Well I didn't expect that.

Ok once again I got back in time just as it look like things are moving forward, but that's unintentional on my part (I swear). I first wanted to write about Henry Carey as a tournament (apparently he was quite good at it if luminarium is to be believe) and it would make sense since his characterisation  is essentially the one of a guy that love to fight.

My research however brought me to a most interesting book that turned to be much more informative than I initially believed. The Devon Carys a 1920 book that actually turn out to rifle with information on Henry Carey. It  has a lot of information and it seem to verify (I don't think that I'd consider him under the influence of his mother). I won't cover everything mention in the book, but at least go to the point I am now.  Let us start at page 325. 

Just a few things on the book, before I go to what actually got my attention in the book.

-Harrison (the author) put down the marriage in London citing the book I've already mention on the matter, though his reading a wee bit different than mine and instead assume that the mention of "of the family of the king" is not a refering to Henry, but to Anne (refering to the household probably because of a post she was holding). Amusingly enough in contrast to the "romantic" interpretation of William Standford/Mary Boleyn that we have nowaday, Harrison say that his mother probably would have been disappointed by his marriage. I wonder what exactly is meant when he say that she brought him something of a character.

- Can't find a picture of the miniature (I think its the one called potrait of Lady Hunsdon by Levina Teerlic, it annoy me to no end)

-Henry did not only only voted for the reunion with Rome, but also for Edward VI prayer book.

Now here something that blew my mind

Henry Carey may have been accused of taking part in some divination and apparently was accuse of sending enchantement against the queen life.

Ok doing a nativity its sorta like doing an horoscope, but apparently at the time it was considering pretty bad (considering apparently the group is accused of killing a child and blind the other). (Page 328-329) Its a thing that don't quite fit, since I haven't found anything that remotely tied John Dee and Henry Carey together so far. Heck its just refer to a Carey and has no mention whatsoever of him being our man and the letter itself come from anyone tied directly to Henry, although the letter does seem to indicate that we are talking about people in Elizabeth household. (here some more source), but while Dee did indeed got in trouble over the incident, Henry seem to have gotten off without trouble. Then again the letter is dated from June and according to Charlotte Fell Smith biography, Dee was out by august.

Apparently it was by 1553 that Elizabeth and John Dee first got in touch and would continue to service her for many years. So I'm incline to think that Henry got accuse because he too was working with Elizabeth at the time.

(hum someone giving +1 to my article, I wonder who it is, whoever its is thank you)

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I am compel to think than most of what define the relation between and the future Queen Elizabeth came from the years during the reign of Mary Tudor (mind you the fact that they are cousin probably played a lot). Though aside from the reference to Henry trying to match her up with the duke of Savoy, there is one I came on that boggle my mind a bit more than it should.

It comes from memories of the court of Queen Elizabeth (christ that book almost 200 years old and you can find find it at page 243) but you can even find reference to it in Weir book. Essentially, Henry Carey gave away thousands of pounds to Elizabeth during her  time in the tower of London around 1554. 

Now while I have no reason to doubt this at the same time I can't help but feel that this should have more credential. Mostly because it is a very vague amount and usually financial book keeping has been more reliable and also they don't seem to be any reference to where Lucy Aikin essentially got that fact I have to take it at face value somewhat.

Plus I do wonder where exactly Henry had thousands of pounds to spare or how he got them to the tower or something that would be probably be clandestine (considering that Elizabeth is in jail at the time), though if you look at Aikin she mention that those thousands of pounds were given to her during her emprisonnement with no specific mention of the tower of London (while she famously did spend time there, it was for about  so it might have been given to her during her time where she was under house arrest and perhaps the reason why Henry was in money trouble during that period was because he was shuffling fund to Elizabeth, but that's just me speculating.

I also saw that apparently Buckinghamshire was apparently the place of pro-Mary uprising, considering Henry might have been there I wonder if it affected him in some way. At around page 8 )

 

(Also if Henry Carey expedition to the duke of Savoy being something of a ploy by Elizabeth seem to be confirm my Elizabeth I : a life by David Loades around 92-93 as it being essentially a distraction)