perceived he went into the enemy's quarters, and
so to London, and then into France, full of com-
plaints of the Prince's Council to the Queen-
Mother, and when he was gone your father supplied
his place.
About July this year, [1645,] ^^^ plague increased
so fast in Bristol, that the Prince and all his retinue
went to Barnstaple, which is one of the finest towns
in England ; and your father and I went two days
after the Prince ; for during all the time I was in
the Court I never journeyed but either before him,
or when he was gone, nor ever saw him but at
church, for it was not in those days the fashion for
honest women, except they had business, to visit a
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man's G)iirt. I saw there at Mr. Palmer's, where
we lay, who was a merchant, a parrot above a hundred
years old. They have, near this town, a fruit called
a massard, like a cherry, but different in taste, and
makes the best pies with their sort of cream I ever
eat My Lady Gipell here left us, and with a pass
from the Earl of Essex, went to London with her
eldest daughter, now Marquesse of Worcester. Sir
Allan Apsley was governor of the town, and we had
all sorts of good provision and accommodation ; but
the Prince's affairs calling him from that place, we
went to Launceston, in Cornwall, and thither came
very many gentlemen of that county to do their
duties to his Highness : they were generally loyal to
the crown and hospitable to their neighbours, but
they are of a crafty and censorious nature, as most
are so far from London. That country hath great
plenty, especially of fish and fowl, but nothing near
so fat and sweet as within forty miles of London.
We were quartered at Truro, twenty miles beyond
Launceston, in which place I had like to have been
robbed. One night having with me but seven or
eight persons, my husband being then at Launceston
with his master, somebody had discovered that my
husband had a little trunk of the Prince's in keeping,
in which were some jewels that tempted them us to
assay ; but, praised be God, I defended, with the few
servants I had, the house so long that help came
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from the town to my rescue, which was not above a
flight shot from the place where I dwelt ; and the
next day upon my notice my husband sent me a
guard by his Highness's command. From thence
the G)urt removed to Pendennis Castle, some time
commanded by Sir Nicholas Slanning, who lost his
life bravely in the King's iservice,* and left an
excellent name behind him. In this place came Sir
John Granville into his Highness's service, and was
made a gentleman of his bedchamber. His father
was a very honest gentleman, and lost his life in the
King's service; and his uncle. Sir Richard, was a
good commander but a little too severe. I was at
Penzance with my father, and in the same town was
my brother Fanshawe and his lady and children.
My father and that family embarked for Morlaix,
in Brittanny, with my father's new wife, which he
had then married out of that family. My cousin
Fanshawe, of Jenkins, and his eldest son, being
with them, went also over, but being in a small
vessel of that port and surprised with a great storm,
they had all like to have been cast away, which forced
them to land in a little creek, two leagues from
Morlaix, upon the 28 th of March, 1646; and five
days after the Prince and all his council embarked
themselves in a ship called the Phoenix, for the Isles
of Scilly. They went from the Land's-end, and so
* He was killed at the siege of Bristol.
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did we ; being accompanied with many gentlemen of
that country, among whom was Sir Francis Basset,
Governor of the Mount, an honest gentleman, and
so were all his family ; and in particular we received
great civility from them. But we left our house
and furniture with Captain Bluet, who promised to
keep them until such a time as we could dispose of
them ; but when we sent, he said he had been plun-
dered of them, notwithstanding it was well known
he lost nothing of his own. At that time this loss
went deep with us, for we lost to the value of 200/.
and more. But, as the proverb saith, an evil chance
seldom comes alone : we having put all our present
estate into two trunks, and carried them aboard with
us in a ship commanded by Sir Nicholas Crispe,
whose skill and honesty the master and seamen had no
opinion of, my husband was forced to appease their
mutiny which his miscarriage caused; and taking
out money to pay the seamen, that night following
they broke open one of our trunks, and took out a
bag of 60/, and a quantity of gold lace, with our
best clothes and linen, with all my combs, gloves,
and ribbons, which amounted to near 300/. more.
