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are common to this day in the district about Towneley ; 
e.g.—Eastwood, Dawson, Walker, Halsted, Simpson, 
Whitehead, Hardgraves, Wittam or Whittam, Crabtree, 
Shackleton, Ormerod, Marshall, Pickopp, Seager. 
In two instances the baptismal register is incomplete, 
only the Christian name being given; possibly the blank 
may be taken as analogous to the bend sinister on an 
escutcheon. 
2. Record of those ‘‘ married since I came to Towneley.”’ 
In 22 years, 18 Marriages are registered. In no single 
instance is the wife’s name given. 
3. Statement of the Masses celebrated in the Towneley 
Chapel from 1 May, 1706, to 31 December, 1722. On 
Christmas-day in eaci year there were three distinct 
masses; on all other days except on Good Friday, one 
mass was said. Occasionally the entry is celebratio pro 
memet, sometimes pro fratre and sorore, or familia nostra. 
The families with whom the Towneleys were associated by 
friendship or connected by marriage were often remembered in 
the services of the Chapel. Some of the names of those for 
whom masses were celebrated are of families in the neighbour- 
hood, others are those of families whose names are familiar to 
any student of English history. The following are some of the 
names recorded :—Pudsey, Walmesley, Petre, Houghton, Sher- 
burn, Haydock, Tarleton, Gerard, Clifton, Molyneux, Farring- 
ton, Blundell, Vavasour, Hesketh, Talbot, Craven, Anderton, 
Scarisbrick, Gascoigne, Howard, Fairfax. 
But, as might be expected, no name occurs so frequently in 
the Priest’s entries as that of Towneley. Domino Towneley infirmo, 
or egrotante is followed by Domino Towneley defuncto. 
On certain days in the Spring—probably Rogation days— 
mass is celebrated pro frugibus terre, on other days—probably 
Ember days—pro ordinandis. 
There are masses for rain, for fair weather, for my flock, for 
all missionaries, for the conversion of sinners, for the Benefactors 
of the Foundation, for souls in purgatory. 
The most interesting part of the Priest’s records is that 
bearing on the Stuart family and their efforts to regain the 
Crown of England. The loyalty of the Towneleys to the Stuart 
dynasty is matter of history. The 10th of June, the birthday 
of Prince James, never passed unnoticed at Towneley. On that 
day in each year the mass was pro Rege nostro Jacobo III. 
Prayers for the Prince are often followed by masses pro summo 
pontifice, pro conversione Anglia, or pro exaltatione sancte ecclesia. 
The month of November, 1715, was a time of great anxiety 
to the friends of the ‘Old Pretender.” The Jacobite forces 
entered Preston on the 9th and 10th of that month; on the 12th 
