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to the list of ventures, including among others ventures in Ireland, 
but what they were I cannot say. At home his spare time was 
filled up by rebuilding his country house at Ham, which was com- 
pleted in 1639, and substantially is now much the same as he left 
it. 
The lasting work of Trelawny was not in America, but that 
which he followed earnestly and lovingly, in times of rejoicing or 
disaster, at home. Sir James Bagge, the Vice- Admiral of the 
Western Command, the bitter opponent of the great Sir John Eliot, 
who called him, from his capacity of acquiring lucrative posts, 
" that bottomless Bagge," was then living at Saltram, and member 
for Plympton ; and he seems to have been entrusted, as high in 
royal favour, with the duty of presenting the petition, not Thomas 
Sherwill, a well-known Plymouth worthy in the last Parliament. 
But whoever presented the petition it seems to have hung fire, and 
it was not till 1640, when the burgesses sent Eobert Trelawny 
himself to represent them in Parliament, that the petition was 
granted. Doubtless the energetic western squire threw himself 
with the same assiduity and vigour he had bestowed on his mer- 
cantile ventures, and the councils of his own town, into the cause 
which for years he had worked at, and which was to him most 
dear. Be that as it may, on the 21st April, 1640, Koyal Letters 
Patent were granted by Charles L, and in the same year, an Act 
for the Confirmation of His Majesty's Letters Patent to the Town 
of Plymouth, and for dividing the parishes and building a new 
church there, Anno Domini 1640, received the royal assent. 
This would neither be the time nor place for me to inflict upon 
my hearers a long quotation from such a dull document as an 
Act of Parliament, though even such a dull document as that 
may be fraught with momentous consequences to present and 
future generations ; but I must in passing point out that the 
parish of Charles, as formed by the Act, was much larger than 
that proposed in the resolution. By the bounds set out in the 
Act it began again at the Old Pump, now the Parade, up Batter 
Street and Looe Street, and down Buckwell Street. The original 
proposal was thence to the head of Green Street, and then follow- 
ing the Old Road to Lipson Bay, thence following the cliff round 
again to Sutton Pool. But the actual parish bounds from the 
north end of Buckwell Street went up Treville Street, Old Town 
Street, Saltash Street, Cobourg Street, and Bellevue Place, to St. 
