In 1560, his mother bequeathed silver plate and a velvet bed tester to Edward's half-brother
Francis Walsingham.[4] His half-sister Mary Walsingham married
Walter Mildmay.[5]
Career
He was a Groom of the Privy Chamber, Keeper of
Marylebone Park, Master of the
Jewel House jointly with
John Astley from August 1595,[6] a teller of the exchequer,[7] and was knighted in 1596.[8]
Cary and
Thomas Knyvet were involved in a review of
older jewels in 1600 when some pieces were appraised by the goldsmiths
Hugh Kayle and Leonard Bush.[9] Some papers and warrants from Cary's tenure at the Jewel House, which passed to
Henry Mildmay, are held at the
Somerset Heritage Centre.[10] Cary also signed an inventory of Elizabeth's clothes and jewels.[11]
The auditor
Francis Gofton noted in December 1604 that the Queen's gold crown and other items weighing in total 53 ounces were kept by Edward Cary.[12]
A February 1606 payment to the goldsmith
John Williams includes his supply of gold chains and medallions with the king's portrait remaining "under the charge of Sir Edward Cary, Knight, one of the Jewelhouse".[13] Some of the plate made by Williams, in the style of the Tudor goldsmith
Cornelis Hayes and destined as
diplomatic gifts, remains in the
Kremlin.[14]Auditor Gofton managed the accounts of the disgraced
Lord Cobham.[15] He delivered Cobham's "garter" and "George" jewels to Cary in March 1605.[16]
Cary died on 18 July 1618 in London at Cary House in Great Bartholomew's,
West Smithfield, and was buried at Aldenham in the chancel of St John the Baptist on 6 August.[17]
Marriage and children
He married Katherine Knyvett (1543–1622),[18] a daughter of
Sir Henry Knevet or Knyvett (died 1546) and his wife Anne Pickering, and widow of
Henry Paget, 2nd Baron Paget. She was a sister of his colleague at court, Thomas Knyvett.[19] Their children included:
Adolphus Cary (died 1609), married Anne Corbett (died 1601) in August 1596.[23] A member of the
Earl of Nottingham's embassy to Spain in 1605. He was the subject of an epitaph by
John Davies of Hereford, addressed to his brother, Philip Cary.[24] His death from smallpox was investigated by the
College of Physicians.
William Paddy was exonerated and Dr Antoine was censured.[25]
Philip Cary (died 1631), married Elizabeth Bland
Katherine Cary, who married Henry Longueville of Wolverton in January 1597.[26]
Meriel Cary (died 1600), who married Thomas Crompton of Hounslow and
Skerne in October 1597,[29]Elizabeth I wrote to her mother, to "good Kate", on the occasion of her death. She is commemorated by a wall monument at Aldenham. In December 1616, their daughter Catherine Crompton (born 1599),[30] married
Thomas Lyttleton of
Hagley (his mother was
Meriel Lyttelton).[31]
Edward Cary, by his will, left his gold buttons to be divided between his two younger daughters Manners and Barrett. His widow continued to known as Katherine, Lady Paget. She died in 1622. In her will, she left her new fashionable couch and canopy to her daughter Lady Manners, and her cabinet to Lady Leke.[34]
References
^Arthur J. Collins, Jewels and Plate of Elizabeth I (London: British Museum, 1955), p. 5.
^John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 34.
^John Wolstenholme Cobb, Two Lectures on the History and Antiquities of Berkhamsted (London: Nichols, 1833), p. 33.
^John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 53.
^John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 37.
^M. S. Giuseppi, HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 16 (London, 1933), pp. 385-6.
^Frederick Devon, Issues of the Exchequer during the Reign of King James I (London: Rodwell, 1836), p. 29.
^Timothy Schroder, A Marvel to Behold: Gold and Silver at the Court of Henry VIII (Woodbridge, 2020), pp. 243-4, Kremlin Armoury MZ 642, 643: See also PRO E355/1955 & 1956.
^HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 16 (London, 1933), p. 331.
^HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 17 (London, 1938), p. 96.
^Henry W. Aldred, 'Baron Hunsden', William Smith, Old Yorkshire (London, 1890), p. 175.
^Richard Simpson, The Lady Falkland, Her Life (London, 1861), p. 129.
^Amy Kenny, 'Katherine Knyvett Paget Cary', Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney, A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen (Routledge, 2017), p. 499.
^Frederick Devon, Issues of the Exchequer during the Reign of King James I (London: Rodwell, 1836), p. 305: Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1603–1610, p. 147.
^Heather Wolfe, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, Life and Letters (RTM, 2001), p. 108.
^John Nichols, Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 3 (London, 1823), pp. 497-8: Robert Phillimore, Memoirs and Correspondence of George, Lord Lyttlton, vol. 1 (London, 1845), p. 20: John Noake, Worcestershire Relics (London, 1887), p. 270.