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Early History of the Carr Feonily. {Reprinted from an ancient hook.) London : THE MITRE PRESS, Mitre Chambers, Mitre Street, E.C.3

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1^16350 ARMS. Gules on a Cheveron, Argent, 3 Mullets Sable. CREST. A Stag's Head coup*d, Ay gent attird Or, gorg'd with 2 Barrs Genews Gules. [;•

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EARLY HISTORY OF THE CARR FAMILY. ^T^HE Carrs m the North of England, are -*- Ancestors to this Family ; Richard Can being a 2d Son of John Can, who was livuig Temp. H. 7. The said Richard, by his Wife, a Daughter of Sir John Elmcdine, of the Bishoprick of Durham, liad Issue 2 Sons, James and George ; the former dy'd without Issue, and the latter being possessed of Sleford in the County of Lincoln, lies bury'd in that Parish-Church, as appears by this Inscription round the Verge of a Tomb : {a) Hie jacet Gcorgius Care, and Anna Uxor ejus, qui quidem Georgius obiit Anno Dom, 1521. He left Issue Robert, his Son and Heir, for (a) Ex Coll. Gcr. Hoiks.

10 EARLY HISTORY OF whom a sumptuous Marble Monument is erected in the Church of Sleford, setting forth his Marriages and Issue, viz. [h) ' Here lyeth bury'd Robert Carr, Esq; who, ' by his first Wife Elizabeth, the Daughter ' of WiUiam Caudron, Esq; had Issue 4 ' Sons and 3 Daughters : George Carr, ' liis eldest Son, by Mary, the Daug];ter of ' Ambrose Sutton, Esq; had Issue Robert * Carr, the now Heir living. Robert Carr, ' his 2d Son, first marry'd Mary, the ' Dauglitcr of Henry Earl of Worcester, ' and afterwards he marry'd Cassandra, ' the Daughter of William Price, Esq; ' William Carr, his 3d Son, marr'd Bridget, ' the Daughter of Sir Johft Chaworth, Knt, ' one of the Gentlemen of the Queen's ' Majesty's Privy-Chamber : And Eduard ' Carr, his 4th Son, marry'd Katherine, ' the Daughter of Charles Bolle, Esq; ' Elizabeth, his eldest Daughter, first * marry'd William. Fairfax, Esq; and after(6) Kx Coll. Ra.l. Thorcsby.

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THE CARR FAMILY 11 "wards Chrisloplier Kelke, Esq; Anne. " his 2d Daughter, first marry'd Robat " Wln'tchcofe, Esq; and afterwards Christo*' pher Legarde, Esq; And Bridget, his 3d " Daughter, marry'd Richard Rossiicr, Esq; " The first said Robert Carr, secondly " marry'd Anrie, the Daughter of Sir " George Talboyes, Knt. then Widow to " Sir Edward Dymocke, Knt. and thirdly *' Anne, the Daughter of Charles Knivet, " and dy'd without Issue by them the 11th " Day of Sept. Anno Do^nini 1590." The 3 eldest of the Sons menlion'd in tlie said Inscription, George, Robert, and ^Villnrfii, (who was knighted) left no Issue Male, except George, whose Son Robert dying an Irilant, the Estate descended to Edward Carr, Ith Son. Which Edward was knighted at Bclvjir Castle by King James the 1st, when he lay there in his Way from Scotland, to take Possession of the Crown of England, and was after\vards advanc'd by him to the

161S350 12 EARLY HISTORY OF Dignity of a Baronet 29 June, A.D. 1611. His Deatli, Marriages, and Issue, appears from the following Inscription on a Monument in the Church of Sleford. " Here lyeth the Body of Sir Edivard Carre, " Knt. and Bart, who marry'd two Wives, " the first w^as Kaiherine, Daughter of " Charles Bolle, Esq; by wliom he had no "Issue; his second Wife, was Anne, the " Daughter of Sir Richard Dyer of '' Stoughfon, in the County of Huntingdon, " Knt. by whom he had Issue two Sons " and one Daughter, viz. Sir RoherU Carre, " Bart. Rochester, and Lucy, He departed " this Life the 1st Day of Octob. Aimo " Domi7ii 1618. His Lady surviv'd, and dy'd Anno 1639. Sir Robert Carre, of Sleford, Bart, marry'd Mary, Daughter and Co-heir of Sir Richard Gargravc of Nostliall, in Co/;:. Ebor, Kt. He dy'd in the Year 1607 : His Lady surviving him 'till the Year 1675. They had Issue

THE CARR FAMILY 13 one Son, Robert, and three Daughters ; Lucy, who dy'd Anno 16G7. and was marry-'d to Francis Lord Holies ; Mary, v/ho dy'd An):. 1G85, and was the Wife of Sir Adrian Scroop, Kt. Father of Sir Carr Scroop, Bart, and wedded to Sir Thomas Trollop, Bart. Robert, only Son and Heir of Sir Robert Carr, was knighted ; and succeeding in the Baronetsliip and the Estate, was constituted Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster, by King Charles the lid, and sworn of his Pri\yCouncil : He dy'd in Novemb. 1682, leaving Issue by his Lady Elizabeth, Daughter of Sir John Bennet, Kt. and Sister to Henry Earl of Arlington, principal Secretary of Slate to King Charles the lid ; one Son, Edivara, who succeeded him in the Estate and Title ; and dying the Year after, in the 21st Year of his Age, the Title became extinct, and the Estate devolved on his Sister and sole Heir Isabella, who afterwards marry'd the Right Honourable John Harvey, the present Earl of Bristol, who had Issue by her the Right Honourable Carr Lord Harvey, and 2 Daughters, Isabella, and

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14 THE CARR FAMILY Elizahcth, of wJiom she dy'd in Child-bed the 7th of March, 1692.

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