356 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book VJ. 



there January 9, 1603, and buried at Burnley, August, 1674. 

 His MS. collections were until recently preserved at Townley. 

 He died intestate, and on February 24, 1674, an inventory of 

 his goods was made, when his collection of manuscripts 

 was valued at eleven shillings ! Well might Dean Raines 

 exclaim: "The labours of a life valued at i\s.\ Alas for 

 literary pursuits ! '' Times have altered ; a portion of these 

 manuscripts were recently sold by auction in London, when the 

 sale realized over i^Sooo. Richard Townley's descendants, 

 during the latter end of the seventeenth and the whole of the 

 eighteenth century, were, in consequence of their religion, 

 patrons of the Turf under assumed names, the family barber 

 being the ostensible owners of their horses. The late Colonel 

 Townley (the last of his race) was well known as a Turfite, 

 but better as a genial country gentleman and breeder of 

 shorthorns. 



1^° Richard Assheton, Esq., styled " cozen" of Sir Ralph 

 Assheton, of Whalley, Bart. 



131 Walton-le-Dale, situated at the south-western parish of 

 Whalley, and near Whalley Abbey. 



1^^ Only a portion of this Diary was printed by -Dr. Whitaker 

 in his " History of Whalley." The original manuscript — which 

 is, unfortunately, lost — is said to have consisted of a few leaves, 

 which the doctor intended to have bound together, but 

 whether this judicious care was extended to the manuscript 

 appears to be no less doubtful than its present existence. 



" The horse-races occasioned disturbance here, and 

 ig2o caused letters to be sent from the privy 

 Thetford. council to Suppress them." * — " The Hist, of 

 Thetford," by Thomas Martin, F.A.S., p. 293. 



"Sir Simon D'Ewes, in his Journal, makes inci- 



* The Registers of the Privy Council preserved at Downing Street 

 contain no reference to this transaction. 



