Arriving, about the middle of November 1650, at
Paris, we went, so soon as we could get clothes, to
wait on the Queen-Mother and the Princess Hen-
rietta. The Queen entertained us very respectfully,
and after many favours done us, and discoursing in
private with your father about affairs of state, he
received her Majesty's letters to send to the King,
who was then on his way to Scotland. We kissed
her hand and went to Calais, with resolution that I
should go to England, to send my husband more
money, for this long journey cost us all we could
procure : yet this I will tell you, praised be God for
his peculiar grace herein, that your father nor I ever
borrowed money nor owed for clothes, nor diet, nor
lodging beyond sea in our lives, which was very much,
considering the straits we were in many times, and
the bad custom our countrymen had that way, which
did redound much to the King's dishonour and their
own discredit.
When we came to Calais, my husband sent me to
England, and staying himself there, intending, as
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soon as he had received money, to go and live in
Holland until such time as it should please Almighty
God to enable him again to wait on his Majesty,
now in Scotland, both to give him an account of his
journey into Spain, as of the rest of his employ-
ments since he kissed his hand. But God ordered
it otherwise ; for the case being that the two parties
in Scotland being both unsatisfied with each other's
ministers, and Sir E. Hyde and Secretary Nicholas
being excepted against, and left in Holland, it was
proposed, the state wanting a Secretary for the King,
that your father should be inmiediately sent for,
which was done accordingly, and he went with letters
and presents from the Princess of Orange, and the
Princess Royal.
Here I will show you something of Sir Edward
Hyde*s nature : he being surprised with this news,
and suspecting that my husband might come to a
greater power than himself, both because of his
parts and integrity, and because himself had been
sometimes absent in the Spanish Embassy, he with
all the humility possible, and earnest passion, begged
my husband to remember the King often of him to
his advantage as occasion should serve, and to pro-
cure leave that he might wait on the King, promis-
ing, with all the oaths that he could express to cause
belief, that he would make it his business all the
days of his life to serve your father's interest in
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what condition soever he should be in : thus they
parted, with your father's promise to serve him in
what he was capable of, upon which account many
letters passed between them.
When your father arrived in Scotland, he was
received by the King with great expressions of great
content ; and after he had given an account of his
past employment, he was by the King recommended
to the York party, who received him very kindly,
and gave him both the broad seal and signet to
keep.
They several times pressed him to take the Cove-
nant, but he never did, but followed his business so
close, with such diligence and temper, that he was
well beloved on all sides, and they reposed great
trust in him. When he went out of Holland, he
wrote to me to arm myself with patience in his
absence, and likewise that I would not expect many
letters as was his custom, for that was now impossible;
but he hoped, that when we did meet again, it would
be happy and of long continuance, and bade me trust
God with him, as he did me, in whose mercy he
hoped, being upon that duty he was obliged to, with
a thousand kind expressions.
But God knows how great a surprise this was to
me, being great with child, and two children with
me, not in the best condition to maintain them, and
in daily fears of your father upon the private account
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of animosities amongst themselves in Scotland ; but
I did what I could to arm myself, and was kindly
visited both by my relations and friends.
. About this time my cousin Evelyn's wife* came
to London, and had newly Iniried her mother, my
Lady Brown, wife to Sir Richard Brown, that then
was resident for the King at Paris. A little before
she and I and Doctor Steward, a Clerk of the closet
to King Charles the First, christened a daughter of
Mr. Waters, near a year old. About this time,
Lord Chief Justice Heath died at Calais, and several
of the King's servants at Paris, amongst others Mr.
Henry Murray, of his bedchamber, a very good
man.
I now settled myself in a handsome lodging in
London. With a heavy heart I stayed in this
lodging almost seven months, and in that time I
did not go abroad seven times, but spent my time in
prayer to God for the deliverance of the King and
• Evcljm frequently mentions his ** cousin Richard Fanshawe,"
in his Diary. On the 6th of February, 165 1-2, he says, " I went
to visit my cousin Richard Fanshawe, and divers other friends " ;
and on the 6th of March, in that year, he observes, '^ My cousin
Richard Fanshawe came to visit me, and inform me of many con-
siderable affairs." On the 23rd of November, 1654, he went to
London to visit his *^ cousin Fanshawe." — Diary ^ vol. ii. pp. 48,
49, 98. Lady Brown, Mr. Evelyn's mother-in-law, died at
Woodcot, in Kent, towards the end of October 1652. — Ibiil,
p. 61.
