Name Index

To

The Devon Carys (2 vols), Chapters 8-10

by

Fairfax Harrison

New York, (2 vols), Priv. print., The De Vinne Press (1920). illus.

Prepared by Michael Steer

The book is dedicated by its American author to 'Captain Lionel Cary RN of Torr Abbey in appreciation of two centuries of courtesy by his House to their Virginian kinsmen'. The Cary's have not been one of the great English governing families and have produced no really great man. They had, indeed, opportunity for conspicuous public service under Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, and then showed parts, but they never developed that combination of strenuousness with intellect (what Machiavelli called virtu) which has always been the characteristic of the successful governing Norman. The fact is that although we record the Cary's as Normans, their outstanding quality is Celtic, like that of the land where they first appear. As a family they are remarkable for iterated loyalty to lost causes: they devoted themselves to the fatal fortunes of Richard II, Henry VI, Charles I, and the Stuart Pretenders. The present index focuses solely upon those of the ancient family who were connected with Clovelly. The page numbers refer to pages in the actual text, rather than to the search engine page numbers. This rare and much sought-after book was produced digitally by Google from a copy in the University of Wisconsin Library collection and can be downloaded from HathiTrust. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

[Chapters 8-10 (Vol. 1, pp. 144-190), relating to the Carys of Clovelly]