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unusual facts about Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth


Enfield Old Park

In 1596, Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth recorded that "The Queen came to dinner at Enfield House and had toils traps set up in the park to shoot the bucks after dinner".


John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork

He published a translation of the letters of Pliny the Younger in 1751, and Remarks on the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift in the same year, and the Memoirs of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth.

Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth

In 1611, we was made the Master of the Robes to the Prince, in 1617 his Chamberlain, and on 6 February 1622, he was created Baron Carey of Leppington.


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