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CAR the royal forces, and was mainly instrumental in the restoration of peace. He died at Cork in 1575.—(Life of Sir Peter Carew.)—M.  CAREW,, of Antony, was born in 1551, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He was a friend of Camden and Cotton, and gave much attention to the study of antiquities. When the society of antiquaries was founded in 1572, he was one of the original fellows. In 1602 he published the first edition of his "Survey of Cornwall," in quarto, a second edition of which was published in 1723, and a third in 1789. He was a man of good abilities and studious habits, being self-taught in the Greek, Italian, German, French, and Spanish languages. He died suddenly in 1620.—M.  CAREW,, knight, eighth baron of Carew and Mullesford, son of Leonard, Baron Carew, born in 1368. He was a distinguished commander both by sea and land. We find his name in the list of persons summoned to attend a great council of the nation in 1405. He was present at the battle of Agincourt in 1415. In 1417 he commanded the expedition which conveyed the earl of March to France. The next year he was made captain of Harfleur, and was intrusted with the defence of the passage over the river Seine. Died in 1430.—(Acts of Privy Council, State Papers, &c.)—M.  CAREW,, of Bicklegh, Devon, was the second son of Sir Edmund, Baron Carew of Ottery Mohun, in the same county. He joined the expedition under the earl of Surrey against Scotland in 1513, and was present at the battle of Flodden Field. Before the battle began, a gallant Scottish knight sent a challenge to the English army, offering battle to any gentleman that would fight him for the honour of his country. Carew received permission to accept the challenge, and won the victory. He greatly distinguished himself in the battle, but was ultimately taken prisoner.—M.  CAREW,, an English poet of great merit, friend of Ben Jonson and Davenant. His parentage and the date of his birth are somewhat uncertain, but there are strong reasons for believing that he was the second son of Sir Matthew Carew of Littleton in the county of Worcester, and that he was born in 1589. He entered at the Temple, and was afterwards for a short time secretary to Sir Dudley Carleton, from whose service he was dismissed in 1616. He was also a gentleman of the privy chamber, and sewer to King Charles I. He lived a gay and dissipated life, but Clarendon says "he died with the greatest remorse for that license, and with the greatest manifestation of christianity that his best friends could desire." Wood says that his death occurred about 1639. Thomas Carew has often been confounded with Thomas Carey, son of the earl of Monmouth, who lived at the same time, and was also a poet of considerable celebrity. The similarity in the pronunciation of their names, has probably given rise to the mistake, Carew being pronounced Carey. Carew's poems were published in 1640. Several beautiful songs of his yet remain in MS. in the Ashmolean library, and there are, doubtless, other stray pieces in the British museum. Many of his lyrics and sonnets were set to music by the famous composers, Henry and William Lawes, and were sung frequently at the court masques. Hallam says of Carew, that he has more fancy and more tenderness than Waller; high praise, in which, however, Percy, who has also commended our author, would have joined.—M.  * CAREY, and, two American sisters, who have published several volumes of poetry and miscellaneous prose, which have attracted considerable notice. They were born in a rural district near Cincinnati, Ohio—the eldest, Alice, in 1822—and have had the advantages only of a common school education. They have lived together in the home which was their birthplace, most of the time in portionless orphanage, with little aid from books or literary friends. A volume of their poems was printed at Philadelphia in 1850; and this was succeeded the next year by one of prose sketches, entitled "Clovernook, or Recollections of our Neighbourhood in the West." A second series of these sketches appeared in 1853, and these have been followed by several other volumes of prose and verse. Without showing any of the higher qualities of art, their books are popular, as they are written in an easy and natural style, and evince a lively fancy, a nice observation of nature, and correct sentiment.—F. B.  