He married the daughter and heir of Sir Edward Heath, a pretty lady
and a good woman; but I must here with thankfulness acknowledge God's
bounty to your family, who hath bestowed most excellent wives on most
of them, both in person and fortune; but with respect to the rest, I
must give with all reverence justly your grandmother the first and
best place, who being left a widow at thirty-nine years of age,
handsome, with a full fortune, all her children provided for, kept
herself a widow, and out of her jointure and revenue purchased six
hundred pounds a year for the younger children of her eldest son;
besides, she added five hundred pounds a piece to the portions of her
younger children, having nine, whereof but one daughter was married
before the death of Sir Henry Fanshawe, and she was the second, her
name was Mary, married to William Neuce, Esq., of Hadham, in
Hertfordshire; the eldest daughter married Sir Capell Bedells, of
Hammerton, in Huntingdonshire; the third never married; the fourth
married Sir William Boteler, of Teston, in Kent; the fifth died young.
Thus you have been made acquainted with most of your nearest relations
by your father, except your cousins german, which are the three sons
of your uncle, Lord Fanshawe, and William Neuce, Esq., and his two
brothers, and Sir Oliver Boteler, and my Lady Campbell, three maiden
sisters of hers, and my Lady Levingthorpe, of Blackware, in
Hertfordshire.
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