Authority Cited: Carew; Car.
Author name and dates: Richard Carew (1555-1620)
PORTRAIT
BKG Bio-tweet: Gentleman poet; tr. Tasso; early English county history (Cornwall); Excellencies of the English Tongue
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: the edition SJ used is uncertain, a 1723 edition also included the first publication of the Excellencies of the English Tongue, for which no citations have been identified - about 330 total citations of Carew's Survey of Cornwall in the 1755 Dict. (about 140 cites in vol.1, about 190 cites in Dict. vol. 2.) A sample of about 80 headwords from vol. 1 of the Dict. is given below. Eight R. Carew citations were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., vol. 1, indicated in bold italic. No R. Carew additions were identified in 1773 Dict. vol. 2.]
Author name and dates: Richard Carew (1555-1620)
PORTRAIT
BKG Bio-tweet: Gentleman poet; tr. Tasso; early English county history (Cornwall); Excellencies of the English Tongue
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: the edition SJ used is uncertain, a 1723 edition also included the first publication of the Excellencies of the English Tongue, for which no citations have been identified - about 330 total citations of Carew's Survey of Cornwall in the 1755 Dict. (about 140 cites in vol.1, about 190 cites in Dict. vol. 2.) A sample of about 80 headwords from vol. 1 of the Dict. is given below. Eight R. Carew citations were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., vol. 1, indicated in bold italic. No R. Carew additions were identified in 1773 Dict. vol. 2.]
- Survey of Cornwall; The survey of Cornvvall. Written by Richard Carew of Antonie, Esquire, 1602, London : Printed by S. Stafford for Iohn Iaggard, and are to bee sold neere Temple-barre, at the signe of the Hand and Starre; abut; accrue; accustom (added in 1773 Dict); adit; air; angerly; archbeacon; archdeacon (Cited as Surv. of Irel. in error in 1755 Dict.); archdeaconry; archduke; backhouse; baigne; balkers; baluster; band; barger; battle-axe; beak; beholding; bill; blackbird; blench; blobber; block-house; blower; bolter; borderer; bowssen; brake; branch; break; brit; bumt; busy; by-respect; cannary bird; candlemas; cater; certain; chad; chary; childbirth; childermas; church-ale; clap; cliented; climber; close; closely; coal; cock; coit; commendably; compound; comptrollership; confusedness; constableship; conventionary; copse; corrody (added in 1773 Dict); craze; crossbow; cudle (added in 1773 Dict); cund; cut-throat; dab; dare; darrain; dead; demander; dipchick; dish (added in 1773 Dict); divorce; dorn; downfallen; drawbridge; dredge (2); engrail; ... fair (added in 1773 Dict); farthing (added in 1773 Dict); ... gill (added in 1773 Dict) ...
- Carew's poem on his ancestry in the Second Book of the Title above; wax (added in 1773 Dict.; inexact quote, likely from memory. Dict.: They wax and wane, from thrift to penury. Carew's text: From Sire to Sonne, doe waxe and wane, by thrift and lavishing.)
- Carew, R. (no work cited); accustom