George Carleton

, Son of Guy, second Son of Thomas Carleton of Carleton hall in Cumberland, was born (b)(b) Camden in Britan, in Northumb. at Norham in Northumberland, at what time his Father was Keeper of the Castle there, educated in Grammar learning by the care of the Northern Apostle, called Bern. Gilpin, who also, (when he was fitted for the University,) sent him to S. Edm. hall in the beginning of the year 1576. being then 17 years of age, and exhibited to his studies, and took care that nothing should be wanting to advance his pregnant parts. In the latter end of 1579. he took a degree in Arts, and forthwith compleated it by Determination, his disputes being then noted to exceed any of his Fellows that did their exercise in the same Lent. In 1580. he was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll. wherein he spent almost 5 years before he proceeded in his Faculty. While he remained in that Coll. he was esteemed a good Orator and Poet, but as years come on, a better disputant in Divinity, than he had before been in Philosophy. He was also well vers’d in the Fathers and Schoolmen, and wanted nothing that might make him a compleat Theologist.—I have loved him (saith a learned (c)(c) Iden ibid. author) in regard of his singular knowledge in Divinity, which he professeth, and in other more delightful literature, and an loved again by him. What were his preferments successively after he had left that Coll. I cannot tell, because the Register of Acts of that house is altogether silent as to them. Sure I am that after he had continued many years there. and had taken the degrees in Divinity, he was promoted to the See of Landaff, upon the translation of Dr. Godwin to Hereford, in the year 1618. and the same year was one of the learned English Divines that were by his Majesties command sent to the Synod of Dort, where he behaved himself so admirable well, to the credit of our Nation, (as some Ch. Historians will tell you,) that after his return, he was, upon the translation of Dr. Harnet to Norwich, elected to the See of Chichester, confirmed by his Maj. 20. Sept. 1619. He was a person of a solid judgment and of various reading, a bitter Enemy to the Papists, and a severe Calvinist, which may farther appear in some of these books following, of his composition.

Heroici Characteres, ad illustriss. equitem Henricum Nevillum. Oxon. 1603. qu. Several of his Latin verses are in the University book of verses made on the death of Sir Phil. Sydney, in Bodleiomnema, and in other books.

Tithes examined, and proved to be due to the Clergy by a divine right. Lond. 1606. 1611. qu.

Jurisdiction Regal, Episcopal, Papal: Wherein is declared how the Pope hath intruded upon the jurisdiction of Temporal Princes, and of the Church, &c. Lond. 1610. qu.

Consensus Eccles. Catholicae contra Tridentinos de scripturis, Ecclesia, fide & gratia, &c. Lond. 1613. oct. Dedicated to the Mertonians.

A thankful remembrance of Gods mercy, in an historical collection of the great and merciful deliverances of the Church and State of England, from the beginning of Q. Elizabeth. Lond. 1624. qu. The fourth edit. came out in 1630. qu. adorned with cuts.

Short directions to know the true Church. Lond. 1615. &c. in tw. Dedicated to Prince Charles as the former book was.

Oration made at the Hague before the Prince of Orange, and the Assembly of the High and Mighty Lords, the States General. Lond. 1619. in one sh. and an half in qu.

The madness of Astrologers: or, an examination of Sir Christop. Heydons book, intit. A defence of judiciary Astrology. Lond. 1624. qu. Which being written twenty years before that time, was then published by Tho. Vicars Bach. of Div. who had married the authors Daughter. It was reprinted at Lond. in 1651.

Examination of those things, wherein the author of the late Appeale, holdeth the doctrine of the Pelagians and Arminians, to be the doctrines of the Church of England. Lond. 1626. and 36. in qu. Besides this answer or examination, made to the Appeale of Rich. Mountague, (who succeeded Carleton in the See of Chichester,) came out six more, viz. one by Dr. Matthew Sutcliff Dean of Exeter, a second by Dr. Dan. Featly, a third by Franc. Rouse sometimes of Broadgates hall in Oxon, a fourth by Anth. Wotton of Cambridge, a fifth by Joh. Yeates Bach. of Div. sometimes of Eman. coll. in Cambridge, afterwards Minister of S. Andrews in Norwich, and the sixth by Hen. Burton of Friday-street in London.

A joynt attestation avowing that the discipline of th Church of England was not impeached by the Synod of Dort. Lond. 1626. qu.

Vita Bernardi Gilpini, vere sanctiss. famaque apud Anglos aquilonares celeberrimi. Lond. 1628. qu. Published in Engl. at Lond. 1636. oct. and also in Lat. in Dr. Will. Bates his collection of lives. Lond. 1681. in a large qu.

Testimony concerning the Presbyterian discipline in the Low Countries, and Episcopal government in England. —Printed several times in qu. and oct. The edit. in qu. at Lond. 1642. is but one sheet.

Latin Letter to the learned Camden, containing some notes and observations on his Britannia.—MS. among those given by Seldens Executors to the Publ. Libr. at Oxon. The beginning of which Letter is Dum nuper (Mi Camdene) Brittaniam tuam, &c.

Several Sermons, viz. one that is joyned to the English life of Bern. Gilpin: Another on Luke 2. from ver. 41. to 50. in tw. A third on Rev. 20. 3. 4. in oct. &c. He had also a hand in the Dutch Annotations, and in the New Translation of the Bible, which were ordered by the Synod of Dort to be undertaken, yet were not compleated and published till 1637. At length having lived to a good old age, he concluded his last day in the month of May in sixteen hundred twenty and eight, and was buried in the Choire,1628, near to the Altar, of his Cath. Church at Chichester, on the 27. of the same month. By his first Wife named Anne, Daughter of Sir Hen. Killegrew Knight, and Widdow of Sir Hen. Nevill of Billingbere in Berks, he had Issue a Son named Henry Carleton, living sometimes in the Parish of Fur [•] e in Sussex, elected Burgess for Arundel, to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm. 13. Apr. 1640. and from the unhappy Parliament which began on the 3. Nov. following, he received a Commission from the Members thereof to be a Captain, in which office and command he shew’d himself an Enemy to the Bishops.