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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
similar claims on the ground of services; and as the spoils out of
which they sought to enrich themselves were limited, it was an obvious
point of policy to oppose the demands of others. The few years which
succeeded the Restoration are among the most disgraceful in the annals
of this country; and to the evidence which exists of the want of
principle which characterised the Court of Charles the Second, these
Memoirs are no slight addition. The monarch was heartless and
profligate; his ministers, with very few exceptions, were intent alone
on the promotion of their own interests; and services and sufferings
were nothing in the balance against the influence of the royal
mistresses. In such a state of things, merit availed but little; and
with a host of other zealous adherents of the royal family, at a time
when fidelity was attended with the fearful penalties attached to high
treason, Sir Richard Fanshawe, after thirty years' devotion to his
master, and spending a fortune in his cause, was sacrificed to the
intrigues of his enemies, and probably was only spared by death from
greater mortifications.

To this outline of the lives of Sir Richard and Lady Fanshawe little
remains to be added. The Memoir, though continued to the year 1670,
contains very few facts after her return to England which are
deserving of notice. It is manifest that her hopes were destroyed, and
that her only happiness consisted in reflecting on the past. Her first
object was to reduce her establishment according to her altered
fortune, and the second to educate her family. In 1670 she lost her
excellent father, whose death added heavily to her misfortunes; but
she possessed that resource against human woes which can only be
inspired by a reliance upon Him who never deserts the widow and the
fatherless. Her life had been marked by extreme vicissitudes; and at
its conclusion--dark and cheerless as it was--she wisely looked for
consolation where she had so frequently found it, and where, it may be
confidently said, it is never sought in vain.

Of the conduct of Sir Richard Fanshawe, as a servant of the Crown, and
as a husband and a father, sufficient is said in the Memoir; but it is
desirable to notice his literary labours, which are stated in the
Biographia Britannica to consist of--

1. An English translation, in rhyme, of the celebrated Italian
pastoral, called "Il Pastor Fido, or, the Faithful Shepherd," written
originally by Battista Guarini. Printed at London, 1646, 4to, and in
1664, 8vo.

2. Select parts of Horace translated into English, 1652, 8vo.

3. A translation from English into Latin verse, of "The Faithful
Shepherdess," a pastoral, written originally by John Fletcher. London,
1658.

4. In the octavo edition of "The Faithful Shepherdess," anno 1664, are
inserted the following poems by Sir Richard, viz.: 1. An Ode upon
occasion of his Majesty's Proclamation in 1630, commanding the gentry
to reside upon their estates in the country. 2. A summary Discourse on
the Civil Wars of Rome, extracted from the best Latin writers in verse
and prose. 3. An English translation of the fourth book of the AEneid
of Virgil or the Loves of Dido and AEneas. 4. Two Odes out of Horace,
relating to the civil wars of Rome, against covetous rich men. 5. He
translated, from Portuguese, into English, "The Luciad, or Portugal's
Historical Poem"; written originally by Luis de Camoens. London, 1655,
fol. From the many corrections in the Translator's copy, in the
possession of the late Edm. Turnor, Esq., it appears to have been very
negligently printed, which may in some degree account for the remarks
of Mr. Mickle on Sir Richard's translation. After his decease, namely
in 1671, two of his posthumous pieces in 4to were published, Querer
per solo querer: "To love only for love's sake," a dramatic piece,
represented before the King and Queen of Spain; and Fiestas de
Aranjuez: "Festivals at Aranjuez"; both written originally in Spanish,
by Antonio de Mendoza; upon occasion of celebrating the birthday of
King Philip IV. in 1621, at Aranjuez. They were translated by Sir
Richard in 1654, during his confinement at Tankersley Park, in
Yorkshire; which situation induced him to write the following stanzas:

"Time was, when I, a pilgrim of the seas,
When I, 'midst noise of camps and court's disease,
Purloin'd some hours, to charm rude cares with verse,
Which flame of faithful shepherd did rehearse.

"But now, restrain'd from sea, from camp, from court,
And by a tempest blown into a port,
I raise my thoughts to muse of higher things,
And echo arms and loves of queens and kings.

