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CAR to Shabbatai. The descendants from these sectarians have been completely absorbed by the Mahommedan population, from whom it is now impossible to distinguish them.—(Jost.)—T. T.  CARDUCCI,. This artist was born at Florence in 1560, and studied under Federigo Zucchero. He assisted his preceptor in painting the great cupola at Florence, and accompanied him on his visit to the capital of Spain. Conjointly with Peregrino Tibaldi, he painted the celebrated ceiling in the library of the Escurial, his portions being the figures of Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, and Cicero. His most distinguished work is his "Descent from the Cross," in the church of St. Philipe al Real at Madrid, which has been classed with the best works of Raffaelle. His "Last Supper" and "Circumcision" are also highly accounted. He died in 1610.—, his younger brother, became king's painter to Philip III., and afterwards also to Philip IV. He died in 1638. His works are to be seen in all of the cities of Segovia, Salamanca, Castile, Toledo, and Valladolid. He published an important work on painting in 1633.—W. T.  CAREL, born about the beginning of the seventeenth century, and died about 1684. He was a churchman, and had some character as a preacher. He accompanied an embassy to Spain, but does not seem to have had any fixed provision. In the want of better occupation while there, he commenced a poem which he entitled "Childebrand ou les Sarrasins chassés de France," and printed in 1666 the four first cantos. Boileau ridiculed the name of the hero, and the public found the cantos dull reading. The epic of "Childebrand" was therefore never completed.—J. A., D.  CAREW,, famous as a genuine "gipsy-king," was the son of the Rev. Theodore Carew, rector of Bicklegh, Devon, and was born in 1690. Having got into some scrape, he ran away from the grammar school at Tiverton, and falling in with a company of gipsies, was so pleased with their mode of life that he abandoned his home and family and joined their society. He became a great adept in all manner of disguises, and frequently deceived the same persons, even when apprised of the design, several times in one day. He was so much respected by the community that they elected him their king. He continued to live with them many years, but finally returned to Bicklegh, where he died in 1758.—M.  CAREW,, Baron Carew of Ottery Mohun, was an eminent military commander in the wars of Henry VII. and Henry VIII. He was one of those who relieved Exeter when besieged by Perkin Warbeck in 1497, and having accompanied the expedition to France, he was killed at the siege of Terouenne in 1513. He was the last of his family who bore the title of Baron Carew.—M.  CAREW,, Baron Carew of Clopton, and Earl of Totnes, second son of Dr. George Carew, who held many high preferments in the church in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was born in 1557, and admitted a gentleman commoner of Broadgate hall, now Pembroke college, Oxford, in 1572. Leaving college he proceeded to Ireland in a military capacity, and quickly made himself conspicuous by his courage and conduct. In 1581 we find him governor of the county of Catherlagh, being at that time only twenty-two years of age. Captain Carew was also constable of Leighlin castle. In 1585 he received the honour of knighthood. In 1587 he was created master of the ordnance in Ireland for life. In 1589, by a special grace, he was made master of arts of Oxford, and, in the following year, he was admitted a member of her majesty's privy council of Ireland. In January, 1592, upon the surrender of his Irish patent, he was created lieutenant of the ordnance in England. By his careful and vigorous administration, he caused the removal of many abuses which had existed in this branch of the public service, and introduced a system which, without any material change, has been found to work well even to our own day. In 1596 he accompanied the expedition under the lord-admiral, Howard, and the earl of Essex to Cadiz, distinguishing himself as commander of the Mary Rose. In 1594 he had drawn up a treatise on the condition of Ireland, in which, with great clearness and ability, he pointed out the danger which threatened the kingdom from the ambitious designs of Hugh O'Neil, earl of Tyrone. His predictions were afterwards amply fulfilled. In consequence of his knowledge of Irish affairs, he was appointed in 1599 lord-president of the province of Munster, then in open rebellion. By sowing division in the councils of the Irish chieftains, and by vigorous action in the field, he soon restored order in the province. He