Notes for: John Standly
April 7th 1740 Trumpington Vestry Book:
At a Meeting of the Parish for examining the Town Acc(oun)ts etc
. . .
Resolv(e)d at this Meeting that John Stanley Esq-r be rated for the future at only thirty £ p(er) Ann(um) for the house and Close he holds of Mr Thompson
Huntingdonshire Archives Catalogue:
Lease for 1 year.
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Reference: 148/2/564
Title: Lease for 1 year.
Description:
1. John Standly of Trumington, Cambs. Esq.
Peter Standly of Long Melford, Suffolk, Esq.
Joseph Cole of Grays Inn, Mddx. gent.
2. John Bigg of Clemsford, Suffolk, gent.
John Driver, Citizen & Cloth worker of London.
5/-
Manor of Boxworth, Cambs. + all apps. + right of advowson to rectory of Boxworth.
Date: 15 Jun. 1742
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol9/pp271-274 :
Josiah Bacon died c. 1704, having entailed the estate on his uncle Thomas's great-grandson Josiah Bacon, a minor, with remainder to the boy's sister Elizabeth. Their guardian Thomas Sclater secured in 1710 a foreclosure against Lord Cutts's sisters and heirs. In 1716 he married Elizabeth and, after her brother died overseas in 1717, took the name of Bacon, retaining the estate, after his wife's death in 1726, until his own in 1736. Under Elizabeth's will their estates then passed to her half-brothers, John and Peter Standley, formerly London tradesmen. When they were divided in 1742 Boxworth was assigned to John, but passed, when he died in 1761, to Peter, then of Paxton Place (Hunts.).
Peter at his death in 1780 left his lands to his protégé Henry Poynter, who took the name Standley.
Stamford Mercury 23 Feb 1744:
LONDON, February 18.Thursday the Rev. Mr. William Smith, of King's College in Cambridge, was instituted by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ely to the Rectory of Boxworth in the County of Cambridge, at the Presentation of John Standly, of Trumpington, in the County aforesaid, Esq.