"Which queens (despising crowns and Hymen's band)
Would neither man obey, nor man command;
Great pleasure from rough seas to see the shore;
Or, from firm land, to see the billows roar."

Sir Richard, to whom Mr. Campbell assigns the merit of having given
"to our language some of its earliest and most important translations
from modern literature," [Footnote: Specimens of the Poets.] wrote
several other articles, which he had not leisure to complete; and it
is said that "some of the before mentioned printed pieces have not all
the perfection which our ingenious author could have given them, but
that is not the case with his excellent translation of Pastor Fido."
[Footnote: Biographia Britannica.]

That translation is highly complimented by Denham, who observes,

"Such is our pride, or folly, or our fate,
That few but such as cannot write translate;"

and after censuring servile translators, he says--

"Secure of fame, thou justly dost esteem
Less honour to create than to redeem;
That servile path thou nobly dost decline,
Of tracing word by word, and line by line."

And,

"That master's hand, which to the life can trace
The air, the line, the features, of the face,
May with a free and bolder stroke express
A varied posture, or a flatt'ring dress;
He could have made those like, who made the rest,
But that he knew his own design was best."

Part of Sir Richard Fanshawe's official correspondence, during his
embassies in Spain and Portugal, was published in 1701, from which
many extracts have been printed at the end of this volume; but the
latest letter therein is dated 26th January 1665. The rough copies of
his correspondence from that time until his death, are preserved in
the Harleian MS. 7010, in the British Museum, the most interesting
parts of which are added to the other extracts.

Lady Fanshawe wrote her Memoir in the year 1676, and died on the 20th
January 1679-80, in her fifty-fifth year. Her will is dated on the
30th October, 31st Car. II., 1679, in which she desired that her body
might be privately buried in the Chapel of St. Mary in Ware Church,
close to her husband, in the vault which she had purchased of the
Bishop of London. She ordered her house in Little Grove, in East
Barnet, with all the jewels, plate, and pictures therein, to be sold.
To her son, Sir Richard Fanshawe, she bequeathed the lease of the
manor of Faunton Hall, in Essex, which she held of the Bishop of
London, on condition that when he possessed his office in the Custom-
House, or any other employment of the value of 500 pounds a year, he
should pay to his eldest sister Katherine 1200 pounds, or deliver up
the said lease to her. She also left him her own and her husband's
picture set in gold, his father's picture by Lilly, and her own by
Toniars, with all her seals, particularly a gold ring, with an onyx-
stone, engraved, her purse of medals, all the gold she had by her at
the time of her death, a Spanish towel, and comeing-cloth, together
with all the books, MSS., writings, &c., sticks, guns, swords, and
turning instruments, which belonged to her late husband. To her
daughter, Katherine Fanshawe, she left 600 pounds of which sum 500
pounds were given her by her grandfather, Sir John Harrison, at his
decease, a warrant for a Baronet, probably her husband's, and all her
jewels. To her daughters Anne Fanshawe and Elizabeth Fanshawe 600
pounds each, of which sums 500 pounds were given to each of them by
their said grandfather. To her daughter Katherine she bequeathed the
Work written by herself, by her said daughter Katherine, or by her
sisters. She requested that her son Richard and her three daughters
would wear mourning for three years after her decease, namely,
mourning with plain linen, excepting either of them married in the
meantime; and she appointed her eldest daughter, Katherine, her sole
executrix, who proved her will on the 6th February 1679-80.

Of her numerous children, the following particulars have been gleaned
from her Memoir and other sources.

1. HARRISON, born in the parish of St. John's Oxford, 22nd February
1644-5, and was there buried in the same year.

2. HENRY, born in Portugal Row, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, 30th
July 1647, died on the 20th October 1650, and was buried in the
Protestant burying-ground at Paris.

3. RICHARD, born 8th June 1648, died before October 1650.

4. HENRY, born in November 1657, and dying in the same year, was
buried in Bengy Church, in Hertfordshire.

5. RICHARD, born at Lisbon, 26th June 1663; he lived a few hours only,
and was there buried in the Esperanza.

6. RICHARD, born at Madrid, 6th August 1665, to whom the Memoir was
addressed. He succeeded his father in 1666, and became the second
Baronet. He is said to have been deprived of his hearing, and at
length of his speech, in consequence of a fever, and to have died
unmarried about 1695, [Footnote: Le Neve's MSS. in the College of
Arms.] when the Baronetcy became extinct.

