{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.