THE FOUNDERS OF CHARLES CHURCH. 
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declared that he said, it might be imputed to them for high treason. 
And it was confessed on all parts that the words were spoken long 
before the discovery, and some days before the House had resolved 
that they would have a guard. And afterwards, upon the old stock 
of their dislike, when the war begun to break out, they again im- 
prisoned this honest gentleman, seized upon all his estate, which 
was very good, and suffered him to die in prison for want of 
ordinary relief and refreshment." 1 
The echoes from the prison-house are generally few and far 
between. The dubious speech for which Trelawny was sent for by 
the House of Commons on the 17th October, 1642, arrested on the 
23rd November, 1642, and sent to Winchester House, 2 was probably 
felt to be a slender thread on which to hang the grave charge of 
high treason. In all likelihood his friends on these considerations 
procured his release the first time from Winchester House, the 
State prison at South wark, at the south-west end of London Bridge, 
used at that time by the House of Commons. Opportunity was 
therefore given for him to clear himself, to secure himself by some 
explanation which would be satisfactory to the House; but the 
stout Devonshire squire disdained to stoop ; he refused to trim. 
Conscious of right, and firm in his adherence to his principles, he 
satisfied himself that his duty was unswervingly to abide the event, 
and the event soon developed. The times were urgent ; the House 
called upon him to yield or take the consequences. The majority 
could not palter with opposition ; Trelawny was recommitted to 
Winchester House ; bail was refused, and this time he was suffered 
to die for want of ordinary relief and refreshment. A little light 
is thrown upon this stern scene by the businesslike entries in the 
House of Commons Journals. Trelawny, on 23rd March, 1643, 
again petitioned to be let out of prison on bail, but was again 
refused. The reason for his application probably was that he had 
learnt of the alarming illness of his " faithful and loving wife " the 
Anne Yoga of St. Michael Caerhayes, whom he married at Meva- 
gissey on 6th January, 1623; but if the Commons were hard 
Heaven was more merciful, for the wife died 8th April, 1643, 
about a fortnight after. Domestic anxieties, the loss of his estates, 
which were seized by order of the House, the impending loss of 
his American possessions for a debt, comparatively small in amount, 
1 1 Clarendon, pt. ii. pp. 668, 669. 
2 2 Jour. H. of C. 811, 859 ; 3 Jour. H. of C. 14. 
