STANLAKE, (Oxfordshire) near Stanton-Harcourt, formerly the manor of Ld. Grey of Rotherfield, bel. now to Magdalen-Coll, and was the seat of the late E. of Peterborough. The parson of this p. in the procession on Holy-Th. used for a long time to read the gospel at the barrel-head in the Chequer-Inn here, where some say was anciently a hermitage, others a cross, at which a gospel used to be read in times of popery; and the inn or cellar of it being built over it, they were afterwards forced to perform it, as aforefaid; but if they had no better reasons for it, it would have been more suitable to the office of a protestant clergyman to have left it undone.