The daughters were:

1. ANNE, born at Jersey, 7th June 1646; died at Tankersley Park, in
Yorkshire, 20th July 1654, and was buried in the Parish Church of
Tankersley.

2. ELIZABETH, born at Madrid, 13th July 1649; died a few days
afterwards, and was buried in the Chapel of the French Hospital at
Madrid.

3. ELIZABETH, born 24th June 1650; died at Foot's Cray, in Kent, in
July 1656, and was there buried.

4. KATHERINE, born 30th July 1652, and was living, and unmarried, in
May 1705.

5. MARGARET, born at Tankersley Park, in Yorkshire, 8th October 1653,
married, before 1676, Vincent Grantham, of Goltho, in Lincolnshire,
Esq. It is remarkable that she is not mentioned in her mother's will.
She was living, and the wife or widow of Mr. Grantham, in May 1705.

6. ANN, born at Frog Pool, in Kent, 22nd February 1654-5, unmarried
October 1679; but afterwards married ---- Ryder, by whom she had a
daughter, Ann Lawrence, who, with her mother, were living in May 1705.

7. MARY, born in London, 12th July 1656; died in August 1660, and was
buried in All Saints' Church, Hertford.

8. ELIZABETH, born 22nd February 1662, to whom her mother bequeathed
600 pounds in her will in 1679, after which year nothing more of her
has been found.

Although some trouble has been taken to trace the descendants of Sir
Richard and Lady Fanshawe, all which has been discovered is, that
their daughters became their co-heirs about 1695; that Sir Edmund
Turnor, the husband of Lady Fanshawe's sister, in his will, dated 15th
May 1705, and proved in 1708, mentions his nieces Fanshawe, Grantham,
and niece Ann Fanshawe, alias Ryder, and Anne Lawrence, daughter of
his niece Ryder; and that the MS. from which this volume is printed is
said to have been transcribed in 1766 by Lady Fanshawe's "great
granddaughter, Charlotte Colman."

MEMOIRS OF LADY FANSHAWE

I have thought it good to discourse to you, my most dear and only son,
the most remarkable actions and accidents of your family, as well as
those more eminent ones of your father; and my life and necessity, not
delight or revenge, hath made me insert some passages which will
reflect on their owners, as the praises of others will be but just,
which is my intent in this narrative. I would not have you be a
stranger to it; because, by the example, you may imitate what is
applicable to your condition in the world, and endeavour to avoid
those misfortunes we have passed through, if God pleases.

Endeavour to be innocent as a dove, but as wise as a serpent; and let
this lesson direct you most in the greatest extremes of fortune. Hate
idleness, and curb all passions; be true in all words and actions;
unnecessarily deliver not your opinion; but when you do, let it be
just, well-considered, and plain. Be charitable in all thought, word
and deed, and ever ready to forgive injuries done to yourself, and be
more pleased to do good than to receive good.

Be civil and obliging to all, dutiful where God and nature command
you; but friend to one, and that friendship keep sacred, as the
greatest tie upon earth, and be sure to ground it upon virtue; for no
other is either happy or lasting.

Endeavour always to be content in that estate of life which it hath
pleased God to call you to, and think it a great fault not to employ
your time, either for the good of your soul, or improvement of your
understanding, health, or estate; and as these are the most pleasant
pastimes, so it will make you a cheerful old age, which is as
necessary for you to design, as to make provision to support the
infirmities which decay of strength brings: and it was never seen that
a vicious youth terminated in a contented, cheerful old age, but
perished out of countenance. Ever keep the best qualified persons
company, out of whom you will find advantage, and reserve some hours
daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in
perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck
your mind and fortune. Remember the proverb--such as his company is,
such is the man, and have glorious actions before your eyes, and think
what shall be your portion in Heaven, as well as what you desire on
earth.

Manage your fortune prudently, and forget not that you must give God
an account hereafter, and upon all occasions.

