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 of Mr. Hals and Mr. Tonkin’ (1838, 4 vols.). Dunstanville published in 1811 an edition of Carew's ‘Survey of Cornwall, with Notes illustrative of its History and Antiquities by Thomas Tonkin.’ Those on the first book of the ‘Survey’ were evidently prepared for publication by Tonkin, and the other notes were selected from the manuscripts. His journal of the convocation of Stannators in 1710 was added to it. Tonkin's manuscript history passed from Lord de Dunstanville to Sir [q. v.], and was sold by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. for 51l. to Mr. Quaritch on 7 June 1898.

Two volumes of Tonkin's ‘Alphabetical Account of all the Parishes in Cornwall,’ down to the letter O, passed to [q. v.], and then to W. C. Borlase, from whom they went into the museum of the Royal Institution of Cornwall at Truro. Four of the later parts were presented to the same body by the Rev. F. W. Pye, and another page by Sir John Maclean. Several manuscripts transcribed by Tonkin are in Addit. MS. 33420 at the British Museum, and numerous letters by him, in print and in manuscript, are mentioned in the ‘Bibliotheca Cornubiensis.’ Tonkin gave much aid to Browne Willis in his ‘Parochiale Anglicanum.’ Polwhele called Tonkin ‘one of the most enlightened antiquaries of his day.’



TONNA, CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1790–1846), miscellaneous writer, was the daughter of Michael Browne, rector of St. Giles's Church and minor canon of the Cathedral at Norwich, where she was born on 1 Oct. 1790. She married in early life a Captain Phelan of the 60th regiment, and spent two years with him while serving with his regiment in Nova Scotia. They then returned to Ireland, where Phelan owned a small estate near Kilkenny. The marriage was not a happy one, and they separated about 1824. Mrs. Phelan subsequently resided with her brother, Captain John Browne, at Clifton, where she made the acquaintance of Hannah More [q. v.]; later on she removed to Sandhurst, and then to London. In 1837 Captain Phelan died in Dublin, and in 1841 his widow married [q. v.] She died at Ramsgate on 12 July 1846, and was buried there.

While in Ireland Mrs. Tonna began to write, under her christian names, ‘Charlotte Elizabeth,’ tracts for various religious societies. She was very hostile to the church of Rome, and some of her publications are said to have been placed on the ‘Index Expurgatorius’ (Gent. Mag. 1846, ii. 434). In 1837 she published an abridgment of Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs’ (2 vols. 8vo). She edited ‘The Protestant Annual,’ 1840, and ‘The Christian Lady's Magazine’ from 1836, and ‘The Protestant Magazine’ from 1841 until her death. She also wrote poems, two of which, entitled respectively ‘The Maiden City’ and ‘No Surrender,’ were written specially for the Orange cause, and are extremely vigorous and popular. They are quite the best Orange songs that have been written.

Mrs. Tonna's other works include: 
 * 1) ‘Zadoc, the Outcast of Israel,’ 12mo, London, 1825.
 * 2) ‘Perseverance: a Tale,’ London, 1826.
 * 3) ‘Rachel: a Tale,’ 12mo, London, 1826.
 * 4) ‘Consistency: a Tale,’ 12mo, London, 1826.
 * 5) ‘Osric: a Missionary Tale, and other Poems,’ 8vo, Dublin, 1826 (?).
 * 6) ‘Izram: a Mexican Tale, and other Poems,’ 12mo, London, 1826.
 * 7) ‘The System: a Tale,’ 12mo, London, 1827.
 * 8) ‘The Rockite: an Irish Story,’ 12mo, London, 1829.
 * 9) ‘The Museum,’ 12mo, Dublin, 1832.
 * 10) ‘The Mole,’ 12mo, Dublin, 1835.
 * 11) ‘Alice Benden, or the Bowed Shilling,’ 12mo, London, 1838.
 * 12) ‘Letters from Ireland, 1837,’ 8vo, London, 1838.
 * 13) ‘Derriana.’
 * 14) ‘Derry,’ 1833; 10th ed. 1847.
 * 15) ‘Chapters on Flowers,’ 8vo, London, 1836.
 * 16) ‘Conformity: a Tale,’ 8vo, London, 1841.
 * 17) ‘Helen Fleetwood,’ 8vo, London, 1841.
 * 18) ‘Falsehood and Truth,’ 8vo, Liverpool, 1841.
 * 19) ‘Personal Recollections,’ 8vo, London, 1841.
 * 20) ‘Dangers and Duties,’ 12mo, London, 1841.
 * 21) ‘Judah's Lion,’ 8vo, London, 1843.
 * 22) ‘The Wrongs of Woman, in four parts,’ London, 1843–4.
 * 23) ‘The Church Visible in all Ages,’ 8vo, London, 1844.
 * 24) ‘Judea Capta: an Historical Sketch of the Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans,’ 16mo, London, 1845.
 * 25) ‘Works of Charlotte Elizabeth,’ with introduction by Mrs. H. B. Stowe, 3 vols.; 2nd edit. New York, 1845; 7th edit. 8vo, New York, 1849.
 * 26) ‘Bible Characteristics,’ 8vo, London, 1851.
 * 27) ‘Short Stories for Children,’ 1st and 2nd ser. 12mo, Dublin, 1854.
 * 28) ‘Tales and Illustrations,’ 8vo, Dublin, 1854.
 * 29) ‘Stories from the Bible,’ 12mo, London, 1861.
 * 30) ‘Charlotte Elizabeth's Stories’ (collected), 8 vols. 16mo, New York, 1868.