HENRY CAREY,

SECOND EARL OF MONMOUTH.

THE depression of the nobility after the death of Charles the first, threw many of them into studious retirement; of which number this second earl of Monmouth appears to have been the most laborious. He seems to have distrusted his own abilities, and to have made the fruits of his studies his amusement, rather than his method of fame. Though there are several large volumes translated by him, we have scarce any thing of his own composition; and are as little acquainted with his character as with his genius. Anthony Wood", who lived so near his time, and who tells us that the earl was made a knight of the bath at the creation of Charles prince of Wales in 1616, professes that he knows nothing more of him but the catalogue of his works, and that he died in 1661. In sir Henry Chauncy's Hertfordshire, is the inscription on his monument in the church at Rickmansworth, which mentions his living forty-one years in marriage, with his countess,

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Martha, daughter of the lord-treasurer Middlesex.

There are extant of his lordship's3 no less than seven folios, two octavos, and a duodecimo, besides the following:

'Speech in the House of Peers, January 30, 1641, upon Occasion of the present Distractions, and of his Majesty's Removal from Whitehall." London, 1641.

"Romulus and Tarquin; or, De Principe et Tyranno." Lond. 1637, 12mo.

A translation from Marq. Virg. Malvezzi. Sir John Suckling has written a copy of verses* in praise of this translation, printed in his Fragmenta Aurea, Lond. 1648.

"Historicall Relations of the United Provinces and of Flanders." Lond. 1652, folio. Translated from Cardinal Bentivoglio.

[His brother, Thomas Carey, was a writer of occasional poems, one of which was set to music by Henry Lawes, and printed in his Ayres and Dialogues, 1653.]

⚫ [Suckling begins his compliment by saying:

It is so rare and new a thing to see

Aught that belongs to young nobility

In print, but their owne clothes; that we must praise
You, as we would doe those first shew the wayes

To arts or to new worlds, &c.

Other copies of verses were prefixed by sir Robert Stapyltøn, sir William Davenant, Carew, Townshend, and Wortley.]

History of the Wars in Flanders," Lond. 16545, folio.

From the same author. Before this translation is the earl of Monmouth's picture.

"Advertisements from Parnassus in two Centuries; with the Politic Touchstone." Lond. 1656, folio.

From Boccalini.

"Politic Discourses, in three Books." Lond. 1657, folio.

The original by Paul Paruta, a noble Venetian : to which is added, "A short Discourse," in which Paruta examines the whole course of his life.

"History of Venice, in two parts;"

from the same author. Lond. 1658, folio.

"With the Wars of Cyprus;"

wherein the famous sieges of Nicosia and Famagosta, and the battle of Lepanto, are contained.

"The Use of Passions"." Lond. 1649, and 1671, 8vo.

[Fenton speaks of this book as published in 1678, whence he supposes that Waller prefixed a copy of Latin verses to it, at the age of seventy-three. It is probable, however, that they were printed with the edition cited by lord Orford; in which case Fenton's supposition will be found groundless.]

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" [Written in French by J. F. Senault, and put into English by Henry, earle of Monmouth, A. D. 1649.]