CAREW, GEORGE (d. about 1613)

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CAREW, GEORGE (d. about 1613) , English diplomatist and historian, second son of Sir Wymond Carew of Antony, was educated at

Oxford

, entered the Inns of Court, and passed' some years in continental travel. At the recommendation of Queen Elizabeth, who conferred on him the honour of

knighthood

KNIGHTHOOD

, he was appointed secretary to Sir Christopher Hatton, and after-wards, having been promoted to a ''mastership in chancery, was sent as

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

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

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

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

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IV. It is written in the classical style of the Elizabethan age, and was appended by Dr Birch to his 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 History of His Own Times was furnished by Carew.

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