50 BRITISH BIRDS. 



After leaving Oxford, Carew seems to have proceeded 

 to the Middle Temple, and according to Wood, was three 

 years later " sent with his Uncle (Sir George Carew, 

 as it seems) in his embassage unto the King of Poland ; 

 whom when he came to Dantzick, he found that he had 

 been newly gone from thence into Sweden, whither also 

 he went after him." Richard Carew mentions his uncle, 

 " Master George Carew," in his Survey (fol. 61), and 

 refers to the embassy to Poland, but says nothing about 

 accompanying his relative. 



Carew, in due course, appears to have settled down at 

 his ancestral seat of Antonie, and to have studied 

 agriculture and husbandry to such purpose that " he was 

 accounted among his Neighbours the greatest Husband 

 and most excellent Manager of Bees in Cornwall." He 

 became High Sheriff of his County in 1586, and in 1599 

 was " Colonel of a Regiment consisting of five companies, 

 or 500 Men, armed with 170 Pikes, 300 Musquets and 30 

 Calivers,* appointed for Causam Bay." 



In 1589, Carew was elected a member of the College of 

 Antiquities, a Society which at that time was about to 

 apply to Queen Elizabeth for a Royal Charter — " But as 

 fair as the Hopes of this famous College appeared in its 

 Bloom, they were soon blighted by the Death of that 

 ever-memorable Princess " and all " their applications 

 to his successor, proved vain and unsuccessful. But 

 what else could be expected from a Man . . . whose 

 Genius and taste were as low and mean as his Soul and 

 Inclinations ! " 



Richard Carew died on the 6th day of November, 1620, 

 in the 63rd year of his age, and lies buried in the Church 

 of East Antonie among his ancestors. 



* i.e., a light hand-gun fired, without a rest. 



