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Thomas (also known as John) Carte was an English historian, born near Rugby, the son of antiquarian Samuel Carte. Having graduated from Oxford, he took the degree of MA from King's College, Cambridge in 1706. He was ordained around 1714, but did not take the Oath of Allegiance. At this time he also preached a sermon in Bath Abbey, in which he defended Charles I. The subsequent controversy was published as The Irish Massacre set in a Clear Light in 1714. As secretary of Francis Atterbury (1663-1732), he implicated in the plot to place James III on the throne. Accused of high treason in 1722, he fled to France under the name Philips, and used his time there to collect material for a London edition of Jacques Auguste de Thou's (1553-1617) Historia sui tempis, ultimately issued in 1733. Pardoned in 1728, Carte became rector of Yattendon, Berkshire for the rest of his life. In 1735-46 he published his three-volume Life of James, Duke of Ormond, the material for which constitutes some of the Carte papers. A General History of England followed, with the final violume published posthumously in 1755. An expanded version of his life of Ormond was issued by Oxford University Press in 1851.
The papers of Thomas Carte (1686-1754) were gathered by him as part of his researches for The Life of James, Duke of Ormond. His wife's second husband later sold them to the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
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