Lady Fanshawe resolved on accompanying her husband's corpse to
England; but, previous to her quitting Madrid, the Queen-Regent of
Spain offered her a pension, and promised to provide for her children,
if she and they would embrace the Roman Catholic faith; an offer,
which it would be an insult to her memory to attribute any merit to
her for refusing. Having disposed of her plate, furniture, and horses,
she left the Siete Chimeneas, in a private manner, on the 8th of July,
and observes, "Never did any ambassador's family come into Spain so
gloriously, or went out so sad." She reached Bilboa on the 21st of
July, where Sir Richard's corpse awaited her arrival, and remained
there until the 3rd of October. The mournful train then proceeded
towards England, by Bayonne and Paris, where they arrived on the 30th
of October. After an audience of the Queen-Mother, Lady Fanshawe set
out for Calais; and on the 2nd of November was conveyed to the Tower
Wharf in a French vessel-of-war. On the 26th, the body of Sir Richard,
attended by seven of the gentlemen of his suite, was interred in
Allhallows Church, in Hertford, whence it was removed, in May 1671, to
a vault in St. Mary's Chapel in Ware Church, where his widow erected a
handsome monument, with the following inscription to his memory:--

P.M.S.

In Hypogeo, juxta hoc monumentum,
jacet corpus nobilissimi viri
RICARDI FANSHAWE,
Equitis Aurati et Baronetti, ex antiqua illa familia de
Ware Parke, in comitatu Hertfordiae,
Henrici Fanshawe, Equitis Aurati, prolis decimae.
Uxorem duxit Annam filiam natu maximam Johannis
Harrison, Equitis Aurati, de Balls, in com. Hertfordiae;