On his return, he spoke with Elizabeth directly[3] and then wrote a report, De rebus Sueciae et Poloniae, now part of MS 250 at Lambeth Library, a transcription of which is available.
[5] According to John Chamberlain, "Mr Carew, a master in chancery" rode north to Edinburgh to meet James VI and I in March 1603 at the Union of the Crowns, in an unsuccessful attempt to gain an office.
Thomas Edmondes wrote that she had intervened in his diplomatic appointments against his wishes, but the Lord Treasurer Robert Cecil's decision had prevailed.
On his return, he wrote a Relation of the State of France, written in the classical style of the Elizabethan age and featuring sketches of the leading persons at the court of Henry IV.
[note 1] The work A Relation of the State of Polonia, produced between 1598 and 1603, used to be attributed to Carew, but in 2014 Sobecki definitively identified John Peyton as the author and the coronation of James VI and I in 1603 as the date of completion.