After this Carew was employed on every kind of service, in Scotland, Turkey, Italy, Flanders, France; his admirable mastery of the French language and his skill on horseback with the sword and with the lance making him everywhere remarkable. Henry VIII. helped him to a rich wife, but died before the marriage, which was celebrated on Edward VI.'s coronation day, when the bridegroom, as one of the six challengers, 'like Ulysses in honour of his Penelope, wore her sleeve upon his head-piece, and acquitted himself very honourably.' Like Ulysses, too, when he had gained his Penelope, Carew 'could not rest from travel.' He helped to put down the anti-Protestant rising in the West, and on the King's death hastened to proclaim his Catholic sister. But life, either at Mohuns Ottery or at his wife's place in Lincolnshire, was too safe and too dull for the old campaigner. He became involved in Wyatt's conspiracy, and had to fly to Antwerp, where he was seized by Philip's myrmidons, and had the adventure in Sir John Cheke's company which has already been mentioned. [Sidenote: Carew in favour with Elizabeth.] At Elizabeth's accession Carew was received into favour, but that peculiar Court did not suit his humour, and he offended Gloriana by joining the ranks of those who urged her to marry. Her resentment was not very long or deep, and she 'gave him very good things, which were as liberally, if not wastefully, consumed.' In 1560 he was sent on a confidential mission to Scotland, where the dissensions of Norfolk and Grey, and her Majesty's own double dealing, threatened disaster to the English arms. Fearing to trust anyone, he was obliged to write his own letters with a hand more used to the sword than the pen. On his return Elizabeth acknowledged his good service, and 'being somewhat pleasant with him, thanked him for his letters of his own penning, commending him to be a very good secretary, for indeed he wrote them with no more pain than she had labour to read them, for as he spent a night in writing, so she spent a whole night in reading.'[147] [Sidenote: Carew's claims to property in Ireland.]