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my husband, whose danger was ever before my eyes.
I was seldom without the best company, and some-
times my father would stay a week, for all had com-
passion on my condition. I removed to Queen-
street, and there in a very good lodging I was upon
the 24th of June delivered of a daughter : in all
this time I had but four letters from your father,
which made the pain I was in more difficult to bear.
I went with my brother Fanshawe to Ware Park,
and my sister went to Balls, to my father, both in-
tending to meet in the winter; and so indeed we did
with tears ; for the 3rd of September following was
fought the battle of Worcester, when the King being
missed, and nothing heard of your father being dead
or alive, for three days it was^ inexpressible what
affliction I was in. I neither eat nor slept, but
trembled at every motion I heard, expecting the
fatal news, which at last came in their news-book,
which mentioned your father a prisoner.
Then with some hopes I went to London, intend-
ing to leave my little girl Nan, the companion of my
troubles, there, and so find out my husband whereso-
ever he was carried. But upon my coming to
London, I met a messenger from him with a letter,
which advised me of his condition, and told me he
was very civilly used, and said little more, but that I
should be in some room at Charing-cross, where he
had promise from his keeper that he should rest
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there in my company at dinner-time : this was meant
to him as a great favour. I expected him with im-
patience, and on the day appointed provided a dinner
and room, as ordered, in which I was with my father
and some of our friends, where, about eleven of the
clock, we saw hundreds of poor soldiers, both English
and Scotch, march all naked on foot, and many with
your father, who was very cheerful in appearance,
who after he had spoken and saluted me and his
friends there, said, * Pray let us not lose time, for I
know not how little I have to spare. This is the
chance of war ; nothing venture, nothing have ; so
let us sit down and be merry whilst we may.* Then
taking my hand in his and kissing me, * Cease weep-
ing, no other thing upon earth can move me : re-
member we are all at God's disposal.*
Then he began to tell how kind his Captain was
to him, and the people as he passed offered him
money, and brought him good things, and particu-
larly Lady Denham, at Borstal-house, who would
have given him all the money she had in her house,
but he returned her thanks, and told her he had so
ill kept his own, that he would not tempt his
governor with more, but if she would give him a
shirt or two, and some handkerchiefs, he would keep
them as long as he could for her sake. She fetched
him two smocks of her own, and some handker-
chiefs, saying she was ashamed to give him them,
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but, having none of her sons at home, she desired
him to wear them.
Thus we passed the time until order came to
carry him to Whitehall, where, in a little room yet
standing in the bowling-green, he was kept prisoner,
without the speech of any, so far as they knew, ten
weeks, and in expectation of death. They often
examined him, and at last he grew so ill in health
by the cold and hard marches he had undergone,
and being pent up in a room close and small, that
the scurvy brought him almost to death's door.
During the time of his imprisonment, I failed
not constantly to go, when the clock struck four in
the morning, with a dark lantern in my hand, all
alone and on foot, from my lodging in Chancery
Lane, at my cousin Young's, to Whitehall, in at
the entry that went out of King Street into the
bowling-green. There I would go under his win-
dow and softly call him : he, after the first time
excepted, never failed to put out his head at the
first call : thus we talked together, and sometimes I
was so wet with the rain, that it went in at my neck
and out at my heels. He directed me how I should
make my addresses, which I did ever to their general,
Cromwell, who had a great respect for your father,
and would have bought him oflF to his service upon
any terms.
Being one day to solicit for my husband's liberty
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for a time, he bade me bring the next day a certificate
from a physician, that he was really ill. Imme-
diately I went to Dr. Bathurst, that was by chance
both physician to Cromwell and to our family, who
gave me one very favourable in my husband's behalf.
