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pasture to the New Hazles and the drains Mr. Lovat has made 
in the Horse pasture.’ The Hall Inn referred to will be recog- 
nised as the once Town House of the Towneleys. After viewing 
the hotel, he re-mounts his sable steed and jogs on to Pallis 
House, so called from the palisading once surrounding it, to pay 
his respects to Mr. Greenwood, who it will be remembered, was 
the donor of a valuable Library to the Church of England Literary 
Institution. On July 14th a finish of auditing the accounts with 
Mr. Lovat was made. On the 21st a Mason came from Preston 
“‘to put up my nephew’s monument in Burnley Church,” and the 
following day he visited St. Peter’s to see the progress made, on 
his way to “Carr” to call on Col. Clayton. Notwithstanding 
continued bad weather Mr. Starkie of Huntroyde does not delay 
to pay his complimentary visit to Towneley. Neither did Mr 
Towneley forget good Mr. Rawse whom he went to see on the 
28th of the month. The diary from this date to the 16th of 
August seems little more than a dull meteorological report, and 
that of the briefest kind. On the 27th of August he gives a 
dinner party at Towneley to the following guests, all of whose 
names will be familiar, Mr. and Mrs. Hargreaves, of Bank Top, 
Mrs. Ormerod and Captain Hargreaves, Mr. Rawse, Mr. and Mrs. 
Whitaker, junr., and Miss Thoresby. 
After this entry we have more barometer than memoir. 
There are from 60 to 70 entries altogether, and out of the whole 
number there are but 5 in which there is no allusion to the state 
of the atmosphere. Rainy days of course predominate. 
Mr. Strange brought his paper to a close with the following 
remarks— 
I have only one more observation to make suggested by the 
Diary, in bringing my remarks to a close. It is this:—that with 
the sudden accession of John Towneley to the Estate there 
seemed some probability of a perpetuation of the family name. 
Through old John Towneley, his son Peregrine, and his grandson 
there was hope that the genealogical tree would flourish and | 
expand. When Peregrine came to Towneley on August 16th, 1807, 
there was every human probability that the ancient family would 
be still represented in coming years. The Towneleys’ had 
entered on a new lease of life, and there was now a prospect 
that they would not be blotted out from the list of the great 
Commoners of England. Many long years had elapsed since an 
infant son and heir had played about the galleries of Towneley 
Hall, and the happy merriment of little Charles as he bestrode 
the rocking-horse in the ancestral nursery, all unconscious of the 
victories of future Kettledrums, must have been sweet music in 
the ears of his father and grandfather. In that light hearted lad 
was centred the present hopes of the family, and failing him the 
infant John would be relied on to preserve the pedigree.—But 
