152 THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



throughout with battlements, and many windows of pointed form were inserted. 

 Its plan now consists of a centre hall, and two transverse wings. The hall is 

 lighted upon the west, and panelled throughout with small square panelling. 

 The ceilinof is modern. The stone fireplace^ is on the east side, near the lower 

 end ; but this, as well as those in the servants' hall, kitchen, and library, was 

 brought from the more stately Elizabethan mansion of Eastbury House. All are 

 enriched with carving. 



" Between the years 1619 and 1634, William Fawshawe appears to have addei 

 a large apartment at the north end of the house (now the drawing-room), aho 

 panelled with oak, with fine Jacobean carving over the mantelpiece. The floors 

 of the hail, drawing-room, and library are of oak, and the two first were no doubt 

 laid when the respective rooms were built ; but that in the library came from 

 Eastbury House. The library was erected by the Rev. Jo.'in Fanshawe about 

 1814, 0-1 the site of the south gable." 



An extensive collection of books is still stored here ; but the more valuable, 

 including the original MSS. of various Fanshawe writings, memoirs, and a copy 

 of the 1632 folio of Shakspeare, with the extensive series of family portraits, have 

 been removed to Mr. Fanshawe's house at Pimlico. Amongst the portraits may 

 be specially mentioned a very fine one of the famous Sir Richard, by Dobson ; his 

 wife. Lady Fanshawe, a portrait which has been engraved several times, and is 

 affixed to her " Memoirs " ; Sir Simon, with a back groun J of Naseby-field ; and 

 Sir Thomas and Lady Fanshawe, by Lely. Many of these had come from Ware 

 Park, which was sold in i658, and from Jenkins sold about 1705. 



Still remaining in the hall are the horns of wapiti and two of moose, brought 

 by the present owner's uncle. Sir Gaspard le Marchant (from whom he derives his 

 name), from Nova Scotia, of which place he was Governor. 



The garden front of the house is largely covered with ivy ; the gardens 

 proper cover about four acres, and the well-timbered park and avenues, sixty-two 

 acres. 



The original stock of the Fanshawe family hail from Fanshawe Gate, near 

 Drmfield, in county Derby. A younger son, Henry Fanshawe, who was appointed 

 Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer, appears to have been the first settled 

 in or near London, and held leases of Clay Hall and \^alence. His first wife was 

 Thomazine Hopkins of Carsvvell (Barking Side), who died 1562. He died at 

 his London house in Warwick Lane, and was buried at Barking ; the heralds at- 

 tending his funeral being Clarencieulx, Kinge of Arnies, and Rougedragon 

 Poursuyvant. His second daughter and co-heir (by his second wife, Dorothy, 

 daughter of George Stonerd of Loughton), married Timothy Lucy of Valence 

 (E. N , 1887, p. 144). His third son, VVdliam, was the founder of the Parsloes 

 branch. His daughter Alice married Sir Christopher Hatton of Clay Hall 

 (see E. N., 1891, p. 185-6) and Margaret, Sir Benjamin Ayloffe of Brittons. 



The eldest son became Sir Henry Fanshawe, the father of Thomas, who was 

 made K.B. at coronation of Charles 1., and created Viscount Fanshawe, i65i, 

 who was compelled to sell Ware Park on account of heavy losses incurred as a 

 Royalist during the Civil War. From his son, in a direct line, sprung the fifth and 

 last Viscount, who dieJ 1716 ; and his daughter Mary married Sir Thomas 

 Cambell of Clay Hall (E. N., 1891, p. 186), who died in 1665 : it is supposed 

 by the Great Plague. The most prominent member of this familj', however, was 

 Sir Richard Fanshawe, Baronet (brother of the first Viscount), born in 1608, 

 His father died when he was but eight years of -age. In 1623 he entered 

 Jesus College, Cambridge, and in 1627 travelled abroad to learn foreign 

 languages. In 1630 he was Secretary to the Embassy in Spain. At the out- 

 break of the Civil War he attended the king to Oxford, where he met his 

 kinswoman, Anne Harrison, whom he married in 1644. He was then Secretary 

 of War to Prince Rupert. Whilst here he received the degree of Doctor of Laws. 

 He was created a Baronet in 1650. Later on he was taken prisoner at the 



2 These are all engraved in " Clarke's Eastbury," folio, 1834. Each have separate designs with 

 spandrels all carved. On the shields of the one in the library, have been affixed the metal 

 crests of the Fanshawe family. 