I delivered it at the Council Chamber, at three of
the clock that afternoon, as he commanded me, and
he himself moved, that seeing they could make no
use of his imprisonment, whereby to lighten them
in their business, he might have his liberty upon
four thousand pounds bail, to take a course of
physic, he being dangerously ill. Many spake
against it, but most Sir Henry Vane, who said he
would be as instrumental, for aught he knew, to
hang them all that sat there, if ever he had oppor-
tunity, but if he had liberty for a time, that he
might take the engagement before he went out :
upon which Cromwell said, * I never knew that the
engagement* was a medicine for the scorbutic*
They, hearing their General say so, thought it
obliged him, and so ordered him his liberty upon
bail. His eldest brother, and sister Bedell, and self,
were bound in four thousand pounds ; and the latter
end of November he came to my lodgings, at my
cousin Young's. He there met many of his good
• Cromwell probably meant to jpun upon this word. — In
Ireland, " engagement *' means an issue; "an engagement in the
neck," arm, &c., />., an issue in those places.
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friends and kindred ; and my joy was inexpressible, .
and so was poor Nan's, of whom your poor father
was very fond. I forgot to tell you, that when your
father was taken prisoner of war, he, before they
entered the house where he was, burned all his
papers, which saved the lives and estates of many a
brave gentleman.
When he came out of Scotland, he left behind
him a box of writings, in which his patent of
Baronet was, and his patent of additional arms,*
which was safely sent after him, after the happy
restoration of the King. You may read your
father's demeanour of himself in this affair, wrote
by his own hand, in a book by itself amongst your
books, and it is a great masterpiece, as you will
find.
Within ten days he fell very sick, and the fever
settled in his throat and face so violently, that, for
many days and nights, he slept no more but as he
leaned on my shoulder as I walked : at last, after
* A cott of augmentation was granted to Richard Fanshawe,
Esq., Remembrancer of the Exchequer, and to his family, hj
patent, dated at Jersey, 8th of February, 2 Car. II. 1650, being
'* Cheeky Argent and Azure, a Cross Gules." Grants of that
kind to persons who distinguished themselves in the service of
the King were very common, and consisted, in most cases, either
of the lion of England, a fleur-de-lis, or, as in the instance of Mr.
Fanshawe, of the Cross of St. George. Sir Richard was created a
Baronet on the 2nd of September 1650.
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all the Doctor and Surgeon could do, it broke, and
with that he had ease, and so recovered, God be
praised ! In 1652, he was advised to go to Bath for
his scorbutic that still hung on him, but he deferred
his journey until August, because I was delivered on
the 30th of July of a daughter.
At his return, we went to live that winter follow-
ing at Benfield, in Hertfordshire, a house of my
niece Fanshawe's. In this winter my husband went
to wait on his good friend the Earl of Strafford, in
Yorkshire ; and there my Lord offered him a house
of his in Tankersly Park, which he took, and paid
120/. a year for. When my husband returned, we
prepared to go in the spring to this place, but were
so confined, that my husband could not stir five
miles from home without leave. About February
following, my brother Neucc died, at his house at
Much Hadham, in Hertfordshire. My sister,
Margaret Harrison, desired to go to London, and
there we left her : she soon after married Mr. Ed-
mund Turner, afterwards Sir Edmund.
In March we with our three children, Anne,
Richard, and Betty, went into Yorkshire, where we
lived a harmless country life, minding only the
country sports and country affiiirs. Here my
husband translated Luis de Camoens; and on
October 8th, 1653, I was delivered of my daughter
Margaret. I found all the neighbourhood very
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civil and kind upon all occasions ; the place plenti-
ful and healthful, and very pleasant, but there was
no fruit : we planted some, and my Lord Strafford
says now, that what we planted is the best fruit in
the North.