The next day, after having been pillaged, and ex-
tremely sick and big with child, I was set on shore
almost dead in the island of Scilly. When we had
got to our quarters near the Castle, where the Prince
lay, I went immediately to bed, which was so vile,
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that my footman ever lay in a better, and we had
but three in the whole house, which consisted of
four rooms, or rather partitions, two low rooms and
two little lofts, with a ladder to go up : in one of
these they kept dried fish, which was his trade, and
in this my husband's two clerks lay, one there was
for my sister, and one for myself, and one amongst
the rest of the servants. But, when I waked in the
morning, I was so cold I knew not what to do, but
the daylight discovered that my bed was near swim-
ming with the sea, which the owner told us after-
wards it never did so but at spring tide. With this,
we were destitute of clothes, — and meat, and fuel, for
half the G^urt to serve them a month was not to be
had in the whole island ; and truly we begged our
daily bread of God, for we thought every meal our
last. The G)uncil sent for provisions to France,
which served us, but they were bad, and a little of
them. Then, after three weeks and odd days, we
set sail for the Isle of Jersey, where we safely arrived,
praised be God, beyond the belief of all the beholders
from that island ; for the pilot not knowing the way
into the harbour, sailed over the rocks, but being
spring tide, and by chance high water, God be
praised, his Highness and all of us came safe ashore
through so great a danger. Sir George Carteret was
Lieutenant-Governor of the island, under my Lord
St. Albans: a man formerly bred a sea-boy, and
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born in that island, the brother's son of Sir Philip
Carteret, whose younger daughter he afterwards
married. He endeavoured, with all his power, to
entertain his Highness and Court with all plenty and
kindness possible, both which the island afforded, and
what was wanting, he sent for out of France.
There are in this island two castles, both good,
but St Mary's is best, and hath the largest recep-
tion. There are many gentlemen's houses, at which
we were entertained; they have fine walks along to
their doors, double elms or oaks, which is extremely
plea3ant, and their ordinary highways are good walks,
by reason of the shadow. The whole place is grass,
except some small parcels where corn is grown.
The chiefest employment is knitting ; they neither
speak English nor good French ; they are a cheerful,
good-natured people, and truly subject to the present
government. We quartered at a widow's house in
the market-place, Madame De Pommes, a stocking
merchant : here I was upon the 7th of March,* 1646,
delivered of my second child, a daughter, christened
Anne. And now there began great disputes about
the Prince, for the Queen would have him to Paris,
to which end she sent many letters and messengers
to his Highness and Council, who were for the most
part against his going, both to the Queen his mother,
• Query, May or June. She did not arrive in Jersey until
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and his going to France, for reasons of state, but the
Queen having an excellent solicitor in the Lord
Colepeper, it was resolved by his Highness to go :
upon which Lord Capell, Lord Hopton, and the
Chancellor staid at Jersey, and with them my
husband, whose employment ceased when his master
went out of his father's kingdom ; — not that your
father sided with either party of the Council, but
having no inclination at that time to go to the
Court, and because his brother. Lord Fanshawe, was
desperately sick at Caen, he intended to stay some
time with him.
About the beginning of July, the Prince, accom-
panied with the Earl of Bradford, a soldier of for-
tune, and Lord Colepeper, and the Earl of Berkshire,
and most of his servants, went to Cotanville, and
from thence to Paris, where he remained some little
time by his mother the Queen's council, and after-
wards went into Holland. Your father and I
remained fifteen days in Jersey, and resolved that he
would remain with his brother in Caen, whilst he
sent me into England, whither my father was gone
a month before, to see if I could procure a sum of
money. The beginning of August we took our
leave of the governor's family, and left our child
with a nurse under the care of the Lady Carteret;*
• It was apparently this Lady, of whom Pcpys observes, 30th
Jane, 1662. ** Told my Lady Carteret, how my Lady Fanshawe
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and in four days we came to Caen, and myself, sister,
and maid went from Mr. Fanborne's house, where
my brother and all his family lodged, aboard a small
merchantman that lay in the river ; and upon the
30th of August, I arrived in the Cowes, near
Southampton, to which place I went that night, and
came to London two days after. This was the first
time I had taken a journey without your father, and
the first manage of business he ever put into my
hands, in which I thank God I had good success ;
for, lodging in Fleet Street, at Mr. Bates, the
Watchmaker, with my sister Boteler, I procured by
the means of Colonel Copley, a great Parliament-
man, whose wife had formerly been obliged to our
family, a pass for your father to come and compound
for 300/. which was a part of my fortune, but it was
only a pretence, for your grandfather was obliged to
compound for it, and deliver it us free. And when
your father was come, he was very private in London;
for he was in daily fears to be imprisoned before he
could raise money to go back again to his master,
who was not then in a condition to maintain him.
