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Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid. by Lady Anne Harrison Fanshawe
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et ex ea suscepit sex filios et octo filias; e quibus
supersunt Ricardus, Catherina, Margarita, Anna,
et Elizabetha.
Vir comitate morum, luce fidei, constantia,
praestantissimus,
qui olim (laetus exul) serenissimi regis Caroli Secundi
calamitates fortiter amplexus est,
in Rebus bellicis, ab eodem constitutus Secretarius,
posteaque (Regno ei feliciter restaurato)
libellorum supplicum Magister,
a Latinis epistolis, a sanctioribus Regis consiliis
tum Angliae, tum Hiberniae factus; pro Academia Cantabrigiensi
Burgensis;
Necnon ejusdem serenissimi Regis ad utrasque Aulas
Portugal. et Hispan.
Legatus, in quarum proxima, cum pulcherrime officio
suo functus esset, splendidissimam quamdiu egerat
Vitam cum luctuosa morte commutavit.
Monumentum hoc, cum Hypogeo, moestissima conjux
pie posuit, quas etiam corpus Mariti sui ab urbe
Madrid huc per terras transtulit.

Obiit 16 de Junii, anno Dom MDCLXVI aetatis suae LIX.
[Footnote: Clutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire, vol. iii. page 311.
The following arms occur on the monument: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Or,
a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis Sable, Fanshawe ancient; 2nd and
3rd, cheeky Argent and Azure, a cross Gules, Fanshawe modern, being an
honourable augmentation granted in 1650: on an escutcheon in the
centre, the arms of Ulster. Impaling, Checky, a cross, thereon five
pheons' heads, pointing upwards. Harrison. Crest, on a wreath, Or and
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