He is buried in St Nicholas’ chapel and wears armour current at the time of the battle of Bosworth (1485) when he was knighted. He wears a skirt of mail, large flat sabbatons on his feet and a spear-rest on his shoulder and stands on a small hillock. The inscription can be translated “Here lies Humphrey Stanley Knight, Esquire of the Body to the most excellent Prince Henry VII King of England, who died the 12 March A.D.1505”. He was also Sheriff of Staffordshire. The shields at the top show his arms (three harts heads on a bend) quartering those of Lathom, the same arms with those of Stafford, Pype and Camville in the centre, and the chevron and three martlets of Stafford on the other side.
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