elaborately observed among peoples the least sophisticated. In North America most that we know of many great tribes, Iroquois, Hurons, Delawares and others, was collected long ago, and when precision was less esteemed, while the tribes have been much contaminated by our civilization. It has been unavoidably necessary to criticize, at almost every stage, the conclusions and hypotheses of the one monumental collection of facts and theories, Mr Frazer’s Totemism (1910). Persons who would pursue the subject further may consult the books mentioned in the text, and they will find a copious, perhaps an exhaustive bibliography in the references of Mr Frazer’s most erudite volumes, with their minute descriptive account not only of the totemism, but of the environment and general culture of hundreds of human races, in Savagery and in the Lower and Higher Barbarism. (A. L.)
TOTILA (d. 552), king of the Ostrogoths, was chosen king after the death of his uncle Ildibad in 541, his real name being, as is seen from the coinage issued by him, Baduila. The work of his life was the restoration of the Gothic kingdom in Italy and he entered upon the task at the very beginning of his reign, collecting together and inspiring the Goths and winning a victory over the troops of the emperor Justinian, near Faenza. Having gained another victory in 542, this time in the valley of Mugello, he left Tuscany for Naples, captured that city and then received the submission of the provinces of Lucania, Apulia and Calabria. Totila’s conquest of Italy was marked not only by celerity but also by mercy, and Gibbon says “none were deceived, either friends or enemies, who depended on his faith or his clemency.” Towards the end of 545 the Gothic king took up his station at Tivoli and prepared to starve Rome into surrender, making at the same time elaborate preparations for checking the progress of Belisarius who was advancing to its relief. The Imperial fleet, moving up the Tiber and led by the great general, only just failed to succour the city, which must then, perforce, open its gates to the Goths. It was plundered, although Totila did not carry out his threat to make it a pasture for cattle, and when the Gothic army withdrew into Apulia it was from a scene of desolation. But its walls and other fortifications were soon restored, and Totila again marching against it was defeated by Belisarius, who, however, did not follow up his advantage. Several cities were taken by the Goths, while Belisarius remained inactive and then left Italy, and in 549 Totila advanced a third time against Rome, which he captured through the treachery of some of its defenders. His next exploit was the conquest and plunder of Sicily, after which he subdued Corsica and Sardinia and sent a Gothic fleet against the coasts of Greece. By this time the emperor Justinian was taking energetic measures to check the Goths. The conduct of a new campaign was entrusted to the eunuch Narses; Totila marched against him and was defeated and killed at the battle of Tagina in July 552.
See E. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, edited by J. B. Bury (1898), vol. iv; T. Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders (1896), vol. iv. and Kampfner, Totila, König der Ostgoten (1889).
TOTNES, GEORGE CAREW, or Carey, Earl of (1555–1629),
English politician and writer, son of Dr George Carew, dean of
Windsor, a member of a well-known Devonshire family, and Anne,
daughter of Sir Nicholas Harvey, was born on the 29th of May
1555,[1] and was educated at Broadgates Hall, Oxford, where he
took the degree of M.A. in 1588. He distinguished himself
on the field on several occasions and filled important military
commands in Ireland. In 1584 he was appointed gentleman pensioner
to Queen Elizabeth, whose favour he gained. In 1586
he was knighted in Ireland. Refusing the embassy to France,
Sir George Carew was made master of the ordnance in Ireland
in 1588, in 1590 Irish privy councillor; and in 1592 lieutenant general
of the ordnance in England, in which capacity he
accompanied Essex in the expedition to Cadiz in 1596 and to
the Azores in 1597. In 1598 he attended Sir Robert Cecil, the
ambassador, to France. He was appointed treasurer at war to
Essex in Ireland in March 1599, and on the latter’s sudden
departure in September of the same year, leaving the island
in disorder, Carew was appointed a lord justice, and in 1600
president of Munster, where his vigorous measures enabled the
new lord deputy, Lord Mountjoy, to suppress the rebellion. He
returned to England in 1603 and was well received by James I.,
who appointed him vice-chamberlain to the queen the same
year, master of the ordnance in 1608, and privy councillor in
1616; and on the accession of Charles I. he became treasurer
to Queen Henrietta Maria in 1626. He sat for Hastings in the
parliament of 1604, and on the 4th of June 1605 was created
Baron Carew of Clopton, being advanced to the earldom of
Totnes on the 5th of February 1626. In 1610 he revisited
Ireland to report on the state of the country; and in 1618 pleaded
in vain for his friend Sir Walter Raleigh. He died on the 27th
of March 1629, leaving no issue. He married Joyce, daughter of
William Clopton, of Clopton in Warwickshire.