The house of Tankersly and Park are both very
pleasant and good, and we lived there with great
content ; but God had ordered it should not last,
for upon the 20th of July 1654, at three o'clock in
the afternoon, died our most dearly beloved daughter
Ann, whose beauty and wit exceeded all that ever I saw
of her age. She was between nine and ten years old,
very tall, and the dear companion of my travels and
sorrows. She lay sick but five days of the small-
pox, in which time she expressed so many wise and
devout sayings, as is a miracle for her years. We
both wished to have gone into the same grave with
her. She lies buried in Tankersly church, and her
death made us both desirous to quit that fatal place
to us ; and so the week after her death we did, and
came to Hamerton, and were half a year with my
sister Bedell. Then my husband was sent for to
London, there to stay, by command of the High
Court of Justice, and not to go five miles from that
town, but to appear once a month before them. We
then went again to my cousin Young's, in Chancery
Lane : and about Christmas my husband got leave to
go to Frog-Pool, in Kent, to my brother Warwick's ;
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where, upon the 22nd of February 1655, I was deli-
vered of a daughter, whom we named Ann, to keep in
remembrance her dear sister, whom we had newly lost.
We returned to our lodgings in Chancery Lane, where
my husband was forced to attend till Christmas 1655;
and then we went down to Jenkins, to Sir Thomas
Fanshawe^s ; but upon New Year's Day my husband
fell very sick, and the scorbutic again prevailed, so
much that it drew his upper lip awry, upon which we
that day came to London, into Chancery Lane, but
. not to my cousin Young's, but to a house we took of
'Sir George Carey, for a year. There by the advice
of Doctor Bathurst and Doctor Ridgley, my husband
took physic for two months together, and at last,
God be praised ! he perfectly recovered his sickness,
and his lip was as well as ever.
In this house, upon the 12th day of July in 1656,
I was delivered of a daughter, named Mary ; and in
this month died my second daughter, Elizabeth, that
I had left with my sister Boteler, at Frog-Pool, to see
if that air would recover her; but she died of a
hectic fever, and lies buried in the church of Foots
Cray. My husband, weary of the town, and being
advised to go into the country for his health, pro-
cured leave to go in September to Bengy, in Hert-
ford, to a little house lent us by my brother
Fanshawe.
It happened at that time there was a very ill kind
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of fever, of which many died, and it ran generally
through all families : this we and all our family fell
sick of, and my husband's and mine after some months
turned to quartan agues; but I being with child,
none thought I could live, for I was brought to bed
of a son in November,* ten weeks before my time ;
and thence forward until April 1658, 1 had two fits
every day, that brought me so low that I was like
an anatomy. I never stirred out of my bed seven
months, nor during that time eat flesh, nor fish, nor
bread, but sage posset drink, and pancake or eggs, or
now and then a turnip or carrot. Your father was
likewise very ill, but he rose out of his bed some
hours daily, and had such a greediness upon him, that
he would eat and drink more than ordinary persons
that cat'Jmost, though he could not stand upright
without being held, and in perpetual sweats, and that
so violent that it ran down day and night like water.
This I have told you that you may see how near
dying we were ; for which recovery I humbly praise
God. He got leave in August to go to Bath, which,
God be praised ! perfectly recovered us, and so we
returned into Hertfordshire, to the Friary of Ware,
which we hired of Mrs. Heydon for a year. This
place we accounted happy to us, because in October
we heard the news of Cromwell's death, upon which
my husband began to hope that he should get loose
• **This son, Henry, lies buried in Bcngy church."
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of his fetters, in which he had been seven years ; and
going to London, in company with my Lord Philip,
Earl of Pembroke, he lamented his case of his bonds
to him that was his old and constant friend. He told
him that if he would dine with him the next day, he
would give him some account of that business. The
next day he said to him, ^ Mr. Fanshawe, I must send
my eldest son into France ; if you will not take it ill
that 1 desire your company with him and care of him
for one year, I will procure you your bonds within
this week.* My husband was overjoyed to get loose
upon any terms that were innocent, so, having seen
his bonds cancelled, he went into France to Paris,
from whence he by letter gave an account to Lord
Chancellor Clarendon of his being got loose, and
desired him to acquaint his Majesty of it, and to send
him his commands, which was about April 1659.
