Thomas Stanley

was a Cadet of the noble family of the Stanleys Earls of Derby, and after he had spent some time in this, and another University beyond the Seas, return’d to his native country of Lancashire, became Rector of Winwick and Wygan therein, as also of Badsworth in the diocess of York, and dignified in the Church. At length upon the vacancy of the See of the Isle of Man, he was made Bishop thereof, but when, I cannot justly say, because he seems to have been Bishop in the beginning of K. Ed. 6. and was really Bishop of that place after the death of Dr. Man, whom I have before mention’d, under the year 1556. This Thom. Stanley paid his last debt to nature in the latter end of fifteen hundred and seventy,157 [•] . having had the character, when young, of a tolerable Poet of his time, and was succeeded in the See of Man by one John Salisbury, whom I shall mention anon.