STANLEY, John II (by 1414-76), of Clifton Campville and Pipe and Elford, Staffs.

Family and Education

b. by 1414, On 13 July 1414 his father secured a papal indult for himself, his wife and their children to have a portable altar, and thus it is fair to assume our MP was then born: CPL, vi. 355. s. and h. of Thomas Stanley I*. m. (1) c. 1428, Cecily Arderne, at least 2s.; (2) by 12 Feb. 1454, Elizabeth (fl.1471), She was alive in Aug. 1471: Birmingham Archs., Elford Hall mss, 3878/45. da. of Sir Richard Vernon*, wid. of John Vampage*, at least 1s. Humphrey†; (3) by 1474, Anne (d. 12 July 1505), wid. of Sir William Harcourt† (d.1472) of Maxstoke, Warws., and Braunstone, Leics., Her family is uncertain, but her first name is provided by her admission in 1474 to the guild of St. Mary in Lichfield as our MP’s wife: T. Harwood, Lichfield, 406. Ormerod says that after our MP’s death she married (Sir) William Norris*: G. Ormerod, Palatine and City of Chester ed. Helsby, iii (2), 566. If so, she was the wid. of Sir William Harcourt, whose nephew, John Harcourt, our MP sued in Mich. term 1474 for close-breaking in respect of property at Market Bosworth and elsewhere in Leics., which Anne Norris is known to have held at her death in 1505: CP40/852, rot. 370d; CIPM Hen. VII, iii. 178. s.p. Dist. 1458; Kntd. Blore Heath 23 Sept. 1459; kt. banneret Tewkesbury 4 May 1471.

Offices Held

?Parlty. proxy, prior of Coventry 1442. SC10/50/2459.

Lt. of Humphrey, duke of Buckingham, as master of the chace of Needwood, Staffs. 9 Dec. 1446-aft. Trin. 1456; collector of rents at Whittington, Staffs., for William Booth, bp. of Coventry and Lichfield, Mich. 1448–9; steward of liberty of John Hals, bp. of Coventry and Lichfield, in Staffs. and Salop by Mich. 1464–d.; of George, duke of Clarence, at Needwood by 30 Apr. 1472–? NLW, Peniarth mss, 280, p. 42; I. Rowney, ‘Staffs. Political Community’ (Keele Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1981), 437, 442; DL30/111/1678, m. 3d.

Sheriff, Staffs. 3 Dec. 1450 – 8 Nov. 1451, 7 Nov. 1459–60, 5 Nov. 1464–5, 5 Nov. 1468–9, 7 Nov. 1474 – 5 Nov. 1475.

Master, guild of St. Mary, Lichfield Dec. 1451–5. Harwood, 403.

Commr. to treat for loans, Staffs. Dec. 1452; of arrest, July 1453 (collectors of fifteenth and tenth); E159/233, commissiones Trin. to assign archers Dec. 1457; of oyer and terminer, Glos., Herefs., Salop, Staffs., Worcs., Wales Feb. 1460, Wales Mar. 1460; gaol delivery, Stafford Mar. 1467; to distribute allowance on tax, Staffs. June 1468; of array Mar. 1470, Mar. 1472; inquiry Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms).

Jt. ranger (with his s. Humphrey), forest of Cannock 1 June 1468–20 Dec. 1470. CPR, 1467–77, p. 82; CCR, 1468–76, no. 4.

J.p. Staffs. 16 Nov. 1468 – d.

Parlimentarian

STANLEY, John II (by 1414-76), of Clifton Campville and Pipe and Elford, Staffs.

Main residences: Clifton Campville; Pipe; Elford, Staffs.

Author

S.J.P.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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