FALKIND, Lucius CARY, Viscount, was b., it is believed, at Burford, in Oxford shire, in 1010, and educated first at Trinity college, Dublin—his father, Henry Cary, viscount F., being at that time lord-deputy of Ireland—and afterwards at St. John's college, Cambridge. Even during his father's lifetime he enjoyed an ample fortune, left him by his grandfather. His earlier years were wholly devoted to study, and to the conversation of learned men, among whom he himself, by all accounts, must have occupied a first place. His residence (Burford) was only 10 rn. from Oxford, and here, according to Clarendon, "he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that university." The praise which that historian bestows on hini is extraordinary; but F. is one of those historical personages whose character and abilities we must take on the word of friends and panegyrists, if at all, for his deeds and writings are not equal to his fame. In 1633, he was made one of the gentle men of the privy-chamber to Charles I., and took part in the expedition against the Scots in 1639. In 1640, he entered parliament as member for Newport in the isle of Wight, and was at first distinguished by his patriotic zeal for the laws and constitution of his country. Against such men as Strafford and Finch he exhibited great severity of
speech, though even in their case his almost finical love of the forms of legal procedure was manifested. Shortly after, he conceived it to be his duty to assume quite a differ ent political standpoint, and to oppose what seemed to him the excesses and illegalities of the popular party. On the breaking out of the civil war, he consequently took part with the king, though mourning deeply the miseries which his country was about to suffer. He died a soldier's death at the battle of Newbury, Sept. 20. 1643. F. was quite unfitted to,play a practical part in the sanguinary politics of -Itis time; but his of :-e love o-Eiiklend, and of the rights of the nation, which bUrned in him as strongly when a royalist as when attacking Strafford and the bishops, enables us to understand better than we might otherwise have done, the deep indignation that pos sessed the English gentlemen who represented the commons, at the arrogant and unprin cipled policy of Charles's advisers. F. wrote various treatises, etc., the principal of which is A Discourse on the Infallibility of the Church of Rome.