the owner, Mr. E. J. Fanshawe, I am able to give an illustration) is
bound in old red leather, and bears the Fanshawe arms. It was written
in 1676 for Lady Fanshawe's "most dear and only" surviving son. This
Sir Richard, the second Baronet, died in Clerkenwell in July 1694,
having some years previously had the misfortune through illness to
become deaf and dumb.

Comment at various times has been made upon the inaccuracy of the
printed Memoirs, but judging from a personal inspection of the
original, there appear to be but few serious errors. [Footnote:
"Turning" for "Trimming instruments" (in Lady Anne's will), and such
like slips. See p. 29.]

It must, however, be pointed out that the editor, Sir Harris Nicholas,
only used a COPY of the Memoirs which was made from the original in
1766 by Charlotte Colman, Lady Fanshawe's great grand-daughter. The
editor's transcript, though made ten years later, was not published
until half a century afterwards. [Footnote: Vide Preface of 1830
Edition.] I draw attention to this fact as the Rev. T. L. Fanshawe,
the grandfather of the present owner of the MS., was under the
impression that his original Memoirs when lent to a friend had been
copied and printed without permission, which in the face of the above
statement could not have been the case. [Footnote: I have been
indebted to Mr. Walter Crouch, Mr. R. T. Andrews, and to Mr. H. W.
King's Notes on the Fanshawe Family, 1868-72, for some of the above
information.]

ALLAN FEA.