Thus upon thorns he stayed the October 1647. In
the October before, 1646, my brother Richard
Harrison was born ; and this year my sister Boteler
is fallen out with her only for speaking in behalf of the French :
which my Lady wonders at, they having been formerly like
•utexs." — Diarjf vol. i. p. 284.
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married Sir Philip Warwick, her second husband ;
for her first, Sir William Boteler, was killed at
Cropley-bridge, commanding a part of the King's
army: he was a most gallant, worthy, honest
gentleman.
The 30th of July I was delivered of a son, called
Henry, in lodgings in Portugal-row, LincolnVinn-
fields. This was a very sad time for us all of the
King's party, for by the folly, to give it no worse
name, of Sir John Berkeley, since Lord Berkeley,
and Mr. John Ashburnham, of the King's bed-
chamber, who were drawn in by the cursed crew of
the then standing army for the Parliament to per-
suade the King to leave Hampton G)urt, to which
they had then carried him, and to make his escape,
which design failing, as the plot was laid, he was
tormented and afterwards barbarously and shame-
fully murdered, as all the world knows.
During his stay at Hampton G)urt, my husband
was with him, to whom he was pleased to talk much
of his concerns, and •give him there credentials for
Spain, with private instructions, and letters for his
service ; but God for our sins disposed his Majesty's
afiFairs otherwise. I went three times to pay my
duty to him, both as I was the daughter of his ser-
vant, and wife of his servant. The last time I ever
saw him, when I took my leave, I could not refrain
weeping : when he had saluted me, I prayed to God
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to preserve his Majesty with long life and happy
years ; he stroked me on the cheek, and said, * Child,
if God pleaseth, it shall be so, but both you and I
must submit to God's will, and you know in what
hands I am * ; then turning to your father, he said,
* Be sure, Dick, to tell my son all that I have said,
and deliver those letters to my wife ; pray God bless
her ! I hope I shall do well ' ; and taking him in his
arms, said, * Thou hast ever been an honest man,
and I hope God will bless thee, and make thee a
happy servant to my son, whom I have charged in
my letter to continue his love, and trust to you ' ;
adding, * I do promise you that if ever I am restored
to my dignity I will bountifully reward you both for
your service and sufferings/ Thus did we part from
that glorious sun, that within a few months after was
murdered, to the grief of all Christians that were
not forsaken by God.
The October, as I told you, my husband and I
went into France, by the way of Portsmouth, where,
walking by the sea side about a mile from our
lodgings, two ships of the Dutch, then in war with
England, shot bullets at us so near that we heard
them whiz by us ; at which I called to my husband
to make haste back, and began to run, but he altered
not his pace, saying, * If we must be killed, it were
as good to be killed walking as running/ But,
escapmg, we embarked the next day; and that
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journey fetched home our girl we had left in Jersey;
and my husband was forced to come out of France
to Hamerton, in Huntingdonshire, to my sister
Bedell's, to the wedding of his nephew, the last
Lord Thomas Fanshawe, who then married the
.daughter of Ferrers : as I have said before, she was
a very great fortune, and a most excellent woman,
and brought up some time after her mother's death
with my sister Bedell.
