Thomas or John Carte (1686–1754) was an English historian with Jacobite sympathies, who served as a Church of England clergyman.
In this sermon Carte defended King Charles I against the accusation that he was in league with Phelim O'Neill who pretended to act on a (probably false) royal commission issued.
On the discovery of the plot of Francis Atterbury, whose secretary he was, he was accused of high treason in 1722[4] and was forced to flee to France adopting the name of Philips.
[5] There he collected materials for illustrating a London edition of the Historium sui temporis of Jacques Auguste de Thou planned by Samuel Buckley.
Richard Mead made it possible for Carte and Samuel Buckley to publish the London edition of de Thou's Latin History in 1733.
[9] He then started work on a "General History of England" as an improvement on Paul de Rapin's Histoire d'Angleterre.
He lost the trust of many of his patrons by including an anecdote about a miraculous healing of King's Evil by royal touch, given by the "Old Pretender" in the first volume.