8. ELIZABETH, born 22nd February 1662, to whom her mother bequeathed
600 pounds in her will in 1679, after which year nothing more of her
has been found.

Although some trouble has been taken to trace the descendants of Sir
Richard and Lady Fanshawe, all which has been discovered is, that
their daughters became their co-heirs about 1695; that Sir Edmund
Turnor, the husband of Lady Fanshawe's sister, in his will, dated 15th
May 1705, and proved in 1708, mentions his nieces Fanshawe, Grantham,
and niece Ann Fanshawe, alias Ryder, and Anne Lawrence, daughter of
his niece Ryder; and that the MS. from which this volume is printed is
said to have been transcribed in 1766 by Lady Fanshawe's "great
granddaughter, Charlotte Colman."





MEMOIRS OF LADY FANSHAWE




I have thought it good to discourse to you, my most dear and only son,
the most remarkable actions and accidents of your family, as well as
those more eminent ones of your father; and my life and necessity, not
delight or revenge, hath made me insert some passages which will
reflect on their owners, as the praises of others will be but just,
which is my intent in this narrative. I would not have you be a
stranger to it; because, by the example, you may imitate what is