About two months after this, in June, I was
delivered of a son on the 8th day, 1648. The latter
end of July I went to London, leaving my little boy
Richard at nurse with his brother at Hartingford-
bury. It happened to be the very day after that the
Lord Holland was taken prisoner at St. Neot, and
Lord Francis Villiers was killed ; and as we passed
through the town, we saw Colonel Montague, after-
wards Earl of Sandwich, spoiling the town for the
Parliament and himself. Coming to London, I went
to welcome the Marchioness of Ormond to town,
that then was come out of France, who received me
with great kindness, as she ever had done before, and
told me she must love me for many reasons, and one
was, that we were both born in one chamber : when
I left her, she presented me with a ruby ring set
with two diamonds, which she prayed me to wear for
her sake, and I have it to this day.
In the month of September my husband was
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commanded by the Prince to wait on him in the
Downs, where he was with a very considerable fleet ;
but the fleet was divided, part being for the King, and
part for the Parliament, They were resolved to fight
that day, which if they had, would have been the
most cruel fight that ever England knew ; but God
by his will parted them by a storm, and afterwards it
was said, Lord Colepeper, and one Low, a surgeon,
that was a reputed knave, so ordered the business,
that for money the fleet was betrayed to the enemy.
During this time my husband wrote me a letter,
from on board the Prince's ship, full of concern for
me, believing they should engage on great odds;
but, if he should lose his life, advised me to patience,
and this with so much love and reason, that my
heart melts to this day when I think of it ; but, God
be praised, he was reserved for better things.
In December* my husband went to Paris on his
master's business, and sent for me from London : I
carried him 300/. of his money. During our stay
at Paris, I was highly obliged to the Queen-Mother
of England. We passed away six weeks with great
delight in good company ; my Lady Norton, that
• This must be a mistake for November; for in September he
was on board the fleet in the Downs, and after passing six weeks in
Paris^ he went to Calais with Lady Fanshawe on the 25th of
fDecember^ 1649. The date of the year is also erroneous, as it is
evident from the context that it was 1648.
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was governess to the Lady Henrietta, Charles the
First's youngest daughter, was very kind. I had the
honour of her company, both in my own lodging
and in the Palace Royal, where she attended her
charge ; likewise my Lady Danby, and her daughter,
my Lady Guilford, with many others of our nation,
both in the Court and out of it ; amongst whom was
Mr. Waller, the poet, and his wife : they went with
us to Calais, upon the 25th of December, 1649. I,
with my husband, kissed the Queen-Mother's hand,
who promised her favour, with much grace, to us
both, and sent letters to the King, then in Holland,
by my husband. From her Majesty we waited on
the Princes, and afterwards took our leave of all
that Court.
When we came to Calais, we met the Earl of
Strafford and Sir Kenelm Digby, with some others
of our countrymen. We were all feasted at the
Governor's of the castle, and much excellent dis-
course passed ; but, as was reason, most share was
Sir Kenelm Digby's, who had enlarged somewhat
more in extraordinary stories than might be averred,
and all of them passed with great applause and
wonder of the French then at table ; but the con-
cluding one was, that barnacles, a bird in Jersey,
was first a shell-fish in appearance, and from that,
sticking upon old wood, became in time a bird.
After some consideration, they imanimously burst
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out into laughter, believing it altogether false ; and,
to say the truth, it was the only thing true he had
discoursed with them: that was his infirmity, though
otherwise a person of most excellent parts, and a
very fine-bred gentleman.
My husband thought it convenient to send me
into England again, there to try what sums I could
raise, both for his subsistence abroad and mine at
home ; and though nothing was so grievous to us
both as parting, yet the necessity both of the public
and your father's private affairs, obliged us often to
yield to the trouble of absence, as at this time. I
took my leave with sad heart, and embarked myself
in a hoy for Dover, with Mrs. Waller and my sister
Margaret Harrison, and my little girl Nan ; but a
great storm arising, we had like to be cast away,
the vessel being half full of water, and we forced to
land at Deal, every one carried upon men's backs,
and we up to the middle in water, and very glad to
escape so. About this time the Prince of Orange
was bom.*
My husband went from thence by Flanders into
Holland to his master ; and, in February following,
your father was sent into Ireland by the King, there
to receive such monies as Prince Rupert could raise
by the fleet he conmianded of the King's ; but a
* This is tn error, as he was bom on the 4th of November,
1650.
