of Religion, Canons, and Proceedings of Convocation from 154-7 to 1717, completing the series for that period. Closely connected with these works in the Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum (1850), which treats of the changes proposed and attempted in the direction of reform during the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI. , and Elizabeth. As a supplement to the foregoing, Dr Cardwell published in 1854 a new edition of Bishop Gibson s Synodus Anglicana. Dr Cardwell, as one of the best men of business in the university, held various important posts, among which were those of delegate of the press, curator of the university galleries, manager of the Bible department of the press, and private secretary to successive chancellors of the university. He died at
Oxford, 23d May, 1861.CAREW, George (died about 1613), second son of Sir Wymond Carew of Antony, was educated at Oxford, entered the Inns of Court, and passed some years in Continental travel. At the recommendation of Queen Elizabeth, who conferred on him the honour of knighthood, he was appointed secretary to Sir Christopher Hatton, and afterwards, having been promoted to a mastership in chancery, was sent as ambassador to the king of Poland. In the reign of James he was employed in negotiating the treaty of union with Scotland, and for several years was ambassador to the Court of France. On his return he wrote a Relation of the State of France, with sketches of the leading persons at the court of Henry IV. It is written in the classical style of the Elizabethan age, and was appended by Dr Birch to his Historical View of the Negotiations between the Courts of England, France, and Brussels, from 1592 to 1617. Much of the information regarding Poland contained in De Thou s History of His Own Times was furnished by Carew.
CAREW, George (1557-1629), Earl of Totness, and Piaron Carew of Clopton, Warwickshire, was born in 1557. After completing his studies at Oxford, he joined the army, and held an important command in the Irish wars against the Earl of Desmond and the rebels. He was successively appointed governor of Askeaton castle, lieutenant-general of artillery, and, after the successful expedition to Cadiz (1596), lord-president of Munster, treasurer to the army, and ultimately one of the lords judges of Ireland. When he entered on his duties, the whole country was in open rebellion ; but by a prudent and vigorous policy, backed by his own intrepidity in the field, he soon reduced the rebels to submission. His greatest exploit was the capture of Dunboy castle, a success which disappointed the Spanish allies, and in reality put an end to the war. For his services in Ireland he was made governor of Guernsey, and was raised to the peerage. He was afterwards made privy- councillor to James I., and died at London in 1629. Carew wrote an account of the wars in Ireland in a book called Hibcrnia Pacata, published after his death ; and made several collections for the history of Henry V., which were afterwards digested into Speed s History of Great Britain. Some of his letters have been printed by the Cam- den Society, 1860.
CAREW, Richard (1555-1620), author of tins Survey of Cornwall, was born in 1555. At an early age he became a distinguished student of Christ Church, Oxford, and when only fourteen was chosen to dispute extemporaneously with Sir Philip Sidney, in presence of the earls of Leicester and Warwick and other noblemen. From Oxford he removed to the Middle Temple, where he spent three years, and then went abroad. On his return he was appointed sheriff of Cornwall, and published his Survey of the county, a work which enjoyed a high reputation, and has been several times reprinted. His other works are entitled The Examination of Men s Wits, a translation from the Italian, part of which is said to have been executed by his father ; The True and Ready Way to learn tJie Latin Tongue, a tract included in Hartlib s book on the same subject; and A Translation of the first Five Cantos of Tasso s Gerusalemme. He died in 1620.
CAREW, Thomas (1589-1639), an English poet, was born about the year 1589. He studied at Oxford, and on the completion of his course was made gentleman of the privy chamber to Charles I. At court he was highly esteemed for the vivacity of his wit and the elegance of his manners ; and his poetical tastes gained him the friendship of Ben Jonson, Sir William Davenant, and other celebrated literary men. He wrote several sonnets, amorous pieces, and masques, which were set to music by Henry Lawes and other eminent masters. Most of his smaller pieces are distinguished by peculiar sweetness and gracefulness, by light gaiety, and by felicitous expression. They are generally occasional poems, vers de socwte, addressed to ladies, and are sometimes exquisite of their kind. His longest and best known work is a masque called Ccelum Britannicum, performed by the king and several of the nobles at Whitehall on Shrove Tuesday, 1633. Parts in this masque were taken by Lord Brackley and his brother, who acted in the following year in Milton s Comus. The Ccelum is founded on the Spaccio della Bestia of Bruno (q.v.}, and is a work of very considerable poetic merit. Some of the introductory verses remind strongly of Milton. Carew died in the prime of life about the year 1639. The best edition of his works is that of W. C. Hazlitt,
CAREY, Henry (died 1743), a humorous poet and musi cal composer, was an illegitimate son of George Savile. Marquis of Halifax, and was born towards the end of the 17th century. He studied music under Lennert, Roseingrave, and Geminiani, but never attained to excel lence in the higher departments of composition. His ballads and songs, however, were exceedingly popular at the time. He wrote several dramatic pieces for Covent Garden theatre, among which may be mentioned a burlesque tragedy called Chrononhotonthologos (1734); an operetta called the Honest Yorkshireman ; two interludes, called Nancy and Thomas and Sally ; and two burlesque operas, called The Dragon of Wantley (1737) and Margery, or the Dragoness. His songs were collected and published by himself in a work called The Musical Century (1740); and one of them, Sally in our Alley, the most graceful and natural of English lyrics, is yet popular. His dramatic works were published in 1743. Carey died at an ad vanced age the same year. It has often been said that he put an end to his own life, but the story had no good foundation.
ary and Oriental scholar, was born at Paulerspury, North amptonshire, in 1761. When a youth he worked with his father, who was a shoemaker ; but before he was twenty years of age he joined the Baptists, and devoted a large portion of his time to village preaching. In 1787 he became pastor of a Baptist congregation in Leicester, and five years after was chosen by a Baptist missionary association to proceed to India as their missionary. On reaching Bengal, Carey and his companions lost all their property in the Hugli ; but having received the charge of an indigo factory at Malda, he was soon able to pro secute the work of translating the Bible into Bengali. In 1799 he quitted Malda for Serampore, where he established a church, a school, and a printing press for the publica tion of the Scriptures and philological works. In 1801 Carey was appointed professor of Oriental languages in a college founded at Fort-William by the Marquis of Wellesley From this time to his death he devoted
himself to the preparation of numerous philological works,
