"King's (Charles the Second) particular choice, he "was refolved upon to be fent to Lisbon with the

King's letter and picture to the Princefs, now ❝our Queen, which employment any Nobleman "would have been glad of.”

"On the first of January 1662, my husband, "as Privy Councillor, prefented his Majesty with "ten pounds of gold in a purfe. The perfon "that carries it has a ticket given him of the "receipt thereof from the cupboard of the Privy "Chamber, where it is delivered to the Mafter of "the Jewell Office, who is thereupon to give "him twenty fhillings for his pains, out of which "he is to give the fervant of the Mafter of the "Jewel Office eighteen-pence."

In 1663, Lady Fanshawe attended her husband to Spain, when he went into that country in a public fituation; and where they were both treated with that refpect to which their talents and their virtues fo highly intitled them.

The thread of her narration is thus refumed, on this very melancholy event;

"On the 15th June 1666, my husband was "taken fick with a diforder like unto an ague,

" but

"but it turned to a malignant inward fever, of which he lay ill until the twenty-fixth of the "fame month, and then departed this life, fifteen days before his intended journey for England.

"O all-powerful Lord God! look down from "Heaven upon me, the moft diftreffed wretch "upon Earth! fee me with my foul divided, and my glory and my guide taken from me, and in

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gering in my path, which made me expect a « temporal bleffing for a reward of the great integrity, innocence, and uprightnefs of his whole "life, and his patience in fuffering the infolencies "of wicked men, whom he had to converfe with upon the public employment which thou thoughteft fit in thy wifdom to exercife him in. "Have pity upon me, O Lord, and speak peace to my difquieted foul, now finking under this

great weight, which, without thy fupport, cancc not fultain itself! Behold me, O Lord, with five children, a diftreffed family, the temptation of the change of my religion, the want of all my friends, without counfel, out of my own "country, without any means of returning with my wretched family to my own courtry, now at war with most parts of Catiftendom !

"The

Engraved by Feninger.

ANN LADY FANSHAWE.

London, Published by Cadell Jun! & Davies, Strand, June 1.1795.

The next day my husband was embalmed. "On the fifth of July, the Queen-Mother of Spain fent the Master of the Ceremonies of her "Court to me, to invite me to ftay with all my "children at her Court, promifing me a penfion "of thirty thousand ducats a-year, and to pro"vide for my children, if they would quit our "religion and become Roman Catholics. I an"fwered, that I humbly thanked her Majefty for "her great grace and favour, which 1 fhould ever "efteem, and pay with my fervices, as far as I was "able, all the days of my life-: That with refpect to the changing of my religion, I defired her Majefty to believe, that I would not quit the "faith in which I had been born and bred, and in "which God had been pleafed to try me for many "years, in the greatest troubles our Nation had << eyer feen and that I do believe.and hope, that "in the profeffion of my own religion God would "hear my prayers to reward her Majefty and all

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the Princes of her Royal family for this fo great "favour, which her Majefly was pleased to offer "me in my greatest of all 2flictions."

"In 1667 I took a houfe in Holborn-row, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Here, in this year, I only