Later Life and Achievements
On the succession of King James II in 1685 the Catholics were again allowed to take part in public life and Richard Towneley became a Justice of the Peace. After 1688, this brief respite for English Catholics ended, the King had to flee the country and in February 1689 he was replaced by his daughter Mary and her Protestant husband William of Orange. In 1690, Richard and his son Charles were implicated in plots to secure the return of King James II and from this time on the family were noted for their Jacobite sympathies.
His mother Mary died in 1690 at the age of 91.
Richard Towneley died at York on 22 January 1707.
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