. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE but had left with the permission of the authorities.•• On the Civil War breaking out Charles Townclcy at once took the king's side," and fell in the battle of Marston Moor in 1644.^ His estates were sequestered and in 1651 declared forfeit and put up for ; As in other cases portions of the inheritance were secured for the children, and Charles's son Richard succeeded to Towneley. He recorded a pedigree in 1664/°° He lived quietly and devoted his leisure to study.'" In 1678, at the t
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE but had left with the permission of the authorities.•• On the Civil War breaking out Charles Townclcy at once took the king's side," and fell in the battle of Marston Moor in 1644.^ His estates were sequestered and in 1651 declared forfeit and put up for ; As in other cases portions of the inheritance were secured for the children, and Charles's son Richard succeeded to Towneley. He recorded a pedigree in 1664/°° He lived quietly and devoted his leisure to study.'" In 1678, at the time of the Gates Plot, he and other members of his family were indicted for recusancy/" and remaining faithful to James II he was made prisoner in 1689 and was accused of participation in the fictitious plot of 1694.'" He died at York in 1707.'" His son Charles dying in 1711 was followed by his son Richard, who married a daughter of Lord Widdrington,'"* and being zealous for the Stuarts joined the Jacobites at Preston in 1715.'°* He was tried for high treason, but acquitted for want of evidence.*" In I 71 7 he registered his entailed estates as worth ^^921 a year; others of his family also registered annuities charged on Towneley.'*^* His brother John entered the service of France and was made a knight of St. Louis ; he translated Hudlbras into French.*" Another brother, Francis, took an active part in the Jacobite rising of 1745, and was made colonel of the Manchester Regiment ; being captured at Carlisle, he was tried for high treason and executed in 1 ;° At home the family had little chance of distinction, the laws shutting them out of public life for their religion ; but Charles Towneley, grandson of Richard, who held the Towneley estates from I 742 till i 805, had a European reputation as a connoisseur. Educated at Douay, he afterwards visited Italy and made a famous collection of marble and other objects of art, purchased by
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