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Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset

Car, Earl of Somerset

also: Car

James I's favourite, ennobled as Earl of Somerset; Austen suggests his surname supplies half the answer to her charade (CAR + PET = carpet, the king's 'pet').

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The History of England Juvenilia · 1 mention