preserve the simile, that capital was laid out in the articles of his
trade--in pens, ink, and paper. What was wanting in money was amply
supplied by prudence and affection; and there is no difficulty in
believing her assurance, that they lived better than those whose
prospects were much brighter.

Whilst at Oxford, in 1644, the University conferred upon Mr. Fanshawe
the degree of Doctor of Laws. In the beginning of March 1645 he
attended the Prince to Bristol, but in consequence of his wife's
confinement, she did not accompany him; and the circumstances of their
separation are affecting. She joined him in that city in May, at which
time he was appointed Secretary to the Prince of Wales, but in
consequence of the plague they quitted Bristol, in July 1645, and
proceeded with his Royal Highness to Barnstaple, and thence to
Launceston and Truro, in Cornwall. From Truro the Court removed to
Pendennis Castle; and early in April 1646 the Prince and his suite
embarked for the Scilly Islands. Great as their privations were at
Oxford, they were much exceeded by their sufferings at Scilly; and no
one can peruse the description of their voyage to and lodgings in that
island with indifference. To illness were added cold and hunger: they
were plundered by their friends in flying from their enemies; and to
add to the misery of their situation, Mrs. Fanshawe was very near her
confinement.

After passing three weeks in that desolate place, the Prince and his
suite went to Jersey, where they were hospitably received; and where
Mrs. Fanshawe gave birth to her second child. On the Prince's quitting
Jersey in July, for Paris, Mr. Fanshawe's employment ceased; and he
remained in that island with Lord Capell, Lord Hopton, and the
Chancellor, for a fortnight after his Royal Highness's departure, when