DescriptionPortraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II. Collected from the most authentic accounts extant (1820) (14596731100).jpg |
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Title: Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II. Collected from the most authentic accounts extant
Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: Caulfield, James, 1764-1826
Subjects: Great Britain -- Biography
Publisher: London, T. H. Whitely
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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166 MEMOIRS OF [GEORGE u.
THOMAS CARR was of a family that had not only lived in affluence and respectability, but had made a considerable figure in the world; his father lived in the parish of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, and his mother was living at the time of her son's misfortune; he was well educated, and when fit for business, articled to a Mr. Walker, in Princes- street, near Covent-garden, a scrivener, or notary- public, in the aforesaid parish; this and his father's interest therein, procured him the place of vestry- clerk, which he possessed for some years, and might have lived very handsomely thereupon. The first, and indeed the principal cause of his misfortunes, was a strong inclination to a voluptuous life ; if he would have been content with a moderate subsistence, his business would very well have af- forded it, without his having recourse to irregular practices; but having taken it into his head to live like a man of pleasure, he was forced to strike out of the ordinary road of life, to accomplish his pur-
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THOMAS CARR,
(Executed at Tyburn 1737.)
GEORGE II.] REMARKABLE PERSONS. 167
pose. His first deviations from honesty were in the affairs of the parish ; these were not found out immediately, and when they were discovered, com- passion to him, and respect to his family, preserved him in that employment, until his conduct, which grew worse and worse, was at last so bad, that he was removed from his office; and thereupon broke up house-keeping, and took chambers in the Temple. During the time he lived in Bridges-street he used to manage business at the Old Bailey, and was particularly concerned in the appeal against Clough, for the murder of his fellow-servant, at the Green Lettuce, in Holborn ; who was executed thereupon, though he had been acquitted on a trial, at the suit of the king. Carr, by degrees, became acquainted with a gang of people, who wrere concerned in procuring evidence on particular causes, when, and wherever such assistance was necessary ; to which
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