and was sum. to Parl.,^) from 30 July (1460) 38 Hen. VI to 9 Dec. (1483) 1 Ric. III. He was also Sovereign Lord of the Isle of ManjC") and possessor of the large estates at Lathom and Knowsley in the hundred of West Derby, co. Lancaster, inherited from the family of Lathom. () Knighted 10 July 1460 (*) There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. " Dominus Stanley " sat in the Pari, of Coventry 11 Dec. 1459. It is certain that it was his father (who d. Feb. 1458/9), not he himself, wiio was the ist Lord, sum. by writ, 15 Jan. (1455/6) 34 Hen. VI. See Stanley. C") The island, with the castle, peel, and lordship, of Man was granted by Henry IV, 19 Oct. 1399, on the forfeiture of William Lescrope chr. [Earl of Wiltshire], to Henry de Percy, Earl of Northumberland, to be held with royal rights. He, how- ever, forfeited it some years later. The King then granted it, 6 Apr. 1406, to John de Stanley kt., in fee, to be held as before, by homage and by the service of rendering two falcons to the King at each coronation. {Patent Rolls, i Hen. IV, />. 5, m. 35 ; 7 Hen. IV, p. 2, m. 17). (G. W. Watson). In the Stanley family it, together with some 170,000 acres, remained till 1736, when it passed through an heiress to the family of Murray, Dukes of Atholl [S.]. See 3.sopoit, p. 213, note "c." if) The well-known Stanley crest of " the Eagle and Child" is derived from the Lathoms : the connection of the families is as follows (Palatinate of Lancaster, Inq. p. 711., Chancery Rolls, and Privy Seals) : — Robert de Latham of Lathom : = Kathcrine, heiress of tJ. on or just before 2 Mar. 1324/5 {Esr/!. Enr. Accounts, no. I, w. I 2 d). Knowsley. Thomas, of Lathom: .igcd 24 and = Alianore, da. of more in 1325: </. 17 Sep. 1370. John de Ferrers. Hugh. Philip. . i
Thomas, of Lathom: d. before 20 Mar. =j= Joan.
1 38 1/2 (the Sir Oskcll of the Stanley legend). I
- Roger de Fasacrelegh (2nd
husband). Thomas, of Lathom:: d 5 Nov. 1383 (the Sir Oskatel of the Irlam legend). Isabel, da. of=John de Roger de Pil- Dalton kington. (2nd hus- band). .i.u =John de Stanley. Edward: living 25 Feb. 1379/80. b. Feb. 1383/4: d. before 5 Dec. I 391. There are two distinct versions of a legend accounting for the crest. One, given by Bishop Stanley {d. 1568), describes the lord of Lathom, issueless and aged "fower score," as adopting an infant "swaddled and clad in a mantle of redd," which an eagle had brought unhurt to her nest in Terlestowe wood, and which he names Oskell, and makes heir to Lathom : Oskell becomes father of Isabel Stanley. The
