favour to the bottom of his displeasure, and was bruised to death.' 'This'—we quote Fuller all the time—'was the true cause of his execution. He was charged with high treason, as accomplice with the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Montague, Sir Edward Neville, and others, in a plot to depose King Henry the Eighth, and place Cardinal Pole on the throne. They were all found guilty, and sentenced to death, with the exception of the Cardinal's brother, who saved his own life by betraying his confederates. The evidence against Sir Nicholas appears to have been slight, but he was out of favour, and everything was turned to his prejudice. He was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1539.' Holinshed said 'he made a godly confession of his fault, and his superstitious faith.' He was a Roman Catholic. Sir Nicholas Carew married Elizabeth, daughter and afterwards sole heir of Sir Thomas Bryan, Master of Common Pleas, by whom he had one son and three or four daughters.
The son, Sir Francis Carew, never married, but having regained a considerable portion of the estates forfeited on his father's attainder, during the reign of Elizabeth, he bequeathed his property to his sister's son, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, on condition that he assumed the name and arms of Carew.
No. 27.
AN OLD MAN'S HEAD.
By Vandyck.
No. 28.
MAN'S HEAD.
By Tintoretto.