Besides his fame as president of Munster, where his administration forms an important chapter in Irish history, Carew had a considerable reputation as an antiquary. He was the friend of Camden, of Cotton and of Bodley. He made large collections of materials relating to Irish history and pedigrees, which he left to his secretary, Sir Thomas Stafford, reputed on scanty evidence to be his natural son; while some portion has disappeared, 39 volumes after coming into Laud’s possession are now at Lambeth, and 4 volumes in the Bodleian Library. A calendar of the former is included in the State Papers series edited by J. S. Brewer and W. Bullen. His correspondence from Munster with Sir Robert Cecil was edited in 1864 by Sir John Maclean, for the Camden Society, and his letters to Sir Thomas Roe (1615–1617) in 1860. Other letters or papers are in the Record Office; among the MSS. at the British Museum and calendared in the Hist. MSS. Com. Series, Marquess of Salisbury’s MSS. Stafford published after Carew’s death Pacata Hibernia, or the History of the Late Wars in Ireland (1633), the authorship of which he ascribes in his preface to Carew, but which has been attributed to Stafford himself. This was reprinted in 1810 and re-edited in 1896. A Fragment of the History of Ireland, a translation from a French version of an Irish original, and King Richard II .... in Ireland from the French, both by Carew, are printed in Walter Harris’s Hibernica (1757). According to Wood, Carew contributed to the history of the reign of Henry V. in Speed’s Chronicle. His opinion on the alarm of the Spanish invasion in 1596 has also been printed.
See also the Life of Sir P. Carew, ed. by Sir J. Maclean (1857).
TOTNES, a market town and municipal borough in the Totnes parliamentary division of Devonshire, England, on the Dart, 29 m. S.S.W. of Exeter, by the Great Western railway. Pop. (1901), 4035. It stands on the west bank of the river, and is joined by a bridge to the suburb of Bridgetown. It was formerly a walled town, and two of the four gates remain. Many old houses are also preserved, and in High Street their overhanging upper stories, supported on pillars, form a covered way for foot-passengers. The castle, founded by the Breton Juhel, lord of the manor after the Conquest, was already dismantled under Henry VIII.; but its ivy-clad keep and upper walls remain. The grounds form a public garden. Close by are the remains of St Mary’s Priory, which comprise a large Perpendicular gatehouse, refectory, precinct wall, abbot’s gate and still-house. A grammar school, founded 1554, occupied part of the Priory, but was removed in 1874 to new buildings. The Perpendicular church of St Mary contains a number of interesting tombs and effigies dating from the 15th century onwards, and much excellent carved work. The guildhall is formed from part of the Priory. Vessels of 200 tons can lie at the wharves near the bridge. The industries include brewing, flour milling, and the export of agricultural produce, chiefly corn and cider. Trout and salmon are plentiful in the river. The town is governed by a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. Area 1423 acres.
Totnes (Toteneis, Totton) was a place of considerable importance in Saxon times; it possessed a mint in the reign of Æthelred, and was governed by a portreeve. In the Domesday Survey it appears as a mesne borough under Juhel of Totnes, founder of the castle and priory; it had 95 burgesses within and 15 without the borough, and rendered military service according
- ↑ According to his own statement, Archaeologia, xii. 401. In the introduction, however, to the Calendar of Carew MSS. the date of his birth is given as 1558, and his admission into Broadgates Hall in 1572, aged 15. In the preface to Carew’s Letters to Roe it is given as 1557.
