condition I left Red Abbey, with as many goods as were worth 100
pounds which could not be removed, and so were plundered. We went ten
miles to Kinsale, in perpetual fear of being fetched back again; but,
by little and little, I thank God, we got safe to the garrison, where
I found your father the most disconsolate man in the world, for fear
of his family, which he had no possibility to assist; but his joys
exceeded to see me and his darling daughter, and to hear the wonderful
escape we, through the assistance of God, had made.

But when the rebels went to give an account to Cromwell of their
meritorious act, he immediately asked them where Mr. Fanshawe was?
They replied, he was that day gone to Kinsale. Then he demanded where
his papers and his family were? At which they all stared at one
another, but made no reply. Their General said, 'It was as much worth
to have seized his papers as the town; for I did make account to have
known by them what these parts of the country are worth.'

But within a few days we received the King's order, which was, that my
husband should, upon sight thereof, go into Spain to Philip IV. and
deliver him his Majesty's letters; and by my husband also his Majesty
sent letters to my Lord Cottington and Sir Edward Hyde, his
Ambassadors Extraordinary in that Court. Upon this order we went to
Macrome to the Lord Clancarty, who married a sister of the Lord
Ormond; we stayed there two nights, and at my coming away, after a
very noble entertainment, my Lady gave me a great Irish greyhound, and
I presented her with a fine besel-stone.

From thence we went to Limerick, where we were entertained by the
Mayor and Aldermen very nobly; and the Recorder of the Town was very
kind, and in respect they made my husband a freeman of Limerick. There