Trelawney, Sir JONATHAN

Trelawney, Sir JONATHAN, from Westminster passed in 1663 to Christ Church, Oxford, and became bishop in turn of Bristol (1685), Exeter (1688), and Winchester (1707); he was one of the Seven Bishops (q.v.) tried under James II., and is the hero of R. S. Hawker's well-known ballad, 'And shall Trelawney die.' This was based on a contemporary refrain, the strong feeling aroused among the Cornishmen due rather to Trelawney's being head of an ancient Cornish house than to his being a bishop or even a martyr in a good cause. Trelawney died in 1721.