troop of horse, about fifty or more, which, after
some parley, wheeled about into the woods agsdn.
When we came upon the hill, I asked how it was
possible so many men so well armed should turn,
having so few to oppose them; at which they
laughed, and said, * Madam, we are all of a company,
and quarter in this town. The truth is, our pay is
short, and we are forced to keep ourselves this way ;
but we have this rule, that if we in a party guard
any company, the rest never molest them, but let
them pass free/
I having passed all danger, as they said, gave
them a pistole each man, and so left them and went
on my journey, and met my husband at St Dennis,
God be praised! The 20th day of October, my
then only son died of the small-pox ; he lies buried
in the Protestant Church, near Paris, between the
Earl of Bristol and Doctor Steward. Both my
eldest daughters had the small-pox at the same time,
and though I neglected them, and day and night
attended my dear son, yet it pleased God they
recovered and he died, the grief of which made me
miscarry, and caused a sickness of three weeks.
After this, in the beginning] of November, the
King came to visit his mother, who was at her own
house at Combes, two leagues from Paris, and thither
went my husband and myself. I had not seen him
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in almost twelve years : he told me that if it pleased
God to restore him to his kingdoms, my husband
should partake of his happiness in as great a share as
any servants he had. Then he asked me many
questions of England, and fell into discourse with
my husband privately two hours, and then com-
manded him to follow him to Flanders. His
Majesty went the next day, my husband that day
month, which was the beginning of December. I
went with our family to Calais, and my husband
sent me privately to London for money in January.
I returned him one hundred and fifty pounds, with
which he went to the King, and 1 followed to
Newport, Bruges, and Ghent, and to Brussels, where
the King received us very graciously, with the
Princess Royal and the Dukes of York and Gloucester.
After staying three weeks at Brussels, we went to
Breda, where we heard the happy news of the King*s
return to England. In the beginning of May we
went with all the Court to the Hague, where I first
saw the Queen of Bohemia, who was exceeding kind
to all of us. Here the King and all the Royal
Family were entertained at a very great supper by
the States ; and now business of state took up much
time.
The King promised my husband he should be
one of the Secretaries of State, and both the now
Duke of Ormond, and the Lord Chancellor Clarendon,
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were witnesses of it, yet that false man made the
King break his word for his own accommodation,
and placed Mn Norris, a poor country gentleman of
about two hundred pounds a year, a fierce Presbyterian,
and one that never saw the King's face: but still
promises were made of the reversion to your father.
Upon the King's restoration, the Duke of York,
then made Admiral, appointed ships to carry over
the company and servants of the King, who were
very great His Highness appointed for my
husband and his family a third-rate frigate, called
the Speedwell ; but his Majesty commanded my
husband to wait on him in his own ship. We had
by the States' order sent on board to the King's
most eminent servants, great store of provisions:
for our family we had sent on board the Speedwell
a tierce of claret, a hogshead of Rhenish wine, six
dozen of fowls, a dozen of gammons of bacon, a
great basket of bread, and six sheep, two dozen of
neats' tongues, and a great box of sweetmeats.
Thus taking our leaves of those obliging persons
we had conversed with in the Hague, we went on
board upon the 23rd of May, about two o'clock in
the afternoon. The King embarked at four of the
clock, upon which we set sail, the shore being covered
with people, and shouts from all places of a good
voyage, which was seconded with many volleys of
shot interchanged : so favourable was the wind, that
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the ships* wherries went from ship to ship to visit
their friends all night long. But who can sufficiently
express the joy and gallantry of that voyage, to see
so many great ships, the best in the world, to hear
the trumpets and all other music, to see near a
hundred brave ships sail before the wind with vast
cloths and streamers, the neatness and cleanness of
the ships, the strength and jollity of the mariners,
the gallantry of the commanders, the vast plenty of
all sorts of provisions ; but above all, the glorious
majesties of the King and his two brothers, were so
beyond man's expectation and expression ! The sea
was calm, the moon shone at full, and the sun
suffered not a cloud to hinder his prospect of the
best sight, by whose light, and the merciful bounty
of God, he was set safely on shore at Dover in Kent,
upon the 25th* of May, 1660.