Remember your father, whose true image, though I can never draw to the
life, unless God will grant me that blessing in you; yet, because you
were but ten months and ten days old when God took him out of this
world, I will, for your advantage, show you him with all truth, and
without partiality.

He was of the highest size of men, strong, and of the best proportion;
his complexion sanguine, his skin exceedingly fair, his hair dark
brown and very curling, but not very long; his eyes grey and
penetrating, his nose high, his countenance gracious and wise, his
motion good, his speech clear and distinct. He never used exercise but
walking, and that generally with some book in his hand, which
oftentimes was poetry, in which he spent his idle hours; sometimes he
would ride out to take the air, but his most delight was, to go only
with me in a coach some miles, and there discourse of those things
which then most pleased him, of what nature soever.

He was very obliging to all, and forward to serve his master, his
country, and friend; cheerful in his conversation; his discourse ever
pleasant, mixed with the sayings of wise men, and their histories
repeated as occasion offered, yet so reserved that he never showed the
thought of his heart, in its greatest sense, but to myself only; and
this I thank God with all my soul for, that he never discovered his
trouble to me, but went from me with perfect cheerfulness and content;
nor revealed he his joys and hopes but would say, that they were
doubled by putting them in my breast. I never heard him hold a
disputation in my life, but often he would speak against it, saying it
was an uncharitable custom, which never turned to the advantage of
either party. He would never be drawn to the fashion of any party,
saying he found it sufficient honestly to perform that employment he
was in: he loved and used cheerfulness in all his actions, and
professed his religion in his life and conversation. He was a true
Protestant of the Church of England, so born, so brought up, and so
died; his conversation was so honest that I never heard him speak a
word in my life that tended to God's dishonour, or encouragement of
any kind of debauchery or sin. He was ever much esteemed by his two
masters, Charles the First and Charles the Second, both for great
parts and honesty, as for his conversation, in which they took great
delight, he being so free from passion, that made him beloved of all
that knew him, nor did I ever see him moved but with his master's
concerns, in which he would hotly pursue his interest through the
greatest difficulties.

He was the tenderest father imaginable, the carefullest and most
generous master I ever knew; he loved hospitality, and would often
say, it was wholly essential for the constitution of England: he loved
and kept order with the greatest decency possible; and though he would
say I managed his domestics wholly, yet I ever governed them and
myself by his commands; in the managing of which, I thank God, I found
his approbation and content.

Now you will expect that I should say something that may remain of us
jointly, which I will do though it makes my eyes gush out with tears,
and cuts me to the soul to remember, and in part express the joys I
was blessed with in him. Glory be to God, we never had but one mind
throughout our lives. Our souls were wrapped up in each other's; our
aims and designs one, our loves one, and our resentments one. We so
studied one the other, that we knew each other's mind by our looks.
Whatever was real happiness, God gave it me in him; but to commend my
better half, which I want sufficient expression for, methinks is to
commend myself, and so may bear a censure; but, might it be permitted,
I could dwell eternally on his praise most justly; but thus without
offence I do, and so you may imitate him in his patience, his
prudence, his chastity, his charity, his generosity, his perfect
resignation to God's will, and praise God for him as long as you live
here, and with him hereafter in the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen.

Your father was born in Ware Park, in the month of June, in the year
of our Lord 1608, and was the tenth child of Sir Henry Fanshawe, whose
father bought Ten, in Essex, and Ware Park, in Hertfordshire. This,
your great-grandfather, came out of Derbyshire from a small estate,
Fanshawe-Gate, being the principal part that then this family had,
which exceeded not above two hundred pounds a year, and about so much
more they had in the town and parish of Dronfield, within two miles of
Fanshawe-Gate, where the family had been some hundreds of years, as
appears by the church of Dronfield, in the chancel of which church I
have seen several grave-stones with the names of that family, many of
them very ancient; and the chancel, which is very old, was and is kept
wholly for a burying-place for that family.