He did to this effect, that his Majesty was then going
a journey, which afterwards proved to Spain ; but
upon his return, which would be about the begin-
ning of winter, my husband should come to him,
and that he should have, in present, the place of one
of the Masters of Request, and the Secretary of the
Latin Tongue. Then my husband sent me word of
this, and bade me bring my son Richard, and my
eldest daughters with me to Paris, for that he
intended to put them to a very good school that he
had found at Paris. We went as soon as I could
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possibly accommodate myself with money and other
necessaries, with my three children, one maid, and
one man. I could not go without a pass, and to that
purpose I went to my cousin Henry Nevill,* one of
the High Court of Justice, where he was then sitting
at Whitehall. I told him my husband had sent for
me and his son, to place him there, and that he
desired his kindness to help me to a pass : he went
in to the then masters, and returned to me, saying,
* that by a trick my husband had got his liberty, but
for me and his chidren, upon no conditions we should
not stir.' I made no reply, but thanked my cousin,
Henry Nevill, and took my leave. I sat me down
in the next room, full sadly to consider what I should
do, desiring God to help me in so just a cause as I
then was in. I began and thought if I were denied
a pass^e then, they would ever after be more severe
on all occasions, and it might be very ill for us
both. I was ready to go, if I had a pass, the next
tide, and might be there before they could suspect I
was gone : these thoughts put this invention in my
head.
At Wallingford House, the Office was kept where
they gave passes : thither I went in as plain a way
* He was her cousin, being the second son of Sir Harry Nevill
the younger, of Billingbere, in Essex, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir
John Smythe, of Ostenhanger, sister to the first Viscount Strang-
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and speech as I could devise, leaving my maid at the
gate, who was much a finer gentlewoman than
myself. With as ill mien and tone as I could express,
I told a fellow I found in the Office that I desired a
pass for Paris, to go to my husband. * Woman,
what is your husband, and your name ? ' * Sir,' said
I, with many courtesies, * he is a young merchant,
and my name is Ann Harrison.' * Well,' said he, * it
will cost you a crown : ' — ^said I, * That is a great
sum for me, but pray put in a man, my maid, and
three children.' All which he immediately did, tell-
ing me a malignant would give him five pounds for
such a pass.
I thanked him kindly, and so went immediately to
my lodgings ; and with my pen I made the great H
of Harrison, two jf, and the rrs, an ^, and the i, an J,
and the s, an h^ and the o, an a^ and the n, a Wy so
completely, that none could find out the change.
With all speed I hired a barge, and that night at six
o'clock I went to Gravesend, and from thence by
coach to Dover, where, upon my arrival, the
searchers came and demanded my pass, which they
were to keep for their discharge. When they had
read it, they said, * Madam, you may go when you
please ; ' but says one, * I littje thought they would
give a pass to so great a malignant, especially in so
troublesome a time as this.'
About nine o'clock at night I went on board the
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packet-boat, and about eight o'clock in the morning
landed safe, God be praised ! at Calais. I went to
Mr. Booth's, an English merchant, and a very honest
man. There I rested two days ; but upon the next
day he had advice from Dover, that a post was sent
to stay me from London, because they had sent for
me to my lodgings by a messenger of the Court, to
know why, and upon what business, I went to
France. Then I discovered to him my invention of
the changing my name, at which as at their disap-
pointment we all laughed, and so did your father,
and as many as knew the deceit. We hired a waggon-
coach, for there is no other at Calais, and began our
journey about the beginnmg of June 1659.
Coming one night to Abbeville, the Governor sent
his Lieutenant to me, to let me know my husband
was well the week before, that he had seen him at
Paris, and had promised him to take care of me in
my going through his government, there being much
robbery daily committing ; that he would advise me
take care of the garrison soldiers, and giving them a
pistole a piece, they would convey me very safely.
This, he said, the Governor would have told me
himself, but that he was in bed with the gout ; I
thanked him, and accepted his proffer. The next
morning he sent me ten troopers well armed, and
when 1 had gone about four leagues, as we ascended
a hill, says some of these, ^ Madam, look out, but
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fear nothing/ They rid all up to a well-mounted