So great were the acclamations and numbers of
people, that it reached like one street from Dover
to Whitehall : we lay that night at Dover, and the
next day we went in Sir Arnold Braem'sf coach
towards London, where on Sunday night we came to
a house in the Savoy. My niece, Fanshawe, then lay
• Probably a mistake for the 26th.
t Of a Dutch hm\\y settled at Bridge, in Kent The house
at Dover, jn which Lady Fanshawe lay, was built by Jacob Braem,
and is, or was in Hasted's time, the Custom-house. The family
is now extinct.
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in the Strand, where I stood to see the King's entry
with his brothers ; surely the most pompous show
that ever was, for the hearts of all men in this
kingdom moved at his will.
The next day I went with other ladies of the
family to congratulate his Majesty's happy arrival,
who received me with great grace, and promised me
future favours to my husband and self. His Majesty
gave my husband his picture, set with small diamonds,
when he was a child : it is a great rarity, because
there never was but one.
We took a house in Portugal Row, Lincoln*s-inn
Fields. My husband had not long entered upon his
office, but he found an oppression from Secretary
Nicholas, to his great vexation, for he, as much as in
him lay, engrossed all the petitions, which really, by
the foundation, belonged to the Master of the
Requests ; and in this he was countenanced by Lord
Chancellor Clarendon, his great patron, notwith-
standing he had married Sir Thomas Aylesbury's
daughter, that was one of the Masters of the
Requests.
This year I sent for my daughter Nan from my
sister Boteler's, in Kent, where I had left her ; and
my daughter Mary died in Hertfordshire in August,
and lies buried in Hertford church, in my father's
vault.
In the latter end of the summer I miscarried, when
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I was near half gone with child, of three sons, two
hours one after the other. I think it was with the
hurry of business I then was in, and perpetual
company that resorted to us of all qualities, some
for kindness and some for their own advantage.
As that was a time of advantage, so it was of great
expense, for on April the 23rd, 1661, the King was
crowned, when my husband, being in waiting, rode
upon his Majesty^s left hand * with very rich foot-
cloths, and four men in very rich liveries ; and this
year we furnished our house and paid all our debts
which we had contracted during the war.
The 8th day of May following, the King rode to
the Parliament, and then my husband rode in the
same manner. His Majesty had commanded my
husband to execute the place of the Chancellor of
the Garter, both because he understood it better
than any, and was to have the reversion of it. The
first feast of St. George, my husband was proxy for
the Earl of Bristol, and was installed for him Knight
of the Garter. The Duke of Buckingham put on
his robes, and the Duke of Ormond his spurs, in the
stall of the Earl of Bristol.
Now it was the business of the Chancellor to put
• EyelTn says, that at the coronation of Charles the Second
were ** Two persons, representing the Dukes of Normandy and
Aquitaine, viz., Sir Richard Fanshawe and Sir Herbert Price, in
fiintastic habits." — Diary ^ vol. ii. p. i68.
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your father as far from the King as he could, because
his ignorance in state affairs was daily discovered by
your father, who showed it to the King ; but at that
time the King was so content that he should almost
and alone manage his affairs, that he might have
more time for his pleasure, that his faults were not
so visible as otherwise they would have been, and
afterwards proved. But now he sends to your
father and tells * him that he was, by the King's
particular choice, resolved on to be sent to Lisbon
with the King's letter and picture to the Princess,
now our Queen, which then, indeed, was an employ-
ment any nobleman would be glad of; but the
design from that time forth was to fix him here.
When your father was gone on this errand, I
stayed in our house in Portugal Row, and at Christmas
I received the New Year's gifts belonging to his
places, which is the custom, of two tuns of wine at
the Custom-house, for Master of Requests, and
fifteen ounces of gilt plate at the Jewel-house, as
Secretary of the Latin Tongue.
At the latter end of Christmas my husband re-
turned from Lisbon, and was very well received by
the King ; and upon the 22nd of February following
I was delivered of my daughter Elizabeth.
Upon the 8th of June,* 1662, my husband was
made a Privy Councillor of Ireland ; and some time
• Query, 8th oi January.
