Elizabeth Lower

"In the summer of 1655 George Fox came, accompanied by Edward Pyott of Bristol, who had been a captain in the Parliamentary Army.They described Totnes as a ‘dark town’. Next they went to Kingsbridge, where they asked to see the sober people of the town, and were directed to Nicholas Tripe and his wife, who were convinced by them.Then to Plymouth, where they had a meeting at Robert Cary’s house, and Elizabeth Trelawney, daughter of a baronet, was convinced.The Trelawney family (celebrated in the unofficial anthem of Cornwall “A good sword and a trusty hand! A merry heart and true!........”) were friends of the Grenvilles, and did not at all approve of Elizabeth becoming a Quaker."

"After his release from Launceston George Fox visited in Exeter prison the Quakers who had been arrested on their way to see him at Launceston Castle.One was Henry Pollexfen of West Alvington in South Devon, who had been a magistrate for 40 years.Later in the year Fox was back in Exeter from the Midlands, and held a general meeting at the Seven Stars, the inn by the bridge, with Friends from Cornwall and Devon including the Lowers, John Ellis from Land’s End, Henry Pollexfen, Friends from Plymouth, Elizabeth Trelawney and many others."

Trelawny (modern: Trelawne; from Cornish Trelany 'church village') is an historic manor in the parish of Pelynt in Cornwall, England, situated 20 miles (32 km) west of Plymouth, Devon and four miles (6.4 km) west-northwest of Looe, Cornwall. It was long the seat of the Trelawny family, later Trelawny baronets, one of the most eminent of Cornish gentry families, much of whose political power derived from their control of the pocket borough of nearby East Looe.[1] The surviving grade II* listed[2] manor house known as Trelawne House is today used for holiday accommodation and entertainment, under the name "Trelawne Manor Holiday Park".[3]

Trelawne manor

Trelawne manor dates back to Norman times when it was held by Rainald de Vautort. It later passed in turn to the Cardinans, the Chapernouns and the Bonvilles. In 1554 the estate was confiscated from Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, the father of Lady Jane Grey and sold in 1600 to Sir Jonathan Trelawny. It then passed down in the Trelawny and Salusbury-Trelawny families for several generations, many of whom were MPs for the local pocket constituencies of East and West Looe, Sheriffs of Cornwall and Lord-lieutenants of the county. Since John Trelawny, son of the original purchaser, who was created a baronet in 1628, there has been an unbroken series of 14 Trelawny or Salusbury-Trelawny baronets.

Source:

The beginnings of Quakerism in Devon and Cornwall

1985, by Hubert Fox; shelfmark 097.23 FOX in Friends’ House Library

https://www.swquakers.org.uk/content/history-beginnings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trelawny,_Pelynt