III. — Sir Cloudesley SJwvell. — From Me. T. Q. Couch. 



IN his contribution to the Journal (No. II.) of two Letters from 

 the Kirabolton Papers, with illustrative remarks, Mr. Pattison 

 has, in one short sentence, made two mistakes which, I am sure, he 

 "will be glad to have corrected. He writes : 



" The Bishop of Winchester, who lost a son on this occasion, was the 

 Eight Eevd. Sir John Trelawney, Bai-t., who had only recently been elevated 

 to the episcopal bench." 



Mr. Pattison has evidently been misled by the book from which 

 he quotes ; for he will readily remember that the prelate referred to 

 was Sir Jonathan, one of the Seven Bishops sent to the Tower by 

 James II. The mistake, as to name, which I have taken the liberty 

 to correct, is not an uncommon one. The same error is made in the 

 " Correspondence of the Earls of Clarendon and Eochester," edited 

 by Singer; by Bray in the "Diary of Evelyn" (L, p. 608); and 

 also in the Index to Macaulay's History. 



The other mistake which I would venture to correct, is that 

 which states that Trelawny, Bishop of Winchester, " had only re- 

 cently been elevated to the episcopal bench." Sir Jonathan Tre- 

 lawny was confirmed Bishop of Bristol, November 8, 1685. In one 

 of his letters he says that the Archbishop opposed his being made a 

 Bishop, and gave the King a bad impression of him ; but that he 

 afterwards expressed his sorrow for having done so. (Dec. 16, 1687). 

 On Lamplugh's translation from Exeter to the Archbishopric of 

 York, Trelawny had the See of Exeter given him ; his confirmation 

 dating April 13, 1689. Trelawny states, in one of his letters, that 

 "William intended to appoint him to the See of Salisbury, but that 

 Burnet was determined to secure that diocese for himself, and so 

 overruled the King's wishes. He was translated to Winchester in 

 1707; his confirmation took place on June 14th of that year, and 

 on the 23rd of the same month he was sworn Prelate of the Order 

 of the Garter. From this statement, it appears that at the time of 

 Sir Cloudesley Shovel's death in 1707, Siv Jonathan Trelawny had 

 been a Bishop twenty-two years. 



