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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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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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