procured your great-grandfather's life to be put with his in the
patent of Remembrancers of his Majesty's Exchequer, which place he
enjoyed after the death of his uncle, he having left no male issue,
only two daughters, who had both great fortunes in land and money, and
married into the best families in Essex in that time. This was the
rise of your great-grandfather, who, with his office and his
Derbyshire estate, raised the family to what it hath been and now is.
He had one only brother, Robert Fanshawe, who had a good estate in
Derbyshire, and lived in Fanshawe-Gate, which he hired of his eldest
brother, your great-grandfather.

In this house my mother was born, Margaret, the eldest daughter of
Robert, your great-great-uncle: he married one of the daughters of
Rowland Eyes, of Bradway, in the same county of Derby, by whom he had
twelve sons and two daughters: that family remains in Dronfield to
this day.

Your great-grandfather married Alice Bourchier, of the last Earl of
Bath's family,[Footnote: This was not the fact. She was the daughter
of Anthony Bourchier, Esq., of the County of Gloucester, a family in
no way connected with the noble house of Bath.] by whom he had only
one son that lived, Henry, which was your grandfather; afterwards,
when he had been two years a widower, he married one of the daughters
of Customer Smythe, who had six sons and six daughters: his sons were
Sir John Smythe, Sir Thomas Smythe, Sir Richard Smythe, Sir Robert
Smythe, Mr. William Smythe, and Mr. Edward Smythe, who died young: two
were knighted by Queen Elizabeth, and two by King James; the eldest
was grandfather of the now Lord Strangford; the second had been
several times ambassador, and all married into good families, and left
great estates to their posterity, which remain to this day. The