CAREW, GEORGE, was the brother of the author of the Survey of Cornwall, and like him passed his early life in studying at Oxford, at the Inns of Court, and in continental travel. At the recommendation of Queen Elizabeth, who conferred on him the honour of knighthood, he was appointed secretary to Sir Christopher Hatton, and afterwards, having been promoted to a mastership in chancery, was sent as ambassador to the king of Poland. In the reign of James he was employed in negotiating the treaty of union with Scotland, and for several years held the office of ambassador to the Court of France. On his return he wrote a Relation of the State of France, with sketches of the leading persons at the Court of Henry IV. It is written in the classical style of the Elizabethan age, and has been appended by Dr Birch to his Historical View of the Negotiations between the Courts of England, France, and Brussels, from 1592 to 1617. During his residence in France, he communicated much important information to the historian De Thou in regard to the affairs of Poland, which has been incorporated into that author's History of His Own Times. He died about the year 1613.