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 and the Ceremony of Homage and Fealty in the Feudal Times’ in the fourth volume, pp. 286–91. In the second volume of the same serial he had published ‘Extracts from a MS. Diary of Peter Le Neve, Esq., Norroy King of Arms, entitled “Memorands in Heraldry,” of such entries as relate to the County of Norfolk,’ accompanied by an elaborate pedigree of Le Neve and valuable genealogical notes. This manuscript had come into his possession through his grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Carthew, F.S.A., of Woodbridge Abbey in Suffolk, to whom it was given by ‘Honest Tom Martin,’ the historian of Thetford, who had married Le Neve's widow. Some extracts previously appeared in the ‘Gentleman's Magazine.’ Carthew also took part in editing for the society ‘The Visitation of Norfolk in the year 1563,’ of which only the first volume, published in 1878, has as yet appeared.

Later Carthew, in ill-health and suffering from severe domestic loss, prepared for publication his collections for the history of the parishes of West and East Bradenham, Necton, and Holme Hale. In the event of his death Dr. Jessopp undertook to see the rest of his material through the press, and preface the work with an introduction. Carthew was found dead in his chair on the morning of Saturday, 21 Oct. 1882, and was buried at Harleston.

Carthew had been elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in February 1854; he was a frequent contributor to the chief antiquarian and genealogical periodicals. After his death appeared: 1. ‘A History of the Parishes of West and East Bradenham, with those of Necton and Holme Hale, in the County of Norfolk. With an Introduction by the Rev. Augustus Jessopp, D.D.,’ 4to, Norwich, 1883. 2. ‘The Origin of Family or Sur-Names, with special Reference to those of the Inhabitants of East Dereham in the County of Norfolk,’ 4to, Norwich, 1883. 

CARTHEW, THOMAS (1657–1704), serjeant-at-law, eldest son of Thomas Carthew of Cannaliggy, St. Issey in Cornwall, who married Mary Baker of Bodmin, was born on 6 April 1657. If the authority of Hals, the Cornish historian, can be trusted, he was for some time ‘in the inferior practice of the law under Mr. Tregenna, without being a perfect Latin grammarian, always using the English words for matters and things in his declarations where he understood not the Latin.’ He became a student at the Middle Temple on 21 May 1683, and on 14 June 1686 was called to the bar, Hals adding that he gained his advancement ‘by a mandamus from the lord keeper, North,’ with whom he was undoubtedly connected by marriage. He was admitted to the same position at the Inner Temple on 23 Nov. 1698, and was created a serjeant-at-law on 7 Nov. 1700, when he was raised to the bench of his inn. The same local historian prophesied his growth ‘into such great fame and reputation, that he is likely to make a considerable addition to his paternal estate,’ but on 4 July 1704 Narcissus Luttrell records in his diary, ‘'tis reported Serjeant Carthew is dead,’ and on 12 July he was buried in the Temple Church. John Colby of Banham in Norfolk married Ann, daughter and heiress of John Arthur of Wiggenhall St. Mary. At Colby's death his widow married Edward North of Benacre, Suffolk. Ann, one of Colby's two daughters and coheiresses, married a second Edward North, and the other daughter, Mary, married Serjeant Carthew. By her the serjeant had two sons, Thomas and John, both at the bar, and Thomas, the elder, inherited Cannaliggy from his father, and Benacre and Woodbridge from his maternal uncle, Edward North. The Cornish property he sold in 1720, and the Suffolk estates have long passed from the family, but a portrait of the serjeant is said to be preserved at Woodbridge Abbey. A volume of the serjeant's, ‘Reports of Cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench from 3 Jac. II to 12 Will. III,’ was published by his son, Thomas Carthew, in 1728, and reprinted in an enlarged edition in 1741. A ‘Reading on the law of uses by Serjeant Carthew at New Inn in Michaelmas term, the third of William and Mary, when he was deputy reader for the Middle Temple,’ was included in a volume entitled ‘Collectanea Juridica’ (1791). The serjeant's reports are praised by Kenyon and Willes, but condemned by Thurlow. 

CARTIER, GEORGE ETIENNE (1814–1873), Canadian statesman, youngest son of Jacques Cartier, lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian militia, who died in 1841, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Joseph Paradis, was born at St. Antoine, on the Chambly river, in the county of Verchères, Lower Canada, on 6 Sept. 1814. He received his education at the college of St. Sulpice, Montreal, where he went through a course of