BISHOP TRELAWNY, 



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The king dismissed some of the judges. Bishop Trelawny 

 was displaced by the king's "quo warranto" from being a 

 burgess of Liskeard, yet he was appointed to the See of Exeter. 

 Fresh measures against the Bishops were contemplated, but the 

 country had been sufficiently aroused to the danger of the 

 king's courses. 



Eevolution had come ! 



In that same year James fled from the throne. The Chancellor 

 (Chief Justice Jefferies), having suffered violence at the hands 

 of the populace, died. 



William and Mary accepted the sovereignty, and were crowned 

 in the following year. 



Bishop Trelawny's name will not be forgotten. The old ballad 

 concerning his arrest has been partially preserved. Its very 

 stirring air, or tune, has been pubKshed, and is often heard. 

 Cornwall's Poet, the late Eev. E. S. Hawker, vicar of Mor- 

 wenstow, wrote a new version of the words, to suit the few lines 

 which were still remembered. He entitled it " The Song of the 

 Western Men." His verses are so well-known that they do not 

 require full quotation here. They commence thus : — 



"A good sword and a trusty hand, 



A merry heart and true, 

 King James's men shall understand 



What Cornish lads can do." 



Then, after declaring how a rescue of the brave bishop shall 

 be attempted, the ballad concludes with the chorus : — 



" Trelawny he's in keep and hold, 



Trelawny he may die, 

 But here's twenty thousand Cornish bold, 



Will know the reason why !" 



Mr. Davies Grilbert, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, and 

 Dickens, referred in terms of eulogy to Hawker's lines, mistaking 

 them for the original baUad. Its actual authorship was 

 subsequently explained and acknowledged.* 



The rival claims of the Anglican and Roman branches of the 

 Church, which were the cause of such a contest in the lifetime 

 of Bishop Trelawny, were not then settled, once for aU, as far as 

 his ancestral home was concerned, for at different times since 



* See Hawker's " Cornish Ballads and other Poems," page 2, (note). 