CAREY,, son of Henry Carey, the composer, inherited a considerable portion of his father's taste and spirit, and much of his misfortunes. He was brought up as a printer, but his passion for the stage led him to the theatres, in which he had little success, yet enough to give him a wandering unsettled disposition. For forty years he employed himself in composing and singing a vast number of popular songs, chiefly of the patriotic kind, in which there was not much genuine poetry, or cultivated music. These he performed from town to town, in what he called "Lectures." He wrote also, from 1766 to 1792, several farces—a list of which may be seen in the Biographia Dramatica, and by the performance of which he earned temporary supplies. Besides these dramatic pieces, he wrote "Analects in Prose and Verse," 1771, 2 vols.; "A Lecture on Mimickry," 1776; "A Rural Ramble," 1777; and "Balnea, or Sketches of the different Watering-places in England," 1799. In the latter part of his life, being in very necessitous circumstances, G. S. Carey laid claim, on the part of his father, to the authorship of the words and music of the national anthem. This was done in the hopes of securing for himself a government pension; but his claim was too ill-founded to receive the slightest support. The anthem in question is a composition of a much earlier date. (See under .) This son of Momus died July 14, 1807, aged sixty-four, being born the year his father died, and was buried by subscription among his friends, having never realized any property, or, indeed, having been ever anxious but for the passing hour. One of his daughters was the mother of the celebrated actor, Edmund Kean.—E. F. R.  CAREY,, Earl of Monmouth, born in 1596, was the eldest son of Robert the first earl of Monmouth. He was educated at the university of Oxford, becoming at the age of fifteen a fellow commoner of Exeter college. Two years afterwards, having taken the degree of B. A., he left Oxford to improve himself by foreign travel. He profited much by his sojourn abroad, and acquired a thorough knowledge of French and Italian, which languages he spoke with remarkable facility. He wrote very few original works; of these, his "History of the Wars of Flanders," and "Politic Discourses," rank highest. It was as a translator that he chiefly excelled. <section end="954H" /> <section begin="954Zcontin" />CAREY,, a musical composer and poet, once of great popular reputation, is commonly said to have been an illegitimate son of George Savile, marquis of Halifax, who had the honour of presenting the crown to William III. Of his education nothing seems to be known, except that he was not a regularly bred musician. He received lessons when a young man from Linnert, Roseingrave, and Geminiani; but the result of all this did not, as his friend Lampe used to say, enable him to put a bass to his own ballads. Being thus slenderly accomplished in his art, his chief employment was teaching at small boarding-schools and among people of middling rank in private families. He possessed a prolific, ready invention, and very early in life distinguished himself by the composition of songs, of which he was the author of both words and music. One of these, "Of all the girls that are so smart," or "Sally in our alley," was sung by everybody when it came out, and has never ceased to be a favourite since. This, the author relates, was founded on a real incident; and mean as the subject may appear, he states that Addison was pleased with that natural ease and simplicity of sentiment which characterize the ballad, and more than once vouchsafed to commend it. The first we hear of Carey is in the year 1713, when he published a small volume of poems. Here he speaks of his "parents" as still living, which seems to disprove the claim of his relationship to the marquis of Halifax, who died in 1695. Probably his mother then kept a school, as we find in the volume, "A Pastoral Eclogue on the Divine Power of God, spoken by two young ladies, in the habits of shepherdesses, at an entertainment performed at Mrs. Carey's school by several of her scholars." In 1715 he produced two farces, one of which, "The Contrivances," had considerable success. In 1720 he published another collection of poems; and in 1722 a farce c alled "Hanging and Marriage." In 1729 he brought out by subscription his poems much enlarged, with the addition of one entitled "Namby Pamby," in ridicule of Ambrose Phillips' lines on the infant daughter of Lord Carteret. When Miss Rafter, afterwards the celebrated Mrs. Clive, first appeared on the stage of Drury Lane as a singer, it was at the benefit of Harry Carey in 1730, who seems to have been her singing master. The manner in which this benefit was announced in the Daily Post, December 3, is so singular that we shall transcribe the paragraph. After announcing the play, which was Greenwich Park <section end="954Zcontin" />