then demanded his recall, but this the arrival of the Spaniards at Kinsale rendered impossible. He was actively engaged in the siege of that place during the winter of 1601-2, under the lord-deputy, and, subsequently, by the display of the most extraordinary energy and valour, he captured the almost inaccessible fortress of Dunboy castle at Beerhaven. In 1604 he was constituted, by act of parliament, one of the commissioners to treat about the union between England and Scotland, and in the same year the king granted him the office of receiver-general of his revenues. Higher honours still awaited him. On the 4th of June in the following year he was advanced to the dignity of a peer of parliament, and in 1606 appointed master of the ordnance. In the year 1611 Lord Carew was again sent on a special mission into Ireland, for the purpose of inquiring into the causes of the inadequacy of the revenue of that kingdom to meet the expenditure, and to make such suggestions as might appear necessary to remedy the evil. On the accession of Charles I., in consideration of his long and meritorious services, he was advanced to the title of Earl of Totnes in the county of Devon. He died at his house in the Savoy in 1629.—(Lamb MSS.; State Paper Office MSS.; Ordnance MSS.; Holinshed, &c.)—M.  CAREW,, knight, was the second son of Sir Wymond Carew of Antony. After being called to the bar he became secretary to Lord Chancellor Hatton. He was subsequently knighted by Queen Elizabeth, and in 1598 was sent on an embassy to Brunswick, Sweden, Poland, and Dantzig, to obtain the removal of an edict against the merchant adventurers. On the accession of James I. he was employed as one of the commissioners to treat of the union with Scotland, and in 1605, being then the representative in parliament of the borough of St. Germains, he was sent ambassador resident at the court of France, where he remained until 1609. He died in 1612.—M.  CAREW,, sixth baron of Carew and Mullesford, was an eminent soldier and statesman of the reign of Edward III. In 1350 he was appointed lord-deputy of Ireland, and died in 1363. <section end="953H" /> <section begin="953I" />CAREW,, knight, of Beddington, Surrey, appointed master of the horse to King Henry VIII. in 1521. He was created grand esquire of England in 1527, in which year he accompanied the Viscount Lisle on an embassy to Francis I. of France. In 1529 he was sent to Bologna to ratify, in the king's name, the treaty of Cambray. In 1536 he was elected K.G. He was executed in 1539 for corresponding with Cardinal Pole.—(State Papers.)—M. <section end="953I" /> <section begin="953Zcontin" />CAREW,, of Ottery Mohun, Devonshire, born in 1514, was the youngest son of Sir William Carew. In his twelfth year he was placed in the grammar school at Exeter, where he was only remarked as a truant and a scapegrace. To get rid of a troublesome charge, his father sent him to France with a gentleman of his acquaintance, who was to educate him for the profession of arms, in consideration of receiving his services as a page. Some time after, one of his relatives discovered the young Carew in the dress, and performing the duties, of a muleteer. Rescued from this degradation, he accompanied his kinsman into Italy, was taken into the service of a French nobleman, and after the battle of Pavia, where his master fell, entered the service of the princess of Orange. In 1532 he returned to England, bearing very flattering letters of commendation from his late mistress. He was immediately appointed one of the king's pages, and not long afterwards a gentleman of the privy chamber. In 1535 he accompanied Henry VIII. to France, and in 1539, with other courtiers and great officers of state, was sent to Calais to conduct Anne of Cleves to England. In 1545 he distinguished himself in the attack upon Treport, being the second man who landed. For his bravery he was honoured with knighthood by the lord-admiral, and was deputed to convey the gratifying intelligence to the king. Although warmly attached to Queen Mary, when the project of her marriage with Philip of Spain was known, he is said to have joined with others in a conspiracy to prevent the landing of the prince, was proclaimed a traitor, and narrowly avoiding apprehension, escaped into France. In 1555 he was traitorously seized at Brussels by Lord Paget, conveyed to England, and committed to the Tower, from which he was not liberated until 1556, when he received pardon. In 1569, when the Irish rebellion broke out, known in history as the "Butlers Wars," Sir Peter, who had just recovered large ancestral estates in Ireland, was appointed to command a division of <section end="953Zcontin" />