[Illustration: ANNE, LADY FANSHABE
(From a painting formerly at Parsloes)]





MEMOIRS OF LADY FANSHAWE

WIFE OF SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE, BT.
AMBASSADOR FROM CHARLES II. TO
THE COURTS OF PORTUGAL & MADRID
WRITTEN BY HERSELF CONTAINING
EXTRACTS FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE
OF SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE EDITED
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BEATRICE
MARSHALL AND A NOTE UPON THE
ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALLAN FEA





INTRODUCTION




There is a deathless charm, despite the efforts of modern novelists
and playwrights to render it stale and hackneyed, attaching to the