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few months put an end to that design, though it
had a very good aspect in the beginning, which
made my husband send for me and the little family
I had thither. We went by Bristol very cheerfully
towards my north star, that only had the power to
fix me ; and because I had had the good fortune, as
I then thought it, to sell 300/. a year to him that is
now Judge Archer, in Essex, for which he gave me
4000/., which at that time I thought a vast sum ; but
be it more or less, I am sure it was spent in seven
years' time in the King's service, and to this hour I
repent it not, I thank God. Five hundred pounds I
carried to my husband, the rest I left in my father's
agent's hands to be returned as we needed it.
I landed at Youghall, in Munster, as my husband
directed me, in hopes to meet me there ; but I had
the discomfort of a very hazardous voyage, and the
absence of your father, he then being upon business
at Cork. So soon as he heard I was landed, he
came to me, and with mutual joy we discoursed
those things that were proper to entertain us both ;
and thus, for six months, we lived so much to our
satisfaction, that we began to think of making our
abode there during the war, for the country was
fertile, and all provisions cheap, and the houses
good, and we were placed in Red Abbey, a house of
Dean Boyle's in Cork, and my Lord of Ormond
had a very good army, and the country seemingly
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quiet; and, to complete our content, alL persons
were very civil to us, especially Dean Boyle, Lord
Chancellor of Ireland, and Archbishop of Dublin
and his fanuly, and the Lord Inchiquin, whose
daughter Elkenna I christened in 1650.
But what earthly comfort is exempt from change ?
for here I heard of the death of my second son,
Henry, and, within a few weeks, of the landing of
Cromwell, who so hotly marched over Ireland, that
the fleet with Prince Rupert was forced to set s^l,
and within a small time after he lost all his riches,
which was thought to be worth hundreds of thou-
sands of pounds, in one of his best ships, commanded
by his brother Maurice, who with many a brave man
sunk and were all lost in a storm at sea.
We remained some time behind in Ireland, until
my husband could receive his Majesty's commands
how to dispose of himself. During this time I had,
by the fall of a stumbling horse, being with child,
broke my left wrist, which, because it was ill-set,
put me to great and long pain, and I was in my bed
when Cork revolted. By chance that day my hus-
band was gone on business to Kinsale : it was in the
beginning of November 1650.* At midnight I
heard the great guns go off, and thereupon I called
up my family to rise, which I did as well as I could
in that condition. Hearing lamentable shrieks of
* These events happened in November 1649.
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men, women, and children, I asked at a window the
cause; they told me they were all Irish, stripped
and wounded, and turned out of the town, and that
Colonel Jeffries, with some others, had possessed
themselves of the town for Cromwell. Upon tiiis,
I immediately wrote a letter to my husband, blessing
God's providence that he was not there with me,
persuading him to patience and hope that I should
get safely out of the town, by God's assistance,
and desired him to shift for himself, for fear of
a surprise, with promise that I would secure his
papers.
So soon as I had finished my letter, I sent it by a
faithful servant, who was let down the garden-wall
of Red Abbey, and, sheltered by the darkness of the
might, he made his escape. I immediately packed
up my husband's cabinet, with all his writings, and
near icxx)/. in gold and silver, and all other things
both of clothes, linen, and household stuffs that were
portable, of value ; and then, about three o'clock in
the morning, by the light of a taper, and in that pain
I was in, I went into the market-place, with only
a man and maid, and passing through an unruly
tumult with their swords in their hands, searched
for their chief commander Jeffries, who, whilst he
was loyal, had received many civilities from your
father. I told him it was necessary that upon that
change I should remove, and I desired his pass that
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would be obeyed, or dse I must remain there : I
hoped he would not deny me that kindness. He
instantly wrote me a pass, both for myself, family,
and goods, and said he would never forget the
respect he owed your father. With this I came
through thousands of naked swords to Red Abbey,
and hired the next neighbour's cart, which carried
all that I could remove ; and myself, sister, and
little girl Nan, with three maids and two men, set
forth at five o'clock in November, having but two