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of Plymouth, belonging to Mr. Eobert Trelawny" — powder, 
muskets, swords, and stores, on the 14th January, 1642 ; and 
further, " Saved for his Majesties use on board the Richmond, of 
Plymouth, 681 ounces of plate, one gold hatband, 99 links, 
3 ounces weight, being goods of R. Trelawny;" and again, 
"Received at St. Michael's Mount out of the Richmond 150 
bushels of wheat the goods of R. Trelawny." These were probably 
some of his confiscated goods and chattels. 
Moses Goody eare soon dropped out of the business, for in 1636 
Robert Trelawny was sole owner of the patent, and he several 
times visited his possessions. Prom 1633 for several years the 
colony was the most important for its trade on the coast ; but on 
Winter's death, in 1645, it declined as rapidly as it had risen. 
Trelawny trusted Winter to the last, and by his will left him 
a legacy of ,£12. But times were now changed — Trelawny dead, 
and his name under a cloud at home, and the energetic agent no 
longer alive to look after the governor's interests, everything went 
to ruin. 
The religious wants of the community were not forgotten. The 
governor in 1637 appointed as chaplain Richard Gibson, an epis- 
copalian, an educated man ; but opinions differed in those days as 
in these. To some he was "a good scholar, a popular preacher, 
and highly esteemed as a gospel minister by the people of his 
cure ;" whilst others represent him as " a man exceedingly bigoted." 
This opinion, when properly understood, may mean no more than 
his open and distinct avowal of his attachment to the Church of 
England, of which he was a minister. He liked the Prayer Book 
better than any other form of worship, and doubtless said so. 
The charter of Charles I. was based on the hypothesis of per- 
petuating the same order and usages as existed in the mother 
country, and that the same church and king were to be obeyed on 
both sides of the water. Trelawny, as a staunch Royalist, heartily 
concurred in this view, and in 1640 chose Robert Jordan, then 
twenty-eight years old, ordained in the diocese of Exeter, to succeed 
Gibson, and sent him to the colony. He seems through all his life 
to have been faithful to his principles; for in 1660 and 1671 we 
find that the General Court did " imprison and barbariously use 
Mr. Jordan," for following the old ways — so much in his favour. 
As happens with many a young clergyman and "godly preacher," 
he ingratiated himself not only with the older members of his con- 
