Harding, of London, Esq., and secondly William Butler, of Bidenham, in
Bedfordshire, Esq.; Johanna was the wife of Thomas Fanshawe, of Ware
Park, Herts, Esq.; Katherine was first the wife of Sir Rowland
Hayward, Lord Mayor of London, and secondly of Sir John Scott, of
Scott's Hall, in Kent; Alice married Edward Harris, of Woodham, in
Essex, Esq.; and Elizabeth, the sixth and youngest daughter, was the
wife of Sir Henry Fanshawe, Remembrancer of the Exchequer, father of
Sir Richard Fanshawe, the ambassador. Sir ROBERT Poyntz, of
Leicestershire, is a mistake of Lady Fanshawe's for Sir JAMES Poyntz,
of North Oxenden, in Essex, who married Mary, the sister and co-
heiress of Sir John Smythe, son of Sir Richard, of Bidborough, before
mentioned, and GRANDDAUGHTER of the Customer.]

Your great-grandfather had by his second wife, Sir Thomas Fanshawe,
Clerk of the Crown, and Surveyor-General of King James; to him he gave
his manor of Jenkins, in Essex, valued at near two thousand a year.

His second son by the same wife, William, he procured to be Auditor of
the Duchy, whose posterity hath in Essex, at Parslowes, about seven or
eight hundred pounds a year. His eldest daughter married Sir
Christopher Hatton, heir to the Lord Chancellor Hatton; his second
married Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, of Brackstead, in Essex; the third
married Mr. Bullock Harding, in Derbyshire; all men of very great
estates. As your grandfather inherited Ware Park and his office, the
flower of his father's estate, so did he of his wisdom and parts; and
both were happy in the favour of the princes of that time, for Queen
Elizabeth said that your grandfather was the best officer of accounts
she had, and a person of great integrity; and your grandfather was the
favourite of Prince Henry, and had the Prince lived to be King, had
been Secretary of State, as he would often tell him. Mr. Camden speaks