[16] Lord Elcho’s MS. Account.
[17a] Jacobite Memoirs.
[17b] Howell’s State Trials, vol. xviii. p. 371.
[19] Howell’s State Trials, vol. xviii.
[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.