[Illustration] "The most Cornish gentlemen can better vaunt of their
pedigree than their livelyhood," wrote Richard Carew, of Antonie,
Esq. in 1602,--"for that they derive from great antiquitie; and I
make question whether any shire in England, of but equal quantitie,
can muster a like number of faire coat-armours:" and again,
"By Tre, Pol, and Pen,
You shall know the Cornish men."
There are two manors called Trelawny in Cornwall, one in the parish
of Alternon, the other in that of Pelynt; the former was the
original seat of the Trelawnys, probably before the Conquest, and
here they remained till the extinction of the cider branch in the
reign of Henry VI. The latter was purchased from Queen Elizabeth by
"Sir Jonathan Trelawny, a knight well spoken, stayed in his cariage,
and of thrifty providence," the head of a younger line of this
family, in the year 1600; and it has ever since remained the seat of
this venerable house. Hamelin, who held Treloen, _i.e._ Trelawny,
under the Earl of Moreton, at the period of the Domesday Survey, is
the first recorded ancestor.
See Leland's Itin., iii. fol. 20; Carew's Survey of Cornwall,
ed. 1602, p. 63 b; Gilbert's Survey of Cornwall, i. 546;
Lysons's Cornwall, pp. 14 and 257; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 87.
ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron sable_. In the reign of Henry V. an
augmentation was added, viz. _three oak-leaves vert_, borne by Sir
John Trelawny with the ancient coat, in consequence of his having
greatly distinguished himself in the French wars with that monarch.
Present Representative, Sir John Salusbury-Trelawny, 9th Baronet,
late M. P. for Tavistock.