Allen of Rossall Hall. Ambrose of Ambrose Hall. Bradley of Bryning. Bradshaw of Preese and Scales. Butler of Rawcliffe Hall. Butler of Layton and Hackensall. Clifton of Westby. Eccleston of Great Eccleston Hall. Fleetwood of Plumpton. Fleetwood of Rossall Hall. Hesketh of Mains Hall. Kirkby of Upper Rawcliffe. Kirkby of Mowbreck. Leigh of Singleton. Longworth of St. Michael’s Hall. Lowde of Kirkham. Massey of Carleton. Molyneux of Larbrick Hall. Parker of Bradkirk Hall. Rigby of Layton Hall. Sharples of Freckleton. Shuttleworth of Larbrick. Singleton of Singleton. Singleton of Staining Hall. Stanley of Great Eccleston Hall. Tyldesley of Fox Hall, Blackpool. Veale of Whinney Heys. Westby of Rawcliffe. Westby of Mowbreack and Burn Halls. James II., when force of circumstances had driven him into exile, left a considerable number of supporters behind him, chiefly amongst the Roman Catholics, who were not dilatory in devising schemes for his re-establishment. On the 16th of May, 1690, Robert Dodsworth deposed upon oath, before Lord Chief Justice Holt, that the following Popish gentry of the Fylde, amongst others, had entered into a conspiracy to restore James, and that they had received commissions as indicated for the purpose of raising troops to carry out the enterprise:—Colonel Thomas Tyldesley, son of the late Sir Thomas; Captains Ralph Tyldesley, son of the late Sir Thomas; Thomas Tyldesley, of Fox Hall, nephew to the two preceding; Richard Butler, of Rawcliffe Hall, and Henry, his eldest son; Thomas Westby, of Mowbreck Hall, and William, his third son, who was designated a lieutenant; and Lieutenant Richard Stanley, of Great Eccleston Hall. Nothing is recorded as to the result of the above information, but in 1694 Sir Thomas Clifton, brother to Cuthbert Clifton, of Lytham, was arraigned, with several more, on a charge of treason in connection with a reported Jacobite plot, but was acquitted, as also were those with him. During the course of the trial, Thomas Patten, of Preston, as witness to the loyalty of Sir Thomas Clifton to the existing government, stated that “in 1689 he received orders from the Lord Lieutenant to secure several Popish gentlemen, and that amongst them Sir Thomas Clifton was one who was taken and brought prisoner to Preston upon the 16th day of June in that year; that Sir Thomas being a very infirm man and unfit to be carried so far as Manchester, which was the place where the rest of the Popish gentlemen then made prisoners were secured, he undertook for Sir Thomas, and prevailed to have him kept at his (Patten’s) own house in Preston, where he continued prisoner, and was not discharged until the January following, at which time all the gentlemen were set at liberty; that during Sir Thomas Clifton’s confinement he expressed to him much zeal and affection to the present government, saying how much the persons of his religion ought to be