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GEORGE CAREW (d. about 1613)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 328 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE CAREW (d. about 1613)  ,
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English diplomatist and historian, second son of
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Sir Wymond Carew of Antony, was educated at Oxford, entered the Inns of Court, and passed' some years in
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continental travel . At the recommendation of Queen Elizabeth, who conferred on him the honour of
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knighthood, he was appointed secretary to Sir Christopher Hatton, and after-wards, having been promoted to a ''mastership in
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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
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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
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History of His Own Times was furnished by Carew .

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