THE FOUNDERS OF CHARLES CHURCH. 
Ill 
Gayer, the Royalist merchant and philanthropist ; or William 
Jennens, the municipal chief; but I thought it would be more satis- 
factory to the members of the Institution for me to gather together 
the details of the life of one worthy as exhaustively as I was able, 
rather than seek to condense in the lecture so many facts, as would 
I fear have spoiled the interest in the whole. 
To the courtesy of Col. Vivian and Mr. E. H. W. Dunkin I am 
indebted for the copy of the following will : — 
In the Name of God amen j I Robert Trelawny of Plimouth in 
the County of Devon gent being by God's blessing in perfect 
health and memory Doe make and ordaine this my last Will and 
Testament hereby revoking all formers And giving vnto this all 
strenight and vertue My soule I commend to God my Creator in 
the name and mediation of Jesus Christ his sonn my Lord and 
Saviour Trusting alone in God's everlasting mercies and Christ's all- 
sufficient merritts for remission and salvation as he hath promised 
in his Gospell to all penitent sinners and seaks the truth of itt by 
his holy speritt to all believers My body I commend to Christian 
buriall in hope of a joy full resurrection And my desire is It be 
layed in the Church of Plimouth as neere my deceased wife as may 
be And first of all Whereas I have sett apart some of my estate in 
my books for pious and for charitable vses In leiu thereof I doe 
hereby give (according to a former promise made in the Guildhall 
of Plymouth) Two hundred pounds towards the building of a new 
church in Plimouth, according to an Act of Parliament I also give 
vnto the Towne of Plimouth six hundred pounds on this condition 
they give my Heires good security for the yearly payment of thirty 
pounds for ever to be paid in the Guildhall of Plimouth every 
twenty- fift day of March before twelve of the clock in the 
morning for ever to be employed in manner and forme following 
viz* That every twenty fift Day of March (being the day of my 
nativity) there be a sermon preacht in the parish Church of St. 
Andrewe in Plimouth And that the Maior and Maiestrats doe 
from thence repaire with my heire male or his Deputy for ever to 
the Guildhall to receive and dispose of the aforesaid thirty pounds 
yearly as followeth, forty shillings to the Vicar of St. Andrews 
Church And forty shillings to the Viccar of the new Church that 
is ordained to be built And these two Vicars and theire successors 
for ever to preach the sermon aforesaid Exhorting all people to 
workes of piety and charity To a maide servant that is of a spot- 
lesse life and hath served in one house that is with one master or 
mistres five yeares or more and that within the Towne and parrish 
of Plimouth (for all els are excluded) To such a one to be chosen 
as hereafter is directed, I order to be given twenty pounds, None 
but maides are hereof capable And I also order to be given to a 
young sailor that hath servd faithfully five yeares or more of his 
