William DE AUDLEIGH

                   Name de Audleigh (Aldithley/Audley)
"Acquired with his wife, Joan, daughter and sole heir of Thomas Stanley of Stafford, the lordship of Thalck, better known as Talk, or Talk-o'-th' Hill, in the same county. This William seems to have conceived liking for the Stony-lea, before referred to, for he gave his Manor of Talk, together with that of Balterley, to his cousin Adam, in exchange for it.  Thenceforward he made Stanleigh his seat, and as the old chroniclers tell us, in honour of his wife and of the great antiquity of her family, assumed her maiden name, and became the immediate founder of the Stanleys, a race associated with the most stirring events in English history..." (James Croston, County Families of  Lancashire and Cheshier, 1887. London: John Heywood)