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TRELAWNY, SIR JONATHAN, BART

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 240 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TRELAWNY, See also:SIR See also:JONATHAN, See also:BART . (1650-1721), See also:English See also:prelate, was a younger son of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, bart. (1624–1685), a member of a very old Cornish See also:family, and was See also:born at Pelynt in See also:Cornwall on the 24th of See also:March 165o. Educated at See also:Westminster School and at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, Trelawny took See also:holy orders in 1673, and in 1685, his See also:elder See also:brother having died in 168o, became third See also:baronet in See also:succession to his See also:father. Having rendered See also:good service to See also:James II. during See also:Monmouth's See also:rebellion, Trelawny was consecrated See also:bishop of See also:Bristol on the 8th of See also:November 1685. He was loyal to See also:King James until the first See also:declaration of See also:indulgence in See also:April 1687, when, as a bishop, he used his See also:influence with his See also:clergy against the king, and, as a Cornish landowner, resisted the See also:attempt to assemble a packed See also:parliament. In May 1688 Trelawny signed the See also:petition against the second declaration of indulgence, and in the following See also:month was imprisoned in the See also:Tower of See also:London with See also:Archbishop See also:San-See also:croft and five other bishops, sharing their triumphant acquittal. In spite of See also:Burnet's assertion, it is probable that Trelawny did not sign the invitation to See also:William of See also:Orange, although he certainly welcomed his See also:army into Bristol. Before this James II., anxious to regain the bishop's support, had nominated him to the see of See also:Exeter; but Trelawny lost nothing, as this See also:appointment was almost at once confirmed by William III. Unlike five of his colleagues among the " seven bishops," Trelawny took the oaths of See also:allegiance to William and See also:Mary; but he was soon estranged from the new king and sided with the princess See also:Anne, who showed him some favour after she became See also:queen. In 1707 Trelawny was appointed bishop of See also:Winchester and became prelate of the See also:Order of the Garter, but henceforward he took very little See also:part in politics. He died at his See also:residence at See also:Chelsea on the loth of See also:July 1721, and was buried at Pelynt.

His wife was Rebecca (d. 1710), daughter of See also:

Thomas Hele of Bascombe, See also:Devon, by whom he had a family of six sons and six daughters. His eldest son, See also:John, the 4th baronet, died without sons in 1756, and the See also:present baronet is descended from the bishop's brother, See also:Henry (d. 1702). Another of his sons was See also:Edward Trelawny (1699–1754), See also:governor of See also:Jamaica from 1738 to 1752. When bishop of Exeter, Trelawny, as visitor of Exeter See also:College, Oxford, deprived the See also:rector of his See also:office, a See also:sentence which was upheld on See also:appeal by the See also:House of Lords; and when bishop of Winchester he completed the rebuilding of Wolvesey See also:Palace. Trelawny is the See also:hero, or one of the heroes, of the refrain: " And shall Trelawny See also:die, Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen Will know the See also:reason why." These words were sung by the men of Cornwall, who seem to have assembled during the bishop's See also:short imprisonment in 1688. It is probable, however, that a similar See also:threat was heard in 1628, when John Trelawny (1592-1665), grandfather of the bishop, was imprisoned by the House of See also:Commons for opposing the See also:election of Sir John See also:Eliot to parliament. The " See also:Song of the Western Men," which contains the above refrain, was composed in 1825 by R. S. See also:Hawker.

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