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184:, a Lancashire Catholic, met the advancing Jacobite army near Preston on 27 November. At Manchester, around 200 English Jacobite volunteers were formed into the Manchester Regiment; while Morgan's Anglicanism and links with Beaufort made him a politically expedient candidate for colonel, the position was given to Towneley. Morgan was instead commissioned captain and was given responsibility for selection of the regiment's junior officers. He is also sometimes described as having been appointed as Charles's "counsellor" or legal advisor, but he denied this at his trial and seems to have served in a purely military capacity. One of his main duties was to organise the Jacobites' search for weapons.
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seemed to presage a bloody civil war rather than a Stuart restoration on the terms they had hoped for. Viewing the Rising primarily as a
Scottish internal conflict, they felt Charles had aligned himself with âalien and barbarous Highlanders, rather than a British political factionâ. While Wynn was subjected to intense government scrutiny, he did no more than send the Jacobites equivocal verbal messages of support; in the event Morgan, along with the Catholic William Vaughan of Courtfield and his brother Richard, was one of the few Welshmen of the property owning class to join the Rising.
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thirty minutes and distributed copies of his dying speech. As with
Towneley, Morgan's speech unapologetically restated 'Country party' or 'patriot' ideals, attacking the Hanoverians' "ungrateful avarice" and labelling them as foreign usurpers, arguing that "a lawful king is a nursing father who would protect us". After the execution his remains were probably buried in the burying ground attached to the
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Morgan's own motives for joining appear to have been at least partly ideological, although he later admitted in a letter he might not have got involved had his "personal
Affairs been more to Liking". His surviving poetry and other writings focus on core High Tory themes such as indefeasible dynastic
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landed in
Scotland in late July 1745, he was partly relying on French intelligence from 1743 that had suggested he would find strong support in Wales. While there is evidence of some latent support during 1745, the majority of the Welsh Tory gentry were horrified by the turn events had taken, which
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alongside
Towneley and several other officers of the Manchester Regiment. Morgan seemed unconcerned by his fate: several accounts noted him angrily complaining about the coffee the prisoners were served shortly before being taken to execution. At the scaffold he led the others in prayer for about
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Jacobite Council of War voted overwhelmingly to return and consolidate their position in Scotland. They debated and rejected the option of heading for Wales: a further message had been sent to Wynn as it was felt that the propaganda value of him joining would be high even if he
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While Wynn continued his covert activities, and the Welsh
Jacobite clubs lingered into the 19th century, Morgan's death and the inaction of Welsh Tories effectively signalled the end of Welsh Jacobitism. Nevertheless, like Towneley, Morgan for a time became a figure of inspiration for Jacobites
127:; Wynn had indicated his support for a Stuart restoration on condition it was backed by French military support. His political club, the âCycle of the White Roseâ, was a focus for Jacobite activity in North Wales; a comparable role in South Wales was filled by the âSea Serjeantsâ, led by
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influenced later historians in assuming the rural Welsh gentry to have been ultra-royalists or "fanatical tories", even though this view was largely a "myth". Morgan also attracted some interest from the Welsh âCelticistâ nationalists of
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Morgan was married; his wife was reported to have visited him regularly during his imprisonment. They had at least one daughter, Mary, who later inherited Morgan's properties and died unmarried prior to 1798.
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During the early part of the 18th century a number of Welsh gentry continued to support the claims of the exiled
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that "all was lost" and said to Vaughan that he would ârather be hanged than go to Scotland to starveâ. While Vaughan stayed, Morgan left the army on the evening of 7 December at
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in which Morgan, awaiting execution, laments his cause's betrayal by Wynn and the other Welsh gentry to the âshame / Our gallant countryâ. Another nationalist writer,
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brought no recruits, but the messenger was intercepted. Like Charles himself, Morgan felt the Council's decision had destroyed their best chance of success: he told
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