They became the property of the University of Oxford, and were deposited in the Bodleian Library, where they are known as the Carte Manuscripts.

His antiquarian learning caused him to be appointed a member of the Historical Manuscripts Commission in 1869, and in that capacity he acted as joint editor ( with John Prendergast ) of the eight-volume Report on the Carte Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library ( 1871 ) and the Calendar of Irish State Papers during the reign of James I ( 4 vols., 1872 – 1877 ).

The Carte Manuscripts are archived historical papers collected by Thomas Carte ( 1686 – 1754 ).

Carte's papers were arranged for binding in 276 volumes in 1862, and in 1871 Charles William Russell and John Prendergast edited the eight-volume Report on the Carte Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library.

A catalogue of the Carte Papers is available via the Online Catalogues of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library.

* Medieval Carte Manuscripts, at the site of the Bodleian Library.

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James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, refers to " Buttiphante " in a letter of January 1684 ( Carte Manuscripts, Bodleian, 161, f. 47v ), while Sir John Percival, progenitor of the Earls of Egmont, recorderd in his diary for the 16 March 1686 that the troopers " being att Buttevant Fair this day took Will Tirry and his wife and brought them hither and I examined them ".

A hundred years later, Samuel Buckley published a critical edition, the material for which had been collected in France itself by Thomas Carte ( 1733 ).

Sullivan had been satisfied with the libretto, but two months after Ida opened, Sullivan told Carte that " it is impossible for me to do another piece of the character of those already written by Gilbert and myself.

In 1875, however, producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte reunited Gilbert and Sullivan to create a one-act piece, Trial by Jury, which became a surprise hit.

Remembering Thespis, Carte reunited Gilbert and Sullivan, and the result was the one-act comic opera Trial by Jury.

On tour in 1871, Carte conducted Cox and Box by composer Arthur Sullivan and dramatist F. C. Burnand, in tandem with English adaptations of two Offenbach pieces, called Rose of Auvergne and Breaking the Spell, in which Carte's client Selina Dolaro appeared.

During the late 1860s and early 1870s, from within his father's firm in Charing Cross and, by late 1874, from a nearby address in Craig's Court, Carte began to build an operatic, concert and lecture management agency.

Hesketh Pearson said of Carte: " His acute business sense was aided by a frank and agreeable manner ....

In 1874, Carte leased the Opera Comique, a small theatre off The Strand, where he presented a Brussels company in the British premiere of the operetta Giroflé-Giroflà by Charles Lecocq, followed by The Broken Branch, an English adaptation of Gaston Serpette's La branche cassée.

Carte knew that Gilbert had worked with Sullivan to create Thespis in 1871, and he now suggested that Sullivan could write the music for Trial by Jury.

Carte managed the first tour of Trial by Jury, which stopped at the Theatre Royal in Dublin, Ireland, in September 1875.

Even after the initial production of Trial by Jury, however, Carte continued to produce continental operetta, touring in the summer of 1876 with a repertoire consisting of English adaptations of French opera bouffe ( Offenbach ’ s La Périchole, and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Lecocq's La fille de Madame Angot and Léon Vasseur's La Timbale d ' argent ), paired with two one-act English after-pieces ( Happy Hampstead and Trial by Jury ).

Encouraged by the success of Trial by Jury, Carte made attempts in 1875 – 76 to raise money for either a revival of Thespis or a new piece.

After promotional efforts by Carte and Sullivan, who included some of the Pinafore music in several promenade concerts at Covent Garden, Pinafore became a hit.

On 31 July 1879, the last day of their agreement with Carte, the directors of the Comedy Opera Company attempted to repossess the Pinafore set by force during a performance, causing a celebrated fracas.

Carte chose the name in honour of the Savoy Palace, which had been built on the site in the thirteenth century by Peter, Count of Savoy.

During the years when the Gilbert and Sullivan operas were being written, Richard D ' Oyly Carte also produced operas and plays by other writing teams, as well as other works to fill the Savoy Theatre in between new operas.

In March 1884, Sullivan told Carte that " it is impossible for me to do another piece of the character of those already written by Gilbert and myself.

The opera was performed for a century by the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company in Britain and many other opera companies and repertory companies worldwide.

A revised version of their 1877 work, The Sorcerer, coupled with their one-act Trial by Jury ( 1875 ), played at the Savoy while Carte and their audiences awaited their next work.

Iolanthe had the distinction of being the first Gilbert and Sullivan opera performed professionally in London by a non-D ' Oyly Carte company.

It was first performed by the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy Theatre in London on 22 January 1887.

* Geoffrey Toye, the D ' Oyly Carte musical director for the first London revival in 1921, supplied a new overture to replace the original overture arranged by Hamilton Clarke.

In 1875, Richard D ' Oyly Carte, who was then managing the Royalty Theatre for Selina Dolaro, brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to write their second show, a one-act opera entitled Trial by Jury.

* April 2 – Thomas Carte, English historian ( b. 1686 )

His father, Richard Carte ( 1808 – 1891 ), was a flautist, and his mother was the former Eliza Jones ( 1814 – 1885 ); they had eloped, to the disappointment of her father, Thomas Jones, a clergyman.

Commissioned by impresario Richard D ' Oyly Carte in the late 1880s, it was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt.

* Thomas Carte, History of the Life of James, Duke of Ormonde ( 6 vols., Oxford, 1851 )

Thomas Carte ( also John Carte ) ( 1686 – 2 April 1754 ) was an English historian.

* Napoleon Bonaparte, " Thomas Carte ," Napoleon ’ s Notes on English History made on the Eve of the French Revolution, illustrated from Contemporary Historians and referenced from the findings of Later Research by Henry Foljambe Hall.

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Significant modern impresarios in the traditional sense include Thomas Beecham, Rudolf Bing, Sergei Diaghilev, Richard D ' Oyly Carte, Fortune Gallo, Sol Hurok, Aaron Richmond, and jazz festival producer George Wein.

* Thomas Carte, Life of James, Duke of Ormonde ( 1851 );

James II's papers identified the father as " E. Carlingson " ( according to the copy made by Thomas Carte around 1740 ) or " the Earl of Carlington " ( in the copy by James Macpherson in the 1770s, the independence of which is unclear ).

Thomas Carte gave a first tranche of Irish papers to the Bodleian in 1753.

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Some of the more prominent English nonjurors included Charles Leslie, George Hickes, Henry Dodwell, Francis Cherry, Robert Nelson, Nathaniel Spinckes, Jeremy Collier, Thomas Brett, Thomas Deacon, Roger Laurence, Archibald Campbell, Richard Rawlinson, Thomas Carte, Hilkiah Bedford, John Blackburne, Thomas Bowdler, Laurence Howell, William Law and Richard Russell.

The numerous daytime " fringe " activities have included performances, master classes and lectures by members of the original D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company ( such as Valerie Masterson, Thomas Round, Gillian Knight, Kenneth Sandford, John Ayldon and John Reed ) and other professionals, and a late night Festival Club, where cabaret performances are given each evening after the opera, and sometimes a G & S singalong is conducted.

* Thomas Carte, noted English historian, once held the rectory and was buried in the church.

Recently he filmed a number of readings of love scenes from a selection of classic and modern love scenes, from Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d ' Urbervilles to Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss for The Carte Noire Readers.