ABSTRACT
The Voyage of Sir Nicholas Carewe was written by Thomas Wall, Windsor herald. The text is so tidy that one can safely assume that it was compiled from notes rather than written day by day in the course of an arduous continental journey. Sir Nicholas Carew belonged to a family established at Beddington in Surrey since the reign of Edward III. By way of punishment for Sir Nicholas Carew's misbehaviour at the French court in 1519, he was put in charge of Rysbank Tower near Calais - a task 'sore to hym displeasant' - but his disgrace was short-lived. For several years after his embassy to Bologna Sir Nicholas retained Henry VIII's favour. Dr. Sampson's career after the 1529 embassy stood in sharp contrast to that of Carew. He fully supported Henry VIII's remarriage to Anne Boleyn and in his Oratio, published in 1534, set out to demolish the theory of papal supremacy.
