686:, in the following century, who had conversed with persons who knew Carter, says that he preached solidly and succinctly. Campion, referring to the ministers of the neighbourhood, singles out Carter as one that boasted much of his learning, and as one who laboured to win converts. Canon Raines says that it is "clear that Carter was a man of extensive reading, and wrote ably and strongly, though upon the whole temperately, against his subtle and harassing theological opponents. He thoroughly understood the points of difference between himself and them, and was not disposed to lessen their importance; but there is no evidence that he was a vain man, or that he boasted of his attainments, although he had to thank Cambridge and his own industry for possessing no mean store of learning". He was twice married, his first wife, "Eme", being buried in 1590; the second wife was one Alice ...., one of his executors. There were at least seven children of the first marriage, of whom Dorothy, Abraham, John, and Mary survived. Hollinworth says that the sons walked in the godly ways of their father. Abraham had property at
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to be warden; in July Dee notes that he had had a letter from him. On Dee's arrival a very bitter hostility arose between them; Carter would not consent to the use of an organ in the church, which Dee favoured, nor would he agree to the payment of money for Dee's house-rent. Other scandalous quarrels
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and others. His name first appears in the local records on the occasion of the baptism of his child Sarah on 6 October 1573, when he is called "Mr. Olyver Carter". Herle, the warden of the college, complaining of the bitter antagonism of the Roman
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of his parish. In the same year he set his name to a remarkable paper drawn up by the
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January 1597 Carter was threatening Dee with a prosecution in London. On Sunday, 25 September that year Dee alludes to Carter's "impudent and evident disobedience" in the church (not "dissoluteness", as printed in the
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of the church on 20 March 1604–5, being called "one off the foure ffellowes of ye colledg"; and three days afterwards Mrs. Jane Dee, "wyffe to ye Righte Wor. John Dee", was buried.
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