London flat

It seem that in order to have a place to reside in London when at the court (but also to probably ensure housekeeping) Elizabeth lended Sommersett House (look at it the current building is quite beautful, though I couldn't manage to find what it look like in 1574 at best here 17th century) technically the place was still royal property (unlike Hundson house who was all Henry) . The estate was kept in the care of his family even after his death as his wife was made keeper shortly after.

1560's

Hum well a new queen and a new decade to work onto, the info on what exactly did Henry do between Elizabeth crowning and his governorship of Berwick were a bit sparser than I first expected. Its not really all that eventful, but they are a few highlight I might work on more.

-Elizabeth near death in 1562, led him to be recommend to the privy council

-His appointement to the position of captain of the gentleman pensionner.

-His M.A in art at Cambridge.

-His trip to France to give the Knight of Gardner to the king.

While in the same decade is appointement as governor, will be fairly eventful and almost an episode onto itself. I may write more onto his children when I feel like it.

Baron

So let me start by correcting myself here, by talking how I wasn't able to find anything Henry Knighting taking place in 1558, I've actually re-read the devon Cary and actually he mentions that in fact he was knighted of the order of the bath at the moment of Elizabeth Crowning (Source) so it was another order than the one of the Garter. 

So let's move on and finally give him the barony of Hunsdon on 13 Jan. 1559 (Source), which apparently included lands in Eastwick, huntingfield in suffolk and Kent (next page from the Devon Cary) , most importantly it gave him Hunsdon house (you can see here how it looked in 1554 and the 400 pound grant a year (according to wiki)  along with an additional 4000 pound (according to the history of parliment)probably wasn't too bad either. I wonder what exactly was the though process behind the choosing of Hunsdon as the location of his barony.  It could be simply convenience or some other pragmatically reason, though the idea of a more personal connection seem possible to me if either Henry or Anne Morgan were at Hunsdon with Elizabeth in the past, but seriously I have no proof of this. While the history of parliament does mention that it indeed was because of childhood connection, its exact nature however isn't mention.

Apparently t the task given to him in Elizabeth household until he became governor was master of hawk, and I can't help but think that it sound pretty bad ass.

Here some more info on Hunsdon house

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43624

Greenwich tournament

Well not only was I unable to find much about the tournament, but GTA V taking my time, luckily for your readers, Person of interest making me pause the game. So what about the Greenwich tournament, well it took place in November of 1559 and it wasn't just Henry Carey who won it, it was also Robert Carey. (here some source for clarification, its the most detail account I've found although I have yet to find something more direct that talk about it, I have seen the same terms used often but never the source)

One thing I've notice is that both Robert and Henry are considered winner, I'm not familiar with Jousting, but I've seen something mention about an offender and defender (I think it refer to how many spears you broke versus how many time you managed to get miss), meaning that perhaps two position can win, but that's just me and I'm probably wrong. Also there is an expression often mention to refer to" holding the list" I can't help but think that might help the two were holding their position from challengers, but how long it was the case, I have no idea.

Though they were apparently both considered victor, it safe to Robert Dudley the one that seem to have benefited the most from the tourney.

 

But yeah, take everything I say here with a grain of salt.

First born son

First born son and Berkely Castle

What to say about George Carey? Well I won't dwell too much on details today, because I believe some episode need to be looked up more precisely in themselves than in summary (and they are many years later in our story). He is the second lord of Hunsdon, yes, however he died . Apparently for venerial disease and the "cure" against it if wikipedia is to be believe and apparently his father did the same treatement  according to Weir.) He seem to follow the footsteps of his father for the most part, but don't seem quite to shine (though he did go to college apparently at the age of 13, a much younger age than his father who got his MA in art when he was 38 ). However, if there is one thing I found rather interesting is that he apparently was a pretender to Mary Queen of Scott, but it like I said before it is for later.

Most of them give his birthdate as circa 1547 , though the dictionnary of national biography gives you more precise one and place it even further down on 26 february 1548, citing Berkeley Castle muniments. (I think the connection between Berkeley Castle and the Carey is that his sole daughter ended up marrying a Berkeley)

Allow me to disgress but trying to find the reference for that date I've actually found something rather informative and who has reference to Henry Carey.

Descriptive catalogue of the charters and muniments in the possession of Lord Fitzhardinge at Berkeley castle, (1892)

Here a few though on some entry

721. page 213 The thomas More definitively is not the more famous Thomas More at the time since his head and his neck already had been split by that time for many years, but it seem to be guy Henry put in charge of his land in Bukchighamshire (though I really think I'm misreading the entry). What weird is that the entry is dated from 1553 and Henry still 5 years away from being Lord Hunsdon. Then again it is a catalogue, so they probably added it in in order

737. Page 219 Well add another name to plug as this seem to be Sir William Cecil apparently secretary of state  at the time of the entry of 1552, I can't find anything about a College of St. Stephen in England

739. Page 220 Like a lot of the entry I can't quite make sense of it, something about gold.

754 and 756. Page 223 His appointement to sommert house, I already knew that. The other one not sure I understand.

762. Page 226 Henry Carey fighting pirate, fuck yeah!

775. Page 228 Deed of sale, but at least this time he's buying something

780. Page 229 Hum first time I heard of John Colyn being a ward of Henry Carey and George and so far my google search to lead to squat (there a chance other record spell it diffently). Although this ain't the only person who became George Carey ward as Henry Sanford was also apparently  one too (you can find him on the DNB)

784. Page 230 Hot mortgage action!

791. Page 232 The sequel!

796. Page 233 I already knew Henry Carey was the bodyguard of queen during the spanish armada episode.

799 & 800. Page 234 Another appointement, justice of the forest sound like a super hero name.

802. Page 235 Well...I guess its nice the sister get to join the brother...

805 & 809 page 236&237 More justice business

815 Page 238 Henry seem to have more ward than Batman! (ok its not a very high number, I admit), sorta suprise I haven't of any of those people so far.

78 Page 287 Well here Henry Carey Will apparently

162 page 302 Apparently there Henry getting sue to pay some debt

35 page 332 Some letter business, though the whole intrigue of the french ambassador sound kind of cool

Wow I really got sidetrack, but at least I got more material than I though...sorry George

 
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