Stanbish. Reach Standijh, a village with a very handfome church, and:
fpire fteeple: the pillars within fhew, an attempt o f thz Tufcati
order •, it was rebuilt, in 1584, and chiefly by the affiftance of.
Richard Moodie, ReClor o f the place, who maintained the workmen
with meat, at his own eoft, during the time. He was the
firft proteftant pallor, conformed and procured the living by the;
eeffion of the tythes of Standifin probably thinking it better to
lofe part than all. He lies in effigy.on his tomb,,dreffed in his
francifcan habit,, with an. infcriptlon declarative of. his munificence
¡»wards the church.. In front o f the tomb are two fmall pillars
with ¿««¿¿ capitals,, the dawning of the introduction of Grecian architecture.
Here is a handfome tomb of- Sir Edward Wrightingtom, Knight,,
King’s council: he died 1658, and lies in alabafter recumbent in
his gown. A curious memorial of Edward. Chifnal, Efq.; o f
Chifnal, who was, during the civil wars, Colonel of a regiment
of horfe, and another of foo t; and left there ihould be any doubt,
the commiffions are given in full length upon wood. This gentleman
had the honor of defending Latham houfe under the command,
o f the Heroine the Countefs of Derby.
A t Mrs. Townley's, at StamMJh-HaR, are. fome. few reliques of.
the Arundel collection, particularly eight pieces of glafs, with the
labors of Hercules, molt exq-uifitely cut on them.. A large filver
fquare, perhaps the pannel o f art S altar, with a moft beautiful
relief of the refurreCtion 00 it, by P. V. 1605. Two trinkets,,
one a lion,, the other a dragon, whofe bodies are formed of two
vaft irregular pearls.
Make
Make an excurfion four miles on the Weft, to Holland, a village
where formerly had been a priory o f Benedihlines, founded by
Robert de.Holland, in 1319, out of the collegiate chapel, before
ferved by canons regular. Nothing remains at prefent but the
church, and a few walls. The pofterity o f the founder rofe to
the greateft honors during feveral of the following turbulent
reigns; but thofe honors were attended with the greateft calamities.
Robert himfelf, firft Secretary to Thomas o f Woodftock, Earl
of Lancafter, after betraying his mailer, loft his head, by the
rage of the people, in the beginning o f the reign o f Edw. III.
His pofterity, many at left of them, were equally unfortunate :
Thomas de Holland, Duke o f Surry, and Earl o f Kent, fell in the
fame manner at Cirencefier, by the hands of the townfmen, after
a ra.lh infurreCtion, in order to reftore his mailer, Richard II.
His half brother,, John, Duke of Exeter, and Earl of Huntingdon,
underwent the fame fate, from the -hands o f the populace at
Plejfy, in Effex, for being engaged in the fame defign. And his
grandfo'n Henry, Duke of Exeter, experienced a fortune as various
as it was calamitous. He was the greateft fubjeCl in power
under Henry VI. and was brother in law to Edw. IV. yet, as
■Comines relates, during the firft depreffion of his unhappy mailer,
he was feen a fugitive in Flanders, running barefoot after the
Duke of Burgundy's coach, to beg an alms: on the laft attempt
to replace Henry on the throne, he again appeared in arms at the
battle of Barnet, fought manfully, and was left for dead in the
field a faithful domeftic gave him affiftance, and conveyed him
into fanCluary •, he efcaped, and was never heard o f ’till his corps
was found, by fome unknown accident, floating in the fea be-
D 2 tween
Holland.