{20a} Few families have been greater sufferers through their loyalty and faithful adherence to their religion than the Towneleys. Francis Towneley was the fifth son of Richard Towneley, of Towneley, county of Lancaster, and was born in 1709. His eldest brother, Richard, participated in the Rebellion of 1715, but though tried for the offence, he had the good fortune to escape. The third brother, John, entered the French service; and became tutor to the young Pretender. John Towneley distinguished himself by translating _Hudibras_ into French, and exhibited therein a remarkable knowledge of the language. The grandson of Richard, the eldest brother, and the twenty-ninth possessor of Towneley from Spartingus, Dean of Whalley, _temp._ Alfred the Great, was Charles Towneley, to whose refined taste we owe the well known collection, the “Towneley Marbles,” which was purchased by the nation, for the British Museum, for the sum of £20,000. {20b} The despicable Murray, of Broughton, who acted as the Pretender’s Secretary. {21} Howell’s State Trials, vol. xviii. {22} The Pretenders and their Adherents. {23a} Scots Magazine, 1746. {23b} Howell’s State Trials, vol. xviii. {24a} Scots Magazine, 1760. {24b} Authentic Account, 1760, {24c} Howell’s State Trials, vol. xviii. {25} Scots Magazine, 1760. {26} Works of William Shenstone, vol. i. p. 179. {27a} Thomson’s Memoirs of the Jacobites, vol. iii. p. 415. {27b} Chambers’s History of the Rebellion, vol. ii. p. 233. {27c} Authentic copies of the papers wrote by Arthur Lord Balmerino, and others, and delivered to the sheriffs at the places of execution, 1746. {32} Tales of a Grandfather, vol. iii. p. 324. {33} A Genuine Account, &c. {34} In the reign of Edward IV., Morgan Jenkin Phillip was possessor of Pencoed. He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Scudamore, of Kentchurch, and great-grand-daughter of Owen Glendower. Leland says, “Morgan the Knight of Low Wentlande, dwelling at Pencoite, a fair manor place, a mile from Bist, alias Bishopston, and two mile from Severn Sei. He is of a younger brother’s house.” {35} Particulars privately printed for the House of Lords. {37} Howell’s State Trials, vol. xviii. {38a} Howell’s State Trials, vol. xviii. {38b} Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford, to Sir Horace Mann, vol. ii. p. 166. {38c} MSS. of Sir Isaac Heard, privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. {39a} Ann, the third daughter of William Morgan, Esq., of Coed-y-gorres, (who died in 1762,) married John Thomas, of Fyn Fynon, in the parish of Llanedern, Glamorganshire, and had one son, William Morgan Thomas. The representatives of this gentleman appear to have subsequently resided at a place called Llanarthan, in the parish of St. Mellon’s, Monmouthshire; and some of them were very recently living.