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after my Lord and Lady Ormond went into Ireland,
and upon my taking leave of her Grace, she gave me
a turquoise and diamond bracelet, and my husband
a fasset* diamond ring. I never parted from her
upon a journey but she ever gave me some present.
When her daughter, the Lady Mary Cavendish, was
married, none were present but his grandmother and
father, and my husband and self ; they were married
in my Lord Duke's lodging in Whitehall, and given
by the King, who came privately without any train, t
As soon as the King had notice of the Queen's
landing, he immediately sent my husband that night
to welcome her Majesty on shore, and followed
himself the next day; and upon the 21st of May
the King married the Queen at Portsmouth, in the
presence-chamber of his Majesty's house.
There was a rail across the upper part of the
room, in which entered only the King and Queen,
the Bishop of London, the Marquis de Sande, the
Portuguese Ambassador, and my husband: in the
other part of the room there were many of the
nobility and servants to their Majesties. The Bishop
of London declared them married in the name of the
* A diamond cut into facets ; a brilliant.
t According to Collins' Peerage, Mary, second daughter of
James Duke of Ormond, married William Cavendish, ninth
Duke of Devonshire, at Kilkenny in Ireland^ on the 27th of
October, 1662. Lady Fanshawe's statement proves that he was
mistaken.
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Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ; and
then they caused the ribbons her Majesty wore to be
cut in little pieces, and, as far as they would go,
every one had some.*
Upon the 29th of May their Majesties came to
Hampton Court, where was all that pretended to
her Majesty's service, and all the King's servants,
ladies and other persons of quality, who received her
Majesty in several rooms, according to their several
qualifications.
The next morning, about eleven o'clock, the
Duchess of Ormond and her daughter, the now
Lady Cavendish, and myself, went to wait on her
Majesty as soon as her Majesty was dressed ; where
I had the honour from the King, who was then
present, to tell the Queen who I was, saying many
kind things of me to ingratiate me with her Majesty,
whereupon her Majesty gave her hand to me to kiss,
with promises of her future favour. After this we
remained in Hampton Court, in the Requests'
lodgings, my husband being then in waiting until the
loth day of August, upon which day he received his
despatches for Ambassador to Portugal.
* As it must be inferred that Lady Fanshawe derived her
information from her husband, who, she says, was present, her
account of the ceremony is deserving of attention, because some
doubts have been entertained as to the manner in which it was
solemnised. — See Bishop Kennett's Historical Register^ p. 693.
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His Majesty was graciously pleased to promise my
husband his picture, which afterwards we received,
set with diamonds, to the value of three or four
hundred pounds, his Majesty having been pleased to
give my husband, at his first going to Portugal, his
picture at length, in his garter-robes : my husband
had also by his Majesty's order, out of the wardrobe,
a crimson velvet cloth of state, fringed and laced
with gold, with a chair, a footstool, and cushions,
and two other stools of the same, with a Persian
carpet to lay under them, and a suit of fine tapestry
hanging for that room, with two velvet altar-cloths
for the chapel, and fringed with gold, with surplices,
altar cloths, and napkins, of fine linen, with a Bible,
in Ogleby's print and cuts, two Common Prayer-
books, in folio and quarto, with eight hundred
ounces of gilt plate, and four thousand ounces of
white plate ; but there wanted a velvet bed, which
he should have had by custom.
Thus having perfected the ceremonies of taking
leave of their Majesties, and receiving their com-
mands, and likewise taking our leaves of our friends,
as I s^d, upon Sunday the loth of August we took
our journey to Portugal,* carrying our three
daughters with us, Katherine, Margaret, and Ann.
* Evelyn says, '^ 5th of August 1662, to London, and next day
to Hampton Court, and took leave of Sir R. Fanshawe, now going
Ambassador to PortugaL*' — Diarjy vol. ii. p. 195.
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This night we lay at Windsor, where, on Monday
the I ith, in the morning, we went to prayers to the
King's Chapel with Doctor Heavers, my husband's
Chaplain. On our return we were visited by the
Provost of Eton, and divers others of the clergy of
that place, and Sir Thomas Woodcock, the chief
commander of that place, in the absence of Lord
Mordaunt, Lord Constable of Windsor Castle.
