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Sed haec planius & plenius docebit Richardus Carew
de Antonie, non minus generis splendore, quam virtute &
doctrina nobilis; qui hujus regionis descriptionem
latiore specie, & non ad tenue elimat (D).
Our Author's Knowledge in the Laws, his Love for Justice and Equity,
and his Affection to the Government, rais'd him to all the Posts of
Honour, that are consistent with a Country Life. Mr. Wood assures
us (E), that he was made Justice of the Peace in 1581, High-Sheriff
of Cornwall in 1586, and about that time was the Queens Deputy for
the Militia. And indeed we find in his Survey of Cornwall, that he
was Justice of the Peace, and one of the Quorum (F) : and that in the
Year 1599, (Sir Walter Raleigh being then Lieutenant General of
Cornwall) Mr. Carew was one of the Deputy Lieutenants, Treasurer of
the Lieutenancy, and Colonel of a Regiment, consisting of five
Companies, or 500 Men, armed with 170 Pikes, 300 Musquets, and 30
Calivers, appointed for Causam Bay (G).
There was at that time a Society of several Gentlemen, eminent for
their Learning and Merit, such as Sir Robert Cotton, Mr.
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