Azure, a dragon's head erased Or, vomiting fire. On a label under the
arms these mottos: "Dux vitae ratio." "In Christo victoria."]

Sir Richard Fanshawe was buried with much pomp; and a full account of
the ceremony occurs in his funeral certificate in the College of Arms.

From the King, the Queen, the Court, and some of the ministers, Lady
Fanshawe received much sympathy and kindness; but, in common with
every other person who had pecuniary claims on the Government, she
experienced great difficulty in procuring the arrears due to her
husband, and it was not until nearly three years that the whole was
paid; by which delay, she says, she sustained a loss of above two
thousand pounds. At the instigation of Lord Shaftesbury, of whom she
speaks with the utmost bitterness, she was obliged to pay the same
amount for the plate furnished to the embassy.

Of the tardy manner in which Sir Richard Fanshawe's allowance was
paid, and the embarrassment into which he was consequently thrown, he
has left ample proof in his letter to his brother-in-law Sir Philip
Warwick, dated a few weeks before his death; in which he tells him
that he had been obliged to pawn his plate for his subsistence.

Lady Fanshawe states in a very feeling manner the situation in which
she found herself after her husband's death; and it is scarcely
possible to read her allusions to his long and faithful services, and
the heavy sacrifices which he made, without admitting the justice of
the charge so often brought against Charles, of being neglectful of
his servants. It is, however, more than possible that the fault was
not the monarch's alone. He was surrounded by greedy and selfish
courtiers, each eager to advance his own interest, and possessed of