Upon the desire of some there, my husband left
some of his coats-of-arms, which he carried with him
for that purpose, as the custom of ambassadors is, to
dispose of where they lodge.*
That night we lay at Bagshot ; Tuesday the 1 2th,
we dined at Basingstoke, and lay at Andover;
Wednesday the 13th, we dined at Salisbury, and
there lay that night, and borrowed in the afternoon
the Dean of Westminster's coach, being willing to
case all our own horses for half a day, having a long
journey to go.
We went in the Dean's coach to see Wilton,
being but two miles from Salisbury. We found
Lord Herbert at home; he entertained us with
great civility and kindness, and gave my husband
a very fine greyhound bitch : his father, the Earl
of Pembroke, being then at London. We visited
the famous church, and at our return to our lodg-
* This custom is still retained in the instances of the Lords
Lieutenant of Ireland.
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ings, were \dsited by the Right Reverend Father in
God, Doctor Henchman, the Bishop of that place,
and Doctor Holies, the Dean of that place, and
Doctor Earle, Dean of Westminster, since, by the
former Bishop's remove to the See of London, now
Bishop of Salisbury.
On Thursday the 14th, my husband and I, with
our children, having begged of the Bishop his
blessing at his own house, dined at Blandford, in
Dorsetshire. Sir William Portman hath a very fine
seat within a mile of it. We lodged that night
at Dorchester: on Friday the 15th we lay at Ax-
minster, and Saturday the i6th at Exeter, and went
to prayers at the dthedral church, accompanied by
the principal divines of that place. On Sunday the
17th, we stayed all that day, and on Monday the
1 8th, we lay at a very ill lodging, of which I have
forgotten the name ; and on Tuesday the 19th, we
went to Plymouth, where, within six miles of the
town, we were met by some of the chief merchants
of that place, and of the chief officers of that garrison,
who all accompanied us to the house of one Mr.
Tyler, a merchant.
Upon our arrival, the Governor of that garrison,
one Sir John Skelton, visited us, and did us the
favour to keep us company, with many of his
ofiicers, during our stay in that town. Sir John
Hele, as soon as he heard of our being there, sent
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my husband a fat buck ; and my cousin Edgcombe,
of Mount Edgcombe, a mile from Plymouth, sent
him another buck, and came, as soon as he heard
we were there, from a house of his twelve miles
from Mount Edgcombe, to which he came only to
keep us company. From whence, the next day after
his arrival, he with his Lady, and Sir Richard
Edgcombe, his eldest son, and others of his chil-
dren, came to visit us at Plymouth ; and the day
after we dined at Mount Edgcombe, where we were
very nobly treated. At our coming home, they
would need accompany us over the river to our
lodgings. The next day the Mayor and Aldermen
came to visit my husband ; and the next day we had
a great feast at Mr. Sealers house, the father of our
landlord. Our being so well lodged and treated by
the inhabitants of this town was upon my father's
score, whose deputies some of them were, he being
one of the Farmers of the Custom-house to receive
the King's customs of that port.
On Sunday the 30th, the wind coming fair, we
embarked, accompanied by my cousin Edgcombe
and all his family, and with much company of the
town, that would show their kindness until the last.
Taking our leave of our landlord and landlady, we
gave her twenty pieces of gold to buy her a ring,
and they presented my children with many pretty
toys. Thus, on Monday, at nine o'clock in the
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morning we were received on board the Ruby
frigate, commanded by Captain Robinson. We had
very many presents sent us on board by divers
gentlemen, among which my cousin Edgcombe sent
us a brace of fat bucks, three milk goats, wine, ale
and beer, with fruit of several sorts, biscuit and
sweetmeats.
On Monday the 31st of August 1662, we set sail
for Lisbon, and landed the 14th of September, our
style, between the G)nde de St. Laurence's house
and Belem, God be praised ! all in good health.
As soon as we had anchored, the English Consul,
with the merchants, came on board us; but we
went presently to a house of the Duke of Aveiros,
where my husband was placed by his Majesty when
he was there before, in which he had then left his
chief Secretary and one other, with some others of
his family. The first that visited incognito there,
for he was not to own any till he had made his
entry, was the King of Portugal's Secretary, Antonio
de Sousa : there came about that time also the Earl
of Inchiquin, and Count Schomberg, to visit us.
