was blessed with in him. Glory be to God, we never had but one mind
throughout our lives. Our souls were wrapped up in each other's; our
aims and designs one, our loves one, and our resentments one. We so
studied one the other, that we knew each other's mind by our looks.
Whatever was real happiness, God gave it me in him; but to commend my
better half, which I want sufficient expression for, methinks is to
commend myself, and so may bear a censure; but, might it be permitted,
I could dwell eternally on his praise most justly; but thus without
offence I do, and so you may imitate him in his patience, his
prudence, his chastity, his charity, his generosity, his perfect
resignation to God's will, and praise God for him as long as you live
here, and with him hereafter in the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen.

Your father was born in Ware Park, in the month of June, in the year
of our Lord 1608, and was the tenth child of Sir Henry Fanshawe, whose
father bought Ten, in Essex, and Ware Park, in Hertfordshire. This,
your great-grandfather, came out of Derbyshire from a small estate,
Fanshawe-Gate, being the principal part that then this family had,
which exceeded not above two hundred pounds a year, and about so much
more they had in the town and parish of Dronfield, within two miles of
Fanshawe-Gate, where the family had been some hundreds of years, as
appears by the church of Dronfield, in the chancel of which church I
have seen several grave-stones with the names of that family, many of
them very ancient; and the chancel, which is very old, was and is kept
wholly for a burying-place for that family.

There is in the town a free school, with a very good house and noble
endowment, founded by your great-grandfather, who was sent for to
London in Henry the Eighth's time, by an uncle of his, and of his own
name, to be brought up a clerk under his uncle Thomas Fanshawe, who