Richard Carew

Topic: Richard Carew

Source-Control Position

• The existing Fitzgeoffrey packet controls the strongest Neville/Carew lane: the passport-list cluster naming Richard Carew esquire and the Carew-younger France-learning tradition.
• The Tudeau-Clayton PDF check supports the Carew/Shakespeare/Stanyhurst/Merry Wives translation-politics lane, but it is a literary-source context, not a direct Neville/Carew document.
• A scoped BRO sweep found only a crossed-out/overwritten Carew reading in Doc 14 D EN F6 2 bundle archive; the corrected reading there is Norris, so it should not be routed as a Carew witness.

Source Controls

• Billingbear list control is now direct for the source-book lane: IMG_8189.png contains Survey of Cornwall by Carew _ Lond. 1602. A full image, upright image, and line crop have been staged in the source packet.
• The matching public title-page witness is Archive.org item b30332941, Carew, The survey of Cornwall, London: S. S[tafford] for J. Jaggard, 1602. The earlier surveycornwalla00caregoog IA link is a 1769 reprint, not the matching 1602 title page.
• A local Audley End / English Heritage list record places a 1602 The Survey of Cornwall, maker Carew, Richard, ID 81038804, at Audley End House, FR/19 Library, Case P, Shelf 1.
• The George Carew brother point is confirmed for the travel-network George Carew: History of Parliament identifies George Carew (d. 1612), of Antony and Tothill Street, as second son of Thomas Carew of Antony and bro. of Richard; Westminster Abbey corroborates that his brother Richard was a poet and antiquary.
• The "learning French or Latin" source is Hartlib's Latin-learning compilation, The true and readie way to learne the Latine tongue (TCP A42982, London, 1654). The relevant remembered passage is about French: Richard Carew the younger says his father sent him into France with Sir Henry Neville, resident ambassador to Henry IV, so that he might learn the French tongue.
• EEBO check: A42982 is absent from the imported EarlyPrint corpus database/FTS and the symlinked eebotcp/texts/A42/ checkout, but the full headed EEBO text exists at [local source path removed]. A copy and excerpt have been staged in the source packet.
• Tudeau-Clayton's 1999 article should be used narrowly: it supports a Carew/Shakespeare/Stanyhurst/Merry Wives language-politics context, especially around English copiousness and anti-hierarchical vernacular ideology. It is not a direct proof that Neville owned or used Carew's Survey.

ODNB Source-Control Position

• S. Mendyk's ODNB article for Richard Carew is locally downloaded at odnb-9780198614128-e-4635.pdf.
• Use it as modern secondary biography and source-routing support for Carew's Cornwall, antiquarian, poetic, Camden/Sidney, and family context.
• Do not use ODNB as the direct witness for the Neville passport-list lane, Carew younger's France-with-Neville statement, or the Billingbear Survey of Cornwall book-list claim. Those remain controlled by the Fitzgeoffrey/passport packet, Hartlib/Carew text witness, and Billingbear/1602 Survey image controls.

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• The local wiki page lists:

“Survey of Cornwall - Available via Internet Archive”

• The same page lists:

“Richard Carew's mention of William Shakespeare”

• The same page lists as a related topic:

“Richard Carew's Son - Connected to learning French with Henry Neville”

• The Philological Museum commentary preserved in the Fitzgeoffrey packet states:

“His like-named son (the future first Baronet Carew [b. 1580], to whom the present poem is written, matriculated from Merton College in 1594”

• The same commentary states:

“Evidently Carew and Trelawny were in his train when he presented his credentials at the Fench court.”

• The Fitzgeoffrey packet preserves the passport-list witness:

“Richard Carew esquire”

• The Tudeau-Clayton article states of The Merry Wives of Windsor:

“a play unique in the Shakespearean canon for its focus on "our English tongue,"”

• The same article states that this focus is:

“precisely placed in its intertextual relation to contemporary debate surrounding Richard Stanyhurst's translation of Virgil's Aeneid.”

• The Billingbear book-list transcription for IMG_8189.png reads:

“Survey of Cornwall by Carew _ Lond. 1602.”

