The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 3 (of 4)
History
The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 3 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
John Lake, Bishop of Chichester; consecrated 1682; suspended
at the Revolution, but died 1689.
Thomas White, Bishop of Peterborough; consecrated 1685;
deprived 1890-1; ob. 1698.
Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop of Bristol; consecrated 1685;
translated to Exeter in 1689, to Winchester in 1707; ob.
1721.
Bishop Trelawny has left at Christ Church a very valuable, esteemed,
and appropriate memorial of himself, and of the Founder. Over the
south-east gate of the great quadrangle, leading to the staircase of
the hall, is a fine statue of Cardinal Wolsey, with the following
inscription:
Eminentissimo Cardinali Thomæ Wolseio,
viro inter hæc menia semper memorando,
P.
Reverendus in Christo Pater Jonathan Trelawny,
de Trelawny, in comitatu Cornubiæ Baronettus,
hujusce Ædis olim Alumnus,
Wolseii in Episcopatu Wintoniensi successor,
et Wolseianæ erga hanc Domum munificentiæ æmulus,
A. D. M.DCC.XIX.
Edward Trelawny, esq. one of the Bishop’s sons, had the honour of
being made Governor of Jamaica; and most fortunately for the Island,
besides many other prudent and judicious acts, he pacified a
formidable body of revolted negroes, who had long sustained a savage
independence, held the fastnesses belonging to the chain of mountains
which divides Jamaica throughout its whole length, and maintained a
predatory war against all the settlers. The treaty with these people,
called Maroons, was in itself so equitable that it continued to be
observed up to the period when the whirl of political opinions in
Europe, mingled with others of fanatical enthusiasm, extended to these
people, and in consequence they were all either exterminated or sent
to perish in distant countries.
Sir William Trelawny, the sixth Bart. great-nephew of Edward Trelawny,
was also Governor of Jamaica, in less trying times, and the period of
his service was cut short by a premature death in 1772, when the
property descended to his only son, Harry Trelawny, then a boy at
school.
The career of this individual, though extraordinary and eccentric,
need not be given in any detail. He appears to have been a man of
naturally a strong understanding, but having imbibed the spirit of
fanaticism in early youth, it carried him in all directions, as fancy
guided, with equal facility; but in general directly against the
consent of modern opinions, which have repudiated implicit confidence
in traditions, in the decrees of councils, and in the dicta of ancient
fathers, or of popes, substituting in their place the exercise of
private judgment; guided no doubt in practice by the teacher who
happens to carry with him the fashion of the day.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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