The Goushill Crest Certain members of the Stanley family of Lathom, notably Sir Thomas Stanley, K.G., first Baron Stanley, who died in and Sir Thomas Stanley, K.G., his son, second Baron Stanley, who was created Earl of Derby in 1485, after the battle of Bosworth, died in 1504. To these add two James Stanleys, both of whom were wardens of the College of Manchester, namely, James, brother of the last named, who was warden from 1481 to 1485, and James, his nephew, afterwards Bishop of Ely, who succeeded him in the wardenship and was sixth son of the above Thomas Earl of Derby. Sir Thomas, first Baron Stanley, was son and heir of John Stanley, of Lathom and Knowsley, and Isabel, daughter of Sir William Harrington, K.G. He married Joan, daughter and co-heir of Sir Robert Goushill, of Hoveringham, co. Notts.

His Garter shield (fig. i) is-quarterly: .1 and 4, or, on a chief indented azure, three plates argent, LATHOM, h. quartering argent on a bend azure three bucks' heads caboshed or, STANLEY; 2 and 3, Gules 3 legs in armour flexed in triangle, or, for the ISLE OF MAN. It is worth noting that this shield is neither inescutcheoned nor impaled; moreover, in the first and fourth grand quarters it will be seen that Lathorn, not Stanley, occupies the prior position. The same order occurs in an earlier Stanley a memorial on the fine boss in the cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral assigned to Sir John Stanley, K.G., who died in 1414.

This illustrates the family pride in the Lathom alliance, as also in their honour as Lords of Man, the arms of which latter are given on a separate shield on the boss mentioned; and later, for some generations, they appear in second and third grand quarters. As in no instance the stall plate proper of a Knight of the Garter exhibits an impalement we have here the Knight's personal arms only. The Goushill arms on the first Baron Stanley's shield would, in the ordinary course, be inescutcheoned, Joan being an heiress, but in any case they could only be quartered by his heir.

Accordingly, in the simple Garter plate (fig. 2) of Thomas, second baron and first earl, son and heir of the foregoing, thisquarter appears. Here the order is (1) STANLEY, (2) MAN, (3) WARENNE (for GOUSHILL.), and (4) LATHOM. The Earl's arms are more amply set forth in the impalement on the shield (fig. 3) at the east end of the tomb of the Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, at Westminister Abbey, who was his second wife. Here the Goushill alliance is indicated in the third quarter of the first and fourth grand quarters, an inescutcheon of honour now appearing for MONTALT.

It may be asked why the fourth coat of the Stanley shield here is WARENNE, and not GOUSHILL., seeing that Joan was co-heir of her father. The reason is that through her mother Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Thomas, Earl of Arundel, she inherited a more illustrious patrimony and arms, including parcel of the ancient Earldom of Surrey, which in 1347, on the death of John de Warenne, devolved to Edward Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, in right of his wife Alice, sister to the former. Thenceforward the FitzAlans quartered the Warenne cheeky on their arms.