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THOMAS CARTE (1686-1754)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 413 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:CARTE (1686-1754)  , See also:English historian, was See also:born at Dusmoon, near See also:Clifton . He was educated at See also:Oxford, and was first brought into See also:notice by his controversy with Dr See also:Henry See also:Chandler regarding the Irish See also:massacre, in which he defended See also:Charles I . His See also:attachment to the Stuarts also caused him to remain a non-juror, and on the See also:discovery of the See also:plot of See also:Atterbury, whose secretary he was, he was forced to flee to See also:France . There he collected materials for an English edition of De See also:Thou and Rigault, which were See also:purchased and published by Dr See also:Mead . Being recalled to See also:England through the See also:influence of See also:Queen See also:Caroline, he published, in 1738, A See also:General See also:Account of the Necessary Materials for a See also:History of England . The first See also:volume of his General History of England, which is only of value for its vast and careful collection of facts, was published in 1747 . By the insertion in it of the statement that the See also:king's evil had been cured by the Pretender, See also:Carte forfeited the favour of most of his patrons . He, however, continued to publish; and the 2nd volume appeared in 1750, the 3rd in 1752, the 4th in 1755 . He published also a See also:Life of See also:James, See also:duke of See also:Ormond, containing a collection of letters, &c . (3 vols., 1735-1736; new ed., in 6 vols., Oxford, 1851), and a History of the Revolutions of See also:Portugal, with letters of See also:Sir R . See also:Southwell during his See also:embassy there (See also:London, 1740) . His papers became the See also:property of the university of Oxford, and were deposited in the Bodleian library .

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