Tired of living in town, Sir Richard obtained permission to go to
Bengy, in Hertfordshire, where he and his wife were attacked with an
ague, which confined her to her bed for many months, and did not
finally leave her for nearly two years, when a visit to Bath perfectly
restored them both. The news of Cromwell's death, in September 1658,
which reached them whilst in that city, caused them to go to London,
with the hope of Sir Richard's getting released from his bail; and
under the pretence of becoming tutor to the son of the Earl of
Pembroke, whilst on his travels, he was permitted to leave England. On
his arrival at Paris, he wrote to Lord Clarendon, acquainting him with
his escape, and desiring him to inform his Majesty of the
circumstance. About April 1659, his Lordship replied that the King was
then going into Spain, but that on his return, which would be in the
beginning of the winter, he should come to his Majesty, who in the
meantime gave him the situations of one of the Masters of Requests,
and Latin Secretary.

Sir Richard Fanshawe then requested his wife to come to Paris with
part of his children, but her application for a passport was refused;
and she relates the ingenious manner in which she imposed upon the
Government, by obtaining a pass in the name of Anne Harrison; the
pretended wife of a young merchant, and altering the word to Fanshawe,
by which means she escaped to Calais, and joined her husband at Paris.

Charles the Second came to Combes, near Paris, on a visit to his
mother, in November 1659, where Sir Richard and Lady Fanshawe had an
interview with him, and were received most graciously, with promises
of future protection. Sir Richard being desired to follow his Majesty
to Flanders, he went thither in December, having previously sent his
wife to London for money, where she arrived with her children in