[7] The “Young Pretender,” as he was generally designated. He was the son of James Frederick Edward Stuart, usually called the “Old Pretender,” and grandson of James II.[9] Williams’s History of Monmouthshire.[10] Cambrian Quarterly Magazine, vol. i. pp. 212, 213. 1829.[11] This shows the early hours that prevailed in those days.[12] Cambrian Quarterly Magazine, vol. ii. 1830.[14a] Referring to the exclusion of Welshmen from Welsh Bishoprics it is remarked in a pamphlet, published in 1831, that “this system is said to have originated in the resentment of King William against the Jacobite principles of the native Welsh Clergy.”—Prize Essay on the Causes which have produced Dissent in Wales, p. 26.[14b] Chambers’s History of the Rebellion, vol. i. p. 233.[15a] Chambers’s History of the Rebellion, vol. i. p. 309.[15b] Lord Mahon’s History of England.[15c] Forbes’s Jacobite Memoirs, p. 55.[15d] Lord Mahon’s History of England.[16] Lord Elcho’s MS. Account.[17a] Jacobite Memoirs.[17b] Howell’s State Trials, vol. xviii. p. 371.[19] Howell’s State Trials, vol. xviii.[20a] Few families have been greater sufferers through their loyalty and faithful adherence to their religion than the Towneleys. Francis Towneley was the fifth son of Richard Towneley, of Towneley, county of Lancaster, and was born in 1709. His eldest brother, Richard, participated in the Rebellion of 1715, but though tried for the offence, he had the good fortune to escape. The third brother, John, entered the French service; and became tutor to the young Pretender. John Towneley distinguished himself by translating Hudibras into French, and exhibited therein a remarkable knowledge of the language. The grandson of Richard, the eldest brother, and the twenty-ninth possessor of Towneley from Spartingus, Dean of Whalley, temp. Alfred the Great, was Charles Towneley, to whose refined taste we owe the well known collection, the “Towneley Marbles,” which was purchased by the nation, for the British Museum, for the sum of £20,000.[20b] The despicable Murray, of Broughton, who acted as the Pretender’s Secretary.[21] Howell’s State Trials, vol. xviii.[22] The Pretenders and their Adherents.[23a] Scots Magazine, 1746.[23b] Howell’s State Trials, vol. xviii.[24a] Scots Magazine, 1760.[24b] Authentic Account, 1760,[24c] Howell’s State Trials, vol. xviii.[25] Scots Magazine, 1760.[26] Works of William Shenstone, vol. i. p. 179.[27a] Thomson’s Memoirs of the Jacobites, vol. iii. p. 415.[27b] Chambers’s History of the Rebellion, vol. ii. p. 233.[27c] Authentic copies of the papers wrote by Arthur Lord Balmerino, and others, and delivered to the sheriffs at the places of execution, 1746.[32] Tales of a Grandfather, vol. iii. p. 324.[33] A Genuine Account, &c.[34] In the reign of Edward IV., Morgan Jenkin Phillip was possessor of Pencoed. He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Scudamore, of Kentchurch, and great-grand-daughter of Owen Glendower. Leland says, “Morgan the Knight of Low Wentlande, dwelling at Pencoite, a fair manor place, a mile from Bist, alias Bishopston, and two mile from Severn Sei. He is of a younger brother’s house.”[35] Particulars privately printed for the House of Lords.[37] Howell’s State Trials, vol. xviii.[38a] Howell’s State Trials, vol. xviii.[38b] Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford, to Sir Horace Mann, vol. ii. p. 166.[38c] MSS. of Sir Isaac Heard, privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart.[39a] Ann, the third daughter of William Morgan, Esq., of Coed-y-gorres, (who died in 1762,) married John Thomas, of Fyn Fynon, in the parish of Llanedern, Glamorganshire, and had one son, William Morgan Thomas. The representatives of this gentleman appear to have subsequently resided at a place called Llanarthan, in the parish of St. Mellon’s, Monmouthshire; and some of them were very recently living.[39b] I have been informed that after Morgan’s death this place came into the possession of Mathews, of Llandaff, and was sold by a member of that family to an ancestor of the present Colonel William Mark Wood, who now owns it. And this seems very probable, as I find that Penycoed, in Monmouthshire, now the seat of the Morgans, having been purchased by Admiral Mathews, was sold, about the year 1800, by his grandson, John Mathews, Esq., to Colonel Wood of Piercefield; and Penygraig may have been disposed of at the same time.[39c] Coed-y-gorres is now the property of the son of the late Rev. Windsor Richards, Rector of St. Andrew’s, and of St. Lythen’s, in the county of Glamorgan; but how acquired I am not able to show.[40] For those unable to see the diagram it is given in text below.—DP.

Treharne Thomas ap Blethyn, of Lanedern, Gent.==Mallt, d. and h. of Morgan Jenkin Bevan Meirick, of Coed-y-gorres. They had issue Mallt, d. and h.

[1st Wife . . . ==Sir Thomas Morgan, of Pencoed, Knt.==. . . Widow of . . . Powell. The second marriage had issue James Morgan.]

James Morgan==Mallt, d. and h. The had issue Morgan James, of Coed-y-gorres.

Morgan James, of Coed-y-gorres, Gent.==Maud, d. to Watkin William David ap Gwylym Jenkin Herbert, of Gwern Ddu. They had issue William Morgan James.

William Morgan James, of Coed-y-gorres, Gent.==Catherine, d. and coheiress to Lewis ap Rees ap Morgan Prees Yychan, of Lancaiach Yssa. They had issue William, O. S. P. and Catherine, d. and h.

Catherine, d. and h.==John, great-grandson to Sir Thomas Gamage, of Coyty, Knt. They had issue Thomas Morgan.

Thomas Morgan, of Coed-y-gorres, Gent., baptised 1st Jan. 1609==Margaret, d. to Evan Thomas Bevan Meirick, of Eglwysilan, Gent.

William Morgan, Gent., heir of Coed-y-gorres in the year 1678==M. Elizabeth, d. to Watkin Thomas, Gent.

Thomas Morgan, of Coed-y-gorres, Gent., baptised 1st Jan. 1609==Margaret, d. to Evan Thomas Bevan Meirick, of Eglwysilan, Gent. They had issue William Morgan, Gent.

William Morgan, Gent., heir of Coed-y-gorres in the year 1678==M. Elizabeth, d. to Watkin Thomas, Gent. They had issue William Morgan of Coed-y-gorres; Thomas Morgan, second son, of Coed-y-gorres; and two other sons, and five daughters.

William Morgan of Coed-y-gorres==Elizabeth, d. to Henry Probert, of the Argoed, in Penalt, Esq.

[David Mathew, of Llandaff, Esq., 1678==Joan, d. of Sir Edmund Stradling, of St. Donat’s, Bart. They had issue Dorothy]

Thomas Morgan, second son, of Coed-y-gorres==Dorothy. They had issue David Morgan, Barrister

David Morgan, Barrister, executed on Kennington Common, 1746==. . . d. of . . . of London. They had issue Mary (?) d. and h. O. S. P.