THE FOUNDERS OF CHARLES CHURCH. 
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place for that purpose already allotted, and a competent means and 
mayntenance intended for the endowment thereof in perpetuity ; 
May it please your Majesty, out of your wonted piety, and princely 
grace and goodness, to give your royal assent and encouragement to 
the needful and pious work, and to grant that some convenient 
parte of the said borough, and of the inhabitants thereof, may bo 
assigned to repayre to the said church, and may be a parish, and 
have parochial rights for ever ; And that your petitioners and their 
successors may from time to time for ever, have the presentation 
and patronage thereof, and that your Majesty will bo likewise 
pleased to name the said parish and church, and many poor soules 
who are now excluded (through numbers) from those publicque and 
divyne assemblies shall bless your Majesty and your petitioners for 
ever bounde to pray for your Majesty's long life and happy reigne 
over them." 
It was not however only in the Council Chamber that Robert 
Trelawny was making for himself that position which gave him 
such a commanding influence over his townsmen; he had strenuously 
devoted his energies to the development of the mercantile resources 
of the town, and had so made his influence felt that on the 1st 
December, 1631, a grant was made to him, in conjunction with 
Moses Goodyeare, of the Island of Richmond, off the coast of the 
State of Maine, subsequently the most northern of the United 
States on the Atlantic border, and of all lands along the sea-coast 
westward, between the land limited to Captain Thomas Cammock 
and Casco bay and river, for having expended great sums in the 
discovery of those parts, and for their encouragement in settling a 
plantation there. 1 Probably this idea arose out of the Newfound- 
land fisheries, in which then and for long years after Plymouth 
bore an active part, and in which she acquired considerable riches. 
This grant of land, however, was at the time thought to be of vast 
importance ; but the possessions of the Trelawny family have long 
since passed into other hands, and the humbler and plebeian settle- 
ment of the Pilgrim Fathers, in New England, has overshadowed, 
.and as time went on absorbed, the aristocratic plantation or colony 
founded with so much hope. In accordance too with the spirit of 
the age, it is found that letters of marque were granted, on the 25 th 
March, 1629, to Nicholas Opie and Robert Trelawny, as owners of 
the Confidence of Plymouth, 50 tons, master Lawrence Johnson, 
and her pinnace, 30 tons; 2 so that a little privateering was added 
1 Cal. St. Pa. Col. 1574-1660. 
2 Cal. St. Pa. Bom., 1629-1631, pp. 153, 155. 
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