Henry Carey

or Cary Son of Sir Rob. Carey the first Earl of Monmouth of his name, was born in Buckinghamshire, became Fellow-communer of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 161 [•] /1 [•] aged 15 years or thereabouts, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Feb. 1613, (about which time he with Bevill Greenvill, of Ex. Coll. also, were nominated and elected Collectors for the Lent ensuing) made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales, in 1616, and about that time was sent to travel into forreign Counties. In 1625 he was known by the name of the Lord Lepington, his Father being then created Earl of Monmouth, and in 1639 Earl of Monmouth, being then noted for a Person well skill’d in the modern languages, and a general Scholar; the fruit whereof he found in the troublesome times of rebellion, when by a forced retiredness, he was capacitated to exercise himself in studies, while others of the Nobility were fain to truckle to their inferiors for company sake. He hath extant these things following.

Speech in the H. of Peers. 30. Jan. 1641 upon occasion of the present distractions, and of his Majesties removal from Whitehall. Lond. 1641. He translated from Italian into English (1) Romulus and Tarquin: or, de principe & tyranno. Lond. 1637. in tw. written by Marq. Virg. Malvezzi: In praise of which translation Sir John Suckling hath an admirable copy of verses, in his Fragm. aurea, &c. Lond. 1648. p. 24. (2) Historical relations of the united Provinces of Flanders. Lond. 1652. fol. written by Guido Cardinal Bentivoglio. (3) Hist. of the Wars of Flanders. Lond. 1654. fol. written by the said Cardinal. This translation hath the E. of Monmouths picture before it. (4) Advertisements from Pernassus in two centuries, with the politick touchstone. Lond. 1656. fol. written by Trajano Boccalini. (5) Politick discourses, in three books. Lond. 1657. fol. written by Paul Paruta a noble Venetian; to which is added a Short Soloquie, in which Paruta briefly examines the whole course of his life. (6) Historie of Venice, in two parts. Lond. 1658. fol. written by the said Paruta, with the Wars of Cyprus, wherein the famous seiges of Nicossia and Famagosta, and the battle of Lepanta are contained. He also began to translate from the said Italian Language The Historie of France, written by the Count Gualdo Priorato, but died after he had made some progress therein. Afterwards it was finished by Will. Brent Esq, and printed at Lond. 1677. fol. being the same Person that had before wrot a book intit. A discourse upon the nature of eternity, and the condition of a separated Soul according to the grounds of reason and principles of Christian Religion. Lond. 1655 in a small oct. written while he was a Prisoner in the Gatehouse at Westminster. It was afterwards printed there again in 1674 in 6. sh. and an half in qu. By the way it must be known that tho we have had several of the Brents who have been Students in this University, yet this Will. Brent was not, but educated while a youth in the Coll. of English Jesuits at S. Omer. Afterwards being entred into the society of Greys-inn, he became a Barrister, and a Solicitor or such like Officer, under Tho. Earl of Strafford when he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was born at Stoke Lark in Glocestershire, in the Parish of Ilmington in Warwickshire, and having suffered much for his Religion by Imprisonments, payments of money, and I know not what, lived privately several years at Foxcote in Warwickshire, and in his last days at London: He died in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near London, in the beginning of the year 1691 aged 80 years, or more. He the said Hen. Carey E. of Monmouth did also translate from French into English. (1) The use of the passions. Lond. 1649. oct. (2) Man become guilty, or the corruption of his nature by sin. printed at Lond. Both written by Joh. Franc. Senault; before the first of which, is the picture of the said Earl (a shoulder peice) standing on a Pedestall. What other translations this noble Count hath made besides, unless The Hist. of the late Wars of Christendome, printed in fol. 1648. which I have not yet seen, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he giving way to fate on the 13 of June in sixteen hundred sixty and one, was buried in the Church of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire. 1661. He had an ingenious Brother named Thomas, whom I have mention’d in the Fasti 1613. One H. Cary a Lawyer hath written The Law of England: or, a true guide for all Persons concerned in Ecclesiastical Courts. printed 1666 in tw. but what relation he hath to the Earl I know not.