Return, he was first call'd to the Bar, then supply'd
the Place of Secretary to the Lord Chancellor Hatton;
and after his Decease, performed the like Office to his
two Successors, by special Recommendation from her
Majesty, who also gave him the Prothonotaryship of the
Chancery; and in anno 1598 sent him Ambassador to the
King of Poland, and other Northern Potentates, where
through unexpected Accidents, he underwent extraordinary
Perils; but God freed him from them, and he performed his
Duty in acceptable manner : And at this present the
Commonwealth useth his Service, as a Master of the Chancery."

Had our Author attended this worthy Person in his Embassies, it is
hardly possible he should not have taken some notice of it here;
being elsewhere so ready to honour himself with the Friendship or
Acquaintance of the Great Men of his Time.

As to what Mr. Wood adds, viz. that Mr. Carew was sent by his Father
into France with Sir Henry Nevill.... that he might learn the French
Tongue, &c. I am afraid he hath mistaken our Author for his Son, who,
in effect, went into France with a Nevill, in order to learn the
French Tongue ; as it appears by the following Verses of the aforesaid
Fitzgeffry, upon his Return.


Ad (s) RICHARDUM CARAEUM, Ri. Filium,
e Gallijs reducem.

Melligo juvenum Caraee, quotquot
Damnoni occiduis alunt in oris :