• Archive.org metadata for b30332941 identifies a 1602 public scan of Carew's The survey of Cornwall, printed in London by S. Stafford for J. Jaggard.
• The Audley End record excerpt identifies The Survey of Cornwall, maker Carew, Richard, date made 1602, ID 81038804, current location AUDLEY END HOUSE, FR/19 Library, Case P, Shelf 1.
• History of Parliament identifies George Carew (d. 1612), of Antony and Tothill Street, Westminster, as bro. of Richard; Westminster Abbey independently says his brother Richard was a poet and antiquary.
• The A42982 TCP header identifies the son/French-learning source as Samuel Hartlib's The true and readie way to learne the Latine tongue (London, 1654), with Richard Carew of Antony as one of the named authorities.
• The EEBO headed text for A42982 contains Carew the younger's first-person statement that he was sent into France with Sir Henry Neville to learn French.

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• Ken's local blog excerpt, Learning French with Henry Neville, preserves the remembered Carew-younger passage; the EEBO headed text now supplies the controlling text witness.

3. Quoted Source Text

Richard Carew wiki page

• “Survey of Cornwall - Available via Internet Archive”
• “Richard Carew's mention of William Shakespeare”
• “Richard Carew's Son - Connected to learning French with Henry Neville”

Fitzgeoffrey / Philological Museum note layer

• “His like-named son (the future first Baronet Carew [b. 1580], to whom the present poem is written, matriculated from Merton College in 1594”
• “Evidently Carew and Trelawny were in his train when he presented his credentials at the Fench court.”
• “Richard Carew esquire”

Tudeau-Clayton

• “a play unique in the Shakespearean canon for its focus on "our English tongue,"”
• “precisely placed in its intertextual relation to contemporary debate surrounding Richard Stanyhurst's translation of Virgil's Aeneid.”

Billingbear book list

• “Survey of Cornwall by Carew _ Lond. 1602.”

Richard Carew the younger

• “After my return and short staying here I was sent by my Father into France with Sir Henry-Nevill”
• “that there I might learn the French Tongue”

4. Citations

• “Richard Carew.” Henry Neville Research Wiki, 23 Oct. 2019, http://nevilleresearch.com/index.php?title=Richard_Carew.
• Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret. “Richard Carew, William Shakespeare, and the Politics of Translating Virgil in Early Modern England and Scotland.” International Journal of the Classical Tradition, vol. 5, no. 4, 1999, pp. 507-527. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/30222477.
• charles fitzgeoffrey affaniae iii 41 richard carew neville trelawney, existing packet with the Philological Museum Latin/English witness and the Neville passport-list reference.
• Billingbear Book List Transcription, IMG_8189.png, entry Survey of Cornwall by Carew _ Lond. 1602. Local transcription: Billingbear Book List Transcription. Source image: IMG_8189.png.
• Carew, Richard. The survey of Cornwall. London: S. S[tafford] for J. Jaggard, 1602. Public scan: Archive.org `b30332941`. Local title-page image: Survey_of_Cornwall_1602_IA_b30332941_title_page.jpg.
• Audley End / English Heritage list excerpt, ID 81038804, The Survey of Cornwall, 1602, Carew, Richard, current location AUDLEY END HOUSE, FR/19 Library, Case P, Shelf 1: Audley End Survey of Cornwall record excerpt.
• History of Parliament, CAREW, George (d.1612), of Antony, Cornw. and Tothill Street, Westminster: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/carew-george-1612. Local source note: George Carew brother of Richard source note.
• “Sir George Carew.” Westminster Abbey: https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/sir-george-carew/.
• Hartlib, Samuel. The true and readie way to learne the Latine tongue attested by three excelently learned and approved authours of three nations, viz. Eilhardus Lubinus, a German, Mr. Richard Carew, of Anthony in Cornwall, the French Lord of Montaigne. London: R. and W. Laybourn, 1654. TCP A42982; ESTC R19399. Header witness: A42982 header.
• EEBO headed text: A42982 EEBO headed. Original local path: [local source path removed]. Carew/Neville excerpt: A42982 Carew Neville French excerpt.
• Feinstein, Ken. “Learning French with Henry Neville.” 3 Mar. 2019. Local preservation: blog learning french with henry neville 2019 03 03.
• Source packet: SOURCE NOTES.

