latest letter therein is dated 26th January 1665. The rough copies of
his correspondence from that time until his death, are preserved in
the Harleian MS. 7010, in the British Museum, the most interesting
parts of which are added to the other extracts.

Lady Fanshawe wrote her Memoir in the year 1676, and died on the 20th
January 1679-80, in her fifty-fifth year. Her will is dated on the
30th October, 31st Car. II., 1679, in which she desired that her body
might be privately buried in the Chapel of St. Mary in Ware Church,
close to her husband, in the vault which she had purchased of the
Bishop of London. She ordered her house in Little Grove, in East
Barnet, with all the jewels, plate, and pictures therein, to be sold.
To her son, Sir Richard Fanshawe, she bequeathed the lease of the
manor of Faunton Hall, in Essex, which she held of the Bishop of
London, on condition that when he possessed his office in the Custom-
House, or any other employment of the value of 500 pounds a year, he
should pay to his eldest sister Katherine 1200 pounds, or deliver up
the said lease to her. She also left him her own and her husband's
picture set in gold, his father's picture by Lilly, and her own by
Toniars, with all her seals, particularly a gold ring, with an onyx-
stone, engraved, her purse of medals, all the gold she had by her at
the time of her death, a Spanish towel, and comeing-cloth, together
with all the books, MSS., writings, &c., sticks, guns, swords, and
turning instruments, which belonged to her late husband. To her
daughter, Katherine Fanshawe, she left 600 pounds of which sum 500
pounds were given her by her grandfather, Sir John Harrison, at his
decease, a warrant for a Baronet, probably her husband's, and all her
jewels. To her daughters Anne Fanshawe and Elizabeth Fanshawe 600
pounds each, of which sums 500 pounds were given to each of them by
their said grandfather. To her daughter Katherine she bequeathed the