Comments
Foster: BA 16 May 1528. From Lancs. MA 11 July 1531; BD supd. Apr. 1540; DD 2 Aug. 1541; disp. 16 July 1541 as praelector of theology in London (Whittington College); R St Andrew Undershaft, London 1543; V of Northall, Middx 1544; deprived 1554 for being married; R Wigan, Lancs. 1550; canon of Worcester 1550; Archdeacon of Colchester (for a few days) in Jan 1552/3 and 1558; R of Medbourne, Leics 1553 and of Paglesham, Essex Nov. 1554 until deprived 1558. R Rodmerton, Gloucs. 1555-63; canon St Paul's London 1557 and 1570; see Ath. I, 235; OHS I, 350; Lansdowne MS 980, f. 198 and Foster Ind. Eccles.
SEE also OXFORD DNB: Standish, John (c.15091570), Church of England clergyman (for explanation of his ecclesiastical history, his several deprivations, repudiation of his wife etc.
See also The History of the Church and Manor of Wigan by George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman in the year 1888, pp. 115-121, which can be accessed at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Church_and_Manor_of_Wigan. Information from Andrew Billinghurst, email dated 4/7/2009