There is in the town a free school, with a very good house and noble
endowment, founded by your great-grandfather, who was sent for to
London in Henry the Eighth's time, by an uncle of his, and of his own
name, to be brought up a clerk under his uncle Thomas Fanshawe, who
procured your great-grandfather's life to be put with his in the
patent of Remembrancers of his Majesty's Exchequer, which place he
enjoyed after the death of his uncle, he having left no male issue,
only two daughters, who had both great fortunes in land and money, and
married into the best families in Essex in that time. This was the
rise of your great-grandfather, who, with his office and his
Derbyshire estate, raised the family to what it hath been and now is.
He had one only brother, Robert Fanshawe, who had a good estate in
Derbyshire, and lived in Fanshawe-Gate, which he hired of his eldest
brother, your great-grandfather.

In this house my mother was born, Margaret, the eldest daughter of
Robert, your great-great-uncle: he married one of the daughters of
Rowland Eyes, of Bradway, in the same county of Derby, by whom he had
twelve sons and two daughters: that family remains in Dronfield to
this day.

Your great-grandfather married Alice Bourchier, of the last Earl of
Bath's family,[Footnote: This was not the fact. She was the daughter
of Anthony Bourchier, Esq., of the County of Gloucester, a family in
no way connected with the noble house of Bath.] by whom he had only
one son that lived, Henry, which was your grandfather; afterwards,
when he had been two years a widower, he married one of the daughters
of Customer Smythe, who had six sons and six daughters: his sons were
Sir John Smythe, Sir Thomas Smythe, Sir Richard Smythe, Sir Robert
Smythe, Mr. William Smythe, and Mr. Edward Smythe, who died young: two
were knighted by Queen Elizabeth, and two by King James; the eldest
was grandfather of the now Lord Strangford; the second had been
several times ambassador, and all married into good families, and left
great estates to their posterity, which remain to this day. The
daughters were Mrs. Fanshawe, your great-grandmother-in-law; the
second married Sir John Scott, of Kent; the third married Sir John
Davies, of the same county; the fourth married Sir Robert Poynz, of
Leicestershire; the fifth married Thomas Butler, of Herald, Esq.; and
the sixth married Sir Henry Fanshawe, your grandfather: these all left
a numerous posterity but Davies, and this day they are matched into
very considerable families. [Footnote: Lady Fanshawe is not quite
correct in her account of the Smythe family, and the statements in
Peerages are equally erroneous. Thomas Smythe, Esq. of Ostenhanger, in
Kent, Farmer of the Customs to Philip and Mary, and to Queen
Elizabeth, was the second son of John Smythe, Esq., (whose ancestors
were seated at Corsham, in Wiltshire, as early as the 15th century,)
by Joan, daughter of Robert Brounker, ancestor of the celebrated
Viscount Brounker. Customer Smythe died in 1591, and had by Alice,
daughter and heiress of Sir Andrew Judde, Lord Mayor of London, and
one of the representatives of Archbishop Chicheley, seven sons and six
daughters, 1. Andrew, who died young. 2. Sir John, of Ostenhanger,
father of Sir Thomas Smythe, K.B., who married Lady Barbara Sydney,
daughter of Robert first Earl of Leicester, K.G., was created Viscount
Strangford, in Ireland, in 1628, and was the ancestor of Percy Clinton
Sydney Smythe, sixth and present Viscount Strangford and first Baron
Penshurst, G.C.B. 3. Henry Smythe, of Corsham. 4. Sir Thomas Smythe,
of Bidborough, in the county of Kent, ambassador to Russia in 1604,
whose male descendants became extinct on the death of Sir Stafford
Sydney Smythe, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, in 1778. 5. Sir Richard
Smythe, of Leeds Castle, in Kent, whose son, Sir John, dying
issueless, in 1632, his sisters became his co-heiresses. 6. Robert
Smythe, of Highgate, who left issue. 7. Symon Smythe, killed at the
siege of Cadiz in 1597. Of the daughters of Customer Smythe, Mary
married Robert Davye, of London, Esq.; Ursula married, first, Simon
Harding, of London, Esq., and secondly William Butler, of Bidenham, in
Bedfordshire, Esq.; Johanna was the wife of Thomas Fanshawe, of Ware
Park, Herts, Esq.; Katherine was first the wife of Sir Rowland
Hayward, Lord Mayor of London, and secondly of Sir John Scott, of
Scott's Hall, in Kent; Alice married Edward Harris, of Woodham, in
Essex, Esq.; and Elizabeth, the sixth and youngest daughter, was the
wife of Sir Henry Fanshawe, Remembrancer of the Exchequer, father of
Sir Richard Fanshawe, the ambassador. Sir ROBERT Poyntz, of
Leicestershire, is a mistake of Lady Fanshawe's for Sir JAMES Poyntz,
of North Oxenden, in Essex, who married Mary, the sister and co-
heiress of Sir John Smythe, son of Sir Richard, of Bidborough, before
mentioned, and GRANDDAUGHTER of the Customer.]

