An history of the original parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe : in the counties of Lancaster and York, to which is subjoined, an account of the parish of Cartmell . fine estate then belonging to the family, near Lincoln;but, upon the Restoration, he was compelled to dispose of this, in order to heal the breachesmade by sequestrations : and from that time till some years after the marriage of his son, 1685,seems to have resided principally at Townley. He then withdrew to York, where he died of amortification, Jan. 1 706-7, set. 77*. In Leighs Lancashire, 1. 2, p. 17, &c. is a letter from
An history of the original parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe : in the counties of Lancaster and York, to which is subjoined, an account of the parish of Cartmell . fine estate then belonging to the family, near Lincoln;but, upon the Restoration, he was compelled to dispose of this, in order to heal the breachesmade by sequestrations : and from that time till some years after the marriage of his son, 1685,seems to have resided principally at Townley. He then withdrew to York, where he died of amortification, Jan. 1 706-7, set. 77*. In Leighs Lancashire, 1. 2, p. 17, &c. is a letter from Richard Townley, Esq. to Dr. Croon,touching an instrument for dividing a foot into many single parts, invented by a Mr. Gas-eoigne, slain in the civil wars; a letter on the quantity of rain, ibm.; a table of rain atTownley, from 1677 to 1693 ; observations on an eclipse of the sun, in a Latin letter His attainments as a philosopher and mathematician were certainly very considerable; and * Tlie particulars of his complaint are related by Thoresby, in the style and spirit of an old nurse. Due. p. 642.—Vide his elegant Epitaph, under Burnley. he. «./(.yXJIJrj/ • •• Book VI—Chap. I.] HISTORY OF WHALLEY. 489 he is said to have been a man of mild and amiable temper, averse from business, whichhe devolved almost entirely upon his brother and faithful friend, who was afterwards hisexecutor, I cannot forbear mentioning how few steps, in the traditionary history of this family, carryus up two centuries: my informant* having conversed witii an aged relative married into thefamily in 1685, and for several yesirs resident in the same house with another, who was born inthe reign of Elizabeth. JOHN TOWNLEV, Knight of St. Louis, Grandson of the former, and younger son of Charles Townley, Esq. by Ursula Fermor,was born at Townley, 1697 ; and having been originally intended for the law, was placed in theoffice of the famous Salkeld. But his inclination leading him to p
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