5. Notes on Access

2026-07-11 addition: the exact Carew book inside John Jaggard's Italian-translation list

The 1602 Billingbear/Audley End Survey of Cornwall is now part of a larger, source-controlled book-trade cluster. Its publisher, John Jaggard at the Hand and Star near Temple Bar, had also published the 1594 English translation of Giacomo di Grassi's fencing manual, Edward Fairfax's 1600 English Tasso, and the 1601 English Botero. Billingbear/Audley End preserves:

• the exact 1602 Carew/Jaggard edition;
• the Italian Grassi, Venice 1570;
• Italian works by Tasso dated 1562 and 1590;
• Italian Botero volumes dated 1589, 1597, and 1600.

This does not establish that Billingbear possessed the corresponding English translations. It does show that John Jaggard's list repeatedly translated or published authors represented in the library, and that his exact Carew imprint survives there. John was William Jaggard's brother and must not be confused with the later First Folio printer. Full metadata, comparative table, and page images are in grassi 1570 billingbear fencing shakespeare and jaggard.

• This packet has been expanded beyond the original narrow Carew note. It now controls the Survey of Cornwall source-book lane, the Tudeau-Clayton/Merry Wives article lane, the George-Carew-brother confirmation, and the Richard Carew younger France-with-Neville source.
• The exact printed Carew passage listing Shakespeare should be added later from the underlying Remaines witness rather than from secondary notes.
• The wiki page links the following public resources:
• *Survey of Cornwall*
• Folger page on Richard Carew mentioning William Shakespeare
• *A Compendious Way* page mentioning French learning with Henry Neville
• Access correction: the wiki's surveycornwalla00caregoog IA link is a 1769 reprint. Use IA b30332941 when the book argument needs a public title-page image matching the Billingbear Lond. 1602 entry.
• EEBO access correction: A42982 is not in the imported EarlyPrint corpus database or FTS table, and the eebotcp/texts/A42/ checkout lacks A42982; however, the full headed EEBO text exists under [local source path removed]. Use that EEBO text as the controlling text witness until a page-image witness is attached.

2026-07-15 Preservation-First Deep Research: Carew’s exact Shakespeare–Marlowe comparison

The open task of locating Carew’s exact passage is now closed through the Folger’s Shakespeare Documented record. Carew writes, in the modernized transcription:

Will you read Virgil? Take the Earl of Surrey. Catullus? Shakespeare, and Marlowe’s fragment. Ovid? Daniel. Lucan? Spencer. Martial? Sir John Davies and others. Will you have all in all for Prose & Verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.

The underlying manuscript is British Library Cotton Julius F XI, fols. 265r–267v, dated after 1605. The Folger record notes that William Camden acquired the manuscript and printed the essay in the second edition of Remaines (1614), pp. 36–44; it was not in the 1605 edition. The manuscript and printed spelling deserve separate recording: the name appears as Shakespheare, while Marlowe appears as Barlowe in both manuscript and print.

This passage is important for more than the bare name “Shakespeare.” Carew organizes contemporary English writers as functional equivalents of classical authors. Shakespeare and Marlowe’s unfinished Hero and Leander occupy the Catullus position; Daniel answers to Ovid, Spenser to Lucan, and Davies to Martial. The comparison is therefore a compact map of early Jacobean literary reputation and genre, preserved first in manuscript and then passed through Camden into print.

Public source with manuscript images, transcription, printed-state history, and DOI 10.37078/586: Shakespeare Documented, “The Excellencie of the English Tongue”.

Relevance to this packet

Carew now has four independently documentable roles in the project: author of the Billingbear/Audley End 1602 Survey of Cornwall; a member of the Carew diplomatic-family field; father of the younger Richard Carew who traveled to France with Neville; and an early comparator of Shakespeare and Marlowe whose manuscript was transmitted by Camden. These roles should be connected as a research programme, not collapsed into an authorship conclusion.