Your great-grandfather had by his second wife, Sir Thomas Fanshawe,
Clerk of the Crown, and Surveyor-General of King James; to him he gave
his manor of Jenkins, in Essex, valued at near two thousand a year.

His second son by the same wife, William, he procured to be Auditor of
the Duchy, whose posterity hath in Essex, at Parslowes, about seven or
eight hundred pounds a year. His eldest daughter married Sir
Christopher Hatton, heir to the Lord Chancellor Hatton; his second
married Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, of Brackstead, in Essex; the third
married Mr. Bullock Harding, in Derbyshire; all men of very great
estates. As your grandfather inherited Ware Park and his office, the
flower of his father's estate, so did he of his wisdom and parts; and
both were happy in the favour of the princes of that time, for Queen
Elizabeth said that your grandfather was the best officer of accounts
she had, and a person of great integrity; and your grandfather was the
favourite of Prince Henry, and had the Prince lived to be King, had
been Secretary of State, as he would often tell him. Mr. Camden speaks
much in praise, as you may see, of Sir Henry Fanshawe's garden of Ware
Park, none excelling it in flowers, physic herbs, and fruit, in which
things he did greatly delight; also he was a great lover of music, and
kept many gentlemen that were perfectly well qualified both in that
and the Italian tongue, in which he spent some time. He likewise kept
several horses of manege, and rid them himself, which he delighted in,
and the Prince would say none did it better; he had great honour and
generosity in his nature, and to show you a little part of which I
will tell you this of him. He had a horse that the then Earl of Exeter
was much pleased with, and Sir Henry esteemed, because he deserved it.
My Lord, after some apology, desired Sir Henry to let him have his
horse and he would give him what he would; he replied, "My Lord, I
have no thoughts of selling him but to serve you; I bought him of such
a person, and gave so much for him, and that shall be my price to you
as I paid, being sixty pieces"; my Lord Exeter said, "That's too much,
but I will give you, Sir Henry, fifty," to which he made no answer;
next day my Lord sent a gentleman with sixty pieces, Sir Henry made
answer, "That was the price he paid and once had offered him, my Lord,
at, but not being accepted, his price now was eighty"; at the
receiving of this answer my Lord Exeter stormed, and sent his servant
back with seventy pieces. Sir Henry said, that "since my Lord would
not like him at eighty pieces, he would not sell him under a hundred
pieces, and if he returned with less he would not sell him at all";
upon which my Lord Exeter sent one hundred pieces, and had the horse.
His retinue was great, and that made him stretch his estate, which was
near if not full four thousand pounds a year; yet when he died, he
left no debt upon his estate. He departed this life at the age of
forty-eight years, and lies buried in the chancel, in a vault with his
father in the parish church of Ware; he was as handsome and as fine a
gentleman as England then had, a most excellent husband, father,
friend, and servant to his Prince. He left in the care of my lady his
widow, five sons and five daughters. His eldest son succeeded him in
his lands and office, and after the restoration of the King, he was
made Lord Viscount of Dromore in Ireland; he did engage his person and
estate for the crown, and fought in the battle of Edgehill, and this
ruined his estate, and was the cause of his sons selling Ware Park;
afterwards he tried, by the King's assistance, to be reimbursed, but
could not prevail. He was a very worthy, valiant, honest, good-natured
gentleman, charitable, and generous, and had excellent natural parts,
yet choleric and rash, which was only incommode to his own family: he
was a very pretty man, for he was but low, of a sanguine complexion,
much a gentleman in his mien and language; he was sixty-nine years of
age when he died, and is buried with his ancestors in Ware Church.

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