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Fanshawe, Anne Harrison, Lady, 1625-1680?

"Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid."

, 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.


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