tranquillity, receiving great kindness from the nobility and gentry of
the neighbourhood.

Their happiness, however, was but transitory. On the 2nd of September
in that year Mr. Fanshawe was created a Baronet; and it is singular
that no other allusion should occur to the circumstance in the Memoir
than a notice of his having left the patent in Scotland before the
battle of Worcester.

The Queen received them at Paris with great attention; and after many
acts of favour, she despatched Sir Richard to the King, who was then
on his way to Scotland. Lady Fanshawe and her husband proceeded to
Calais, it being necessary that she should go to England to procure
money for his journey, and in the mean time he intended to reside in
Holland; but circumstances caused him to be immediately sent into
Scotland, where he was received with marked kindness by the King and
by the York party, who gave him the custody of the Great Seal and
Privy Signet. No persuasions could induce him to take the Covenant;
but he performed the duties of his office with a zeal and temper
which, we are told, obtained for him the esteem of all parties.

Lady Fanshawe continued in London, in a state of great uneasiness
about Sir Richard, having two young children to maintain, with very
limited resources; and to add to her discomfort, she was again very
near her confinement. She observes, that she seldom went out of her
lodgings, and spent her time chiefly in prayer for the deliverance of
the King and her husband. A daughter, Elizabeth, was born on the 24th
of June, and on her recovery she went to her brother-in-law's, at Ware
Park, where the news reached her of the battle of Worcester, on the
3rd of September; and after some days' suspense, she learned that Sir