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Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid. by Lady Anne Harrison Fanshawe
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xii., pp. 1, 81; also Middlesex and Hertfordshire Notes and Querie.,
vol. iii., p. 30.] The house on the north side of Lincoln's Inn Fields
known as "The Pine Apples," where Lady Fanshawe was living at the time
of her husband's death, has disappeared with the other old residences
on that side of the square. Nothing is said in the Memoirs to locate
the building where she met her husband when he was brought to London a
prisoner after Worcester fight. The room in Whitehall facing the
Bowling-green of course perished in the fire which destroyed the
Palace at the end of the seventeenth century. [Footnote: A description
of Borstal Tower mentioned in the Memoirs will be found in
"Picturesque Old Houses."]

In regard to the monument of Sir Richard in Ware Church, which was
erected to his memory by Lady Fanshawe, it is strange that there is no
record of the interment in the Register. In the Register of All Saints
Church, Hertford,[Footnote: The old church, including a fine monument
to the Harrisons, was completely destroyed by fire a few years ago.]
however, it is stated that the body was first interred in Sir John
Harrison's vault:--"1671, May 18. Sir Richard Fanshawe, Ambassador,
was taken out of this vault and laid in his vault at Ware." The
monument was formerly in the Chapel at the south side of Ware Church,
and was afterwards removed to the east wall of the south transept. No
memorial marks the last resting-place of Lady Fanshawe. She was
interred in the new vault that had been prepared for her husband under
St. Mary's Chapel.

As before stated, the family portraits are now in the possession of
the descendants of the half-brothers William [Footnote: It was William
who married Mary Sarsfield, nee Walter, the Duke of Monmouth's sister.
Vide "King Monmouth."] and John Fanshawe, the sons of Lady Fanshawe's
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