The fl^th day, my husband went privately on board
the frigate, in which he came with all his family ;
to whom the King sent a nobleman to receive him
on shore, with his own and Queen-mother's, and
very many coaches of the nobility. As soon as
they met, there passed great salutations of cannons
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from the ships to the frigate in which my husband
came, and from our ships to the King's forts,
and from all the forts innumerable shots retiu-ned
again.
So soon as my husband landed, he entered the
King's coach, and the nobleman that fetched him,
whose name I have forgot. Before him went the
English Consul, with all the merchants; on his
right hand went four pages ; on the left side the
coach, by the horses' heads, eight footmen all
clothed in rich livery ; in the coach that followed
went my husband's own gentlemen, after the coach
of state empty, and those that did him the favour
to accompany him : thus they went to the house
where my husband lodged. The King entertained
him with great plenty of provisions in all kinds,
three suppers and three dinners, and all manner of
utensils belonging thereunto, as the custom of that
country is.
Their Majesties did for some time fiu-nish the
house, till my 'husband could otherwise provide
himself in town. The Abadessa of the Alcantara,
niece to the Queen-mother, natural daughter of the
Duke of Medina Sidonia, sent to welcome me into
the country a very noble present of perfumes,
waters, and sweetmeats ; and during my abode at
Lisbon we often made visits and interchanged
messages, to my great content, for she was a very
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fine lady. On the Hth, one Mr. Bridgewood, a
merchant, sent me a silver basin and ewers for a
present.
On the loth of October, siilo novo, my husband
had his audience of his Majesty in his palace, at
Lisbon; going in the King's coach with the same
nobleman and in the same form as he made his
entry. The King received him with great kindness
and respect, much to his satisfaction. On the nth,
Don Joam de Sousa, the Queen's Vidor, came from
her Majesty to us both to welcome us into the
country. On the 13th, her Majesty sent her chief
coach, accompanied by other coaches, to fetch my
husband to the audience of her Majesty, where she
received him very graciously ; and the same day he
had audience of Don Pedro, the King's brother, at
his own palace. Saturday, the 14th, her Majesty
sent her best coach for me and my children. When
we came there, the Captain of the Guard received
me at the foot of the stairs ; all my people going
before me, as the custom is. On each side were the
guards placed, with halberds in their hands, as far
as the presence-chamber door. There I was received
by the Queen's Lord Chamberlain, who carried me
to the door of the next room, where the Queen was.
Then the Queen's principal lady, as our groom of
the stole, received me, telling me she had command
from the Queen to bid me welcome to that Court,
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and to accompany me to her Majesty's presence.
She sat in the next room, which was very large, in a
black velvet chair, with arms, upon a black velvet
carpet, with a state of the same. She had caused
a low chair, without arms, to be set at some distance
from her, about two yards on her left hand, on
which side stood all the noblemen ; on her right, all
the ladies of the Court.
After making my reverences due to her Majesty,
according to custom, and said those respects which
became me to her Majesty, she sat down ; and when
I presented my daughters to her, she having ex-
pressed much grace and favour to me and mine, bade
me sit down, which at first I refused, desiring to
wait on her Majesty, as my Queen's mother ; but
she pressing me again, I sat down; and then she
made her discourse of England, and asked questions
of the Queen's health and liking of our country,
with some little hints of her own and her family's
condition, which having continued better than half
an hour, I took my leave. During my stay at G)urt
I several times waited on the Queen-Mother ; truly
she was a very honourable, wise woman, and I believe
had been very handsome. She was magnificent in
her discourse and nature, but in the prudentest
manner ; she was ambitious, but not vain ; she loved
government, and I do believe the quitting of it did
shorten her life.
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After saluting the ladies and noblemen of the
G>urt, I went home as I came. The next day the
Secretary of State and his Lady came to visit me :
she had, at my arrival, sent me a present of sweet-
meats. My husband had left in this person's family
one of his pages to improve himself in writing and
reading the Spanish tongue, until his return again to
that Court, when he went the last year to England,
in consideration of which we presented his Lady with