Friends and enemies were alike amazed at these verdicts. Joy possessed the one, rage affected the others. The two Jacobite gentlemen left the court with their friends, and went through Southwark in a sort of delirious ecstacy. On the following day, says ‘Mercurius,’ ‘Mr. Towneley gave a handsome Treat among his Friends, as a Testimony of his Thankfulness for his Deliverance, and sent a good sum of money to be distributed among the poor Men in Prison for Debt, in the Marshalsea, where he had been confined.’ Towneley very wisely considered that, acquitted as he was, he might not be as safe in England as abroad. Consequently, he rode out of London one morning in June, after taking leave of the friends who accompanied him to the outskirts. He made quietly for France, and had got undisturbed into Sussex, when he was arrested and brought before a magistrate. As Towneley of Towneley showed he had a right to ride in whatever direction he listed, and the country Minos could not deny it, the great and thrice lucky Lancashire Jacobite continued his ride, unmolested, towards the coast. [Sidenote: _THE CHAPLAIN AT TOWNELEY HALL._] The Towneleys continued to ignore King George. In the fourth Report of the ‘Historical Manuscripts Commission,’ published in 1874, record is made of a MS., now among the papers of Colonel Towneley of Towneley Hall, Burnley, endorsed, ‘Baptisms and Anniversaries’――the memorandum book of the priest who acted as family chaplain. The most interesting entries are the ‘intentions’ of the masses which the priest celebrated, from May 1706, to the 31st December, 1722. Among these, frequent mention is made of masses celebrated ‘pro Rege nostro Jacobo!’ King James was honoured in similar manner by many a Jacobite chaplain. [Sidenote: _JUSTICE HALL AND CAPTAIN TALBOT._]