Samuel Carte

After attending Magdalen College, Oxford, he held many ecclesiastical positions in his adult life, publishing two sermons.

Here, he was educated at the local free school, after which he matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford University on 10 June 1669, at the age of 17.

On 7 January 1699, he was appointed both as the Preacher throughout the diocese of Lincoln, and the rector of Eastwell, Leicestershire, the latter position he held up until his death.

[3][5] In the 1720s, he also engaged in a lengthy argument with John Jackson, a controversial unitarian cleric of Leicester Cathedral, concerning the validity of baptism by immersion and the Trinity.

[3][4] Carte's most important publication was antiquarian in nature: Tabula Chronologica Archiepiscopatuum et Episcopatuum in Anglia et Wallia [Chronological table of Archbishoprics and Bishoprics in England and Wales] (1714), a compilation of lists on the descent of the offices of archbishops and bishops.

He was a person of great learning, exemplary life and conversation, strict piety, sound judgment, orthodox principles, and a zealous able defender of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity He died April 16th, 1740, in the 87th year of his age, in full assurance of a joyful resurrection.